OMAHA J L LUST HATE I) HEE.
Golf Playing in North Omaha
Mnrcli 11, 1000.
During a visit to Scotland last summer
Harry Lawrle, who lias been prominent &i
an Omaha cricket player, renowed his ao
qualntnnco with various old friends, many
of whom were enthusiastic golfers." He was
so Impressed with tho general Interest taken
In tho game and Its merit as an outdoor
sport that on his return ho was Instrumental
lnv organizing tho Kountzo I'laco Golf club,
with twcnty-flvo charter members. Mr.
Lawrle was elected captain, Miss M. Brol.lar,
socretary and treasurer, and tho following
as a green committee: E. V. Lowls, Harry
O'NeJll and Miss Hcrbcrta Jnynes. All of
tho ofllcers mako up a board of managers
for tho general control of tho club.
Herman Kountzo gave tho club permission
to lay out a course on tho two reserves lu
Kountzo Place, adjacent to Twentieth and
Emmet streets, a spaco of ground compris
ing about fifteen acres. This tract Is suffl
clently largo to afford tho ordinary player
ample hazard and dllllcultlcs to mako the
gnmo Interesting. Tho putting greens are
all on the level, and when put In proper
condition during the coming season will
offer excellent opportunity for good work
at tho holes.
Tho courpe comprises nlno holes, ranging
In distance from 115 to 300 yards. Tliu
course, although somowhat small, has al
ready given amplo evidence that It will maka
a successful links, and being situated In
tho center of a populous district, within
Tcacn of three street car lines, will draw
patronage from golfers In all parts of the
city. Although tho greens have not been lu
tho best posslblo condition during tho
winter, tho club mombors havo been prac
ticing diligently, and will accordingly bo
ablo to cntor tho season in good form. Tho
winter's practice In driving and putting has
brought about a noticeable Improvement,
particularly among tho new members, who
havo gono into tho gamo with an enthusiasm
which promises that tho sport has como to
siay.
Several tournaments are already being
planned, to begin as soon as reasonably
mild weather Is assured. It Is hoped that
test matches may bo arranged with tho
golfing clement of tho Country club when
both sides have acquired what they feci to
rbo credltablo form. Tho principal contests
among tho members of the club will bo tho
continuous tourney for tho Lawrle silver
medals, ono each for tho man and woman
player making the lowest average scoro dur
ing tho season. The medals havo been of
fered by Captain Lawrlo with tho purpose
at keeping up the interest from May to
October, tho medal play to begin and end
on tho first .Saturdays of those months.
The rules for tho medal play havo not
as yet been formulated, but It Is understood
that altcrnato Saturdays will bo set apart
,s "modal days," when the scores will bo
filed with tho secretary to count toward tho
final decision. In order to hold a place In
tho competition each member will bo re
quired to participate in tho medal play on
as many as one-half tho days dedicated to
that purposo. It is expected that with this
Incentive tho membership will bo increased
and the qur'lty of the play Improved.
Tho leading players in the club are
MVesre. O'Neill, Lewis, Oldfleld, Cotterill,
Lawrlo and Shields. Tho women members
of the club are no less enthusiastic than
their colleagues and many nro able to hold
their own with any ono on the courso with
out regard to sex. Among those who aro
already -showing excellent form aro tho
following: Mesdamcs Lawrle, Shields and
Cotterill and Misses Brolllar, Fawcott and
McShane.
Tho younger patrons of tho links havo
formed tho Junior Golf club, which has
about twonty-flvo members, with Wlllard
JSORTH OMAHA GOLF MISS HEHBEHTA
JAYNES Photo by Bostwlck.
Butler as captain and Ethel Lawrle as sec
retary and treasurer. Tho young players
have more frequent opportunity for practlco
than their elders and nro showing a sur
prising aptitude for tho game. Those who
havo displayed tho greatest proficiency arc
Captain Uutlcr, Arthur Lowls, Arthur
Jacqulth niul Grace and Blanche Cotterill.
Other promising young golfers nro Luella
and Clifford lllne, Ona Troxcll, Helen Otis
and Gladys Sutphcn.
In speaking of tho prospects for the game
In this city Captain Lawrlo says: "Coif
has already secured a firm hold among tho
people of Omaha and, judging from tho
pcpularlty of the gamo In eastern cities,
there Is no reason why a strong gulfing
center should not bo formed here. Wo have
reason to hopo that Omaha will In n short
tlmo enter Into competition with surround
ing communities. There are a number of
old-tlmo golfers In the cl'ty who havo not as
yet Jellied either of the clubs and several
young men recently from Scotland hold
golfing records. These will undoubtedly
come forward when a healthy Interest In
tho gamo Is generally manifested.
