The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-21
INTEREST IS KEEN
State Golf Tournament Opens Thurs
day on Minikahda Links.
EIGHT CLUBS ARE REPRESENTED
SpaIding Cup Contest and Individual
state Championship Will Be
the Features.

Little is heard in golf circles just at
present save speculation in regard to the
result Of the state tournament, which will
open on the links of the Minikahda club
next Thursday. This event promises to
exceed in Importance and general interest
any previous contest in Minnesota since
the game first found favor in the state.
Eight clubs are certain to be repre-
sented in the competition, both in the In
dividnal and team contests Minikahda
naturally will have a gOodly number Of
men in the fight for the various cups.
Bryn Mawr also will be well represented,
and the Town and Country and Merriam
Park organizations of St. Paul will be on
hand, as we'll as Faribault and the Mead
owbrook club of Wlnona. whose represen-
tative, Rev. Mr.. Thurston, won last
years tournament.
The Minnetonka club and the Northland
club Of Duluth have applied for admission
to the state association, and will undoubt-
edly be represented in the team play for
the Spalding cup, as well as in theAndi-
yidual championship contest.
If the Lafayette club of Minnetonka
<enters the tourney, there will be nine
clubs represented, and it is conserva-
tive estimate to say that the entry list
for the individual pionsh1p will be
between sixty and eighty .. ..-. ..- ~
spalding Cup Contest
The Spalding cup contest naturally
arouses great interest. This cup, which
is offered this year for the first time, is
to be contested by teams of five men from
the various clubs composing the state as
sociation. The teams play against the
bogey score of the course upon which
the tournament is held, and the team
which is the most up, or the least down,
as is usually the case, against the colonel,
Is awarded the trophy. In short, the con-
test is decided just as an ordinary team
match, with Bogey as each mans oppon-
ent. ~
The bogey score Of the Minikahda
course is 40, or 80 for IS holes. The cup
must be won three times in succession to
become the permanent property OF any
club. .-7s,'<
The play for this cup will be the feature
OF the opening day. Friday morning the
qualifying round for the individual cham
pionship will be played. The twenty -four
best scores will qualify for the match
play. -
The first eight will play off for the
state championship, and the second and
third eights will play Off for special cups.
The first, semi-final and final rounds in
each class will be played Friday after
noon, Saturday morning and Saturday
afternoon, respectively. '.--| - =
A handicap contest, open to all players
who enter in the qualifying round for the
state championship, will also be a feature
OF Saturday afternoon Special cups are
offered for the best gross score and net
score. -ss-s-@ Al. -
MinnesOtans Rated High.
Minnesota golfers are rated fairly high
according to the official handicap list of
the Western Golf association, recently
issued Six hundred and forty six mem
bers Of clubs affiliated with the western
har
stroke. to twelve. I. L. Case and c. r.
Jaffray Of Minikahda are in the three
stroke class, as is also M. Doran of Town
and Country. William Bolcom, J. H.
Marfield, T. P. Thurston and H. S. You
mans of Meadowbrook and H. P. Bend
N. P. Langford, Jr., l.. C. Miller and B.
B. Schurmeier Of Town and Country are
given -four strokes. Other Minnesota
players range from five to twelve strokes
The complete list follows: -......
Scratch-C. B. Macdonald and H. J. Whig
3. Hoyt, G1enview; W. +. 'Egan and and W b B
Smith, Onwentsia.. -.-. g.. :
One stroke-B. NJ. -Byers, Allegheny; D. R
FoIgan and Bruce Smith, Onwentsia.
