The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-11
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF.
s,eoyG INST or ENTRIES FOR
a yur GARDEN CITY TOURSET.

IHE
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at. Notable Absentee IL Champion
i"na,,l.,-About Thirty-four VIII he Eli
.,hIe to play Drawings VIII Take Place
n.y Relative nance of the Men.
", .,y.seycn players have been named for
,l'ar ,i,rship Of the NJ. G. A. in the tour
~, nat begins tomorrow and lasts out
n"".a The only notable absentee Is Find
,m rs douglas, the amateur CHAMPION. who.
"' .,cogr, " a promise to attend the Coli
' N, lakewood tournament two weeks
49,, n,s la! - let Garden City pass, as his
.e',,,ss vt, not Kermit him to take the time
~ rro,onEsd competitions In the same
iii Douglas, however. may play in the
hNmIi.an for which he will be the scratch man.
r". er,ries for the toursomes and the han
~ crose respectively or Thursday and
s W. Garden city. Nominations for the
,-noyerts indicate about three times as many
u,,s,.os IN the championship. The entries
iiSg ,bclr standing in the general handicap
follow:
,u ua-r.man. ~Meaiowbrook. .: W. J. Travis.
- . A. Robbins, st. Andrews. 8; j. A..
o., varr. comfy. 3. II. p. Toler. Blltusrol. 3;
- rstlman, Mea Iowhrook, 8; II. Hollins. Jr..
r..,nrook z. Louis y Bayard. Baltusrol. 3, r gi.
..II pr.a.s, Mead 1vHrrUk, .. James h. Taller.
,,l..y 4. H.M Billings. Arislcy g A. De Witt och.
-, Ird.lav. Il, WI DAVIS Lakewood Il; I. A. Have.
m,r.r. Msadowbrook :, 7. O. Beach. Meadow
t,ol &c L Iapp4n, Westbrook, :: Alex. horten.
v,,b,s,er country. :, W. A. Larned. Baliusrol. q;
" UcLs. Nassau COUNTRY. s. II. p. Toler, Baitns-
W. q q charles w.. -O'Counsr, Richmond Hin, >; +.
TO-. 20, IT1,iraelI. -, ". T. Gray. ~MeaiowbrooE, :,
Nnrlnrk. Jr. Shtunevock Hills, \, II. II.
! =, sAiTncr1rk Hills. =. II. 4. Colby. Essex
COUNTY H. ,, tH nr' Wst,Jr'ok. =. j. {. Rennard. Tuxedo.
- Hat, Na-aau Country. 10. III. NJ, Brooks.
ItidoThrooh 10 { /; Se1 q Wee Wee g Win,d no. ! Mrs,'
fT.n. s. t., An dr. w.y, M M, q "TeH 2n Ml,g''" q. F.isn
SNOW, Tuxedo. \. walpole Cragie. Westches,er Golf.
The drawing will be made at noon today.
Secretary pu lais otthe VI 6 A.: with whom
KIT will be tack in time to-day. In his alb
,sHre the list may not be pronounced official.
although it was given ont at his flee. and 1t i"
Or two to add on his return, The Nptley Golf
Cub ssnt in its application for memhrrshir 10
the N. {. A, in the same mail with NirhaeIs
. .Ri5'' ,1 H' vii a very y'Ff likely T be r "s 1ho
tsdS0 to start. Cragie and Snow are I'M
toabted!y included by, mistake. FOR both
cave thirty-tour eligible. fully as many as the
III A. Committee expected. 1t Is probably
The highest class Of homebred players ever
ga,hsred into one field. and on this account the
Essence Of Douglas will not he regretted. for it
confines the interest to a contest for champion
.hIp hoaors among p,aysrs fTsby s in
chances Of the men, in the estimation
Of the NJ q. A. handicappers, is shown
BY the ratings. appended to their names.
scores, and that match play is a far mora diill-
suit game to estimate In was proven by the de-
ieat 81 HoIlins. Jr.. by Winston last week. The
ronderancs OF odds. in favor Of the men with
he owest ratings. for the older players are
.35o.,s az, to iii pay "a. up v to Their IN fG ,T9 than t hss
n events won and in the st~eadiuess
q hi, play. Travis led all the n. G. a;
last year. led the omen tournament winning list
in lSA1 and is again on his game. Both quail :
fed in the amateur, championship. Travis
fled on the list are A. Morten. J. A. Stillman,
4. De Witt Cochrane. II /, ToIer. L.P. Bayard.
j., Il NJ. Billings and Fl P. T9ler. Hartman.
each was thought to have a great chance. X.
Brooks won the Southern Cross championship
last month at Aiken; With j: b. Taller as the
with the rough riders and did not play last sea-
son; Both are now in form, and; with Tappin,
Southern links. Davis has been playing regu-
laTly at Lakewood and t. also n form while
much as at Glen. Cove. The college boys
are beginning their spring, examinations and
ere all sbsen,ees' bit the schoolRb9ys music in
dock Jr. Gunther and seely in this %contin-
rent, the younger, set should do well. The
holes. scratch, medal play. The match play is
also without handicaps. the intermediate
rounds at eighteen holes and the finals or Sat
urday at thirty-si1 holes. The first sixteen
qualify tomorrow.
Aresult OF the general handicap list estab-
lshed by the NJ. G. A. that will greatly benefit
the game is its stimulus to handicap match
play at open tournaments. In the absence OF
an accepted basis OF h~andicapping. the tour
nament committees have hitherto fought shy
o. the responsibility OF rating the men at the
match game; but q change in this respect
should follow the new order of things. Some
plan. OF course. must be devised to handicap
tthe entries from clubs outside tho NJ. G. A.. but
this will not be q, difficult matter. for
the local ltst with whom the visiting player
knows exactly how he stands. The qualifying
medal round. however, is the only good way to
START a championship or any tournament when
the entries are IN excess Of sixty-iour. while il
v commendahla as a variation Of the play in
championships even when tho entries fall be-
low that number. Proof OF this Is seen in the
ADOPTION Of the plan at some Of the large club
tournaments In Great Britain and in the talk
mere OF modifying both the amateur and open
tournaments to conform with the American
work on New Defender Progresses Salts