New-York tribune., 1900-12-10

Douglass friends hope to see him retrieve that de-
feat. The cup is three legged one-that is. II
must be won three times by the same player before
becoming his personal property. Travis is the first
to have his name inscribed on 1t.
Play starts on Thursday morning with quanfy-
ing round of thirty-six holes medal play. Mr..
Edge has arranged 10 post the time Of starting and
the pairing of each player in the leading hotels of
Atlantic City the evening before. Competitors are
to qualify in sixteens the first for the Atlantic
City Cup, the second for the Second Sixteen Cup.
the third for the Third Sixteen Cup, and so for
many sixteens turn in scores. In this way a
chance of continuing match play is assured TO
every who enters, a fact that will undoubtedly
add 10 the size of the entry list. The first and
second rounds at match play will take place on
Friday and the semi-hnal and final rounds on
Saturday All matches will consist OF eighteen
holes. On Saturday there will also be an open
handicap at medal play in which prizes are offered
for the players making the lowest gross and net
scores
The course is not situated in Atlantic City proper
but some distance out. at little suburb known as
Northheld. Several important changes have been
visitors will find the third. seventh and fifteenth
holes heightened, number Of new bunkers erected.
improved Entries should be sent to w. r. Edge
p m. for the main contest and ON or before satur-
day, at 10 a m: for the handicap. The COMMITTEES
Edge, ]. Haines Lippincott and Milton c. Work
The result Of their efforts will be watched With With
wants the amateur championship next spring and
will leave no stone unturned 10 get 1t
A miscalculation on the weather is causing the
Green Committee OF the Crescent Athletic Club
considerable anxiety. The clubs course is at Bay
Ridge, exposed to the full fury of winter storms
and when the first cold snap appeared "Jim''
Laign the professional, closed UP nine Of the
eighteen holes and got ready for winter. The mild
weather OF the last week brought out a good many
more than this shortened course could handle, and
players have been complaining loudly at the delays
and congestion on the green. Now the committee
is going TO open three more holes as quickly as
possible, making a twelve hole course, which will
probably be sufficient to meet all demands The
third, fourth, tenth and eleventh have been re-
opened, making the total playing length about three
thousand yards. The clubs season has been a sue
cessful one, much so that the committee has
already made arrangements for acquiring a new
tract OF land at Eighty-third-st. and the Shore
Road This property is about one hundred and
! old NTH hole. which has been taken for private
purposes; .s a re9sumoertng s Of the holes win be
back 70 nj the gap made by the loss and the new
property being numbered sixteen.
OF new inventions likely to become popular In the
golfng world the aluminium headed putter seems
certain OF success. This, In the opinion of such
shrewd judge as Horace Hutchinson, is due to the
fact that the club is homogeneous It has no lead
in IT. and there is massing OF weight at anv one
point. Consequently II sends the ball bounding
over rough ground with the same freedom as WOOD
itself. and may be used successfully in running uu
approach. The head is made in the shape OF a
wooden putter, the material being aluminium As a
rule wooden club is better tool for running an
proaches than ron the latter being apt to keen the
BAN close 10 the ground where II IS hindered nv the
Inequalities of the surface, but !n the case ~
aluminium there all the merits of the wood
snort puts on smooth green's Players here are al
ready beginning TO experiment with the new inven-
uon, ana Hutchinson's prediction to popularitv
may not be far wrong.
The Nassau Country Club is not the oniy or
ganizaton that will keep open house IN the winter
months. The members of the Yountakah Countr,
Cuh, or Nutley. have decided to keep their eourss
open throughout the cold weather although ts-,
porary greens will replace those hitherto in use
| The Somerset Hills Country Club of New-Jersa,,
has just completed OF unusual interest ana
IN appreciation Of the services OF it's profession.I
Jonn Young, IL has granted him a leave OF absence
1 Ior visit 10 Musselburg. whose famous Iinls
| reunion Of professionals is TO take nIaca A.
| December IL at the Hungarian Hotel Union soma
ABOUT forty Eastern pros" chiefly from tbe
| metropolitan district, are expected to be present
Dinner and a vaudeville entertainment win he -,
yidsd Thomas Bendelow is the temporarv rr.,
cent or the organization. George Low 81 TbbII
meadow, vice-president, and James Iaian ofS HS
| crescent Athietio Club. secretary and treasurer ~
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