Show I GOLF TOURNAMENT OPENED f First Match Played Yesterday Afternoon on the Grounds of the Country Club Thirteen Members Playing The first match of the handicap golf tournament of the Country club was played yesterday afternoon at the club grounds on Eleventh East street About seventyfive members of the club attended during tho afternoon I Tho day was fine for the game the I onl drawback being a heavy wind at only I < 1 1j j 1i 1I i I I HjV I i 1 Clarence iIcCornick Doing tho Stance times which made It difficult for some of the players to clear the rough ground on the first drive There were sixteen entries and thirteen finished E B YVIclcs won the first prize and Dr K C Park the second J W Thompson won the prize for the best VV VV V V Handicapper Hnrkness the Busiest Man on the Grounds V i actual score lie was lliescratch man and made the nine holes in slylytwo strokes The handicap was limited to thirty V None of the ladles of the club of whom there wele many in attendance II participated yesterday V buL some of tho more enthusiastic of them accompanied accom-panied the men around the couisse of the while others sat on tho porch clubhouse and admired thc display of strength skill and agility furnished I by i the athletic male followers of the ancient and royal game The crying need of the club at present I pres-ent Is educated caddies Most of the youths In attendanco yesterday had to I be told before they knew they were cuddles Some of them had the proper I Titian shade of hair and the Ideal assortment I as-sortment of fiTcklcs but they had a lamentable lack of knowledge oC tho functions of the trained caddy In I their anxiety to be useful at times they tried to endear themselves I to their employers em-ployers by endeavoring to remro fences trees gullies his and thln Band B-and came near to success In some instances In-stances Companions of the caddies occupied posts i of vantage outside the grounds and put In some excellent time reviling the caddies and on different 1 I i occasions made disparaging remarks I relative to the build and general appearance V I ap-pearance of the golfers They wero also profuse In offering advice to the players as to the bust methods of getting I get-ting the balls out of hazards and I ri V V V V V V Vi1dV q I l I 1 iI i I iI I I IIlhf l 1 Bert Holdcn En Route to the Putting Green I shouted with wicked glee when some unfortupalely directed ball sailed over I the fence and out of view V among the trees Robert Karkncss V was official handl l V V V V V I V V p V r f I I I I I T R Jones ExpoundinE on the Pine V Points V of the VV capper S I Fields Fred A Hale W G Sharp James A Pollock Max I Smith A F Holdcn and John Burke acted as referees The scores were as follows V Gross Hand Nut V K B Wicks 71 23 i Dr K C Park 7J IS M C S Wilkes S 21 57 S C Park 78 1 41 J 1 m W Thompson G3 1o C3 C A Richardson 70 VV ir GI iMax i-Max Smith SI 16 C Charles Walker 71 V r C JDcOraw S 20 69 Dana Smith 73 3 iOn iO-n J llnywnrd 1 10 30 O r McCornlck 102 2 7 W C Sharp 03 IS Th |