The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14
INrERoo11EGrArE GOLF SCORES.
Yale Defeats Princeton and Harvard, Col Mmbia-Yinners Meet To-day.

umbia-Winuers Meet To-day.
 Ardsley- -on- Hudson May 13.-The in tercollegiate golf championship tourna, ment was played here to-day. Like the individual tournament played yester' day. it was the first contest of the kind ever held in this country, and had the weather been favorable it is almost cer. tain that it would have been the most interesting event ever held on the Ards ley links.
 Four colleges competed in the tourna. ment to-day-Yale, Columbia, Harvard and Princeton.
 Each college had team of six men as follows:
 Yale-Terry, Reid, w. B. Smith, s. A Smith, Betts and Colgate.
 Harvard-Cutting, Curtis, Gannett Stone, Burden and Choate.
 Princeton-Bayard, Vanderpoel, Stu art, Stockley. Poole and Stewart.
 Columbia-Pier S. F. Morris. M. Nor. ris Dixon Mortimer and Lockhart-
 Yale was pronounced favorite for the championship, while the majority of persons thought that Harvard would finish second. Yale to judge by yes terday's playing, had by far the strong est set of players. The average of the six men on the team was 94 2-3, several strokes better than the average of any other combination of six taken from the twenty-two contestants. The tour. nament to-day was hole-play contest the team whose men won the largest number of holes being the champions As is the case in all team matches, all the holes were played out.
 The contest was not only for the championship, but also for a superb silver cup offered by the officers of the miniature cups for the four men mak- ing the best score on the respective teams ,
 The play to-day was eighteen holes al match play, holes to count. The result of the first nine holes was as follows: Choate, Harvard, won from Morris. O. lumbia, five up; Bayard, Princeton won from Terry, Yale, four up; Col gate, Yale, won from Poole, Princeton six up; Reid, Yale, won from Stuart Princeton, five up; Cumming, Harvard won from Pier, Columbia, two up; Van- derpoel, Princeton, won from Betts, Yale, one up; W. B. Smith, Yale, won from Stockley, Princeton, four up; Cur tis, Harvard, won from s. Morris, Co., lumbia, five up; Gannell, Harvard, won from Mortimer, Columbia, five up; Stone, Harvard, won from Dixon, Co., lumbia, eight up; Burden, Harvard, won from Lockhart, Columbia, eight up. Total first round-Yale, 19 holes; Princeton 5 holes; Harvard, 33 holes; Columbia, 0.
 The final score for the eighteen holes follows: Choate, Harvard, beat M Morris, Columbia, nine up; Bayard Princeton, beat Terry, Yale, four up; Colgate, Yale, beat Pole, Princeton, ten up; Reid, Yale, beat Stuart, Princeton, nine up; Betts, Yale, beat Vanderpoel Princeton, one up; Cumming, Harvard, beat Pierce, Columbia, four up; W. B. Smith, Yale, beat Stockley, Princeton seven up; Curtis, Harvard beat s. Mor- ris, Columbia, seven up; Gannell, liar yard, beat Mortimer, Columbia, eight up; Stone, Harvard, beat Dixon, Co., lumbia, three up; Burden, Harvard beat Lockhart, Columbia, thirteen up The total number of holes won by each college was: Yale, 35 holes; Princeton 4 holes; Harvard, 54 holes; Columbia none
 Yale thus won from Princeton by the score of 31 holes up. while Harvard de feated Columbia by the score of 54 holes up. Yale and Harvard, being thus the winners of the semi-ilnals, will play to- morrow for the championship in a 1S- hole contest.