New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-20
GOLF.
THE sEABRIGHT CLUB TO THROW OPEN
ITS COURSE.

THE SEABRIGHT CLUB TO THRU" TX HN
ITS COURSE.
Asids from, club handicap or two and rev team
matches this will be a quiet week on local !'hhs' &c
summer exodus OF golfers for the heated term seems
70 have begun somewhat earlier this season IMAM
usual and much Of the attention OF lovers o III
game "a already diverted courses In the nelsh'oi
hood OF prominent country resorts win Ae"o",
%ewnort Saratoga Seabrgh;, southampton anu
Long Branch all preparing to hold attractive tour
naments city golfers will receive many oppor.uH'-
ties to visit out-of-town links for open coinpe'''i'
seabr,rht will be the first to throw open its course
- the nlavers from other clubs. The tournament
will begin on July and Will continue uhtl 'uiS
A sne new clubhouse is ready for the visitors De-
s,4es q course that has been extensively improved
since the tournament OF a year ago NUMBER "
Guns and medals are offered prizes and 1t Is saie
10 predict that fifty players VIII start III inc
preliminary round. Last year the tournament was
won by James A Tying. who defeated s. D. bowers
IN the final round by up. The Consolation Cup
won, 70 Daniel Chauncey. OF Dyker Meadow VINO
defeated his cuhmate Duncan Edwards. by up
and 70 nlay while the Independence Day Cup was
won by walter Watson jr. The programme OF play
this year is as follows:
F EIiay boes medal pay first sixteen to play at
match play for the Seabrght Golf Cup up. seTot IN.
PFze f0 10 ou nf round Second sixteen play
match play for cOnsolqtion cup I,ras ,or ssabrrbt
c6 E[d clgb 5 snd dodsoao g eap5 50a'' '''
Saturday. July 2, a. m.-second ROUNDS Tor sea-
s9tnr5av July 2 D. m-Thlrd rounds for Sea-
br 3TSt' Goi CUB and Consolation cups;
Monday. July J. a. rn.Fnai matches 'oF oeA0''s''
Monday. July T. all day-Eigh,een holes handicap
medal play for independence Day Cup secO"u P''N7
The competitions will be governed by the rules OF
~ The Greens Committee will be final. Entries
should be made on or before June go sta,ng cluo
and club handicap, TO Francis b ward secretary
seabrght. y. J.
The latest phase Of the championship conditions
IN this country by which the and amateur con-
tests are separated and the former made seventy
TWO instead OF thiry-six holes has apparently met
with decided success The change was advocated
for some time previous to rs adoption by most OF
the best-known golf players II was their idea tnat
the open championship should be made suincieHty
stringent 10 bring all the qualities OF endurance
and sustained accuracy necessary 10 excel ana al
the same time 10 eliminate the element o. luck
which frequently forms a part OF the play Goh IS
test OF so many qualities that In their opinion the
championship should be awarded only after the most
thorough test OF them all. The result OF the Myo-
pia tournament. which ended on Saturday, would
seem to bear out their contention. "Wilhe AhieF-
SON the nineteen -year-old Batusrol professional
who finished the arst days play at the head OF
field OF forty-odd players is golfer OF sterling
merit but his success won on cullous com
hlnation OF lucky strokes. bad play ara the mos,
bsinw his previous days score and both Hurd and
Smith passed him. Had the contest ended al e, ,
old thirty-six hole limit Anderson would now nave
been CHAMPION instead Of Hurd When two men
are closely matched IT is not always pGsslo@ 70 as
In fart II il frequently difficult even after seventy
two but the latter distance Is more sats.aStoIy ~
reason OF It's critical trial or forn ana or '"'9
account the change is regarded as a wise one
As a forecast OF what may happen in the amateur
championship at the Morris County next fall the
showing made by Herbert c. Leeds IN the Myopi'
tournament Is significant. Leeds IS a weH-Sno"n
amateur yachtsman and polo player and IN the last
winter was prominently identified with the golfng
interests at the Aiken links. He IS a member Of
th, Myopia Hunt Club and OF number OF other
athletic organizations near Boston. The fact that
he finished in the eighth place on SATURDAY ana was
the first OF all the amateurs entered makes him loom
I'd as a possible champion next fall provided mig
ham remains in Cuba. Curtis. the Harvard golf
champion. who was second or the amateurs "as
also a surprise. though those VINO saw MIN pay a.
Ardsley In the intercollegiate Championship -
spring predicted great things for him wth me acc
81 experience Of few more mon,n - As wl%ie
;he amateur exhibitions measured oy ptoi ssS,,i.ti
standards were more credable than would reason
mas been played in this country
Miss Beatrix Hoyt is again at Shlnnecock Hills
Last week she made the round OF the course there
in S which is only few strokes below her best
record last season. This IS doubtless but the be-
ginning Of long series OF successes 10 be chron-
iclcd this summer ending possibly IN A thIrd TIL
umph for the championship OF the United States.
Smth-as her gohng mentor this season as the
Shinnecock Club has decided 70 reconsider rs de-
cision not to employ professional coaeh' ana mas
engaged Smith for the next few months.
With nine teams defaulting their matches In the
Pittsburg tournament last week 1t is not surprising
that so little interest was taken In the contest In
suggesting It's plans the Allegheny Country club
met with hattering encouragement and thirteen
teams were assured before the project well I'M
der way OF this number only four appeared for
play. Under such circumstances It IS hardly likely
that the club will be caught in a repetition OF the
hasco next season The tournament came to close
on Saturday with individual championship for
handsome cup In the seTl-,lnal round James Pafh,
Of he Richmond County Country club. was beaten
hy T. :. Beckwith. Of Cleveland, and y. W. B.dde.
OF Philadelphia beaten by T. Il. ;. Horne. Of
Pittsburg. Horne then beat Beckwith by up and
The tournament Of the Central New-York Goll
League will be held in Rochester on June g. 80 AMI
July ].
FINALS IN THE ALLEGHENY TOURNAMENT
Pittsburg June ls-The closing day OF the anna
teur golf tournament. the grounds OF the Ale
shony Country Club yesterday. was the most inter
esting of all The local team carried of most Of the
honors Il 5 Horne. Of the Allegheny club. won
the final match play for the Country Clubs cup
from r S Beckwith of the Cleveland Golf Club.
. I'D and 70 play Mr.. Horne also captured the
Allegheny Country Club cup for the open handicap.
He and Mr.. Beckwltk tied In this play ard rather
than play the whole course again, they agreed
To toss up for the cup. and Horne won The
consolation gold medal match play was won by
Tyler Field. Of the Cincinnati Golf Club. from w;
" Lowrey of the Richmond Country Club of
Staten Island. up. and TO pay.