New-York tribune., 1901-04-22
&Spy@gIs &SPoGIs
3poR1snfk'
GOLF,
LAKEWOOD'S ANNUAL TOURNEY WILL
OPEN THE PRIZE PLAY SEASON
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM
MANY LINKS.

The gathering of so many we'll known golfers at
Lakewood this week for the annual three day tour
nament, which begins Thursday marks the
opening of the season OF prize play competition on
Eastern links 1t is seven years since the Lake
wood Golf Club started the custom of opening the
season In this way and successfully are Its
tournaments monaged that club has yet dared
to rival It for the honor.
This year peculiar interest attaches to the contest
for the reason that the metropolitan handicaps
published week will tested for the first time
and opportunity will thus be given to gain
practical idea of the merit of the handicapper's
work. Lakewood offers a wonderfully searching
test for the ordinary golfer. and the results may
upset good many ratings the official sheet.
Moreover. the course has undergone number or
changes and these changes have made all previous
records void. The play of Travis, Douglas Hamil-
ton Watson and other strong golfers under these
conditions will be interesting. Six new bunkeTs
ma mpVe Put az hf an
mery. A second short bunker has been erected at
seventh, eighth thirteenth and fourteenth greens.
The Is Is to with a n fr hole th
player making the best score The first forty Mt
ions of sixteen each. according their each
division playing for separate & @ prize :ocd Matcn p19s
being decided. while the semi-hnals and finals will
eighteen hole handicap Saturday. with cup
for the winner and medal for the player making
on Wednesday. and for the handicap cup Friday
evening: with Jasper Lynch. secretary, at Lake
Physicians in this city have come to be more
or less familiar with complaint this spring
It is popularity known as golf tendon" although
doctors say It is properly strain of the plantaris
tendon of the leg The player who starts out after
winters Inactivity for round of eighteen holes
is in splendid shape to catch 1t. it usually
suits from overcxertion of unpractsed muscles.
a physician who has had several such patients
under his said yesterday:
Generally speaking. the Gripping is the result
of placing too large portion of the weight
the pIantaris tendon in the leg. Nest of the golf
players who have suffered injuries this tendon
have lost their equipoise while delivering difficult
strokes, The strain upon the tendon Is caused by
the sudden transferring OF nearly the entire weight
of the body to the heel This shift is often made
through accident overeagerness to prope the
ball long distance, but while the injuries
qucnt upon breaking the tendon are painful, they
are not necessarily serious"
Local players. however. likely TO take
alarm at the complaint. In fact. experienced play
the buffers who believe bodily contortions essential
to good stroke subject TO It,. In almost every
balance. and long the proper positions are
maintained the possibilities of his being injured In
this way are slight.
Mortimer NJ Singer, captain Of the Fox Hills
team. has been fortunate in securing exceptionally
strong material for his team this year. C. NJ.
Hamilton. formerly of BaItusrol and R c. Watson
jr.. and Louis Livingston jr. two OF Westbrook's
best men, have been secured and. together with
j. a Jahir T.. the staten Island champion, and
John Ward, they should form strong a combna-
at Richmond Hill Saturday. and the other
matches for the season Will be:
At Fox Hills-May %. Dyker Meadow: September
I, Tuxedo: September r. Richmond Hill; October 3,
Baltusrol; November l6 Westchester
Abroad-May 1, Crescent Athletic June /. Batus-
ro!; June s. Essex County; July 13. Tuxedo: Sep
tember IS Dykcr Meadow
Negotiations also pending for matches with
the St Andrews Wee Burn and Apawams teams.
After you, sir" has usually been Columbia's
humble way OF bowling herself from the inter
collegiate golf prizes, but this looks as If the
Columbia team would have a rival for last place
in the University of Pennsylvania. A week ago
the Pennsylvania team played its first match
against the Overbrook (Penn.) Golf Club. and was
beaten by n of q o. Against the teams
that Princeton Yale and Harvard will send to the
intercollegiate championship this is scarcely pro-
phetic Of success. Like Columbia, PENNSYLVANIA has
no course OF its own. and is dependent on the
courtesy OF neighboring clubs for a place TO prac-
use. CoIumb9 is sending it's team to st. Andrews
Tor preparatory play this season. but far IL has
attempted nothing in the way of competitive
matches on May its first appearance will be
made at Glen Cove against the Nassau team but
as this is only three days before the championshD
not much can be accomplished 1t would be better
Edwards would follow Prnceton's custom OF
series of against tried metropolitan teams
II. H. Taylor has. been chosen captain Of the
Brookawn team and he has picked the following
to represent the club in outside matches.
stephen II. Patterson. Howard II. Knapp Henry
d. Beach. William F. Seeley, jr., and F. w
Smith, jr
The women Of the Dyker Meadow Golf Club will
hold a pick up team match on Tuesday onen to
club members only.