The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26
PAIRING METHODS AT GOLF.
Notifications MADE NEcES-
SARY BY ALL MATCH PLAY.

Notifications MADE NECES-
SARY by ALL MATCH PLAY.
Byes Become Paeter Unless the Ceuples
Form Power " Twe--Hew the New
| syStsm would Have Worked u Glen.
view-Nsmes Drawn From . Box.
A change will be made In the draw for
the amateur championship now that tho
United States Golf Association committee
has decided for match play throughout.
without qualifying round. and moro
than one inquiry has come to THE Sun
asking how the draw shall DO made and
arranged for the rounds. Really, the
draw will he return 70 first principles.
for the amateur championship Of 1894 at
81. Andrews and the first United States
Golf Association championship, in 1906,
were decided at straight match play. Since
then there has been qualifying round at
medal play, the method abandoned for the
coming tournament az the Nassau Country
Club.
The accepted manner OF pairing for
medal play, where the players are merely
companions and not opponents 10 the
direct sense, Is to put men OF the same
class together. This insures both doing
"a good round. or at least trying their best
under the encourag cmsnt OF a worthy
playfellow,
II is manifest that a good and shock
ingly bad player would not yoke well. 20
unless two players ask for the privilege
OF making the round together the COM
mittee tries TO get men Of about even skill
together. Those who qualify should then
be paired for the nrst match play round by
lot, or else on the system adopted for the
last amateur championship, Of putting
low and high scores together, on the arbi-
traTy table printed in the Y. s. g.. A. year
book, the same general scheme being worked
out when only thirty-two. sixteen or eight
qualify At some tournaments instead
OF draw, the two or four players Of great
est renown are placed by the committee,
with others a. fllers-in, the idea being to
bring together the -topliners' or the last
day and 30 insure a capital attraction that
will bring out gallery This plan has
never been commended. for Il eliminates
the -luck Of the draw a factor that the
good golfers do not wish eliminated and
the poor ones can i'll spare, besides, the
practice Is not fair and above board.
With an even number TO qualify there are
no byes except through Withdrawals. In
straight match play there Is also no need
10 consider the byee, for instance at the
next amateur championship, when tho
entrants are power Of two. as four, eight,
sixteen. th.rty-two, sixty-four. Ics or
even, In case the buoyant golfing ambi-
lions Of the country find full expression.
should there be ,58 entries. IL this is not
the case and there is an odd total, then the
byes have to be arranged for as tho first
proceeding This is done by dedIcting
from the nearest highest number wanted
Uhirty-two, sixty-four or 1852 the number
Of couples competing and the remainder
will be the number OF byes. The players
drawing byes are placed in order at the
top Of the second round. They skip the
first round entirely.
For example, take the draw for the ana
teur championship abroad az st. Andrews
in 1901, which mad the record entry OF iis.
ffty-night from the next highest number
sixty-four that left six couples to receive
byes and start In the second round, while
ffty-!wo couples were started In the fire.
six bye couples. made thirty-two couples /.
for the second round. The tournament |
was now reduced 10 power OF two and |
the rest was easy, In orderly progression, |
10 the final round
AZ in the system Just adopted by the
u. z. G. A.. H. rounds were a. eighteen
holes and tho fi,.al a. thirty-six hol s, and :
the tournas nj was handk d in four days.
With 256 cu;ri a. Nassau, 'he tournalnt ut
Such an en'ry SENS hardly possible, 6ut
il IL no, too much 10 exp CT a ticld as large
a. that euto r, d las " ar az Glrnview, wl,-n
1877 s.ar' ID in he qualifying round. out Of
i5e er;rts. II; draw. as he L ). g. A.
r.. .hs % d sH se t1 P.rs ' nar be rPp pub
have had 20 be made on the number on.
ten d., which TO simplify matters would
doub, \ IS hayc been mad, 100. by The ad-
dl;ion Of an entry. Ibis would make
NJ It high s number wanted, l7s coupi,s,
would Lave given forty. ighI bye couples
1hirly-Iwo coupks would have had to
play In he frs round and IN" sixteen
winners, with. the foriy-oight, would have
round, The order Of play would have
been: Tue sday morning, .;hir " wo; 1u g.
Gay at crnoCn, sx'y-iour: Wtdnf EBAY
80; Wedn' sday afternoon, slx-
teen; 1hursday morning, eight; thursday
who, al ,hir,y-siI bob S. would have wound
UP The touri!a ueut on the fourth day.
Under the pr s,nt sys'em Ave days were
nee d. d. but The snmi-fnals and final vera
~ tlllr y-sx hOts. |
At Glepview ninet y-eix matches would
have had to be played on the first day.
BY starring the first round at 8 o'clock In
lie morning, the thirty-two pairs. at the
usual four minute interval. would have
oeen of at 1905 O'Clock. Allowing the
Excessive maximum OF three hours 10 the
ound, the first pair would have been in |
Il II O'Clock and the last at I.oa O'Clock
rhe second round might be started az any
inns, but II o'clock would not have been an
lnrea sonahle hour. The tins starting
he sxty-four pairs would have been four
,ours and sixteen minutes, giving the last
,air until e:is o'clock to finish In, we'll he
ore dark The last Of the forty-eirht
we pairs would have driven OIL at 2:i2
clock, so that the winners Of the first
match Of the morning round would have
lad three hours for luncheon and rest be-
ore being called 20 take their places In |
he afternoon play.
At St. Andrews, in 1901, eighty four
matches were played on the first day, and,
Though the second round was not started
mtl 100 o'clock, the last pair was in soon
fter O'Clock,
The Kramer Of making the draw ebroed
> as follows: list Of entrants is drawn ,
lp and 10 each Is affixed q number. In a
,ox are deposited separate slips Of Paper,
With corresponding numbers. The box
> well shaken up and the slips are then
Irawn out, one by one. ard fresh list OF I
ames IA written out. In the order that the
lips are drawn. The competitors hrst