The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-09
GOLFERS ARE BUSY
Local Players Getting Into Form
for State Tournament.
PROGRAM HAS BEEN COMPLETED
Six Individual Prizes and One Team
Trophy Have Been offered
the winners.

Thursday, June 26, p. m.-Team match,
IS holes. team play against DOGGY for the A.
G. Spalding Bros trophy. This event is to
be played under the Marshall Field cup rules,
one team from each club, teams to be COM
posed of five players.
Friday, June u, 10 a. m.-Qualifying round
for state championship. Eighteen holes, med
al play, twenty-fOur best scores to qualify.
First eight to play off for state championship.
Winner to receive championship cup donated
by T.. H. Shevlin. Runner up to receive
bronze medal presented by the Minikahda
club. Second eight to play off for prize cup
presented by A. D. Cargill. Third eight to
play oft for prize presented by G. D. Velie.
Friday, June a., 2 p. m.-First round in
each class, match play, eighteen holes.
Saturday, June %, 10 a. m.-Semi-fnals in
each class, eighteen holes, match play.
Saturday, p. m.-Finals in each class,
eighteen holes, match play.
2:30 p. m.-Handicap event, open to all
players who enter the qualifying round for
state championship, eighteen holes, medal
play. Cup presented by John D.. Mcmillan
for best gross score. Cup presented ny T.. h.
Lamb for best net score. = ..
Visiting players can procure from the as
sistant secretary at the club house a coupon
book, which will be accepted IN settlement
for supplies furnished, caddy fees, boat ac-
commodations, etc. The club boat will make
connections with the Lake Harriet car line
at Thirty fourth street and run on sched-
ule to be announced later.
Local golfers are now hard at work
preparing themselves for the state tourn-
ament which will open at the Minikahda
club links in this city June 26. The wet
and cold weather of the spring. months
has kept the players off the links and as
a result most of them have been late in
reaching their normal form.
N1,A, f@,S %>,,S~ ant h0
been completed. Following is the sched-
ule: ''-.' ... <'- <.t..".
The chief interest naturally centers in
the individual championship contest. Rev.
Mr.. Thurston, of Winona, who won the
tournament last year, will be on hand
to defend his title, and the crack players
of eight clubs will try to wrest the honor
from the athletic clergyman.
High Class Golf Looked For.
The membership of the clubs in the as
ISOLATION has largely increased during the
last year. and considerable enthusiasm
has been displayed in the game, as re-
suit of the decision to hold the national
amateur tournament in the west 1t ia
tournament this year will be of consid-
erably higher class than that which was
displayed last summer at Winona.
The team contest for the Spalding. tro-
ply will be played under the Marshall
Field cup rules. Each player will try
| to beat the DOGGY score for each hole, and
the team winning the greatest number of
holes against DOGGY will be awarded the
cup. The DOGGY score for the course by
holes follows:
4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 6, 3, 5-total, 40.
With view to allowing the players to
| get into form as rapidly as possible, the
local clubs will do little in the way of
formal matches during the next two
weeks. Saturday afternoon the Minikahda
links of the latter club and this will
| probably be the last match to be played
! by this club before the state tournament
Byrn Mawr has as yet made no dat s for
the next two Saturdays, and probably will
leave these dates open. .-. . s..
| The lake clubs, Minnetonka and Lafay-
cite, have not yet joined the state as
ISOLATION, but both have announced their
| intention Of joining the association and
entering the state tournament. Wednes-
| day these two clubs will meet in team
match on the Deephaven links.
| Miss Genevieve Hecker, who has held the
championship of the Women's METROPOLITAN
| Golf association two years, will be called upon
defend her title this week. The third an
! nual tournament begins tomorrow and ex-
tends over Saturday on the links Of the Essex
County Country club at Orange, N. J.
So tar more than forty entries have been
received for the event, including the cham
pion. who will play for the Apawamis club;
Miss Ruth Urderhill, Miss Marion Oliver,
Mrs. w. Fellowes Morgan, Miss Waldron.
Miss Badgley and Mrs. E. H. Manice. The
tournament will begin with an eighteen hole
qualifying round tomorrow morning while
the first round at match play will be decided
on Wednesday morning. The afternoon will
be devoted to driving and approaching and
putting competitions.
The second round for the championship is
set for Thursday morning and in the after
noon a best ball foursome will be the feature
| The semi final round will be played in the
! afternoon, while on Saturday the final will