The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09
ASPECTS OF NATIONAL GOLF,
TRANSMISSISSIPPIAND CONNECT.
ICUT LEAGUE DATES.
Eastern Event to Re at the New Haven
Country Club -Westerners Will Tee Up
At the Glen Echo Links. st. Louis
-Pater FllIus Cup In Play at Midi otilian


Country Club -Westerners Will Tee Up
At the Glen Echo Links. st. Louis
-Pater FllIus Cup In Play at Midi ottli an
Two leagues of golf clubs that flourish
in territories many miles apart, the Trans
mississippi and the Connecticut, will hold
their championships this week. The
players from every corner OF the Nutmeg
State will line up for their seventh annual
tournament at the New Haven Country
Club, which locally is known as the pro-
fessors' club, as distinction from the
New Haven Golf Club, whore the Yale
students acquire their golfng lore. The
tournament will begin on Wednesday and
last out the week. The Transmississippl
will begin a day earlier, on the course OF
the Glen Echo Country Club, t'St Louis
where George 8. Lyon. the Canadian, won
the Olympic championship last fall from
H. Chandler Egan.
There Ia no more picturesque course
among the inland links OF the East than
that Of the New Haven Country Club, and
the beauty is the sort that appeals most
to golfer, fine grecnsward In undulations
that add variety to the play, with roomy
putting greens. The clubhouse is in the
Queen Anne style and is on the banks of
a large lake, crossed by private bridge
to gain the clubs ground. The play to
the first hole is uphill, the distance to the
green being 1888 yards. and it is one Of the
best par four holes to he found anywhere
When the Connecticut championship was
last held on this course. in 1903, there was
an exciting incident on this green.
R. S. Sprott. youngster from Brookla wn
won the low score medal in the qualifying
round with II: r. c. Carroll, who won the
medal the year before, was second with
rs, and Roger s. White second, who held the
amateur record for the 5,6l0 yard round at
49, was third with 10, a mighty close finish
in field OF sixty. The most notable hap
pening, however, was that six were tied
at SO for the last place in the championship
sixteen, one of the number being Charles
H. Seely, winner Of the title in 1901 and 1902.
Every one turned out to see the play off, for
it is seldom that titleholder is caught In
this predicament.
"Seely is the only one of the bunch who
IRON said the gallery, which, for once
was right. His second reached the edge
of the green while the others had to play
mashie shots to get there in three. At this
juncture Seely killed" his approach put
by topping the ball. so that he had left a
seven or eight foot put for four. All the
others had longer puts for the four, none
of the good tries for -gobble" coming of
successfully. 1t was now up to Seey.
Always studious putter, he mnde pains
taking forecast Of the stroke and then hit
the ball with plenty Of strength. II was do
or die attempt but the ball sped for the hole
as though it wanted to hide itself, going into
the cup with PUNK and winning for Seely
the right TO keep on, and, as it turned out
to win the championship the third time.
An interelub foursome and team match
are minor events OF the Connecticut tourna-
ment, but In the estimation of the golfers
who gather from all the links in the league
they are by no means least State pride
crops up to the full in the team contest,
and the strife is bitter to the last green
when friendship once more reigns, Six
play on each team, and unique happening
Is that the South Oxford combination i
made up entirely from members of the
Cheney family This ia the championship