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JMEvensky

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (FANTASTIC update added 02/01/2019)
« Reply #75 on: February 06, 2019, 10:05:03 AM »
JB,when do you have time to chemistry? ;D

Joe Bausch

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (FANTASTIC update added 02/01/2019)
« Reply #76 on: February 06, 2019, 12:55:21 PM »
JB,when do you have time to chemistry? ;D

You would not believe how many articles I recently gathered during Sunday's football game.   ;D

Another nice update to the Bausch Archives probably on Monday.
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Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Neil Regan

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (FANTASTIC update added 02/01/2019)
« Reply #77 on: February 06, 2019, 10:59:19 PM »

One thing that appeals to me often in these old newspapers is the vibrant enthusiasm for the game of golf.
It was still a young game in America, and much more of an adventure than nowadays.
And being pre-internet, stories of courses and shots became legends and myths.
Nowadays when you hear of a great hole or shot, you check it out on the web.
Right away, the charm is gone because there is no waiting, no embellishing, no heightened imaginings.


Joe posted a few months ago a link to articles called Golf Holes They Talk About.
Great holes have always been a seminal to golf’s appeal.
But nowadays it seems we have heard already of every great hole, and seen every architectural notion somewhere.
I think we live in a time when golf courses have never been better,
yet it’s rare that they capture the thrill of the early days.


Below is a link to one of Joe’s finds,
an article about Oakmont and its #12, 621 yards, a “plague” to golfers in this “Hades” of golf.
A few tales of Jones and Armour, Fownes and Herron, Melhorn and Cooper.
It was still an era when you might ask how a golfer traversed “that long harassing route”,
and hear about each shot as an episode in an adventure
where golfers “epidemically died in droves.”
Nowadays, of course, the answer would more likely be a dronish monotone “Driver, 3 wood, wedge.”
Fun golf, perhaps, but not the same.


So, a few questions:
1. Are those thrilling days gone forever ?
2. How long would must a hole be to match this 621-yard test from 100 years ago ?
3. Does anybody know the history of the hole, when it was first hit in 2 shots, how often does that happen now ?


http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/GolfHolesTheyTalkAbout/pages/page_8.html?





Grass speed  <>  Green Speed

MCirba

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (FANTASTIC update added 02/01/2019)
« Reply #78 on: February 09, 2019, 12:12:03 PM »

One thing that appeals to me often in these old newspapers is the vibrant enthusiasm for the game of golf.
It was still a young game in America, and much more of an adventure than nowadays.
And being pre-internet, stories of courses and shots became legends and myths.
Nowadays when you hear of a great hole or shot, you check it out on the web.
Right away, the charm is gone because there is no waiting, no embellishing, no heightened imaginings.


Joe posted a few months ago a link to articles called Golf Holes They Talk About.
Great holes have always been a seminal to golf’s appeal.
But nowadays it seems we have heard already of every great hole, and seen every architectural notion somewhere.
I think we live in a time when golf courses have never been better,
yet it’s rare that they capture the thrill of the early days.


Below is a link to one of Joe’s finds,
an article about Oakmont and its #12, 621 yards, a “plague” to golfers in this “Hades” of golf.
A few tales of Jones and Armour, Fownes and Herron, Melhorn and Cooper.
It was still an era when you might ask how a golfer traversed “that long harassing route”,
and hear about each shot as an episode in an adventure
where golfers “epidemically died in droves.”
Nowadays, of course, the answer would more likely be a dronish monotone “Driver, 3 wood, wedge.”
Fun golf, perhaps, but not the same.


So, a few questions:
1. Are those thrilling days gone forever ?
2. How long would must a hole be to match this 621-yard test from 100 years ago ?
3. Does anybody know the history of the hole, when it was first hit in 2 shots, how often does that happen now ?


http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/GolfHolesTheyTalkAbout/pages/page_8.html?

Neil,

That's a terrific post and some great thoughts.

I do worry that some of the elemental, adventurous appeal of what should be a simple game is being lost to technology and profit and the search for BIGNESS.

The only question I've venture to answer is #2.   I used to ask here how long the 18th at Merion would have to be today for a modern player of 1950 Ben Hogan's length and ability to hit Drive, 1-iron (or 2-iron, can never remember which it was) on the last hole of the US Open.

To go back 100 years with hickory clubs it's almost unimaginable how long a 621 yard par five would have to be to play similarly but I suspect you'd need a toll booth somewhere along that stretch.
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Bret Lawrence

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (latest update added 02/01/2019)
« Reply #79 on: February 09, 2019, 12:52:55 PM »
Hopefully others are silently enjoying these articles. 

Thanks for sharing, Joe...

I can't even imagine how twisted and misinterpreted the history of Philadelphia region (and other regions) golf course architecture would be without your incredible efforts to unearth contemporaneous accounts from all of these sources.


Mike,


I have been silently enjoying these articles and photographs.  Thanks Joe for putting these together.


