The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-25
COLLEGE MEN PLAY GOLF.
THEY BEGIN THEIR ANNUAL ToURNI-
MEST AT GARDEN CITY.

In the First Round OF tho Team Match
princeton Defeats Ynle and Harvard
Outplnys Columbia-Ihe Tigers and the
Crimsons VIII Meet In tho Final To-Day.
Tho annual tournament to decide the Inter
collegiate Golf Association championships
began Yesterday at the links OF the Garden
City Golf Club and will continue throughout
the week. The first round in the team champ
ionships was played at eighteen holes match
play and resulted in Princeton defeating Yale
after a hard fight. and Harvard SINH ply smoth-
ering Columbia. To-day tho two will meet in
the final round. which will be at thirty-six
holes. and battle royal should ensue. When
the teams arrived at the clubhouse yesterday
tho sky was Allied with lowering clouds but
the sun managed to appear about IL O'Clock
and thereafter the weather conditions we're
ideal. The course was also In good condition
and measured. as arranged for this tourna-
ment as follows:
ou.-2oo, 1Is. 2ss. tob. 2t4, 27e, 2c4, 4oo 27e-
-in23s7. 500, 1874, 500, s1s. $40. s72. 42s. 1ta-
8.o57 yards.
The committee in charge OF the drawings
announced that Yale would play Princeton and
Harvard would meet Columbia. Il was at once
conceded that the Cambridge men would win.
but the Princeton Yale fight was admitted to
be very open. Hitchcock. Cheney and Robert
son were expected to win by large enough
scores to carry through the rest OF the team.
bat the Princetonians were confident OF
success mainly because every ono OF
their men was nearly equal to tho best and 1t
was felt that there would be no weak spots
This was proved to be true. nnd the majority
Of the critics now believe that the same reason
will enable them TO win against Harvard to-
day. curious coincidence was that Yale and
Princeton met yesterday in the first round for
the first time in the history OF the champion
ship meetings.
Two OF the Harvard team, who had been in
town the night before. were late in arriving
so IL was about IL O'Clock when the last pair
got away. Percy Pyne ID. the well-known
Morris County player. had the honor OF driving
tho first ball in the tournament and led OF
VIII he was PStEedi With Ghn ns
the Point Judith Country Club Tor tbs past
two years. They began by dividing. the frat
a 3 for the second. followed by another at the
third. Hitchcock had a pair OF A.. They
match was all square. each having scored Al.
Pyne won the tenth. Hitchcock the eleventh.
tSSsItfth and thirsssPth WHICH, with helt
Pyns. however, struck astreak OF phenomenal
play, which swept the Yale man of his feet.
hole. and did the sixteenth in the same hgure.
This made the match al square with to 60
fyhe Ola tue beNtnl0oHln IN % TO hllcnCOoG
6. making him dormie. As the Yale man
scaffed his drive at the eighteenth into the
ravne. the Princetonian won By 2 up. The
cards wore:
Pyne....;.---.-.5 80 81
Hitchcock. .......b 4 Al
Pyns....,.......".5 o 8-42-ss
Hitchcock. 8 g 8 4-A4-so
The next to finish were T, Markoe Robertson.
the Yale captain. and Chester Griswold. Jr..
who led the Princeton men last year. Robert
son has been playing In excellent form lately
and was looked upon to be q shade the better
Of the two, but GrisMold started at a terrific
clip and had the Yale man 3 down on
the first nine holes, Griswold won't to
tho turn in 80 strokes He began by
winning the first hole in to 5 The second
was halyed. The third was, also divided and
Griswod increased his lead by winning tho
fourth. Robertson cut it to l up by taking tho
fifth and they hslved the sixth and seventh.
Griswold won the next two. Following two
were divided. Each then won hole. The
fourteenth was huved and Griswold was 3 up
with to CO. Robertson made a game attempt
to square matters and succeeded in winning
the fifteenth but the Princetonian won the next
two. which. with q half in a par 3 on the home
hole. made him up on the match. The cards