The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-12
ARDsLEY GOLF TOURNAMENT.
Colleges Meet for Individual Cham pionship for the First Tlme-The Yale Golfers,

pionship for the First Tlme-The Yale Golfers.
 New York, May 11.-All arrangements were completed for the golf players of the leading colleges to meet to-day at Ardsley Casino in that first individual intercollegiate championship.
 The team matches will begin to-mor- row between Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and possibly Pennsylvania, Team matches between different col leges have been of frequent occurrence in England and Scotland, but this coun- Ntry Is the first to introduce an individ- ual collegiate championship. The in- dividual contest to-day was at eighteen holes medal play. Silver cups were of- fered as prizes.
 The New York Evening Sun says on the subject:
 There Is no lack of good golfers among the collegians, for as In Great Britain, where youth of twenty has Just won the amateur championship, the younger element seems now to be the most prominent in this country. Three of the college boys to start to- morrow were we'll up in the last Amer- 1can amateur championship, w. Bay ard Cutting, jr,, who qualified with IFS on the first day; L. P. Bayard jr., and T. F. Gannett, jr., who tied at 1SO for the sixteenth place on the qualified list with l.. B. Stoddart and Richard Peters, Bayard winning the play off for the coveted place. Cutting and Gan nett are Harvard golfers, where other good players are Joseph H. Choate, jr,, J. Townsend Burden, J. r. Curtis, R. B. Stone, T. Underhill and J. G. Aver i'll. Bayard is a Princeton student and captain of the team. His best men are w. D. Vanderpoel, who Is a member of the Morris County Golf club, and Paul D, Stockley, graduate of the Lake wood links.
 Columbia's players have been prac- ticing zealously on temporary links on their grounds at Williamsbridge, and also on the public course at Van Cort- landt Park. The captain of the team is Stuyvesant F. Morris, who was one of the best men in the Quogue Field club tournaments last summer. Among other good players at Columbia are H c. Mortimer, G. C. Pier, Manson Nor ris, l.. M. Lawson, L. Mortimer, James D. Pell, A. H. Fowler and w. H. Dixon Three cities have players among Yale's division of golfers
 Chicago Is represented by w. B. ana S. A. Smith, Philadelphia by J. J. Line. aweaver and this city by Roderick Ter. ry, jr., son of the pastor of the Soutf Reformed nhJ1roh Thirty -eights street; John Reid, tr. Frederick Havemeyer, w. R. Betts, H T Kneeland, jr., and Craig Colgate They are all players above the average in ability Terry holds the ArdsleS club championship, while Reid in prac tee last week cut down the record O. the Ardsley course, held at S6 by w. H Sands and H. M. Billings, to S3 strokes
 TEe Ardsley Casino course is one O the best arranged 9-hole links in tht country. The course is on the banks O. the Hudson, between Dobbs Ferry ant 1rvington, and the players have a flint view of the river from nearly ever, part of the links. The club has prob ably the best appointed quarters of any country club in the United States, tht minor conveniences including a private railroad station on the grounds. Tht Ardsley members first offered a colleg, team prize last fall when Yale wor from Columbia by B holes to on No vember '. Since then Yale, Harvard Princeton, Columbia and the Universi ty Of Pennsylvania have formed an in tercollegiate golf association, and th, contests which hepin to-poorrou, vs;I1 h, repeated each year on different links.