3-028-541 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Golf-match on Blackheath, 1870. Match between the London Scottish and Royal Blackheath Golf Clubs. 'The game consisted of 21 holes...The players numbered twenty on each side, and the game was played "in foursomes," which means that two of one side played against two of the other side. The first Blackheath pair was Captain Rucker and Mr. Brown, opposed to the first London Scottish pair - viz., Captain Dudgeon and Mr. W. Dudgeon...Glennie and Mackenzie beat Sir Hope Grant and Kerr; Wylie and S. Smith beat Dean and Hutchison; Baldwin and Bennet beat Cheyne and G. Anderson; Adamson and Begbie beat Glover and Winter; Marsh and F. Gilbert beat Lord Elcho and Fisher; Kynaston and Earle beat Fordyce and J. Anderson; Townend and Steele beat Fowlie and Walkinshaw...leaving Blackheath winners on the day by 37 holes...The players of the London Scottish Club showed much skill in playing over a course they were strangers to...The London Scottish, whose course is at Wimbledon, has been composed until quite recently, we believe, entirely of members of the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers...Their opponents are perhaps the oldest established club on this side the Tweed, having been instituted in 1608, when King James I. brought Scottish fashions to London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.