New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-02
GOLF.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE METROPOLI
TAN ASSOCIATION AT THE NET
ROPOLITAN CLUB.

An inclination 10 leave the more important oues-
tons of policy to the decision of the Executive
Committee, especially the date and place Of
the annual championship. was responsible for
rather tame meeting Of the Metropolitan Golf
Association at the Metropolitan Club last evening
With the exception of routine business and the
election of officers for the ensuing year little was
accomplished. In point of numbers, however the
meeting was the most successful that has been held
since the association organized There were
more than hundred delegates present when Presi-
dent Henry HoIIins took the chair and the discus
sion provoked by the suggestion that the date of
the annual championship be changed from the
first two weeks iii April to the month of May was
in strong contrast the rather spiritess proceed
ings of a year ago when this tournament
first proposed.
Contrary the recommends tons of the Execu-
tive Committee the delegates seemed strongly op-
posed making the championship the initial con
of the season, and when Robert B. Kerr, of the
Lakewood Colt Club stated that his organization
disinclned to undertake the tournament unless
no other course were offered, resolution was
passed making it obligatory the committee TO
choose the month of May. AS Lakewood would be
practically the only place available during April
the meeting was virtually forced 10 this change.
Harvey Murdoch, president of the Nassau Country
Club formally offered his links for the tournament,
and though the final decision rests with the COM
mittee in all probability his offer will be accepted
The treasurer's report showed small balance on
hand. In order to increase the associations reve-
nue. a resolution passed making a levy of IS on
each club the money thus raised to be used in de-
frayng the expenses of the Championship and other
meetings. The ticket proposed by the Nominating
Committee unanimously elected follows:
President Robert II. Robertson. ShnnecoCk Hills
Golf Club: vice-president. Walter Breese Smith.
Tuxedo Colt Club treasurer, William Fellowes Nor
gan Morris County Golf Club; secretary John Du
FAILS, BaltusroI Golf Club: Executive Committee,
Oliver W. Bird. jr. Meadow Brook Hunt Club:
Percy Chubh Garden City Golf Club; Robert B.
Kerr. Lakewood Golf Club; Arden NJ. Robbins St.
Andrews Golf club and Charles F. Watson, Essex
County Golf Club.
1t was announced also that Louis T. Bayard
jr. of the Baltusrol Golf Club had been appointed
the third member of the Handicap Committee to
act with Daniel Chauncey. Of the Dyker Meadow
Golf Club. and Arden Nj. Robbins of St. Andrews.
This committee will make its report until later
The Somerset Hill Golf Club, of Bernardsville
n J.. was elected to membership. making total
of 43 now in the association. Some of the prom
inent golf men at the meeting were Amory 6.
Hodges Of the Meadow Brook Hunt Club; L. c.
Kent, of Tuxedo; f. L. Kalbhsisch Of Dyker
Meadow A. NJ. Robbins ST. Andrews; G. c. Per-
ktns, Meadow Brook; F. A Moore. Larchmon&;
( Robert b. Kerr. Lakewood H. s. Bownes and {.
b. Van Brunt Crescent; Paul Wilcox, Montclair;
Thatcher Lu Queer, Dyker Meadow, Otto Hook
never Harbor Hi; c. l.. Tappin Westbrook, and
G. A Toffey, Jersey City