Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17


the new year will be in the same week. the
annual meeting Of the United states Golf
association at Delmonico's on January 10
and the international tournament at the
Mexico Country club, which begins on the
same day and lasts for two weeks. The
heights defended by Santa Ana and stormed
by General Taylor are golf bunkers now,
and the tournament is apt to be a notable
success. The affair had its start last year,
when viii Smith won the Mexicon cham
pionship, and he has stayed there ever since
to teach golf. AS a matter of fact, the Eng
fish and American colonies in the city OF
Mexico support the game, for save a few
enfranchised natives, the Mexicans prefer
bull fights and cock fights to placid golf
VIII Anderson, four times open champion,
is TO attend the tournament, also Aleck
Smith, Steward Gardner, Bernard Nichols
and probably George Low. Walter J. Travis
has not as yet won a cup in Mexico, and
he will hardly resist the temptation TO play,
while George b. Adams, John Moller, jr.,
c. L. Tappin and Arden NJ. Robblns-in
fact, nearly all the golfers who annually
pack their grips for winter trips, are likely
to include Mexico in their itinerary The
first contest will be for the open cham
pionship Of Mexico, at seventy-two holes,
ond There will be a team match for ANA
tours, four-ball competition open to pairs,
professional and amateur, and the amateur
championship OF Mexico, which will begin
with a thrty-six-hole medal play round.
The entries close on January Is.
Since the gift Of trophy to the Inter-
collegiate Golf association, the United
States Golf association committee has been
urged to give similar trophies to the New
England Golf association and the embryo
Western intercollegiate. The intercollegiate
has the honor Of seniority. and with little
enterprise II might widen its scope to make
the tournament of really national conse-
quence The college boys should take in
the New England league at least, say many
graduates, for with the teams from Brown,
Williams, Amherst, Massachusetts Tech
nology and others as rivals, the interest in
the annual team championship would not
rest in merely whether Harvard or Yale Is
to win. Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia
and Cornell should hold out the hand of
welcome to the New England colleges, if
only for the selfish reason to get opponents
they could beat.
VIII Anderson, four times open champion
Of the United States, has accepted offer
from the OlWellSld tllb near NIltdbO' nc
champion will receive the highest salary
yet paid to a professional in this country.
Anderson, who has been connected with the
Ampawamis Golf club of Rye, n. V, for
the last two years, will succeed Fred Nc
Kenzie at Onwentsla, the latter having
decided to return to Scotland. Anderson
first came to this country when a boy Of
16, his first green being at Watch Hills,
r. I. 1t was in the open championship Of
1897 at Wheaton that Anderson sprans
into prominence by finishing second a
stroke behind Joe Lloyd. The following
year at Baltimore Anderson finished third,
and fifth in 1899 at Myopia after a tie
with Alex Smith, finished fifth the next
year at Garden City, and then won in
succession at Baltusrol, Glenvlew and My
| opia. He has also won the western open
| title twice in 299 at Cleveland three years
| ago. going on record as one OF the most
remarkable performances ever recorded by
| an open champion in either this country
| or Great Britain. Anderson was born in
| Edinburgh, Scotland, and did most of his
| playing when a boy at North Berwick
where his father was green keeper for
| eighteen years.
Prof John L. Upton of Simpson college
| at Indianola, Ia, suggested at a meeting
| Of representatives of eleven colleges of
the northwest recently that basket ball
replace foot ball and the game be played
! outdoors. The general opinion of the
educators was that foot ball must he
changed radically or abolished though few
| believe abolition will be possible.
.
| In speaking of the foot ball situation
| I -
bart college, Geneva, n. Y, says he be-
lieves the large institutions should take
the lead, as the smaller colleges are COM
PEELED by force of circumstances to play
as the authorities decide or abolish the
game. To abolish the game at the present
| time he thinks, would be both inadvisable
| and premature. He recommends the aboli-
ton of the professional coach and pleads
| for new heart, the heart of true
| sportsman.
Ducky Holmes is getting along very we'll
with his base ball proposition down al
| Lincoln. He has leased the park regard
less of any arrangement with the Univer-
sity Of Nebraska, and is going ahead to
set his team together. Papa Bill Rourke
| will help him out to the extent of giving
him Jack Thomas and Frank Martin, This
| will make a splendid infield for Lincoln
for with Thomas on first, Martin at Sec
ond, Quillin, of last seasons St Joe team
at short, and Holmes at third, the corners
| will be taken care of by about as fast a
bunch as the Western has ever had
| ROurko tried very hard to make "A trade
| for Quillin, but Holmes knows a good
| thing himself and declined TO let GO II
Holmes can get as good an outfield as that
he will surely have Lincoln in the race
The big magnates have done at least
one good thing, and that is the concession
to the minors on the drafting proposition
II has been determined that only one man
may be drafted, and that the price TO be
paid shall be 900 This means that more
care will be exercised in making selections
and that the Kidding of minor league teams
each fall will be at an end. The present
draft system has worked an injustice tc
player and owner alike. Take the present
condition of the New York American team
for example, When Griffith starts south fol-
his training next spring, he will take with
him seventeen pitchers, six catchers. nine
infelders and six outhelders. II each OF
the big league teams had put together
string like that. where would the littl,
fellows be?
The change is a victory for the Glass A