The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-08
NEW HANDICAP LIST
Corse, Jaffray and Hale of Minikah-
da Given Three Strokes by
Western Association.
Misses Heffelfnger Win Their Match
es in Second Round of Contest
for Carpenter Cup.

The revised list of the handicaps of the play
in the Western Golf Association has made
its appearance. National Champion Louis James,
Runner-up Eben Byers and H. Chandler Egan
added to the list of scratch men, and Fred
Petit Allen Hubbard and Abram Poole, Jr.,
are added to the one stroke mark. The list up
to and including the six mark, with table OF alb
breyiatious follows: ~ ~
Among the Minnesota players on the list up to
and including the six mark are the following;
Three strokes l. l.. Corse, G. T. Jaffray and
Doran, Jr, Town and Country.
Four strokes William Bolcom, j. R. Married.
T. P. Thurston, II. S. Youmans. Winona; N. P.
Langford Jr., B. F. Schumacher and L. G. Mil
ler Town and Country.
Five strokes, H. II. Thayer, Denman Johnson,
Minikahda.
Two matches were played in the second round
Of the women's handicap event for the Carpen-
ter cup on the Mnkahda golf links Saturday.
Miss +. Heffelanser beat Mrs. Moreton up
and to play, and Miss L.. Heffelfnger beat
Miss Moulton up and to play.
Minikahda will have busy day next satur-
day. The qualifying round for the president >
and sixteen will qualify. There will also be a
putting contest for men and women, in which
prizes will be awarded the winners.
A mems foursome handicap competition at
middle play was played at the Town and Country
Club links Saturday afternoon. NJ. Doran, Jr.,
and N. P: Langford, Jr., Won easily by IS. The
score in detail:
z. 1. Hersey and 1: g; Miner. 81. ~
i. Posan, Jr., and u. ?: Lsasferd, j., IS.
B. T. sehurmeier and +. F: Bend, %.
B. + aGens aa and y Dr. sns1s sS 3D.
A. R. stear and W. F. Duff, SO.
H. H. Hilton, who was the amateur golf cham
pion of 1900 and 1901, the Irish golf cham
pionship SATURDAY by up and to play. The
championship games have been In progress dur
Ing the past week at Port Rush.
The Wnona Golf Club defeated La Crosse at
Winona yesterday by the score Of IT up.
Walter Egan, the Lake Geneva player. won the
| finals in the open golf tournament at the Glen
View Club Saturday afternoon, defeating W.
Fl. Yule Of kenosha by 8 up and to play, in
the finals.
Yule won the first three holes in succession,
Egan getting his first victory at the fifth green.
| Egan followed his advantage up and was all
! even at the seventh, and up at the turn.
The tenth and eleventh went to the Lake &c
| neva man and then Yule halved with him twice.
Egan won the fifteenth, and then halved the next
hole, taking away his opponents opportunity to
| succeed.
Marion Wright golf expert and all-round ath
| lete, odd wager Of 81, 900 and many side
bets, at Newport, r. l., yesterday morning.. He
declared he would make the Newport Golf Clut
from the Newport reading-room in 80 stroke:
| at golf, through the intervening streets. Mr.
Wright started at 500 and at 7:05 reached hi
| destination his ninety-sixth stroke, having
| three strokes to spare averaging 209 feet to thu
| stroke.
The feat was accomplished without accident
| although one woman had a narrow escape from
| being hit in the head with the ball as it whizzet
| through the air.
| Spearfish is to have the first golf links o
| the northern Black Hills. President F. L. Cook
of the state normal school, has arranged for tn
laying out of a course on the land southwest o
the school, and an expert has gone tn
ground to make estimate of the cost Of pre-
pairing it. 1t is expected that the links will
be ready to use by the time school opens.
| golf club is already in prospect.