"New Hazards For Golfers" (now more readable!)

[Joe Bausch]

That is the title for this September 23, 1906 NY Sun article that focuses on the Garden City Golf Club.  Not too much new here, IMO, for the vets of the site, but I think this will be a good read for the newer folks.

Edit:  I'm now using tinypic.com to host this article.  Use the blue slider bar to access the columns to the right.

Enjoy!

[TEPaul]

Joe:

I think it says a whole lot about what this website has become that noboby has made a single comment post on this thread. In the old days the people who were on here would be all over this one. I was away, so give me some time to read it and take it all in. As raw researcher, you're the best on here right now.

[Mike Sweeney]

Joe:

 In the old days the people who were on here would be all over this one.

In the old days, I could read the small print! 

[Bob_Huntley]

Joe,

Is there a way to enlarge the print even more or should I photocopy and enlarge from there?


Bob

[Bill_McBride]

A question for Pat Mucci (and others familiar with Garden City):

Do those changes represent the course today, or did subsequent changes remove the elements cited in the article?

This just reinforces my interest in Garden City.  There is really not much more interesting than courses from the early days of golf that have retained their early character and are still fun to play.

The Old Course, NGLA, Royal Cinque Ports and Huntercombe are courses that come to mind when thinking of courses that meet both criteria.

[Colin Macqueen]

Joe,
Having been chided by TEP as to not responding to this post I can only re-iterate what has already been alluded to.
" My eyes are weak, I cannot see, I have not brought my specs with me!"

Is there a way one can get to the original article?

Colin

[TEPaul]

Joe:

It wasn't easy but I managed to read that entire article.

Given particularly its date and even carefully considering the meaning and ramifications of its very first paragraph that particular article just might say a whole lot more than most all of us ever knew, particularly about C.B. Macdonald's NGLA and what really led up to it and who were the major players in the way that course (NGLA, not GCGC) played out in the beginning.

Macdonald wrote some things in 1906 about Travis that he might've wanted to discount later and in his biography, but what was he going to do----they were already written in 1906?

In my opinion, that particular article, and given its particular date in relation to the NGLA project just might indicate that the stock of Emmet and particularly Travis ought to rise and perhaps significantly.

By the way, after Macdonald moved from Chicago to NY in 1900 and before he did his NGLA do you know what club he belonged to in New York?

[Jim Nugent]

Joe,

Is there a way to enlarge the print even more or should I photocopy and enlarge from there?


Bob

On your keyboard, hold down the Control key, and hit the + key.  The print and images will get bigger.  You can keep doing this, till the print is the size you like.  To scale back down, hold down Control and hit the - key. 

[Colin Macqueen]

Jim,
"On your keyboard, hold down the Control key, and hit the + key.  The print and images will get bigger.  You can keep doing this, till the print is the size you like.  To scale back down, hold down Control and hit the - key."

Not quite on my Macintosh at any rate. Yes the print in the "thread" will get bigger but the "image" of the printed article stays almost the same and if it does enlarge at all the resolution is still poor. Hence my request for access to the original material.

Cheers Col

[Joe Bausch]

The format of this article makes it challenging to present in a readable form in one piece.  Let me try again, this time stripping out the pictures so that I can post it in a larger form (2100 pixels wide) and still keep it under the 300k max size per document.

EDIT:  I'm now using tinypic.com to host this article!

Use the blue slider bar below the article to access the columns to the right.

[Colin Macqueen]

Thanks Joe,  it is now readable,
Colin

[Joe Bausch]

Curiously, I cannot prove this right now, but it is distinctly possible that this NY Sun article was penned by a Philly writer, one H. H. Cornish.

[Mark McKeever]

The obstacles look pretty cool!  Would these be comparable to something that Dye uses all the time in his modern day designs?

Mark

[Mike Cirba]

What a Tremendous article...there is so much to digest here, and Travis is clearly not given his due.

[Eric Pevoto]

That's a good read.

"Man alive," cried Campbell, "wha kenned o' hazards on th' pootin' greens!"

Myopia:   "...the first remodelled along the testing lines."

"The joy of annihilating distance granted by the lively ball has begun to pall.  The golfers want greater puzzles to solve..."