Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

| The Great Britain championship golf
| trophy, which Walter ]. Travis brought to
I the Garden City Club last June, has again
| reached home, just now being in the pos
| session of the Prestwick Club where the
| amateur championship begins in about
month The trophy got well battered in
| coming to this side, because it was packed
| in the box that belonged to the St Georges
| cup. The Englishmen were to be excused
| for making the mistake however, as they
| had never been put to that humiliation be-
| fore The cup had to be sent to one of the
| largest firms of silversmiths In this coun-
! try. where 1t was pounded back into shape
| and made as good new.
| The vase is two feet high the apex being
| a statuette of "Old Tom Morris presuma-
| bly,, pipe in mouth. An inscription notes
| that the cup was bought by the five clubs
| named thereon. There are shields about the
| base designed to bear the name of the WIN
| ner and the place and date of conquest
| There are twenty of these shields, and as
| the cup was first played for In 1885, Travis
| name is on the nineteenth plate and there
| is only one blank left.
| The American amateur trophies for men
| and women are also to be competed for this
season. The latter was the gift of the late
! Robert Cox, NJ. P, who was greatly inter-
ested In the sport and did almost as much
| to encourage it abroad as he did at home.
| There is new goling wrinkle in Massa-
| chusetts in the shape of team matches ar
| ranged by the state association. The first
will be played at Myopia on Memorial day
with Harvard. The second in the series will
be on some course in the metropolitan dis
| trict the last week in October-a three
cornered competition with New York and
Philadelphia in opposition. as has long been
outlined. While no decision has been made,
|
sular contest, especially the Hub and
Quaker City players are better acquainted
with that course than any other, excepting
possibly BaltuSrol
These team matches in Massa chusetts are
expected to stimulate most of the experts to
| get into the first ten, to be eligible
for future events of the same sort. The
| Bostonians feel that they are as good as
| beaten already by Harvard, for three of the
| four players put at scratch in the Bay State
Association are Crimson golfers-McBurney
Chick and Walter Egan.
Alexander Cunningham. the new profess
sionaI at the Forest Hill Field Club New
ark, was last year assistant to Stewart
Gardner at Garden City. where he came
within a stroke of equaling Walter J.
Travis amateur record of "a In 1903 Cum
bingham was professional at the Beacons-
field Club, Montreal and tied for second
place in the open championship of Canada
that year.
The islands Of Sicily have begun to make
a bid for resort business and accordingly
opened a fine new nine-hole course this
week on st. Mary's, overlooking the archi-
| pelago. 1t is over undulating moorland.
with heather gorse and old walls as haz-
ards "Old Tom Morris pronounces them
the best natural links In the world An
amateur tourney for all corners will soon be
held there.
! Golfers appear to be attaining prominence
| in every avenue of human endeavor Enos
Wilder. jr.. who on Sunday ran over child
with his automobile in New York street.
was one of the contestants in the last ma
tional amateur championship, and is con-
spicuous in the Morris County and Essex
! County country clubs of New Jersey. The
little girl Fan in front OF the machine while
| 1t was going at moderate rate of speed.
Wilder took the child in his vehicle and
def1ed all speed laws in reaching hospital.
but the little girl died as the car drew up
at the door of the institution.
The Midlothian Club of Chicago will have
another Pater-Filius cup fray between IA
theirs and sons who are members of the
Western Golf Association on July II. 1t is