The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
BALTUSROL GOLFERS ROBBED.
TRAVIS LOSES 4 GOLD WATCH
AND 4 MEDAL.
Orenvilic kane's Diamond studs stelen
--(:sif Association OfBcers lissssu ana
Heei,ner Alss Lose--Thief Rsnsacked
Rooms While Golfers We're IN Links.


Heea,ner Alss L0se--Thtef Ransa ck I'd
Rooms While Golfers We're IN Links.
When the amateur golfers who were In
attend anoe at the open championship at
the Baltusrol Golf Club went to their rooms
on Friday evening to dress for dinner, they
made the discovery that thief had LOOTED
all the rooms In the west corridor Of the
building
The play on the links had engaged the
attention Of those who had rooms In this
part of the house which is apart from tho
locker rooms and also secluded from those
passing to and fro from tho dining rooms
and parlors. and they did not visit their
rooms from after luncheon until the evening.
The thief found Walter J. Tnvis's room
unlocked, and he took from his clothing
gold watch and chain, which held az
seal the gold medal the golfer won in the
amateur championship OF 1899. The thief
found the door OF the next room, occupied
by Grenville Kane of Tuxedo and F. Oden
Horstman of Washington, locked. but he
had no difficulty In breaking In. Mr.. Kane
lost diamond studs and other jewery,
but Mr.. Horstmans watch, jewelry and a
sum Of money, which he had tied in hand
kerchief with the intention Of placing the
valuables In the office safe. were not taken.
Mr., Horst man. after tying up his goods.
went OF to play leaving the package on
the bed but he thief. although he ransacked
the clothing and vases in the room, failed
TO notice the little bundle.
Two of the officers Of the United States
Golf Association. Maturin Ballou and s.
Y. Heebner, were also robbed, Neither
was playing and so they had their money
and watches with them, but the thief took
their shirt studs, sleeve buttons and what
ever OF value he could find. The rooms
of w. c. Carnegie and Frank H. Croker
wcrc entered, but they lost nothing, as they
had their money and valunbles with them
in their golf toys.
s. Y. Heebner, who is the treasurer of
the United States Golf Association, accord
ing to custom had brought to the links
the prize money, amounting to $50, IN gold
pieces. It is supposed that this sum was
what the thief was after, but II 40 he was
disappointed, as Mr.. Heebner had placed
the money in the Office safe
The clubhouse and links were free to
all, az the competition was not Of the usual
club order, and on this account the clubs
house committee was not held accountable
in any degree for the loss OF the valuables.
The club had detectives on the ground
and the house servants had been trusted
to watch within the building. hut the pres-
ence of about two thousand onlookers,
and the consequent laxhy of the club rsSu-
lations, had made an opportunity for the
thief that he had awaited himself OF without
much fear of detection.
The only robberies OF the sort on record
among the golf clubs about New York
are similar in method to that at Balt,srul.
The first occurred at the Meadow Brook
Hunt Club In the fall of 1898. when two
Winthrop Rutherfurd and
Charles L. Sands. were playing match for
81 900, and on the same day the club had
an invitation meet that was attended by
members of all the hunts near by.
When the hounds were in full cry, and
the golfers with their followers far out
on the links, the dressing rooms were
the thief securing the s. 900 stakes
and considerable jewelry. II was the only
mat CHI for stake money ever played between
amateurs In this country, az the United
States Golf Association made it against
he rules for an amateur to play for a
money wager.
The other theft was at the Apawamis
Club of Rye in 1900, during an exhibition
by Harry Varrlon, which had attracted
the members from the clubhouse to the
links. Vardon lost a valued presentation
watch, and several of the members lost
articles of value.
Thefts Of similar sort occurred at the
Country Club and at clubs in
other parts of the country on the days
That the English golfer played. and 1t was
.aid at the time that the robbcries seemed
the work Of a gang that followed Vardon
10 rob the clubhouscs.
The Balt,H-ol club will spare no trouble
Dr. expepse to run down the thief