The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-09
GOLF DOINGS AND DATES.
G0ssIP ABOUr TIRE PLAYERS ar
COURSES NEAR AND FAR.
arrangement for the Week On the Local
L~iuks-Opinions on the Changes In the
Wuies Made by the United States Golf
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1NutSS hhu u tho Unttcu states eOlt
Association Lakewood Fail Tourney.
Golf lie still holding It's place on the regular
links, thanks to the long Indian summer, and
IL now appears that the formal games on the
distinctively winter links will not begin for =
fortnight t least. To-day'I feature will DO the
final rounds In the mixed foursomes at the
Morristown Field Club. Tomorrow. while
merely n friendly match, keen interest will be
taken in the game between Charles II. Mac
Donald OF chicago, amateur champion OF 1895,
and A. NJ. Coats of the Newport Golf Club. to
be decided at the Knollwood Country Club.
Coats learned his game in Scotland, and In tho
amateur championships, his first Important
match in this country. he lasted until tho
semi-fnals. when Ii. j. Whigham, the su bse-
quent champion, beat him by eight up and sx
to play. Thirty-siI holes will be played to.
morrow. which will give ample opportunity to
players to bring out the full strength of their
game.
Tomorrow afternoon also. beginning nj / 40
o'clock. a contest will be held on tho links Of
the Englewood Golf Club to determine the four
additional players who can qualify for the
women's championship of the club for 1916.
According TO the original terms of the Booth
Championship Cup, the four women who made
the best scores in the Mckay Cup competition
are already eligible to play. They are Miss
Helen Burritt, 65; Miss Anabel Green, 90; Miss
Lulu MONTY, ", anu hrs. ". A.. NellS, u. Tho
donor. W. \. Booth. has decided to increase the
lists to eight, in order to give n chance to all
members. The date for the final contest has
not yet been selected.
On Wednesday the regular contest in mixed
foursomes for the Van Antwerp cups will be
held AT the EnRlewood Golf Club. On the same
day the match for the Women Cup will be
continued at the Essex County Country CLUB,
Orange.
The Greens Committee OF the Country Club
of Westchester announces that n cup has been
put up to be competed for during November
among the members. The usual handicap will
be in force. and the best two nine-holo rounds
during the month will win. The tie for second
place in the recent tournament between Her.
bert NJ. Hartman and +. Sadlier at 81 net is
still unsettled and may be played this week.
Some time before Saturday. as now understood,
Armstrong and de GRrmendia will meet Reynal
and Van Etten in the long-deferred finals of tho
foursome competition at the Ardsley Casino
A vigorous effort is to be made by the wo-
mems of the Senbright Golf Club 20
have the building fund for the new club house
collected by Dec. l.
The postponement OF the annual reception at
the Baltusrol Golf Club was TO await the COM
pletion of the addition to the club house. This
will be ready in about q month, when the occa-
sion will be celebrated by a women's foursoms
tournament and the reception.
About fifty acres Of ground has been secured
for the new links of the Marine and Field Club
~ pdtH btdCl. Le pTOpeTLS IL bOuIn Oh flRLIy-
sixth street and ad joins the new Dyker Park on
the east: which. on the west. Is bounded by the
farmer still has his crops on most Of the land.
70 that full possession cannot be obtained for
f has i bess lS Ssin out, R1TSHe viii be se'e nsed az q sG praso
tice ground until spring. The holes are rather
short, as they have been crowded into about
fifteen acres. but the ground is rolling and
plenty large enough for friendly contests. A
golf house is TO be built on the highest knoll Of
of the lower bay and Coney Island. The present
handsome club house is about a mile and a half
from the links.
The radical changes in the rules made at the
meeting OF the United states Golf Association
on last Thursday evening are thoroughly app
milton of an amateur is n stringent one, but the
spirit of the restrictions has always been in
force. II will hardly render ineligible any
amateur now in the game; at least in the East
but should any player find the conditions a bar;
a Rass with WITH, the {. strict nfM letter Sssr q the 1st CODE .
matches the general opinion is that the ascot
alton has checked in a mild but decisive way
should be compelled 70 play for the club With
time, but this would be a manlfestly unfair rul-
ing. A change of residence or a dozen other
rsaeene Of % play pf %hile sti Pli Keeping in G up his mem n.
bership in his first club and his interest in the
doings on its links.
longing to this assoeia.ion any member DelSnSinG 70
represent as his home ciua. and he shall not thereafter
play on the team OF any other G,eo, except WITH = ns
As AN outcome of the new law some of the
golfers at IT. Andrews were discussing, on Sat
urday. a plan for a formal circuit OF inter.clpb
team matches for next season. the games TO bs
on n fixed schedule. as in baseball, the winners
to be the team champions of the season and 10
receive an appropriate trophy.
The enterprise of the Greens Committee II
ArdsleE Casino in. offering a cup for college
players brought, about AT interesting match
between Yale and Columbia on Saturday. The
suggestion that an intercollegiate golf union be
Secretary Tallmadge Of the United states Golf
Association soon afterwaTd corresponds Win
l nn,i,,es t Eol1srs ,,s at The the different different S S9,isEss Hna
was ready to do its part; The match at Ardsley
should do much to aid the formation OF such an
Yale. The golf club has about sixty members.
and is in a highly prosperous condition. The
the New Haven Golf Cub, TO which most 9th
81 SS1.f Is President Of os'ttRR the Yale Golf Cub: CFais
Colgate, '97 s.. Vice. President; w. b. Smith.
30, Treasurer. and James l. ~.
London GoU says: The statement that golf
Is one OF the Oldest games on record, and a
expected quarter. i seems that the Windows in
London church we'll known for it's elaborate
AMI advanced ritual-inustrate the life OF tho
resented playing golf. The vicar. Mr.. westail.
says that ST. Cuthbert was great at sport. bv
which he means great at golf"
LAKEWOOD. Nov. s.-The fall tournament Of
the Lakewood Golf Club will be held on Nov.
20, 81. and 2s: and the programme has boon
announced as follows:
Nov. 26-lo 4. NJ, preliminary medal round OF
eighteen holes for Laurel House Cup. gold medal for
best score; $50 !: N nrst round, match play. cight:
making the best scores In the medal rounds; second
prize. silver medal; 2;30 p. NJ. Consolation Cup,
eighteen holes.match play: second prize. silver medal
open TO all actual contestants in morning medal
rounds who do not qualify for the Laurel House Cup
Nov; FLO A, ~. Laurel House Cup. second round;
II A. NJ. Consolatiou Cup, second round: 2 p. NJ,
Laurel House Cup, ssmi+nnais; $3.50 P. NJ. Consolation
Nov. 2s-l0A A. NJ. nnAi round for Laurel House Cupi
lO;3o A; ~; fourth round for Consolation Cup: all
day, Golf Club OF LAkewood.Hnndicap. eighteen holes,
medal play: first prize. silver cup. best score prize,
silver cup; second prize, silver medal.
AN events are omen to members of recognized
clubs and other players invited by the commit
tee. Entries must be made in writing to Jasper
Lynch. Secretary. before the evening preceding
each event. Rules OF the United States Golf
Association to govern.
Bowling NOtep.