"For clean Bport and physical develop
ment the game of golf has few equals and
no superiors. It is n game in which every
player gets full credit for good work and
on the other hand Is penalized when his
oyo Is untrue or his hand unsteady. When
he makes a long drive or a fine approach
shot tho gratification experienced Is equaled
In no other gamo on enrth."
Mr. Lawrle, who was formerly nn en
thusiastic cricketer and ono of tho mst
skillful players at tho old English gamo
In the city, has given up hopo of making
tho sport popular In this vicinity. Tho
gamo Is ton similar to bnso ball without tho
Inspiring features which that pastime pos
sesses In tho eyes of tho American public.
I)aso ball and foot ball aro confined to sea
sons and havo the disadvantage of only
nllowlng a few participants. Tennis Is ap
parently on tho wano In tho west and In
tho opinion of Mr. Lawrle the signs point
to golf as tho coming sport. The gamo
seems well adapted to tho American tem
perament and offers opportunity for both
skill and strength, which win It Instant nnd
lasting favor.
Opposition to
Woman Suffrage
Tho paper read before tho houso and
senate committees of congress recently by
Miss Emily P. BIbbcII of Wilmington, Del.,
was a strong and entertaining argument
ngalnst tho extension of tho suffrage to
woman: It read as follows:
It Is not tho tyranny, but the chivalry of
men that wo American women havo to fear.
Tho men of America want to glvo us every
thing wo really need, nnd the danger Is
that they will inlstako a minority for a
majority; that Is why wo aro hero today.
Wo havo a brief for tho silent majority who
do not want tho ballot; there aro no doubt
thousands of women who wish tho ballot
and wish It enrnestly, but thoro nro mil
lions who do not destro It.
Tho proof that wo represent this majority
may bo asked for. It lies in this that the
syffrngo 'movement must bo against tho
opinions of most of our sex, since it has
been pushed for fifty years by ns ablo a
womnn and as popular a ono as Miss An
thony, and yet still remains a minority
movement. In theso fifty years every other
woman's movement rcnlly desired by women
has succeeded. Tho educational movement,
not necessarily tho co-cducatlonal, is a mag
nificent success, nnd by tho way, I inlay
mention here, thnt tho presidents of four of
tho most prominent women's colleges aro
all anti-suffragists. Tho movement for
property rights Is so successful thnt even
married women now havo moro property
rights than married men. Tho entranco of
women Into all occupations and professions
has been so great thnt out of a posslblo 309
occupations over 3C0 have been conquered
for our sex according to tho census of 1890,
while now a suffragist speaker at tho con
ference this week claims that wo are repre
sented In over 400 trndes and occupations.
NORTH
Harry Lawrle.
Mrs. Lawrle.
NOItTH OMAHA GOLF.
And tho club movement well, gentlemen,
wherever there aro two women nowadays
thcro Is a club; tho remotest hamlet Is
no exception to this rule. Theso movements
havo had no trouble In winning their way
and they havo not taken half a century to
do It, either. Tho woman suffrage move
ment Is the only woman's movement In ex
istence that after fifty years' hard work
finds Itself not only In tho minority, but
with strong associations of women banded
against It.
Tho suffrago movement Is a minority
movement even wlicro It has succeeded. In
Colorado, whero I havo been twice since tho
equal suffrago law was passed and whero I
havo friends who aro old residents, I havo
been assured that tho majority of women
did not desiro tho vote and havo been In
different ever slnco as to casting their bal
lots. When I was going to Oregon last year
I had a most Interesting talk with an Ore
gon suffragist, who sought to dissuade me
from opposing suffrage. I asked her if
bho did not think I represented tho ma
jority, and sho said: "Why, of course, tho
majority of women hero In tho east aro
ngalnst us and you will find tho majority
out thcro against us, too, but when thoy
havq to voto they will vote." And when I
reached Oregon I found sho was right, In her
first remark, nt least. Tho great majority
of all tho women I met thcro did not enro a
button for tho ballot and a strong organiza
tion has been formed thoro ngalnst It. In
this .connection I may odd, slnco tho success
of municipal suffrago In Kansas is often
spokon of by tho suffragists, that ono of
tho members of tho standing commlttco of
this Oregon stato association opposed to tho
oxtenslon of tho suffrago to women camo
upon that commlttco because, as sho eald,
sho had been living in Kansas under
municipal suffrago and was so disgusted
with it that when sho moved to Oregon sho
wanted no moro suffrago at all.
