New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-25
GOLF.
MISS HELEN SHELTON WINS THE BUSH
NELL CUP AT MORRIS COUNTY-WOMENS
TOURNAMENT AT DYKER MEADOW.

MISS HELEN SHELTON WINS The BUSH
NELL CUP AT MORRIS COUNTY-WOMENS
TOURNAMENT AT DYKER MEADOW.
Six busting golf days have been arranged by the
Morris County Golf Club. and competitions OF one
kind or another are TO take place throughout the
week. Yesterday the women's tournament for the
cup presented by Joseph Bushnell was decided. and
Miss Helen Shelton. the club champion was the
winner by a score Of S up and 10 play. The semi
final round took place in the forenoon. when MISS
Shelton defeated Mrs William Shipper. up and
TO play while Miss Cornelia G. Willis beat Miss
NJ G. Bryce up and ! to play. Upon her home
links Miss Shelton Is apparently invincible for in
the final round in the afternoon she defeated Miss
Willis and in doing she made the first nine holes
In A.
To-day the women Of the club will take part In
an eighteen-hoe handicap for the Richardson
Gun; on Wednesday there Will be a competition TOT
the Women's Championship Course Cup. while on
Thursday a foursome for cup presented by Mrs
Young will We the feature. Friday is the day sci
for the women's club championship, now held hy
Miss Shelton. /, will be at eighteen holes, medal
play without handcaps. and will decide the pos
session Of the trophy cup for the ensuing nan
year On Saturday the men will hold their cham
ponship at thirty-six holes, medal play ior the
cup now held by Henry T. Toler.
Mrs. William V. Hester. OF Brooklyn. has pre-
scented cup for competition among the women
of the Dyker Meadow Golf Club and the first con-
test for it will take place to-day at eighteen hoies
medal play Albert Gould Jennings has also offered
a cup for the men, to be played for each autumn
until won three times by the same contestant IL
is known as the Championship Cup, and the condl-
tions this year call for round at eighteen holes
medal play, without handicap, any time before
November J.. The best eight scores VIII quai AM.
be be- compieted By November :, on Election Day the
semi-1nal round at hrty-sx holes Is 10 take PiaGe
and the finals also at thlrty-sX holes, must De
decided before November 10 competitors 10! .he
clubhouse before starting. and the cup Will remain
In the possession of the club until won perma-
nently On Election Day there wi VII also De ga d
presented by Norman S. Dixie. William a. putnam
The The makeup of the Harvard team which will play
in the intercollegiate ehampionship at ArqsIeS 10
who appeared last spring have been replaced by
new men. The only players who have mad any pre-
Choate. II, w. Bayard Cutting. jr ana james %,
Curtis The now men are George c Clark IT. , M :
Gardner c. Hubbard. co. and j. q. Averlii. y"
These six will compose the team.
The contest among the members of the Crescent
Athletic Club for the cups presented by William 1s
Campbell has been exceedingly close resulting thus
far in a tie between George $. OFlyn and {;
Van Brunt at 60 The cups are offered for the best
two aggregate of eighteen holes such scores
TO consist of the lowest number of strokes in
which the players have made each hole during the
season. The competition closes on the last Satur-
each Win 20 X G. McKeeve. nth Il. and W. NJ.
Campbell and G. c. Cassels each with a. There
have been seventynine competitors In ALL the poor
made being lS
a tournament open TO all members Of the United
states Golf Association on THURSDAY Friday and
with Abram Barker secretary, ~ the clubhouse.
The professional tournament announced by the
Albany Country Club on October g has been indef-
initely postponed, owing to lack of sufficient en-
tries