The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-20
GOLFERS J0URNEYTNG NORTH.
4 FORTNIGHT WILL BRING THE
PLAYERS TO PINEHURST.
Then VIII Come Play At Atlantic City and
Acknowledgement for the Florida
Rind-Up &c -. Augustine - New
Philadelphia Rules for Team Series.

Philadelphia Rules for Team Series.
Tournament play at Augusta. Ca. Is the
foremost feature Of Southern golf this week.
but there will also be q tournament at Or
mond Fla. The two fixtures are the last
flashes Of the torch on the distant Southern
links for the season, clearing up everything
in the tournament way for the annual cham
pionship next week on the links OF the 81.
Augustine Golf Club. There will be two
distinct tournaments held during the week
at st.. Augustine and there the golfers will
aook from all the Floridian resorts for
battle royal TO end their winter season, As
the golfers journey north they pass the
tarpon fishermen going south. While rods
and catches succeed TO clubs and long drives
a. the topics Of the hotel lounEers.
Announcements OF the events have Just
been made by the 81, Augustine Golf Club.
There will be a special invitation tourna-
ment on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday
March u. rs and 20. the prizes being quail
hoauon round cup hrst cup, runner-up cup
consolation cup, beaten eight and handi-
cap cup. The tournament IS open 20 all
me mbers OF U. s. G. A clubs and 70 others
on invitation Of the tournament committee,
The All-Tlorda winter Championship win
follow Immediately after, on Thursday tTl-
day and Saturday. March 50, 81 and April /.
holes and there will be but one set Of sixteen
70 keep on at match play for the champion
ship and runner-up prize. the hnal being
Next on the roster win be the famous mid.
Southern tourney, the North and south
the links OF the Pinehurst. ". c.. Country
Club. 4 host Of players from the NJ. g; A,
Philadelphia, Boston and the West Will 90
70 Pinehurst for this event. won last year
by Walter J. Travis, and the winners or the
Florida tournements are also e{pected az
the course. Then in line will be the Atlantic
City Country Club. April u.s., IL and 10, and
the Lakewood Country Club, April q, Is
and 20 tho tournaments TO usher In the North
ern round Of events.
PTessnt indications are that the Newark
Golf Club will only be able to get nine hole
course this season. The Lehigh Valley hall-
road has a large force OF men at work build
green The tracks entering the course from
Lyons avenue cross the line OF play on th9
fifteenth, take IN the nth green and spoil
entirely, by running parallel with the line OF
play, the sixteenth. seventeenth and eigh;
teenth holes II Is said also that the railroad
is to take the land adjacent 10 Clinton ave-
nue. Between railroads and enoroaohing
trolley lines. and the enterprise Of villa
builders, the spring is always .worrisome
golf clubs. Capitalization on large acces-
sible and we'll laid out links will probably
be the Fl Il has eesn about tRe
time comes that the majority OF the small
clubs can no longer hold their real estate.
In It's team series this season. the Golf
Association Of philadelphia has made y
mandatory that the p9tches shall be started aitd
at p NJ To set time limit on defaults
solves a question on which there has been
much discussion, and, as with the five min
utes permitted to search for lost ball before
a hole may be claimed, 10 is best in team
matches TO have this matter set down In cold
type. Otherwise, when an eleventh hour
starter is allowed 70 set out through courtesy.
which has been the past custom, the pleas
ure OF the others has often been marred by
the necessity Of whiting around for couple Of
hours to learn how the late starting match.
should II happen to be the piyotSl oneLsh,A Ll
the late conner has also often had good reason
to complain a.. H. .,o,h.,
rule TO be in force this year in the Phladel.
phla interclub seriee will work out. IL IL that
the team men shall be ranked by playing
at the starting time, the next man on the team
shall 90 Up a peg TO take the place OF the
been looking forward to a close match with
the No. OF the opposite team, may nave
10 play No p who he, knows lie sure TO beat
| him The rule has been framed TO make
the clubs eIaoting IN getting out their men
| but there are varied opinions as 70 the wis
G nstsS Sd of tbs team mas as Whole mod6ca.
ton. should the new rule not last out vel ln
operation, might be that no change shall be
made In the ranking by playing strength.
save by putting on a substitute. Otherwise
! the No. ?, Il no substitute appears, may claim
men INTO 10 play out their original match and
the others TO fight II out on their tenklngs
by playing strength The Phllad s S Sad
!
| team series In the country, and, as its methods
! are taken as presidents by other leagues,
| there is a wide interest in the discussion
| regarding the above rule.
PrNEHUEsr. n. C., March Is The follow
| ing players qualified for the match play
| rounds OF n handicap tournament for the
| St. Patrick's day cup yesterday;
! Class A-w. r. Fisher, New York. -, iO-7t; L.
| e. baldwin. New York, 81. lO-7t; II. s, Gordon,
| New York 90, 40 NJ. II. Wilson, Cleveland.
%. lie Z. n Wright; Newton Centrs' g. io-77'
! q 2 Van Week, Montclair, -, lo-7s; L. Q. Crane,
! Boston, ST. $50: II. W. Ormsbee. Brooklyn, %.
! iI-s7: D. II. Hostcttcr, Piusburg; 81 lS,s2. O.
! l. Becker boston 81, IS l.. z. Wardwen Cam
! den, Ne, 50. e-.ss. N, z. Waters lakewood S.
! is. G. W Lindsay. Philadelphia, %, 80 l., ID.
| Pierce, Boston. IS, SIS; J. b. Foot Apawamis.
| s. s8 Edward Buck, New York, %, SIS.
Class B-F s. Miller New York, "a $50 J. J.
sni. Philadelphia, los. ls-s7; C. II Resented, New
! York p5 1915. II. r. Perkins, New York. 81. 2-S,
! / q; Henderson Pittsburg, IS, S-s7; 2. F. Reuhn
/ New York, iO5 is-S7; W. s. Giles. Paterson. y j.,
iCO i2-ss, r a. King Northboro, Mass, %, 1919:
! c. Lee Knight, Philadelphia, %, go c. 4. Hub
! bard Boston, 100, eel; +. b. Lockwood, New
| YORK. iOi, 1871; A. ". Wattenbetg, New York,
| o. 6-0i J. d. Gallagher, Glen Ridge, n. J., Jos
q m NJ ~