New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-26
GOLF.
The North and South Championship
The Trend of the Sport.

Pinehurst n. c., March rs (Special).-The outlook
for the annual United North and South amateur
championship. to be held the links of the Pine
hurst Golf Club on April to g. inclusive,
never more gratifying. and week of brilliant
tournament golf, in which many leading amateurs
Of the country will participate assured. In adj
diton TO the championship the weeks programme
Will include womens championship, an eighteen
hole medal play handicap and open champion
ship tournament.
Entries for the amateur championship viii close
on Tuesday, April A. for the medal play handicap
on Thursday. April g. and for the open champion
ship on Friday, April T. All entrants for the handi-
cap must state their club handicap play from
scratch. Entries for the women's championship
close on Monday, April g.
In addition to the tournament. there viii be
numerous entertainment features in the way of
outdoor sports and social pleasures, trap and pis-
tol shooting, lawn tennis dances. card parties and
the like. Tea viii be served each afternoon at the
golf clubhouse during the tournament. Not only
have number of advance entries been received,
but many players already here indulging In
preliminary practice Among these are Allan Lara.
OF the Columbia Golf Club, Washington; c. L.
Becker, of the Woodland Golf Club. Auburndale.
Mass; NJ. K. Waters. of Lakewood. N J.; I. D.
Pierce, of Boston; G. Lee knight and @. W. Lind
say, of Philadelphia; J. H. Johnson, DR.. w. E.
Fisher and Lathrop 3. Baldwin, of New-York-
Among the cracks who have already sig
nined their intention of coming are Walter
j. Travis, w. c. Fownes, jr. Sterling Beclkwith Of
Cleveland, the Ohio champion; Charles B. Cory Of
Boston, the Florida champion; DR.. Lee Harlan. of
Washington; John NJ. Ward, OF Brooklyn. and
John Moller. jr. of Lakewood, n. J.
The North and South championship golf tourna-
ment will mark the beginning of what promises to
be the greatest year Of golf that America has ever
witnessed. The development of golf in the United
States only be realized when studied in detail.
Although the game is comparatively new in this
country. at the present time there are about $50
golf clubs scattered about the country, while Scot
land, the home of golf. has 635
Reports from various parts of the country show
an unprecedented interest in the game. The public
links OF different cities becoming so crowded
that the question Of enlarging the courses
has been seriously agitated. The public links
of New-York City at Van Cortland has been so
well patronized that in addition to practice links
of nine holes. used by beginners. eighteen
hole course is soon to be opened, making two
cellent eighteen hole courses. The Pelham course
is to be changed from nine holes to eighteen. At
the Van Cortandt course numbered tickets given
TO players between the hours of a. m. D. m.
on Saturdays. Sundays and holidays. AS many
six hundred tickets have been given out on those
days Two hundred players have gone over the
course outside of ticket hours. making a total OF
eight hundred players in one dayi At sunrise on
Sundays and holidays a line of at least fifty golfers
can be seen in the gray dawn. impatsntly waiting
their chance to play
The great interest shown in golf in Chicago has
caused the Jackson Park Commissioners to lay
out new eighteen hole course, and to give orders
that no money is TO be spared in making it of
the finest courses in the country Tho old nine
hole course is to be used by beginners, who must
graduate out of the lobster division before play
The golfers of Boston are trpatentIy waiting for
golf club TO be started in the immediate vicinity
with modest membership fee. The Franklin
was recently promised the club that would open
T0f BUSINESS fb fcsr The 0reg3ns shows n general
gfeneira;y considered in the compilation Of golf
cubs that publish reports and year books
AS indication of what the clubs doing,
the popular trend In the South the new Houston
@ GpR OF b b s has aTge
The interest in Texas is SO widespread that teams
ana fRe Hills
larged and extended its quarters for the accommo-
dation of women players Of the club. The Mont
The Morris eounty Golf Club q the
rS E0 club IN the STATE has just SO s9getea n
Pelham Country Club has leased farm of 1ss acres
e Course and % SfRSs'a f2 as
residence Isl Gh;e building IB on the property
been Incorporated. with 5000 capital to purchase
proP ffy at lake win o.
o S RG EFF Gb asd S%f n % epo m4s
l new m9mReTs m ma IN t9 Tba Of
1900 800. This club has a fine eighteen hole
course. The racetrack Of the Kansas City Jockey
for 5P the Jockey Cub members Of Kansas City. Mo-
abont to 70 Snid new so 600 clIbbouse The Rose
vile IN j. Golf Club viii open a new clubhouse
formed the Memphis Golf and Country CUB It IS
build a 1ine clubhouse Out in the extreme west
chased SO acres part of the historic San Juan
de Buenos Ayres rancho, which is to be devoted
to golf tennis and polo The club has already 800
The list could be somewhat extended but inter-
est in the different sections Of the country has been
joying prestige never before known and little
realized by the casual observer of conditions. Re
million golfers in the United States. the estimate
was SonSloered S he a fe ION. s ION
As to the character of golf players that this
country is producing, expert opinion can be OBJ
tanned from John L. Low, who caDtained the Ok
rd-Cambridge team. when it visited this country
on golf as played In America. writes:
witch in the amateur championship. the public took
q different view Of American golf and Of the play
were formed and expressed before these events
and have not since required revision What is i'm
Of American golfers and their ability to wrest the
championship from player good enough TO win
more easily measured than this young. almost I'M
developed school which will succeed him. gathering
v vet neo sI Pain see you western Youths
see you tramping with the foremost"
WoMEN's CHAMPIONSHIP AT 5ALTUsRoL
BaItusrol has been chosen by the Women's Metro
politan Golf Association as the scene for the an
nual women's championship this year. The dates
selected are June 10, Ii and Is, just prior the
general summer exodus from town. The Short
Hills course has always been popular one among
women players, and 1t there that the tourna-
rnent In honor of the British champion, Miss pod
p RI Manice the present champion of the
citation who also won the same title there in 1908
Mrs W FeIlowes Morgan. former president OF the
association. are also members me toeation Rno