New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-04
GOLF.
WrsTCHEsTER CLUB BEGINS IT'S AN
NUAL TOURNAMENT.

WAITER J. TRAVIS MAKES THD BEST sCoRE AND
WINS THE GOLD MEDAL-A POLICE RAID
ON THE CADDIES-MISs HOYT EN-
TERED FOR TO DAYS PLAY.
Walter J. Travis. whose winning ways among
rolf-plavers have usually taken the pleasant FORM
n trophies cups and other little mementoes or
colnng skill added another medal to his varied
assortment Yesterday by winning first place in the
preliminary round Of the Westchester Golf Clubs
three-day tournament Travis made score or -
which is within stroke of the record OF tho
course held jointly BY w. II. Sands and c. Fox
Tiffany Those who have experienced his win
ming WAYS do not hesitate to say that he will
smash this record before the tournament is over.
and they are probably right The contest VIII
continue through tomorrow. and he will not lack
opportunity for doing so.
In in the Borough OF The Bronx a big golf
tournament is hailed with Joy by every urchin
within five miles OF the links. Carrying clubs
brings a dollar a day. and dollar day is some
thing small boys wink at twice before losing. Yes
terday The Bronx schools suffered sudden and
unaccountabe defamation In their ranks. There
wasn't boy between the ages of ten and fifteen
years who answered TO the morning rocall. and
in some cases the classes had to be given IN.
Word reached the Thirty-third Precinct police sta
ton OF this OF affairs. and two mounted
policemen dispatched 10 round up the truants.
1t did not take the officers long to ferret out the
cause OF the trouble. and about they charged
down upon the links prepared TO drag In every boy
in sight The halfhundred caddies who were
summing themselves under tree espied them Just
they entering the grounds. and in half
minute the links apparently deserted. while
from behind bunkers. trees and rocks went up
howl OF derislCn. one smai, boy who was not a.
spry the others. nabhed and hauled off TO
the police station charge of breaking some
schoolhouse windows. but the rest escaped Five
minutes after the officers had gone the game
going merriy on
Unlike most OF the open tournaments this
son. there consolation class yesterday, and
those who failed to qualify among the first sixteen
dropped out entirely. This made the competition
all the more keen. and a result the scores were
considerably better than those OF year ago.
Possibly this due to the -cellent condition OF
the course, for, though radical changes have
been made since ,nat time it has been kept in
capital shap, snd the contestants found It all
that could be desired. The weather was perfect
George Fox Tiffany. the ndefatigable secretary
Of the club, made the second best score In the pre-
liminary round. though his card five strokes
worse than Traviss. After Tiffany w. l..
Gunther. a WestbroOk player who had done some
excellent work this season and who made the
creditable score OF 81. The others who qualified In
cluded Jasper Lynch. OF Lakewood: C. NJ. Hamil-
ton. OF Baltusrol; Stuyvesant f. Morris, jr., cap
tain Of the Columbia golf team; Cornelius Fellowes,
tr who also represented Columbia in the recent
lntercOlIeRldte BOlI championship, w lHuISloi
Of Morris County and Malcolm Graham. jr., OF
Iarbor Hill.
In the first round at match play IN the after
noon, Travis who drawn against Fellowes.
made the first nine holes in 80, and doubtless would
have smashed the record had he continued for the
fun distance. But Fellowes proved easy man
10 beat and the match stopped with the score
up and to go in Travis's favor The cards were:
Feilowes ...................l 60
Travis .....''.'..'''.''.'.'+ -
FeiloW-s ...................J
'Bye holes not PLAYED.
Jasper Lynch bad hot match with Tiffany. and
was beaten 1 up Lynch was up at the twelfth
hole lie lost the thirteenth at TO :. and the next
three holes were halved With the score sill up in
his favor at the sixteenth. he lost his nerve. and
Tiffany won the two hoes aud the match.
The cards were
Tiffany .................t 80
Lynch .................
Tiffany ..........-.....3 ~ ~
Lunch ..................3 4-i5-3D
Graham was drawn against Slocum. the cld-tlmo
tennis champion whc beaten ~ and
3 10 go while ]. y. steele jr.. OF Nuuy.
from H. NJ. Young. Of the home club by exactly
the same score. Morris. the Columbia player. wa
beaten by Thurston NJ and 10 play AMI
Mayhem lost 10 Gun,her BY M and to play.
Gunther's card
out ......................t /. !. tie
IN - "
.Bye holes played.
For the second round to-day the drawings arc.
Travis and Graham steele and Winston. Hamilton