The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-25
SPORTS
SIX TEAMS ENTER
Contest for Spaldipg Golf Trophy
Will Be Interesting.
LARGE INDIVIDUAL ENTRY LIST
State Tournament Which Opens To-
morrow Draws Crowds of
Golfers Into the City.

Golfers Into the City.
Fifteen couples will tee-off in the team
play for the Spalding cup when the state
golf tournament opens tomorrow after
noon at the Minikanda club links.
Minikahda aid Bryn Mawr, OF this city,
Town and Country lof St. Paul, Meadow
brook OF Winona, Minnetonka and Fari-
bault, will be represented in the play for
this trophy, which is expected to be one
OF the most interesting contests OF the
tournament. The Merriam Park club OF
St. Paul and the Northland club OF Du-
luth, probably will not send teams for
this event. ~ '
Most Of the teams have already been
selected, and their personnel is a guar
antee that the golf which will be seen to-
morrow afternoon in this contest Will be
OF the highest class. Town and Country
OF st. Paul has entered very strong
team, including B. T.. Schumacher, N. +.
Langtord. Jr., ri. P. Bend, w. V. s. Finch,
and Nj. Doran, Jr. AT least three OF these
five men are brilliant players, and this
team Will undoubtedly be one OF the most
important factors In the Spalding cup
contest
Minikahda also has strong team en-
tered consisting of C. I: Ja1tray, !. l..
Corse, F. c. HAZE H. H. Thayer and e. S.
Woodwork. These players compare ia
vorably with the Town and Country men,
and undoubtedly have an excellent Qppor-
tunity Of winning the trophy.
Bryn Mawr also has very strong team
entered ana cannot be, overlooked III pre-
dlctions IN regard to the result of the
match The team includes A. B. Cults,
e., C. Schroyer, F. e. Stewart, H. Nc
Cullum, and W. A. Lawhead.
The Faribault team. which is as yet
largely unknown quantity, will be
chosen from the following players: j. Z.
Dobbin, +. {. Badly, l.. Matthews, A. G.
Chase, B. Scandretu, George Pease, S. S.
Crossett, E. f. String AID H. c. Theo-
pold. The MeadowDrook team has not
yet been officially selected, but member
OF the club to-day stated that it would
probably be composed of Messrs. You
mans, 1hurston, Balcom Gregory and
Burlingame. The Minnetonka team has
not been selected.
The tournament will open tomorrow
afternoon at Z:ov, Win tue Spaldlng cup
contest. Friday morning the qualnylng
round in the inulYIdual> championship
contest will pc prayed. This round VIII
be at mccall play, the best tWenty-four
scores TO qualify Tor the three cups oI-
tered tor the individual contests. The
best medal score In this round Will win
the handsome trophy donated by A. T.
kand.
The players maki1 g the lowest eight
scores IN this quanlying round will
qualify TOR inc state championship. Tine
winner OF the championship will receive
a cup donated by Thomas H. Shevlin
and the runner up will receive a prize
presented by j. &. Hudson. The second
eight in the qualifying round will rlay
OH for prize cup presented by S. d.
Cargill. The third eight will play off for
a presented c. D,
IRON the rate at which entries have
been coming in in the last two or three
days it is estimated that thirty-f five OF
forty couples at the very least will, tee
Off. i'll the qualifying round. The entries
from the Minikhada club alone will
reach thirty. and B1yn Mawr will have
at least ten or dozen men entered
Town and Country will be represented by
fifteen or twenty players while Winona
Faribault, Minnetonka. Merriam Park arc
Duluth are expected to swell the tota
of entries to eighty or more. -
The first round for each cup in the in.
dividual contest will be played Friday
afternoon. Match play at eigh' cen holes
will be the rule in this as in all the
succeeding rounds. The semi-finals viii
be played off Saturday morning, and the
finals Saturday afternoon. A handicap
event, open to all players who enter the
qualifying rounds Friday morning, ant
open as we'll to out Of town players who
are not able to arrive in time for the
qualifying round, will be another feature
Of Saturday afternoon. In this handical
event John d. Mcmillan offers a cup fol
the best gross score, and c. R. Lamb ha:
presented e cup to be awarded to the
player makiIg the best ret score.
Last nights rain probably will not ma
terially affect the condition of the green
It'll St
from now until the end of the tournament
the links will be in first-class condition
One result Of the rain, Of course. will
be to make the grass grow faster, AM
the greens may be trihe long. The off
cials of the Minikahda, club, however
state that the putting greens will be KEEP
at the proper length, although it may b.
difficult to keep the fair green's from be
coming too long, if rain continues.
The Merriam Park club has sent in tn
entries of W. G. Larkin and DR.. A. Hen
derson for the individual championship
Bryn Mawr up to date has entered tn
names Of G. c. Schroyer, W. A. Lawhead
A. B. Cults, H. McCullum, F. e. Stewart
Tom Pease and Will Sawyer.
F. C. Hale yesterday lowered the ANA
teur record for the Minikahda course
making one round in 81. This is tire
strokes below the present DOGGY, an
equal to the old DOGGY of the course
The former amateur record was 49, viii
liam Watson, the former professional o
the club, has made the round in &c. bu
Hale's record of yesterday is very nearl
par golf for the course. -
The drawings for the team play for tn
Spalding cup contest will be made to
night The drawings for the individual
play in Friday mornings qualifying roun
will be made Thursday night, immediate
ly following the annual meeting of tn
state golf association.
ROWING
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