TWO Strokes-H. j. Tweede, Belmont: D
ston, Chicago; Neil Mac NeaIe, Cincinnati
Warren Dickinson and Robert Finkbine, De
mond Russell and B. S. Warren, Detroit; II
G; Egan and R. H, McElwee, Exmoor W. L
Thompson and L. N James, Glsnyiew; c
William Waller, Onwentsia: John Stuart
Washington Park; R. McKittrick and S.
stickney. St. Louis Country club.
w N. Murray, J. B. Shea and 3. i D. j.. Thomp 1aol ne
son, Allegheny; E; E. Bliss, =. +. Driver am
r. Fl aundy, s,uo6 Belmont T. s. BGckwith
W. l. Osborne, Gienview; F. NJ. Pettitt Ken
osha; "; T. g. Bristol, Mdlothian Loui
@ 4ay W. J. J. Feys esys snd and R. E. @
ball. Omaha A. Poole, Jr., Harold Smith an
w, F. Pillsbury, Onwentsia: H c. Allen
RocR sand Albert sehaIeq snnsspp
ington Park. ark y S'Ni' w.. = =. "n'e'' "asA
, eny; William Borden. Chicago; ". !. How
land, Jr., Evanston; K. L. Ames, F. D. Fraz
Ter and j. D. Towne, Glenyiew; J. j. Cairnes
eT9Fge @ Xoore aed Lake eenepn n
II. S. Youmans, Meadowbrook: R. 2. Daniels
X. S. Goodman and J. o. Hink1ey, Midlothian
L. T. Boyd. Q. G: Fuller and Allen Hubbard
Milwaukee; ST. Chase, e. P. Cobb, ThoEna
TayoF. JE and an.it E. G Wa WATSON e Jr; On On
skokie; George scudder and W. A. stickney
Jr., st. Louis Country club H. w. Allen an
II. 3. McKenney, St: Louis Field club, H. F
Bend, N. P. Langford, Jr., L. c. Miller an,
B. F. Schurmeier, St Paul.
Five strokesy-R S: Emmett, j.: NJ Rum
eey, Chicago; George r.. Balch, N: Longworth
Cincinnati; w. n. Burtenshaw, H. T. Cole
Dewitt Loomis, S. T. Miller, Detroit; w. E
Glow, Jr., ]. Waller Knott, Edgewater; G. A
Thorne, Glenyiew; J. v. Beekwith and S: Q
Dugger, Hinsdale; E. r. Williams, Lake Gen
eva; ]. G: Daniels, G. L. Hunter, K. s. Ed
wards, r. E.. Hunter, Midlothian; G.. P
spooner, Milwaukee: DR.. A.tC. Haven. H. w
Magill H. G.. Ralston, Onwentsia: stephel
Bull, Jr, Ed Buchan, John Happ. Racine
H. E. Havemeyer, Riverside; Henry Aims
worth, Walter Chambers, Rock Island; A. 6
Bennett, W. L. Fisher +. G.. Howell, L
Thompson, Skokie; A. c.. BroWn, J. A
Louis. Field Club; Thomas Gale. Wilbur Ket
q Six Strokes-T. K: Laughlin, Allegheny; J
3. Forgan, Raymond Kirk, Theodore Sheldon
c. U. Stuart J. G. Coleman. Jr. John Val
Nortwick, Chicago; ]. H.. Avery and Ken
meth Avery. Detroit; E. N. Scott, ]. De K
Towner and H. A. Towner, Exmoor; A. 3
Lambert Glen Echo; John A. Holabird, Glen
view A. c.. Dixon and c.. R. Johnstone
J. c. Meredith. Kansas City: G: g. Allen. "
A. Yule, Kenosha J. R. Grif1tts. R. Kid
ston. f. H. Lord, D: 3. Lyman, Jr:. s. Z
Moody La Grange; S. H. Hunt, O.. w. Pot
ter, Jr., Midlothian; Harry Lawrie, j..
Rahm. Omaha; G. A. Carpenter, II. D. Ell
skine, F. G. Farwell, A. B. Swift, S. Thoar
son, onwentsia; j. F. Palmer, Riverside
Douglas Cadwaflader, G. W. Chatterton, Jr
Lambert. W. M6ilittrick r. II. Mudd, C. A
Pierce. j. r., Walker, st. Louis Country .Clut
Sprague Abbott, st. Louis Field Club; w.
Trowb.idge. st. Paul; Gale THOMPSON, Wash
ington Park; Eugene Hoyne, T. D. Sexton an
w G.. Strong, Waukegan.