The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-03
NEWS OF THE GOLF LINKS.
Items OF Interest to Devotees @
ScOtIand's Came

ScotlahOS Game.
Ihere will be tournament for a member
snip cup, June 10, on the Larchmont links
=, The links at both the Roadside and the
Iown and Country club were not played ON
yesterday, owing to the high wind.
The Port Chester Street Railway compsnv
mas pullt trolley road through one corner
Of the nine-hole course of the ApaWamis
club, of Rye. ellis
The struggling club at Mount Vernon has
passed pas out OF existence. Some of the membe
established by the New York A. c. in
Pelham Manor last year. "
Inc Richmond County Country club, of
staten Island proposes to send a team to
flttsDurg to take part in the interclub team
contest In June. If the team goes it VIII
probably be made up of James Porter George
T. y ARMSTRONG, John r. Chadwick, Albert
f. Paterson. Charles Stewart and w w
Lowrey. v"
The improvements on the golf links at the
Town and Country club are about complete
ana the season will open week from to-
morrow. The club is now a member of the
national association and a series of tourna-
ments are being arranged for F. w. NJ
Cutcheon has offered silver loving cup for
d team contest between players of St. Paul
and team from Minneapolis and it is hoped
to arrange matches with teams from the clubs
of Milwaukee and of Winnipeg
The problem Of securing good caddie service
golfers, the strike among the caddies, which
was started few weeks ago, being still in
progress. When the course was first opened
the price for caddies for one round of the
course IS holes, was 80 cents During the
winter, however, the club adopted the D Icy
Of paying the c Gao 50 week. the players
upon the former price of 50 cents a rouI d.
Val Flood is in charge of the links at the
Pittsfeid Country club and experimenting
f many y.S SSteasive changes in the course
Flood beat the record of ~ held Jointly by
Vai F1tzjohn and Nichols: Floods score was
ffty-six yards less than Dyker Meadow in
playing distance. The holes measure 200. 24O
25O, 962 $40, 34S, 100, 195 and 400 yards Total,
1850 yards.
There will be ladies' club tournament on
the links of the Shinnecock Hills Golf club,
of South Ampton, l.. L. Aug. 8 to 12 The
ladies' championship cup OF the club will be
played for and there will also be a ConsoIa-
ton cup and handicap contest The mems
tournament will be held from Aug. "a to q,
when the club championship will form the
which this year takes the place of the usual
open tournament will be played from July 26
to 80. The chief trophy will be the presi-
dents cup given by Samuel l.. Parrish. The
club offers consolation and a handicap cup.
and the contest for the trustees plate will
close the tournament. The committee In
Lee, Henry j. Trevor, C. L.. Atterbury, R. H.
Robertson and S. L. Parrish.
The executive committee of the Shinnecock
Hills Golf club this year is made up of ].
". L. f.
terbury, Robert H. Robertson and Samuel L.
Parrish, president Of the club, exoffico. The
class A players are men who have made .he
white course in IS or better, and class B
those who have never made IS. The handicap
limit is eighteen strokes. The first club
handicap was on Decoration day. There will
be handicaps for men every Saturday, and on
July 4. and for women, over the red course
on every Wednesday until October THE
women's tournament will begin on Aug TO-
and the club championship tournament Aug
Mi 80
ment the shinnecock Hills club will hold an
invitation tournament, and the dates assigned
are July 26, q. %, 20 and 80.
The Quaganpoxet Golf club course, New
London. is open for the season. The club is
fortunate in having exceptionally suitable
land. stretching for about third of mile
playing is done over the excellent, turf. which
borders en- the beach. 1t Is nine hole course.
one of the features being a number of sand
bunkers well placed to catch foozled drive
turf bunkers, give ample variety to the course.
The names and distances of the holes are as
Westward Ho. 1870 yards; Farm, 1s6 yards;
Dune, 2s7 yards; Goshen, $50 yards; Cairn.
234 yards; Greenland, 2S1 yards; Home, 1876
yards. The old farm residence has been re-
modelled into an attractive clubhouse. 1t is
situated about a quarter of a mile from the
water on high ground overlooking the entire
posed of New York and Boston men who have
resided here. Among them are some we'll
known cOlleSe prayers aS well as nuInDer
Of old graduates. The officers are: President.
A. H. ChappeH vice president. A. G. Tyler;
secretary. Roswell D. Trimble treasurer, G.
P. kirkland; captain, w. W. Bond. These
officers, with DR.. William Appleton and Maj.
s. 8. Leach, U. S. A, form the governing
committee.
The first golf team of the Philadelphia
Cricket club has thus far won all Of Its
matches in the interclub contest for the team
championship of Philadelphia. Three games
have been played, and in the last contest the
Cricket club beat the Merton Cricket club.
The six winning members of the cricket club
team are G.. P. Lineweaver f. H. Bohlen, II.
M. Forrest, G. A. Potter, @. Ashton and j. H.
Patterson. |Bohlen. who is the well-known
crcketer made the heaviest score for his
In the second team contest the Merton Crick-
ct club is ahead with three straight victories.
Several of the leading amateurs are begin
ing to look forward to the open championship
tournament with fond expectations of COM
peting and measuring their skill by that Of
the ablest professionals. The event will bs
played June II and IS at the Myopia Hunt
club, Hamilton. Mass. about twenty miles
from Boston. The present open champion Is
Joseph Lloyd, professional Of the Essex
County club, at Manchester, Mass. and he
will be among the competitors. John Jones'
the Myopia professional is regarded by many
Bostonians as the probable winner. The con-
test will be seventy-two holes. medal play,
and entries close June 10. with Robert B.
Kerr, secretary of the United States Golf as
ISOLATION, rs Broad street. this city.
A public golf match will be held on the
pulic links at Van Cortland Park on Saturday
June II. The first prize will be silver cup,
presented by G. P. Morosini, to be played for
semi-annually.
The Saratoga Golf club will hold its sec
ond annual open tournament on Aug. % t,
u. when handsome cups will be offered as
prizes. The Lenox Golf club has claimed the