Bret

Joe Bausch

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (FANTASTIC update added 02/01/2019)
« Reply #80 on: February 17, 2019, 10:57:48 AM »
Before there was "Playing Lessons from the Pros", there was US Amateur champ Jesse Guilford writing for the Public Ledger:


http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/Guilford_EveningPublicLedger/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (another update added 02/17/2019)
« Reply #81 on: February 25, 2019, 08:21:33 AM »
A handful of courses from Monmouth County (NJ) were reviewed in the 1937 Daily Record (Long Branch, NJ).  Here is a link to them:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/DailyRecord1937/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (another update added 02/25/2019)
« Reply #82 on: February 25, 2019, 12:38:33 PM »
A ginormous update to the Bausch Archives today.  After William Evans left the Evening Public Ledger to write for the Philadelphia Record, a fellow by the name of Percy Sanderson eventually became the golf writer for the EPL.  Percy fought in WW1 for awhile, then came back to the EPL.  He wrote under the pen name "Sandy McNiblick".  He missed about 4 months of so in 1922 as he recovered from an auto accident that killed the sports editor of the EPL, Bob "Tiny" Maxwell.

Anyways, Sandy Mc wasn't quite the writer (at least to my brain) as William Evans, but he did write plenty.  There are probably over 700 articles penned by him from 1920-2.  And they are here in one spot to be slowly but sure digested:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/SandyMcNiblick_1920to1922EPL/index.html
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@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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Re: Introducing the Bausch Archives (GINORMOUS update added 02/25/2019)
« Reply #83 on: April 10, 2019, 12:07:46 PM »
The latest edition to the Bausch Archives is a "Dream 18" article in the 1965 Greater Philadelphia Magazine.  Good stuff!

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/1965_Dream18_PhillyMag/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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Another addition to the Bausch Archives this afternoon is a series of articles by Harry Vardon in the 1917 NY Evening Post:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/1917_VardononGolf/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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The latest addition to the Bausch Archives is pretty much all the golf articles from the 1917 Public Ledger. Many of them are by prominent writer William Evans. Even those articles with byline “Joe Jigger” are almost certainly Evans.


Go here to relive history:


http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/1917_PublicLedger/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

mike_malone

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If there’s a Philly Golf HOF Joe belongs in it. If there isn’t start with him.
AKA Mayday

Joe Bausch

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Rinse, repeat, but really cool:  the latest addition to the Bausch Archives are pretty much all the golf articles from the 1918 Public Ledger in Philadelphia. Those articles by Joe Jigger are almost certainly penned by local golf writer William Evans.  Lots of fun nuggets here if you are willing to relive history!

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/1918_PublicLedger/index.html

That album includes good stuff like the opening of Gulph Mills (image clickable to a larger size):

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@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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A good Friday news dump, here are all the golf articles from the 1912 Public Ledger:


http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/1912_PublicLedger/index.html


Some pretty darn good stuff in there.   ;D
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

MCirba

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Dear Joe,


Did anything noteworthy happen in Philadelphia golf in 1912?


Signed,
Curious
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Joe Bausch

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Dear Joe,


Did anything noteworthy happen in Philadelphia golf in 1912?


Signed,
Curious


Not much.  Grin.
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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The latest addition to the Bausch Archives is a series penned by Jock Hutchison called "Law of the Links".  He basically answers rules questions (these appeared in the 1922 Philadelphia Inquirer):

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/LawoftheLinks/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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Another nice Sunday addition to the Bausch Archives is a series of articles penned by Francis Ouimet for the 1920-1 Philadelphia Inquirer (I'm assuming it was a syndicated series):

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/FrancisOuimetInky/index.html

Enjoy!  Time for me to sweat and play some golf on this hot afternoon....
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@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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Let's start this Monday with a big set of articles.  In 1919 Perry Lewis was the writer assigned to cover golf for the Philadelphia Inquirer.  You can read any or all of his articles (in chronological order) here at the Bausch Archives at MyPhillyGolf.com:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/PerryLewis1919Inky/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

MCirba

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Fantastic stuff Joe!
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Joe Bausch

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And here are Perry Lewis' 1920 golf articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/PerryLewis1920Inky/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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And here are Perry Lewis' 1921 golf articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/PerryLewis1921Inky/index.html
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Joe Bausch

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One more year (1922) of Lewis' Inky articles today:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/archives/PerryLewis1922Inky/index.html

Some are real good, like this one (spans over two slides) on Joe Coble of Cobb's Creek fame:







@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

MCirba

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Tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn I will pay proper homage to Mr. Joe Coble, the true Rocky story in Philadelphia, by playing Community Golf Course in Dayton, OH where Coble won the 1924 US Public Links.
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Joe Bausch

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Tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn I will pay proper homage to Mr. Joe Coble, the true Rocky story in Philadelphia, by playing Community Golf Course in Dayton, OH where Coble won the 1924 US Public Links.


Beautiful, man!
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection