New-York tribune., 1900-07-16
GOLF.
9OT WEATHER MATCHES ON MANY
LINKS-MEADOW BROOKS INTER
SCHOLASTIC CHAMPIONSHIP.


The season at the summer resort links is
AT its height. From every course in the mountains
along the seashore come reports Of tournaments,
team matches or whatever else can he devised for
popular interest. Down on Long Island the game
IS particularly active. This week the Meadow
Brook Hunt Club will hold three day nterscho-
lastic contest beginning Thursday while the
eek following viii the big invitation tourna-
ment af the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.
Instead OF limiting its entries schools.
originally announced. the Meadow Brook peo-
pie have decided to throw them open to every
school in the country The results OF the present
season proof that the affair is likely to attract
a representative gathering OF the youngest set and
also that the scores will be considerably above
what IS generally spoken Of as cub golf As for
the Shinnecock meeting ii is only necessary to
recall the tournaments of the last three years 10
predict a gathering Of unusual strength. Ihere
., III o-t,,I ,5 ~ ,.ear ~ artries
will all probability include Travis, Douglas, Har-
Of similar ability. The qualifying round is 70 be
Toslire he lowest sore The first eight will CON
tinue AZ the stroke game for the Presidents Cup;
eight for consolation cup. on the last day of the
meeting there will be an open handcsp Iii in which which
the Trustees Plate. the gift OF the Board Of Gov
ernors.
From shinnecock those who follow the summer
circuit VIII go 70 Narragansett Pier, where the
usual open tournament will be held in August
Thence Newport is only hours run. and at
Newport there viii be open tournament second
only in Importance to that at Shnnecock Hills.
After that the Berkshire season opens and the
chief gathering points. Labor Day always marks
middle Of September most Of the golfng pilgrims
viii have returned 20 town for The fan tournaments
for the next two months.
The organization of so many golf clubs is
causing the older organizations lots Of worry, said
2 former member OF the Fox Hills Club the other
day. Men who a couple of years were willing
70 incur considerable Inconvenience in reaching
their links now joining the newer clubs nearer
home When there were fewer clubs a player had
% choose between going some distance for a match
or foregoing the thing altogether. Now every
suburban town and every summer homes associa-
quence has been that men who belonged TO distant
6oe organznton is is her the G BRINE m
requisite. If a course cannot be reached with
paratye ease players viii go to one that can.
but the one in which they most interested and
one Soon they begin 10 drop our Of the clubs
be more than enough to iii every links II needs
only a Saturday trip to the ones town TO
prove that"
The Mohegan links. the only one on Block Island
IS commanding a great deal of attention from the
suer TSsidents e r 9f that g IT, popular Pez2rt The
for a comparatively new one is in excellent condi-
The Locustwood Golf Club. Of Great Barring
ton, has abandoned its former grounds has laid
out new nine hole course. with playing distance
OF about a mile and a quarter. on the land Of NJ
l. Wheeler, Brookside. lying between the east
and middle roads TO Sheffield and both sides
of the Housatonic River The course is admira bly,
adapted the game and will need few If any. art-
flcial hazards
William Parkin secretary of the Richmond Hill
Golf Club, believes that he has hit upon a novel
scheme for club championship competition The
dates TO be from September Is 10 November 4
There Will be four preliminary handicaps the first
September - and l6 the second on September
% and %, the third September % and 90 and the
last October and :. From these four preliu-
mary handicaps the sixteen best gross will
qualify tor the championship cup and the second
sixteen for the handicap cup The final rounds are
for November and On Election Day there
will be bosie handicap. and on Thanksgiving Day
the season Will close with best ball foursOrnes.
The Richmond Hill course has been improved since
ability 1t has otal playing length of 1886 yards
and the holes arranged that the best golf Is
always certain Of the best results The distances
OF the holes are follows: 1872 $50, 172, $50, 455.
$40. 325, 22 and l39 yards.
The remaining matches on this months calendar
at Ardsley include a bogie handicap for classes A
and on July q and a mems four ball match on
July IS Both are 10 be at eighteen holes.
Chicago has enlarged its public course in Jackson
Park eighteen holes-another proof Of the game
popularity among all classes. A landscape gardener
has been employed look after the greens and a
police officer will be stationed the grounds 10
preserve order.