Evening star., 1898-09-12
THE GOLF CONTEST
Fourth Amateur Championship Tour
nament at MorristoWn.
MOST PERFECT COURSE IN AMERICA
One Hundred and Twenty Fine
Players Are Entered.
WuIGHAM AMONG THEM

NeRIdST1WN Nj. September r.
The fourth -cgular arateur golf champion
ship tourna .r-nt. under the auspices of the
tinted States Golf Association. opened to-
lay on Iinks of the Morris County Golf
Club.
Judging fr1m the auspicious manner in
which the plSy Logan and the promp'ltude
Of the officials and players. this year
championship contest will go on record as
one of the most perfectly arranged affairs
ii its kind that has ever taken place in the
history of the game in this country The
weather .s delightful and the conditions
If the links drew forth generous amount
OF praise from the players. When the club
made it. hi at the last annual meeting of
thc United States Golf Association to have
This years great event take place on its
grounds the representatives promised, in
CASE the contest should be held here, 10
prepare a course which would outciass any
links In America. The players who have
started in the tournament all acknowledge
that the NJ .'ris club greens committee has.
with a generous expediture OF money ard
time. succesded in furnishing the most per-
feet golf course in the country. The dis
tGnCC from the first tee to the last of the
eighteen hoits Is exactly 5,bb yards, so
that each player in the preiimt tnarles shall
cover nearly seven miles in going twice
over tn, course Of The mccall play al thir-
Ly-siX holes
Large NEnber of Entries.
One h1ndrei and twenty of the best am
sstCur pIay,rs represe nting ferty-eight Of
the leading golf clubs in this country have
entered for the contest of the blue ribbon
al American golf end it is expected that
there will not be half dozen absentees.
The players most pIcTrinent in the list are
ex-ChamDIOn c. B. Macdonald of the Chi
cago Golf Club. who won the honors in
ls96. and II. J. Whgham of the Onwentsia
Golf Cub, Lake Forest, ILL.,. VINO capturc1
the title ~ ShinnecCck Hills in 1896, and
was again successful in Chicago last year.
Mr.. WhIgham was among the doubtful
starters up to this morning, as his health
h4d been impaired from prolonged stay
in Cuba during the war. but II was official
" announced today by one of the greens
committee that he would surely compete.
\ few days ago the players were paired
I0r the p-eliminarieS. and the first two,
NatUTin BIllow of the APawamfs Club,
Rye. NY. and Frank L. WOodfOrd of the
Overland Association. Denver. Col, We're
called 10 the first tee at I:51 o'clock
notwithstanding the early hour set for
he opening of the game there was quite
large representative gathering IN front
Of the club house when the men drove oft
for the frs, hole.
Both made. excellent drives. At intervals
ut four minutes the othcr pairs were dis
FzJcHed on their journeys. thar by noon
all the players had begun their work for
the muCh-coVeted prize. The play today
VIII be cOntiued TO medal play a JhirGy-six
holes. the thiriy-two lowest scores to quail
iiy fGF the match play rounds which are
10 bs gin tomorrow. Some of the best Judges
Of the game say that a player viii have TO
do better than i9o strokes for tn thirty
six holes in order II qualify. Among those
who waited to answer to their names when
called ttt tn appointed time were: W. T.
Gray Of s.. Andrews Golf Club. W, ROSSi-
tar Bets. Shinucco"k. J. T. Palmer River
side: f. Is. Bliss. Riverside: A NJ Robbins.
st. Andrews: f. A Matthew. Lakewood.
David r. Forgan. Chicago. Mark Cum
miHSs. Chicago; T. H. Powers Farr. Essex
county. Milton s Barg.r, Newport. and
Alfred l. Norris, Dyker county.