New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-07
GOLF.
SECOND DAYS PLAY IN THE ST. AN
DREWS TOURNAMENT.
FOUR MEN LEFT TO MEET FOR THE CUP
DOUGLAS TO APPEAR IN THE FoUR-BAII-
MAN-H lo-pAI-REsrLTS Is TIE

DOUGLAS TO APPEAR IN THE FoUR-BAIA
MATCH TO-DAT-REsULTs IL THE
COMPILATION FoURsoMEs.
The second day OF the St Andrews golf tourna-
ment yesterday made ample amends for everything
that had gone before. Golf under exhnarating
skies and the greenest of green turf is sport
10 make ones blood tngle and golf AT St An
drews yesterday OF just that sort The weather
was perfect. Even the early morning wind that
threatened 10 become uncomfortably sim dled
down 70 a gentle breeze that managed to Keep us
tonic without interfering with anybody. The per-
feet drainage system which the club has put IN
worked wonders with the surface water from
Wednesdays storm. and though the ground was
rather soft in places. there was nothing 10 cause
trouble TO the most captious contestant In the
tournament. Two rounds at match play Drought
the affair down 10 the sem-fnal round. and to-day
will decide the who are 10 meet In the hhals
FOR both the ST. Andrews and consolation cups
The survivors for the former OF these trophies
were John Reid jr.. Of Yale; F. w Menzies OF st
Andrews: ". l. Thompson. OF Morris County. and
A. l.. Norris Of Dyker Meadow. To-day Reid will
meet Menzies and Norris will play Thompson.
Besides these matches there is to he four-ball
contest between Findlsy Douglas and Walter B.
Smith and the professionals. Willie Anderson OF
Raltusrol and Willie Smith. of Shinnecock. This
should bring out good golf Walter Smith Is OK
pected from Yale this morning. and as he was
the pair must he considered the strongest amateurs
I'm the country to-day. Anderson Is the lad who
WAS first on the opening day OF tho professional
championship last June. while Smith, though re-
cent arrival in the country. is capable Of brilliant
game The match is to he nj eighteen holes. match
play the best ball each side 70 count. Play Is
10 start promptly az 2:so p.
The special train from this city. which has added
so much 10 the comfort and pleasure OF the visiting
players, carried the majority Of yesterdays con-
testants to the grounds. and the matches were
started at 10 a m. George r. Armstrong and l.. 7.
Hldreth. the men who prevented by dark
ness from completing IN Wednesdays medal round
were permitted TO finish out their cards. and both
obtained places in the consolidated foursomes. In
order 10 combat every possible objection they had
left the balls on the ground night and PLAYED
them from the point at which they forced 10
stop The others who had been similarly unfortu-
withdrew.
The drawings for the ST. Andrews Cup. which
made in the morning. resulted in placing
Reid I'm the upper half OF the list and Menzes and
Tying in the lower arrangement that meant
one place in the semi-inals for Reid and the other
for the winner OF the Tying Menzes match. The
TWO latter had hot fight In the first round. Tying
was one up the eighth hole. hut Menzies got
the ninth and from that time until the end II was
either mans victory. The tenth and eleventh were
halved Menzles got the twelfth. but Tying evened
matters on the seventeenth. and rounding the
home green the again even. On the extra
hole TO decide the tie Menzies won at 10 6. and
took the match by one UP. The cards were