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ment and enlargement of the old
clubs. Only the other day the st.
Andrews club relinqished it's nine
hole course at Yonkers, almost histor-
ic grounds in the eyes of the Amer
lean golfer, for new eighteen hole
course at Mount Hope The million
aire golfers, who make up the Ards
ley club, following suit, have enlarged
their links and have now an eighteen
hole course which, like the Mount
Hope one, is about 5000 yards long.
Both the St. Andrews club and the
Ardsley club are out after the champ
ionship of 1898.
The open tournaments scheduled
for the Metropolitan Golf associa-
ton, which covers a radius of sixty
miles around New York, are with one
!, or two events outside the radius, as
follows:
Sept. 8, 10, 11-Westbrook Golf club. Islip,
l.. 1.
Sept. 21-Lenox Golf club
Sept. %, %, "a 25-Tuxedo Golf club.
Sept. 80, Oct 1, 2-Meadowbrook Golf club,
Westbury.
Oct 6 I, 8 9-st. Andrews Golf club, Mount
Oct /, u, 13-oakland Golf club Baysids,
Oct 20, 81. %, 23-Morris County Golf club,
Morristown. N; j.,
Nov. i, 2, S-Knollwood Country club.
Nov. 10, II. u. 1S--Westchester Country
Nov. "a, 25, 26, 27-Lakewood Golf club.
club.
Nov. II, IS, 10, 2O-Baltusral Golf club.
On the same date as Saratoga
tournament takes place the Women's
tournment for the championship of
the United States-a clash in dates
that will initiate sadly against the
success of the games on the links at
hn &c tn ha
the Saratoga Golf club, with its COM
modious club rooms and fine links, is
eminently well fitted to conduct as
successful an event as is to be found
on the golfing calendar. But then,
everything must yield to the ladies'
This year the womens championship
will be played on the links of the Els
sex County club Manchester-by-th
sea- Mass. Not few of the promis-
ing candidates for the coveted honor
will come from the home club as, with
the Shinnecock Hills and Morris
County clubs, it ranks among the first
in the number and prominence of it's
women players. Miss N c. Sargent,
who was second in the championship
of 1895, is undoubtedly the best of the
Essex golfers and her record this sea-
son makes it evident that she is in fine
trim for the final struggle.
Miss Beatrix Hoyt, the present
champion, has been spending the sum-
mer at Shinnecock Hills, where her
| long list of victories in the weekly
| handicaps proves her in great form.
A short time ago she covered the diff
| ficult Shinnecock course in IS, which
| means that if her title is to be wrested
| from her, some extraordinary good
golf must be played. Another fine play
! er is Mrs. Arthur Turnure, the runner
up last year to Miss Hoyt. 1t is pos
sible, too, that Mrs. Hobart Chatfield-
Taylor will come on from Chicago to
| uphold the honor of the Onwentsia club
in the tourney The entry list, how
ever, has not yet been made public.
Three years ago, when the first wom-
ems championship was held at the
Meadowbrook links, there were but a
dozen competitors; this year there will,
it is said. be all of fifty, while con-
| testants will come from such COM
paratively distant points as Baltimore,
Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and
| Albany
The amateur and open champion
ship of the United States, held under
the special rules of the United States
Golf association and for prizes given
| by that body, begins on the links Of
| the Onwentsia Golf club, Lake Forrest,
| Chicago, Ill, Sept. IA. The present
| holder is an Onwentsian man, II. j.
Whigham, a Scotchman by birth. The