The sun., 1903-08-12
VISITING GOLF TEAM WINS.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SOCI-
IETY TAKE THE FOURSOMES..
Representatives OF Our Colleges Mako .
Determined Fight, but Are Deaten Ds
Three Matches TO Two--Many shose
Cont ests on the Myopin LINKS


BosroN. Aug. lin the flrst OF the inter
national matches between the lntercoheeiatt
Golfng Association and the oxioru anu
Cambridge Golfng Society. played TINS aitei
noon MT four-ball foursomes on the Myopla
links, Ave pairs took part. each match result
counting one point. There was a large
gallery. drawn from the nearby cottages ana
from Boston. The oxford and Cambridge
players, after two halved matches. won on
the day by three points to two. Ihey were
up by actual hole play.
The PLAYERS will meet again in the inter
national singles tomorrow morning. Oh teu
matches each counting one point In the
afternoon the visitors will journey TO tne
nearby Essex County Country Clup' Wners
on Thursday the Englishmen play picXeu
team of the Massachusetts state Goit Asso-
citation, leaving for Chicago on krioay nism
In the morning Walter j. Travis visited tne
course and in four-ball match made ~,
good work for his first performance on the
links. The distances OF the Myopia course
are as follows:
One. 22S yards: 2, ass yards; .. $50 yards =. Aa
yards; g. 400 yards g. 27o yards; ssS yards; t7o
yards o. l4O yards TO- $50 yards II. $50 yards H. tlc
yards: IS. 2s5 yards; II. $50 yards i5. 500 yards
TO- 2o5 yards: II, $50 yards: IS. $40 yards. Total
o.iSs yards. =,
The scores in the international four-ball
match ran Travis closely. but his individuai
record was not broken on the day inc IN
tcrnational match was all square until tho last
two pairs came in, which gave the victory to
the visitors. The result Of the matches was:
FL. 0. Alsop and n. 5. Campbell. intercollegiate.
beat J. L. Low and T. NJ. Hunter. Oxford and Cam
bridge. by, up twenty Two holes A. t. brsms
beat +. o. Reinhart and l.. II. Conklin. lntercol-
legate. by 4 UP and TO play; p jennings ana and
snd d'f p. 'h ". Ieathart OXFORD and Cambridge BY
up and 8 to play: G. y. Barne and n W Beverdge,
Oxford and Cambrdse 6ss, T. H. H. nnrnotx M x.n,S ahG
holes: d. F. Ransom and c. N. Day OXFORD ana
Cambridge, beat J. ". Baker and v. c. Chick. In
tercolegIate, by up.
sea legs, and as baseball men, say they
punched their hits The matches were so
close that there Is every hope that the inter-
collegiate boys may win tomorrow morn
methods Of the visitors are studied the more
apparent does it become that their proficiency
is matter of confidence and not due TO any
Three down at the start. Alsop and Campbell
fought a grim uphill fight, the match beng
first squared at the tenth hole. A three on
its breath until the put went down, won out
for the varsity men. Low and NJ Hunter,
The next match began with hole for the
pSe Ss turn anG and
q hopeless stern chase TO Bramston and NJ
Hunter.
In the next match the intercol olegiate boys
led all the way, and after winning by. up
and 3 to play, Jennings and Smith made the
American side / up by matches.
The issue was squared on the next result
to be posted, for the Varsity men, Barne and
Beveridge beat the two Harvard men, Mnr-
dock and Winston. on the twentieth hole,
There we're heart scaldings In every stroke OF
against Baker and Chick. The Americans
took the first two holes. but two on the 25O-
yard third hole. the only one OF the day,
was still In favor OF the Americans at the
turn and until the seventeenth hole, when
the score was squared. the Englshmen WIN
ming on the home hole.
In the morning Alsop and Campbell and
Renhart and Conklin played nj ne holes in q
four ball match. to see which pair would
have the honor of playing No, on the Ameri-
can team. The Yale boys won by one stroke
and made Mp by beating Low and NJ Hunter.