The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-13
LATEST ASPECTS OF GOLF.
III HANDICAPS ar GARDEN CITY TO
BE UNREsTRICTED.


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A Limit OF Ten Only 10 Apply to starters in
the NJ. O.. A. Championship Tournament
A Active Senson of Team Contests
Mapped Out by Players of the Colleges.
Whatever ambiguity existed In the general
understanding about the duties OF tho n. G. A.
HandicappinR Committee has been cleared
away by q statement made by the Chairman.
Daniel Chauncey. at Lakewood on Saturday,
based on the first Interchange OF ideas boz
tween himself and his colleagues, T.. O.. Kent
and Arden NJ. Robbins.
I'VE have asked clubs in the NJ. q. A. for o
list of its players and their latest handlcaps.
This data will be used to make up a general
handicap list. Those rated at 10 or under on
this list will receive tho right to start in the
qualifying round for the NJ. g.. A. champion
ship. on April IL. at Garden City, but this llmi-
tation does not apply to the foursome and indi-
vidual handicaps on April Ia and 10. In these
two events every player in the NJ. q. A. will re-
ceive the right to start. but the handlcapping
will be on the oommittee's basis"
The general list, as revised from time to
time, will also be the basis for the ratings In
the open handicaps OF the season at NJ. g. A.
links. To be ~efrcctiye In this respect the NJ.
ance Of the club secretaries. so that the list will
record the very latest changes in club, .handi-
are to be rated in the open handicaps is a con-
alteration Of the future. The greatest good e
list is that It will lead. to some system Of ma
t aStsIsa h9 ~ tSa f9r + ni T. In Ts, eomP sSat Prs
Wild and careless handicapping: i will lead.
in the M. q. A. district. for the commit
tees in charge of q number of the open tonrna-
ments I G.;a year a shirked the work OF handicap
stituted, a team match or, a foursome for the
closing days play, In the thirteen open handi-
Guiding the schoolboy competiti9n, two we're
Won by scratch men, who were also second on
ers rated from ? to 3, three By players Il from 8
to M 10, and only four by players rated over 10.
foR@ G p%fS shs NJ iq q! a.. Sist S!iSar is W sa%f s sas bBilia{H,ndf
and SECRETARIES Of clubs should dc their best to
sending TO II full and accurate lists at rs early
n date as possible.
Although only organized in 1895, the Eliza
beth Town and Country Club has one of the
best eighteen-hole links in New Jersey and a
membership exceeding 400. The course ex-
tends oyer rolling ground from which the trees
besides artificial b%unkers, there are Q pondand
some dirt-faced, stone walls in the list of haZ-
golf, for two trees are on the line OF play and a
road crosses Just before the green. TIT tee is
a topped cIsek Or d iron drive IS punished By The
road, but the trees are a more serious obstruc-
bradford Darraeh, Jr'. and the par rs score u.
The. club has a handsome and homelike house
on North Broad street, and the grounds extend
eastward TO Newark avenue.
The college players are mapping out o busy
season on the links. to precede the inter-
collegiate championship in the autumn. The
s SRIiyee caS from on P5 eRn &$iIbert. a f fssm %rse stYSant e
to tSs be wPI InIyeed ED for 6s, sSemg m Mnr dSd Th e., first sti con;
be sent to do battle for the intercollegiate
WIEN elected CAPTAIN siSSinu Of tRRt,v sso i club iI1SS" last iSii.
Of trying out his best men in team matches
for the Princeton team include. matches
with W ht the Golf Club a,i at LakeTY99d on March %;
ccHf ab op o ApPil A ". Il 4 Ana Hsr1 at !A the aF9 tsag
Blls Play AND. % altSoSsh 5t tas H. l GR6ste. near Sr.'
T TehSr has foe gG Rs t to L9n fSs t to act e as EP% pr Gssss sscr
the intereo iii meeting cling T The ~ Yale t'P playe rs
matches with Harvard, but, as this would de-
tract from the prestige Of the intsrc9IIegiate
likely that the Cambridge players enH viii e enter
Into a. the r. agreem mi,p , y Ya LEI , m%iftSSuT u wIll
lawn Colt Club al. bridgeport. this, month.
F tatsF th SoS TEAM 0 %ill Pay "a so at the M Einks OF the
the Staten Island Cricket and lBasebail' Club;
and the st; Andrews Golf Club. An arrange
ment is. also under way Tor q match with the
Notwithstanding team In May.
This season the Women's Golf Association of
Philadelphia will drop the matches for second
teams and will only supervise a circuit Of inter-
club team contests betw cen the class "A"
teams Of the six clubs on its roster. The ex-
pectation that tho women's championship will
go to a Philadelphia club this year has greatly
PHILADELPHIA women. At the annual meeting
of the Golf Association the following officers
were elected:
President. Mrs. Caleb +. Fox, Huntingdon Valley
Country Club; Vice-President, Mrs. L. V. Dougherty,
Merton Cricket Clubs Treasurer. Miss Hannis, Aroni.
mink Golf Club; Secretary, Miss Margaret c. Maule.
philadelphia Cricket Club; Executive Committee.
Miss Cassatt, Merton Cricket Club; Mrs. Francis
Smith, Aronimink Golf Club. and Mrs. Walter NJ.
Gorham, Philadelphia Cricket Club.
The Golf Club OF Lakewood and the Rich
mond County Country Club will have a team
match OH next Saturday at Lakewood, the men
being paired in the handicap so that their
scores will count in both events. The Florida
tournament this week will be at Palm Beach.
The st. Augustine Golf Club has sent a formal
notice to the Northern clubs that It is an or
ganization separate and distinct from the East
Coast Coli Club system and an allied member
of the L. S. G, A..
Gossip of the Handball Courts.
The crackaiacks of the Greenpoint court. j. Muir.
ply and 7. Higgins, are open to play ]. Flaherty and |
j. Egan of Jersey City for $40 4 side.
One of the principal games scheduled for next
club day at the Jersey City court il between j, Scott |
and L. Burns and p. Flalorty and 7, Jackson.
Handball enthusiasts are looking forward to next