New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-07
GOLF.
SEASON AT ITS HEIGHT ON MOUNTAIN
AND sEASHORE LINKS.
BUSY AUGUST DoINGs AWAY FROM HoME-THls
WEEKS TOURNAMENT AT oTsEGo LAKE
COMING MATCHES AT LENoX

WEEKS TOURNAMENT AT oTsEGo LAKE
COMING MATCHES AT LENoX
AND NEWPORT.
Aside from a club handicap or two. the present
| week will be a quiet on local golf Inks. Au-
gust always brings a lull activity at the nearby
courses and little attempt will be made TO resume
tournaments until the coming OF Labor Day "heh
the returning tide of summer pilgrims gives
new stimulus TO the season. On the out or town
links however there will be no lack of interesting
contests. Golf is the order OF the DAY NJ
Narragansett Pier and the Point Judith Country
Club is the scene OF daily competitions Piahs are
under way for an open tournament the latter part
Say l's ana lO Invitations viii be sent all the Lead
ing golfers in the county, on N eopessowH viii
begin three day tourney for the O5 GS C amb
Cooperstown cups. while the Newport G1i hefnre
September The Lenox Golf Clubs meeting, al
WAYS a great social occasion. will take place on
September ii to IS. inclusive and the stockbridge
Golf Club Is expected TO announce It's anhua! tour-
the usual round of open tournaments near home.
the dates Of which VIII be given ont by SeeLetapg
some time next week.
In the Adirondacks and the White Mountains
everybody seems 10 be playing golf and to judge
from the number of new courses laid out one would
imagine the North Woods an immense chain OF
links. The Ampersand Golf Club. at Saranac Lake.
has secured Alexander Findley. formerly the pro-
fessional at the Essex County Country Club, OF
Orange and he has done much toward putting the
course in satisfactory shape Last week the boyle
handicap for silver Srp was won by r. "; doI
while the mixed fouIsome contest by
Mr.. and Mrs d. A. Loring jr., with a score OF l23
At Richheld Springs the Waiontha golf links
come in for a lions share of social attention, and
the August handicaps begun on Tuesday, started
off with a score Of players in each contest. Rich
ard S Croker is among the best OF the golfers
there just now and. together with Donald Nc
Frost and the younger Livingston Is regarded as
one of the most promising golfers that the club
has yet produced. At Manchester. Mass, the
Equinox course is proving pleasing surprise 10
visitors Since last the club has bought the
land upon which the course is situated. and has
improved and heightened many OF the holes. DR..
Clark Burnham. of the Dyker Meadow Golf Club.
Is the captain Of the Equinox team and he has
arranged long list Of matches with the Saratoga.
Mount Anthony, Bennington Centre. Taconic and
Dorset golf clubs In the present month there Will
be an abundance Of team matches, handicaps and
boyle tournaments and If set Of handsome prizes
will stimulate the members zeal the contests will
prove most attractive. Harry Rawlins, profess
sional at the Ocean County Hunt and Country
Club in the winter. is again in charge, and he has
increased the playing length Of the course TO 26lo
yaIs Last week the g2 ed team ub ToH team G s
the Shuts Cup handicap, held on Wednesday. Miss
This CITY,. BY one Stroke. York Harbor in Maine
with its Informal happy 20 lucky fe a t o
| appalling as to stones and turf, but there IL an
enthusiastic Golf Committee, long Walt a. Iis;
! and as one Of the members puts II, Give II time
| Golf at Bar Harbor has been handicapped some
| what by the burning Of the Kebo Valley country
| Club house. but the matches are going on without
| Interruption and the club will rebuild as speedily
| as possible Money for the enterprise is coming In
slowly but surely, and subscriptions 20 the mort
gage bonds have already reached the sum OF 500
In the White Mountains the Waum6eK COL o is
now It covers about Thirty acres OF ground IN,
Guiding plentiful hazards ano coTrse Is
delightful one in every way
| At Jackson. n H.. the Wentworth Golf Club
| is another Of the mountain courses that has re-
| ceived large measure OF favor. The greens are
! forty feet square and perfectly kept, and win
the new clubhouse. recently built, the success OF
the game has been as pronounced as IN ot tSr
! parts of the country, and the OUTLOOK iOr tne
season is particularly bright
! In the Berkshire Hills the Plttsheld and LenoN
; links are the gathering points for scores OF well
! known players. David Bishop. jrr who has been
| one of the crack golfers OF Lenox for several
/ seasons has returned from his golfing trip abroad
and Is showing the result of that trip by largely
! improved game. His handicap is now four strokes
the same as that Of s. Parkman Shaw. f. a.
|
triumvirate." Lindsay Fairfax comes next with a
| handicap OF FIVE and J. Sanford Barnes follows.
f wH the cup ofersd by Miss Maud curtis which will
| be awarded at the end of the month, and among
i ine Miss sstiIiman' Mrs Lapham Miss Barnes,
| Miss Sloane and Miss Rogers
The golf match between Vardon and Park
| which was decided a few days ago at the Canton
| links in England. the most important con-
test between professional golfers that has taken
| place in some years Parks name mas always
been associated with the best traditions Of the
| game and his crushing defeat by II up and IL
10 play is only another proof Of a statement fire.
ouently reiterated in the English golfng journals
that Vardon is a genius whose Ike has never been
seen in either country. All accounts Of the match
seem to show that Parks long play was indiffer;
that his approach shots far from accurate.
II is perhaps easy to ec S ae4 a the r
suit tells clearly than anything else the rear
English PLAYERS seem inclined to think that the
score represents the true form OF the two men
A decision Of some Importance in Its bearing on
the status Of amateur golfers has been rendered
by the United States Golf Association in the case
of Walter Paul who first In the recent public
golf tournament at the Van Cortlandt Park links
Paul Is clerk, employed by the Knolwood Coun-
try Club, and for this reason he was protested
| by the other competitors as a professional under
the ruling that is eligible for an amateur
golf tournament who in any way makes his liveli-
hood from the game. The matter was referred 10
| the United States association and after some
| consideration the Executive Committee Of that
| body has declared that Paul receives the use
OF the Knollwood links gratuitously and makes
his living al the golf club he Is not an amateur
within the strict definition OF the term. He will
therefore have TO relnquish the Van Cortand'
Cup.
One Of the interesting matches set for the neal
future is a four-ball contest between Howard
| Colley of the Essex County Country Club anC
Harry p Toler Of the Batusrol Golf Club Collel
viii have as his partner Jack Park. the Esse,
County professional while Toler Will play witt
willie" Anderson, the Baltusrol professional