New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-09
GOLF.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPEN CHAM
P1oNsHIP-PRIzE MONEY INCREASED
MORE THAN FOUR HUN
DRED DOLLARS.

The conditions governing this years open solI
championship contests have been announce -
Robert B. Kerr, secretary OF the Cnteu 0'N'
cor Association The tournament is to take pace
on the links OF the Baltimore Country C'uo y"
T-nursday and Friday, September II ana 10 "ne"
ssn0 vii he distributed among the first eight pay
ers This is more liberal than the conditions % =
wear ago when the tournament took place a. ''o
Nvonia Hunt Club for az that time only 900
awarded and this was divided into nVe pm -
verving from 500 to the winner TO w lo' wv
- -,,,.r n,
.hta en- r,us+ he expended on a gold medal ana GOV
,,rar IN money provided the winner is P'oles
sto,el o- IN plate II he is an amateur Inc So -.
rrze will be $50; the third NZo; the Iou' ~
the etth $50: the sixth. $40; the seventh, 80 -
49, eichtb s25 These last will 90 TO proless'oHai'
only for while amateurs are eligible 20 0oiHPe ,.
the tournament IS more especially TOT 80
- +ba rrizes are made In their favor IN oIueI ~
t,drca them, 10 enter The competition VIII pe o.
,na5or NAV thrty-six holes being played OF NJ
dav aad thirty-six on Friday. IL IS eNpe0 Ill
almost every player Of note N Inc r.sh
take part Last year Fred Huru % = oos
80 park Golf Club, won with to'a' % %
- alexander Smith OF the same cluo was Sc
"a. .rIUU1ia" Anderson OF Baltusro was I'M -,
rsa,b Flovd Of Essex County Iou' ~
"v-iIua" Smith OF shinnecock' MIN .A,s
number Of professionals nave Coii'e -.
,o,,r.-y this sea son, however WHO Wa g. -.
- charm fight for places. the most proii'''-1 =.
-, 7 orrence Auchteronie. OF the Gieh'4e" ~
C1mb ~ chicago; Jack" Park. OF Essex Co14-''
ara George Low, Of Dyker Meadow James Us i--
- the chicago Golf Club, who was open chaiip
~ 1895 is also said 10 be playing IN pete
,h., FOR some years, and must not De Over 80.
g., reckoning the probable outcome OF 'Ie 80,
Ut. q az present with the Chicago Go'l ~
49, has already announced his purpose OF con!.s
1-as. ,or The play Peter Walker, OF the On"
60 C1,b of Lake Forest, Ill., - anothsS' rance
errar Who Is regarded as having d $50 = .stern
Gov Tho mace Among the better hilOH S..a-tior ~
IoI eeoFreTe Who have s!gnfed their ilieILiOH
taLling part are Bernard Nichols. OF $1,000 nro.
!xaii5a Norton the Seabright and LAKE" 0 h
,esionaIt willie" Davis, Of NeWport, IT,
E51n the open champion IN ls94 AeAa9au.y Ciiie'
49, re Fairheld County Golf Club ana " w N.v
r IT,, until recently professional al tne o.
100 c<oIF Club Tucker. by the way, nae SsI
81 ""eree1ent to become professional az tle
%LaSe cub OF Washington, on -onoii-
49, ne can no longer be reckoneo a.
INC niaver This IS fuckers second eng az ~
tah PSr1ing 70 this country, Immediately on
~. RIVAL ne was secured by the 81. so re
niSb with which he spent three Yeas 0' 5svote
I,ro,,,sbir9 MS position in the spring 70 ,u|sct
Nm self n, Ore entirely TO his business OF
rrbe entries for the Baltimore tournameht n as
va acconpan ed BY fee OF s. ano snouIu IT " hS,rs
~ me secretary not later than p n Oh
AZ Sentember Z Any person paying as en- az
90 v.f he considered thereby TO have ~ !.
bimseif 10 the rules Of the association oy.l i'm
The restrictions enjoined and the Pen@'''eS '-
uOsed.