New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-09

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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOR THE PLAY
poINos OF VARIOUS LINKS.
4 elance AT this weeks schedule OF golf matches
furnishes good illustration OF the gam popr.
laritv I'm all parts OF the country. Never before
has there been such a crush OF tournaments al
this season Of the year. Down az Phiaoeipn'a
the womcu's National championship contest Oh D'
United states will bring together every feminine
golfer Of ability in the United states. over In Bos
ton 3D.. Rroolinc Country Club is 10 hold an In
tornational team match with the Montreal con
club. while nearer home two big tournamen'S' V"o
1T Ardslcy and the other AT the Nassau country
club. will gather together the Cracks OF IoOa' 4'
nown Nor IS this all. The Morris County ana
Richmond County clubs will hold their usual week
~ haudicaps while most Of the other nearby Inks
viii offer attractions 81 one kind or another.
The entry list for the womens contest at Phiia-
dcphia which was printed in iull IN Inc Tribune
last Thursday inslres one OF the closest and best
played matches that American golf annals can re-
cord Sc,enty-nine women. whose ambition seeks
a. reward in the possession Of the magninceht OON
trophy viii face the tee tomorrow morning. anu
included IN the list are representatives from '"'i'E
TWO clubs situated IN all parts Of the country
The Philadelphia Country Clab, where the con-
test is 10 DE played. VIII enter nine competitors
while the other organizations Of the Quaker CITY
the Merton Cricket. Philadelphia Cricket, Hunt
sngton Valley and Aron!mink-make UP a tota! Vi
twerty-niue Sh!nrecock has entered only t"o ~
Beatrx Hoyt. who for three years has held the
supremacy Of American links. and who. despite
1urnors Of decline IN skill. IS playing as strong
game as ever The records IA the last three cham
pionshiYs show the wide gulf which separates TINS
clever little golfer from the other players OF the
country. for not only has she won the champion
shin title on each occasion but IN every qualifying
round She has been from five 10 ten strokes better
than the rest Of the field. Luck figures IN golf "a
much as IN other things but there Is 10 luck IN
game that for three successive years is superior
10 anything matched against T.
When tho first tournament for the cox Cup was
held at Morrstown in 1896 Miss Hoyt was only a
slip Of a gil to whom none Of the competitors
gave thought. but she won the gold mccall IN me
Qualifying round with score Of 30 strokes WhlAe
Mrs William Shipper. the club champion. did no
better than ~, and since then no woman IN the
country has been able 10 beat her. Should the
present contest result IN her defeat II would prove
one Of the sensations Of the golang world.
But that her title Will not be rewon without
strueele Is evident from a glance at the names OF
her opponents Chief Of these IS Miss Maude X.
Wetmo,e q daughter Of Senator Wetnore, Of
Rhode Island who was Miss Hoyts runner up a
year ago at AIdsley. u fact. II It had not been
that Miss Wetmore spraired her ankle in Jumping
from tee toward the close Of the match she ana
not Miss Hoyt might have been the present cham
MON In the last summer Miss Wotmore mas
1laved assiduousy at Newport and great things
are whispered Of her game. Miss Anna sands IS
another Newport player OF whom much IS eN'
pected
WHITE ,re~e are many debutantec In this year
eell Il careful estimate OF the possibilities
would exclude ali bur those who qualified last sea-
son and as ten 81 these will try again 1t IS natural
70 EXPECT that the real struggle will centre amohs
1horn For the sake Of those who Ike 10 htO t'7-
siliIti4s IN things Of this kind the names OF U.s.
1er Viii Ia. of interest Here they are: MISS HOY
oassatr Miss Burt Mrs. william Slpp'iii VI
Grace b Reyes Mrs Edward a Nance c csliS ~
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among the first sixteen are Mrs 4 DE WIZ
Cochrane the Ardsfy champion, MISS Jdxe' -
e-..ii., r,af~T.lf Mss Clara lOngWOrth ana
.'--li 49,. - II ,---r ~ Cineunati both Of whom
- ~ corner contests. Miss Marion Oliver
- az, ~. Ms I-,nica Terry Of Ardsley; Miss
JIe,.n Parish II Shiiuecock. and Miss Cordoba u
As for TIE course wren W si6 maj ~ IS as keen
a. a. sa a,1 as sou as velvet" and trial Of is
fnerl-s viii doubtless show this 70 be tIaei,re in
tainy ue'ther "ork nor none i fr ,Te cbampion-
reh'hs H. a. ~ Tbe IRiiadeipha players are con-
eil,. tnaf tho Wis tors Will ne we'll satisfied "nsh
they learn q the extent o ne i Cartons
links has ii.. circuit ~, VI ,, ei, 80 follows:
"o,' "'''' '"' Total
Hole j. = r. 90, %, !" go 40 40 800 so5
i.r.' ....... a . - -, 7-o,r
H..o- lo ~, ~ 20 =, :, s3o 800 275 200 SO
t5se ........ = %
II IS hardly 20 be expected that the women VIII
!s held hy MIS- j. Franklin McFaGden, and 90 Is
considered excellent. However. Miss HOyt did a