The sun., 1899-04-19
GOLF
College Boys Anxious to Play Mt Garden
City-A New Driver.

City-A New Driver.
The Intercolle Riate Golf Association. which
left its choice OF links for the next champion
ship open at the annual meeting. is said to de-
sire to hold the event at Garden City. Yale
and Princeton have arranged a match over
that links for May II. and the Uni;crsit" VI
Pennsylvania and Princeton may also have a
meeting over the course. further proof oil
the prominence OF the links Just now in the
thoughts OF the younger set OF players is
that the Cutler School team is anxious to wipe
out its defeat by st. Marks at Essex County by
return match at Garden City. The inter-
collegiate team trophy is a gift from the Ards
ley Club and. when IL was stipulated that the
first three contests should be held at
the Artlsley links. II was left to the
colegians to go where they pleased
thereafter. During the amateur champion
ship Of 1897. members OF the Chicago
Coli Club expressed strong wish to have the
college meeting as soon as the Ardsley Club
dates had been filed and tho Western players
are still more urgent in the matter now that
the amateur championship is to be- at Onwent-
sa. for they believe that to have the intercol-
lceiate championship during the week follow
ing at Wheaton would insure an increased entry
in both events. 1t is understood, however.
that the college players wish to play
their championship hereafter in the autumn.
when the players are on edge after the vaca-
tion tournaments. and. II adhered to. this de-
sire will spoil the Chicago plan. After July
the Garden City links will be under the control
of a golf club now under organization but
there, is no, doubt that the college boys
would be welcome to the course. Yet Ardsley
may still he selected. for Harvard holds the
bepe ycontnueS a S under the on orrna iii eondons
until finally won out by college.
split bamboo shaft. The new shaft. he states.
% be Of the sbost size bsSR and 1s wS MSssS %
have far more spring and drive longer ball.
In the experiments great care has been taken
In the selection OF the bamboo and in the piec-
"S'ns SHAFT fhe nOeafe sos Will T Be' sS the the
s5 tested s5e on the nss R
to anticipate how the new idea will work. but
have M 81 SO often learned to their sorrow % when the
cast on the backward swing has caught on a
tree hranch would seem VA t9 ia he dIenlty hard
on a hickory shaft that brittle one would
hardly withstand.
Yale plays at st. Andrews on April ~ and
Princeton on the same day at Ardsley. while
nual match At Baltusrol and the home team
manning matches for the ,snrinG are: Apri! 22.
Brook lawn Golt Club. at bridgeport; April 20.
Ortord Goli CluD, az South .Manchester: May
Golf Club. and or, May p, at Philadelphia. with
picked % team N from the vPhiladelohis is Coli
ford team. by IL to TO-
A Anumber, of the Van Cortland Park golfers
have voiced their objections to tho placing OF
the first tee. and home hole Of the enlarged
course near Van Cortlandt avenue in petition
to the Park Com missionerS. After praisinR
the efforts OF the Commissioners to remove the
oyercrowding of thecourse by extending it to
eighteen holes and in procuring the services of
professional golfer. the petition states:
But yonr petitioners rsspeetfully suggest that the
present addition and change in the links which pro-
These POI s I points ShioS
cnlly the most dificult and hazardous the whole
there are various other and good reasons Why the
location of these places ia exceedingly preiudical
the be best Of those who @ psriSPste eth
Therefore: your p.titoneIs j.. repeatedly snEges.
near the Van Cortlandt station.
The Location desired by the petitioners would
h whs under
arrangement the first tee and home hole are 300
yards awey R The proximity Of roadhoqse and
Ssh
SS9mmittee oi golfers, TO- give it his attention.
nG OF the M s hs
the portion Of Van Cortlandt Park nearest to
the city and the trolley on Jerome avenue The
petition was signed by over hundred of the
players who habitually use the links.
A southeast wind that forced the sailing craft
in Gravesend Bay to double reefs swept with
full force over the Dyker Meadow Golf Club
links yesterday and baffled many Of the drives.
yet fourteen Of the women mem bers finished
In the handicap, at eighteen holes. for the cup
presented by Mrs. William Beard. Mrs. A. +.
Smylie proved the winner. with net score Of
113. Miss Suydam. winner Of the womens
monthly handicap on April 9. who has had her
handicap cut TO s. was among the beaten. The
wind was most brisk in the morning, when
those at scratch and close to It made their
rounds Mrs Beard served tea for the con-
testants in the clubhouse. The scores: