The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-03
GOLF SCHEDULES IN ORDER.
ANNOUNCEMENTS WILL BE SENT OUT
THIS MONTH.
A., Omen Tournament to Ne HELD by tho Wa
,rr,ilet Arsenal Ciub - College Golfers
PrnctisinE for the Ardsiey Championship
.A.nnrn on tho Nlorria ConntN LIKE.

a.. o,.r Tournament to ne Held by the wa
,.r,IIet Arsenal Club - College golfers
practising for the Ardstey Championship
changes on the Morris County links.
Thcre will be a rush Of announcements this
nonth of golf matches and tournaments to DO
held during the season. for the links are all
ro.dy for play and the greens committees have
all the schedules prepared.
I'm Saturday tho course Of the Watervliet Ar
ssnol Golf Club was opened for tho third season.
Tho Handicspping Committee this year will con-.
.to, n, John Clatworthy, Edward Murray Green,
md Lieut.. George W. Burr. There viii DO eight
bandicaps to be competed for. Tho mons handi-
cans will be at eighteen holes and the women's
At nine holes. The prizes will DO held by each
vinner until the next tournament, and the VIC
TORS arc barred from further competition until
the anal matches, which will be at hole play.
Tho prizo ON Decoration Day will be a cup. to
he won outright. The watervliet Golf Club is
an allied member Of the United States Golf
Association, and in the fall, at q date to be an
roupced, an open tournament will DO held. Tho
nri,e will be the watcrvliet Cup. and the condi-
t,ons will be- framed 30 as to attract entries from
tho New York. Philadelphia. and Boston groups
Of clubs.
The Iykcr Meadow and Yale University teams
will play at Fort Hamilton on Wednesday. and
on Thursday the Staten Island Cricket and Base
hall club will play the home team at 81. An
drey's, These are the only mid.weok fixtures.
The zeal OF the Yale players In due to their de-
sire TO get into trim for the intercollegiate tour
nament at Ardsley Casino. Harvard, Princeton,
University OF Pennsylvania, and Columbia will
be represented. and the golfers at these
institutions are practising as diligently
ss the New Haven men, although refraining
from public contests. Both Harvard and Prince
ton possess players who arc considered stronger
than any OF the Yale team. while Pennsylvania
strong aggregation OF golfers. so that the tour
nament Is certain to be an exciting one. The
tween teams Of six. losing teams dropping out.
Each match will be OF eighteen holes. Tho first
5 5suR ndd n iSs S ns GS% MIif Sc on on Nay ShS morning q. OF May
The extended Ardsley course Is considered to
be one of the finest eighteen-hole gol1ng grounds
In the world. the difference between the smooth
turf and terraced tees on the first nine holes and
the natural hazards of the new part furnish a
TSe regular hsndicaps were started on satur:
day, and. after the intercollegiate tournament,
ton nf Day Cup. and the finals for the Edwin
Gould Cup. The latter trophy, one Of the most
artistic ever presented for composition At golf
were \. B. Burr. j. y. Hammond. ". i, Judsen.
Sands. The finals will be decided as soon as
Sands returns from Europe. which will be early
The Morris County Golf Club is expanding a
large sum min IN Improvement on o. the Mofrist9wn
f fo1fs iens Th.'n The hei f Gs of hole o vii {S efq Psn II eiSsdi
terrace in the far corner above the punch bowl,
play directly across the punch bowl Tho third
sFee M moved ie%t some q atty yards s1dsi and aaa closer los Pt to the
Madison road. An earth bunker will DO put up 200
S TaSrae tfP bg two 1ns S sss; rse w iGST q m aiG!e :p aieee ahS
an oak tree, between them. will have a third
bunker h% s to close tho gap near the tree; There
sand bunker with be added to the hazards on the
hfth hole. Tho seventh hole will be heightened
SSG2sEasf BEEN e Cleaned nsia sway; n'% The ses e iaS g Rtas
will be entirely now. It will be situated in a
proaoR sh Slsh Tho Z sI 1ine l eGn The 70 0in easf hole S,S %h sR,
10 to be heightened $50 yards, will be partly
Another new hole follows the tenth. The OBJ
stacles will compel good golf. for tho drive Is
across a ditch and a pond and the putting green
green, formerly on an incline that unfairly pun.
tished many true puts. has been moved to level
. .he fish hee Il Tss ns twelfth disI 0i hole has hcsS ' slsees q
from q dwarf to a normal size b., placing
H. aSs s longest at hole the Of s tss inks snf Of viii fh' so fsla.
the thirteenth the tee being placed close to the
Iecrossing the punch bowl respectively. win be
prove such sporting greens. The sixteenth hole
will have a new and enlarged putting green:
The bunkers crossing the seventeenth hole will
b heightened, a much-needed change, and
the green will be moved back fifty yards.
The eighteenth hole will be another new one.
The tee will be close to the Convent station cor
ner OF the field, and tho lawn used for bowls be.
be the putting green. Last season the home
green was in cramped quarters, close to the OPP
/. posrte end Of the clubhouse, and 1t was no un.
SSS SII ono ~ Ting sSII for an %oPProach shot t" land the
James A. Tying is the Morris County Golf
CUB champion. He has two victories for the
mems cup to his credit and will be In the lists
active work on the links this winter, has de-
vtsed an indoor golf game that has the practical
merit OF teaching the uses Of the different wood
and iron clubs and the rules and chances Of the
for an idle hour.
In a friendly match at Waterbury last week
a; II. Fem lowered the record to sixty-nine.
Inc former record was seyenty-sir, held by W.
d. Merriman.
Willie Norton will resume charge at the Sea-
6right Golf Club on June i, when the Lakewood
links close for the summer. He has Just laid
on a nine-holel links at Somerset Hall, Demands
Y~oNKERs, May "A handicap golf tourna.
ment was played on the links of the Seagkill
Toll Club at Greystone yesterday afternoon.
guests. The contestants were at a disad vantas
On account OF the high wind and the mist which
hung over the course. The scores were:
Miss Harriet Waring. scratch. 1873; Miss Mabel Can
SsSnss!' sG[atcs, igs' Mss Frances A, Upham. scratch.
nackey. l44-lS-l28; Miss Matte BALDWIN. 10
ls.lsl; Miss Gilman, Is7-is~iiS: Miss janet
ls~t-l6-l69: Mis- Susie b. waing. ls4-I5-iey
hls Harriet Wartng and Miss Canning played on q
% sSua 10 81 o. and ss n holes; .,s M lay, wsIing won ~ score OF
ssnsSd by President J. Harvey Bell.
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