New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
GOLF.
LOCAL LINKS CROWDED WITH CHAM
PIONSHIP SPIRANTS-BALTUS-
Rolls NEW COURSE

Rolls NEW COURSE.
With the metropolitan championship scarcely
more than a week off competitions on local golf
| links will have added interest The next few
days will be crowded with practice matches. The
courtesy of the championship Apawamis
has been extended to intending competitors and
/ Travis, Douglas. Hamilton. Macdonald, Robbins,
Reid and others among whom tho real struggle
rests Will make their golfng headqua rters at Rye
In Difference to the desire OF these men to spend
! the week in individual preparation. open tour
nament has been scheduled. and aside from the
! usual series of team matches and handicaps
/ Saturday few prize play tournaments have been
| announced.
! The weeks doings will not be confined entirely
to practice, however. The annual reception of the
| Dyker Meadow Golf Club is to take place to-mor-
| row. during which there is to be a mixed four
! some handicap for first and second prizes. To-day
/ the women of the club to appear in
! driving, approaching and putting competition for
/ prizes presented by Mrs. William Beard and Miss
/ Hinman, while the will begin the first round
at match play in the foursome started on Saturday
for cups offered by Daniel Chauncey and A. r.
! Fish.
! The Governors Cup will bring out the women of
! the Montclair Golf Club Thursday while among
! the Saturday team matches meetings between
| the Tuxedo and Montcair clubs, at Montclar, and
the Oakland and Englewood clubs. at Oakland.
EngIewood's visit Baltusrol Saturday,
while incidentally showing up the weakness of the
/ home team. brought out in a practical way the
Although Batusrol has been chosen as the scene OF
the national womens championship. so quietly have
its members been at work that golfers generally
have only q vague idea Of the changes wrought in
the last six months The alterations to the club
house will alone entail expense Of $4,000. while
/ the course has been heightened by almost six hum
| bred yards
The Englewood team found the summer putting
greens respondent in a coat OF green. and the
! sward through the fair green as smooth as an
emerald carpet. The first change noted at the
third hole. where. instead Of a small square green
beyond which overapproach was certain 10 be
trapped, a generous sized punch bowl has been laid
/ The fourth hole has been merged with the fifth.
and instead Of 29S yards as formerly. the playing
length is $40 yards. The sixth is entirely new.
and embraces the property recently added to the
! course. 1t parallel to the hfth and measures
$50 yards. But although the hole Is new the green
has been turfed for than year and the
putting is fine. On the seventh the tee has been
moved back and the playing length increased by
/ 273 yards. making total OF 695 yards Instead OF
the old abrupt terrace about which there
much complaint. the approach to the eighth hole is
over easy grade and to enlarged green. On
the ninth the bank at the back has been raised
/ TO check overrun and the green has been
/ tended and improved The hOmeward journey is
practically the same last season. with minor
> Improvements the fifteenth and seventeenth
holes. The distance and boyle for the
would figure about as follows:
2.5 %I:s. SO sl n $50 30; sTs E2'n
43:.. Z 81 y !; Es's
1t is expected that the completed clubhouse will
be ready by June l, in ample time for the clubs
open tournament. which has been announced for
the second week in June.
/ An innovation at the South Orange Field Club
/ this will be handicap tournament for
women members Three prizes have been offered.
one of watch is a handsome silver cup. The com
mttee having charge of the arrangements includes
/ Mrs. C H. Burk, Miss NJ. P. Souther. Miss Ida
Fisher, Mrs w. ]. Kingsland. Mrs. Oscar Schoen-
herr. Miss VI. l. Firth and Miss L. p Conway.
After interval OF more than two months the
links OF the Newark Athletic Club will again
thrown open 20 members on Saturday OF this week.
The course put out of service In order per
feet the greens. and the wisdom Of the
| now apparent. Alexander Finlay. the clubs greens
keeper, has worked wonders with the turf. bitches
have been dug to drain the low ground where the
fifth. sixth fourteenth and fifteenth holes sit
uated. tees have been back and greens laid.
Saturdays opening will give the members a pleas
ing surprise. In honor OF the occasion the com
! mittee on tournaments. OF which George W. Nc
Cutcheon is chairman, has arranged a medal play
handicap, open to all members OF the club. and
has offered three prizes to the winners of Glasses
| A. and c.
In attractive little schedule issued by the
Hillside Tennis and Golf Club. Or. b. Van D.
serted calendar OF interclub matches that prom
side season Princeton viii appear on ' tb e Hill Hill
! side links against home team on May Is and
OF the other important dates are: july g.
St Paui's School team, at Plainheld; July l5.
| Baltusrol, Plainfeld; July 20. New Brunswick
at Painheld; September 81 iIarbor HILL Plain
field: September %, Batusrol. at Short Hills DC
tober s. New Brunswick, at New brunswick.
The mixed foursome championship of the club
takes place June p. the winner OF which is to
receive the Gilbert Cup. week later the Rein
hart Cup will be played for under handicap condi-
defend his title to them. Another important prize.
Arthur Ryle Of the North Jersey Country Club.
of Paterson has offered a cup played Tor this
month between teams OF five from the Yountakah
Club the Golf Club of Montclair and tho Hacken-
sack Golf Club. The teams are to play eighteen
holes in the morning, and the two successful ones
will meet in the afternoon in separate match for
| the trophy.
AS evidence of their desire to hold to the
promises expressed at the annual meeting OF the
| United States Golf Association. officers OF the
! Western Golf Association bending every effort
to send representative entry to the Atlantic City
| championship. D. l. Forgan ex- Western champion
| and president the First National Bank OF Chi
cagO has stated that he will come East for cham
| poinship week and personally take charge OF and
| coach the members OF the Western association who
may enter. This personal sacrifice on Mr. Forgnn's
part indicates the cordial efforts being made by
| Western golfers to repay the United States Golf
tournament until fall. AS the change made In
order that Western golfers should have more time
for practice. they naturally anxious appear
| at their best. Mr.. Forgan is already the idol OF
the collegiate and Junior players Of the West and
It is not unlikely that he will gather under his
| charge at Atlantic City some of the most able
amateurs OF the entire Western section.
In the team match between the Westchester and
| Oakland Golf clubs at Bayside Saturday the
Oakland team was victorious by of 10 to II.
| The summary:
OAKLAND. WESTMINSTER.
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