Tho suffrago movement Is a minority
movement, too, In that tho four states
which havo accepted suffrago aro not repre
sentative of our largo communities. Colo
rado by tho census of 1890 had less In
habitants in tho wholo stnto than tho city
of Baltimore; by tho last estimate, made
by Its governor, It had Just about 20,000 In
habitants moro than Baltimore, which Is
not much of a margin. Wyoming's total
population Is less than tho foreign popula
tion of Marylnnd, and Maryland Is not a
land of Immigrants, by nny means. Tho
population of Idaho Is far bolow tho num
ber of colored pcoplo in 'Maryland. Utah
OMAHA GOLFERS Photo by LouIb R.
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Miss Brolllar. NOItTH OMAHA GOLFERS TWO OF THE U1SING JUVE
NILE PLAYHIIS.
(whero the ndmlsslon of women to the suf- today In tho hands of cleaner or moro dls
frago can hardly bo said, in view of recent Interested politicians than boforo tho days
events, to havo elevated tho character of of woman's sulTrago."
tho candidates) has less population than lliillut N 'lcil.
thcro aro negroes In Arkansas, and alto- In conclusion, gentlemen. It you will ex
gother tho four states that havo equal suf- cuso a personal detnll, I wish to say that
frago all put together havo fewer people In If any woman In tho United States needs
them (700,000 fowcr) than Chicago and not a voto I ought to bo that woman. Tho
half as many as New York City. Gentlo- suffragists ask for tho ballot lu tho nnmo
men, results from bucIi states, oven IC of tho self-supporting woman, who must be
they wcro concluslvo nnd positive, would a bread winner not only for herself, but
still bo minority results. often for others; thoy nsk It for tho propcrty
NoKiittvc HcNiiltn. owning womnn, who needs It on account of
But oven In those states tho results aro taxation; they ask It for the temperance
negative. Colorado has no advance In leg- wo""' 60 U'at ,8ho m tl,019u nc,l,rHl1
Islatlon to speak of, no purification of poll- n,1,a ldoarC8l1 10 , rrom ,n,c mUtoaj
tics, no improvement of municipal condl- lt for th ?lub wman' haua hcr n"
lions, no raising of working women's tolllgenco and Interest In public affairs de
wages, no tokens of tho millennial dawn Hurvo ,l' ,Aml nbo,vo n"; 1 ,oy aBk 11 ,or
Whatever. Utah has sent Mr. Urlgham f1'0 'r' uown-trodden single woman, who
Itobcrts here, but ho has been returned with no ono to look out or hcr or take car
' tint Uitnrnu a Wrtll frrttlllmiwtn V A
thanks (through tho efforts of the women
without tho ballot), so that Utah's effort to
uplift tho country goes for nothing. Wyo
ming has had equal suftrngo for thirty years,
yet nothing Important has happened nny
moro than In Idaho, which has but just be
gun tho oxporlment. Negative results such
as theso speak powerfully against BUftrnge, suffragist, perhaps, but as it is I remain
to our mind wltn 11,0 n'aJorlty of sox nml 1 UK yu
I may bo asked by whab authority I speak l" l'e,lolvo that wo do not want to voto and
for Colorado. I havo hero letters from thnt MFB Anthony, whoso courage, whose
Colorado men, signed with their names and uovotlon. whoso Interest, whoso determined
giving their opinion as to tho negative or Prsovcranco wo sincerely admire, Is never-
ovll results of suffrago In Colorado. It ",clos nL bfck111 h lho, wo"lcn of Amor-
may bo said that you would prefer to hear lcn- 1,ut 18 lcadlB 11 minority movement
from tho women and I also havo a letter oa'y
from a Denver woman, who signs her name
to lt and who shows up tho same evils.
(Hero tho speaker read two letters, ono
from an official of tho fire and police board
of Denver and ono from a Denver lawyer),
which spoko emphatically of tho failure of
woman sulTrago to purify politics, advnuco
the causo of lomperauco or remedy tho mu
nicipal corruption; both theso letters
particularly refer to tho voto
of tho dlsreputablo women s
being tho only solid and rosult-produclng
woman's voto In Denver politics. Ono of
theso letters was written by n man who
had voted for woman's sulTrago and still
theoretically approved of it, but considered
Its practical working bo far exceedingly dis
astrous. Tho latter from a Denver womnn
particularly emphasized tho extraordinary
oxpenso for carrlago hlro at Denver
cloctlons, amounting to $10,000 at a recent
city election, and said: "Ho would bo a
bold man indeed who should claim that tho
municipal affairs of tho city of Denver are
Bostwlck.
frcak ,of coincidence, I happen to bo myself
a single woman, a club woman, a temperance
womnn (though not a prohibitionist), but
I hnvo never yet been so situated that I
could bco whero a vote could help mo. If
I felt that lt would I might becomo a
NORTH OMAHA GOLF MRS. GEORGE W.
SHIELDS Photo by Bostwlck.
