New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-24
ON THE GOLF LINKS.
Interest in a Ne5o BaII-Ne7cark
Club Forced to Disband

Several prominent amateur golfers are quite keen
over a new ball which they have recently been
trying out At Garden CITY on Saturday and
Sunday Waiter J. Travis. J2mes G. Patterson.
Charles r Macdonald and Robert c. Watson ir
playing with the ball l. is English pro-
duction, and its good points impressed Macdon-
aid that Immediately after his round on Saturday
he cabed London placing n large order Mr..
PATTERSON has also ordered several Dozen while
Travis declares the new hall will be the only one
for him in future The bali a rubber core With
wfndinCs of fiat rubber. Golfers who have tried it
say tho ball leaves the club head "sweetly." al
though without any click the shell is much
softer than found in all other makes of lively balls
The deep pimpling the outside is also much ad-
mred. A long flyer ana a putter are what the
golfers claim for this latest foreign importation
while another point which should appeal to the
duffer is that It will not open when topped
with an iron
After nearly ten years during which time many
shifts and changes have been made. the course Of
the Newark Golf Club is about TO pass out of
istence At the outset of the present season n
spur of railroad in the seventeenth and
eighteenth fair green's with an unsightly freight
station the ground formerly used for the home
green.
To avoid the railroad the line of play for
holes necessarily cramDed, but the members
worried along. Now the ever increasing demands
of the real estate spectators have robbed the club
Of its first green, where ground has already been
broken for dwelling mouse. Other parts of the
links have likewise been sold and will shortly be
in demand. So realizing tho useessness OF further
struggling againsv the inevitable, the clubs Off
Gals have decided disband in December. The
members will be scattered in all directions.
some are planning to affiliate themselves with the
Baltusrol Club. others with the Essex County
Country Club while quite number looking
favorably at the Montclair Golf Club The nine
hole at ROseville Forest Hill. Arsdale and
South Orange will also get n few. George Pearson
has been the professional az Newark for the last
season.
Realizing the danger OF a single weak spot on
his team named compete in the first section Of
the tT-city match at Garden City Friday, Wal
ter j. Travis the Metropolitan captain is watching
the players closely. Since his return from abroad,
George I. Brokaw has been getting round in low
figures and il is just possible that Travis may call
upon him TO help out against Philadelphia. The
Boston team, which will play the winner of the
New York-Philadelpha match Saturday, is said
to be formidable combination
November golf1ng will be active this year
than formerly The Country Club of Atlantic City
has arranged for its annual fall open tournament
over the Mortified links November Is, II and IS,
and as this South Jersey course is always in its
best turf at this of the year, good sized
field will doubtless take part. Many memorable
contests between noted amateurs have been waged
these links and prominent among the past win
ners Walter J. Travis, Ffndlay S. Douglas.
George T. BrOkaw and W. T. Fownes, tr.
Alec Cunningham, professional golfer at the For
est Hill Field Club. has made new eghteen-hole
record for the course He put in rounds Of Sc and
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