The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-26
BIG FIELD AT GARDEN CITY
ANNUAL METROPOLITAN GOLF
 CHAMPIONSHIP.
sixty-one Players start . Thirty-two Men Qualify for Match PIay--FindIay $. Douglas, Present Holder of Title Looks a Likely winner-Threc Cups to he Competed for by Men Defeated in Match Play.

| Garden City, l.. l., May 25.--A field of
 sixty -one players began the annual golf
 tournament to decide the Metropolitan
 championship over the Garden City
 club's links to-day The weather con
 ditions could not have been better but
 the greens proved to be too fast for a
 majority of the players and high scores
 were the rule. Findlay s. Douglas of
 the Nassau Country club, the present holder of the title, having won it twice, Hooks like likely winner of the cham pionship on this occasion also. His lplay to-day was very steady, as he won the medal prize by going twice over the 1S-hole course in sixteen strokes. His morning round of 1S-holes
 was accomplished in S1. but he improv-
 ed on his second attempt. getting around in S1, which was very good golf considering that the course is one of the longest in the world, measuring $40 yards. Douglass played both morning
 and afternoon rounds with Charles B.
 Macdonald, formerly of Chicago, but
 now Of the Garden City club, but the best Macdonald could do was an ST for each round.
 l The opening of the tournament was thirty-six holes medal play with thirty two man qualifying to continue at match play until the championship
 shall have been decided. Judge Hor- ace Russell, president of the Garden City club, has donated silver cup for which the defeated men in to-morrow's l first round of match play among the leaders will be eligible to play. The next sixteen players in order of merit will contest for another cup, and third
 cup will be awarded to the survivor of the next eleven players in the forenoon, as f1fty-nine out of the seventy-two en- l tered finished the 36-hole round to-day
 Following are the players who qualified for the championship round with scores of 192 or better; E. S. Douglas, Nas- sau Country club. 165 G. T.. Brokaw. Deal, 16S; L. L. Kellogg, Fox Hills, ITO; lE. c. Watson, jr., I'll; J. D. Travers, Nassau. t72; ". l.. Hicks, Nassau, 174, lC. B. Macdonald, Garden City, 174; D. Partridge, Bedford, 175; A. Graham,
 North Jersey, IFS; F. s. Knapp, Vest brook, 179; P. R. Jennings, Garden City, l1S1; J. M Card, Fox Hills, 1S3; w. R. Thurston, Apawamis, 183; D. McKellar
 Midland, 1SS; R. A. Painey, Lakewood, t1S3; H.. Wilcox, Montclair, 1855; l.. H.
 Graham, Baltusrol, IS; Percy Pyne, Ed,
 Morris County. 1s6; I. D. Foote, Apa-
 wamis. 1S7; J. Lynch, Lakewood, 1S7;
 H. w. Lance, Nassau, 1SS; H. l.. Riker
 Oakland, 1SS; J. R. Maxwell, jr., Nas- sau, 1S9 w. R. Pickett, Crescent A. C., I190; w. J. Evans, Englewood, 191; c. F.
 Watson. Westbrook, 191; H. F. Whit Iney, Nassau, 19O; H. w. Maxwell, Nas- sau, 191; c. B. Jory, Ardsley, 192;. L. P.
 Runyan, Fox Hills. 192; c. w. O'Con- nor, Essex county, 192.
 The draw for first round of match play tomorrow resulted as follows: Foot vs, Brokaw, Lynch vs. Hicks, Douglas vs Robinson, Jenkins vs Whitney, Thurston vs.. Macdonald, Rainey vs. R. c. Watson, jr., Lance vs.
 A. Graham. Wilcox vs. J. R. Maxwell, ir., Evans vs. Loff. O'Connor vs. c. F. Wabon. Knapp vs. Payne, H. w. Max well vs. D. McKellar, Cory vs. Pickett, Partridge vs Runyon, L. H. Graham TVS. Ward. and Travers vs. Riker.