Troy Daily Times, July 18, 1899
New York Times, July 20, 1898
Evening Post, June 12, 1899
Indian Carry Golf Links, Detroit Publishing, between 1900 and 1910. There are players scattered on the course. Corey Island can be seen above right.The Indian Carry Golf Links were located near the Indian Carry at the south end of Upper Saranac Lake. In his book, Adirondack Golf Courses . . . Past and Present, J. Peter Martin calls this "Rustic Lodge Golf Course," built in 1899, though it is first mentioned in 1898 in an advertisement in the New York Times placed by Wawbeek Hotel manager J. Ben Hart. Apparently the course was used by guests of both the Rustic Lodge and the Wawbeek.
Albany Times-Union, January 4, 1900
THE BUSINESS WORLD.
Number of Stock Companies Incorporated.
…Indian-Carry Land and Investment Co., of Careys,[sic] Franklin county capital, $10,000; directors, Walter O. Witherbee and Wm. F. Harmon of Brooklyn, and John H. Wallace of New York city...
New Era illustrated Magazine, June 1904
The Upper Saranac camp colony numbers many enthusiastic golfers among its members, and they have formed the Indian Carry Golf Club. It is at the end of the lake, and no links in the country has a more beautiful situation. The course is limited to nine holes, but within that stretch one has opportunity for every sort of play and the chance to use about every club in the caddy bag. The club has a membership of sixty, and there are many exciting matches.
Tupper Lake Free Press and Herald, January 15, 1970
Quoting S.R. Stoddard’s 1904 guide
"…Indian Carry golf links are near the [Rustic] Lodge, extending over picturesque grwands where once, tradition says, were the corn fields of the ancient Adirondack people who Rave the place its name— it is a pretty tradition, anyway, and experts say the links are fine…”
New York Times, July 22, 1906.
ON INDIAN CARRY LINKS.
Special to The New York Times.
WAWBEEK, N. Y., July 21.—Visitors to the Wawbeek find the Indian Carry golf links much improved this season, and are taking up -the game with much fervor. D. R. Leslie is one of the enthusiasts, and Sherwood R. Ferris of Lakewood, who is in camp on Deer Island and who won the open golf tournament two seasons ago, is playing in good form.
Graham Douglass, the well-known polo player, is at Blythmere, the summer home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunn Douglass, on Upper Saranac Lake, after an enjoyable house party at Ferris Meigs camp, on Follensby Pond.
Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Frissell of New York have joined the house party at Bungalow Bay, where Mr. and Mrs. John H. Towne, Mrs. S. M. Swenson, and Mr. and Mrs. Eric Swenson are spending the Summer.
The Wawbeek Orchestra, under the leadership of Albert Wycherly, the well-known New York director, gave an excellent concert of favorite classics Sunday evening.
1913 map of southernmost Upper Saranac Lake showing the Indian Carry golf links at bottom, as well as the Saranac Club Golf Links on Bartlett Bay, rightBrooklyn Daily Eagle, August 25, 1909
Upper Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, August 18- The Saranac Inn Golf Club won the second of a series of matches from the Indian Carry Golf Club on their own course on Monday by 5 points to 0.
Summary:
Saranac Inn. | Indian Carry.
Dr. Miles...……..0| Dr. Krebs…….......0
Pierson…….....….1| Dr. Holt………......0 [Note: see also Emmett Holt]
Higgins…….....…2| Blackmar…...……0 [Note: see also Ted Blackmar III]
Bartow………......2| Herringdino……0
Mrs. Pierson….0| Sage………….....…0
Total………......…5| Total…………........0
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 25, 1909
Upper Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, N.Y., August 25 — The Indian Carry Golf Club won the third of a series of matches against the Saranac Inn Golf Club on their own links, Monday, by 7 points to 2...
Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post, July 8, 1926New York Times, August 15, 1909
WAWBEEK.
Special to The New York Times.
WAWBEEK. N. Y., Aug 14.—The season's sports at the Wawbeek, on Upper Saranac Lake, now include mountain climbing, which is interspersed with water trips and motoring parties.
The annual golf tournament will be held on the Indian Carry links on Sept. 3, 4, and 6. The picturesque course is laid out on a strip of land which was once a famous crossing place for Indians journeying to and from the Raquette River.
The Troy Times, August 9, 1910
Golfing and Fishing.
Special Correspondence of The Troy Times.
Wawbeek, N. Y., Aug. 5.—Among those to reach The Wawbeek recently was E. N. Kimball, Jr., of Boston. Mr. Kimball to one of the most enthusiastic of the golf players annually visiting here and to the donor of the Kimball Cup. Mr. Kimball has been devoting much time since his arrival to practice work on the Indian Carry links, and is again in his usual good form. Mrs. Kimball, who accompanies Mr. Kimball, takes a keen interest in social affairs at The Wawbeek.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 2, 1911
GUESTS AT WAWBEEK.
Wawbeek, N. Y., July 1— The steamer has begun making dally trips to Wawbeek and bringing in the campers and their friends. Nearly every camp in the vicinity of Wawbeek has had some addition or improvement added this spring and now all is in readiness for the season. Golfers are trying their skill on the Indian Carry links, near Wawbeek, and fishermen are continuing their daily quest of pike and bass...
Malone Evening Telegram, early September, 1925
LOMBARD BREAKS TWO GOLF RECORDS IN ADIRONDACKS
Former Utica Professional Plays Indian Carry Course in Three Under Par.
On Sunday, August 30th, while playing in company with Dr. Allen G. Fuller, of the U. S. Veterans Hospital No. 96. Tupper Lake at the Indian Carry Golf Club. Charles Lombard. formerly pro-fessional at the Utica Golf and Country Club. Utica. N. Y., and the Sedalia Country Club. Sedalia, Missouri, broke both the nine and eighteen hole records of the course. Mr. Lombard played the outgoing nine in thirty-eight and the second nine in thirty-two.
The previous records for the course par of which is thirty-five, were seventy-six for the eighteen holes and thirty-five for the nine. In playing the last round of the difficult nine hole course. Which has only been played in par once in the history of the course, in three under par, Mr. Lombard performed a feat which it is not believed will ever be equalled on this course. Of his last nine holes four were par, four birdies and on the treacherous fifth hole. one over par.
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