New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-12
G0LFING.
Walter j. Travis again Heads the
Metropolitan Handicap Last.

the list of players whose official han6icaps for the
season announced yesterday by Leighton
Calkins, chairman of the handicap committee. That
the honor is not insignificant is shown by the fact
that 1850 golfers belonging to clubs in the Metro
poltan Association have been reckOned good enough
to receive a rating of seventeen or better at the
hands of the committee About eleven hundred
players were similarly rated in 1908 and about
thousand in 1902. Allowing for natural increase
of ona hundred players year there are probably
at least two hundred who find place the list
this year owing to the system of handicap
ping. which takes into consideration the greater
chance to improve which players have over
others
Men who by the old system got seventeen strokes
get in the neighborhood of fourteen strokes on the
present list Travis is put at plus one but he is
stin three strokes from his nearest competitors
F. S Douglas Jerome D. Travers and E NJ. Byers-
he last year.
'If any links that two strokes would have
been enough said Mr.. Calkins yesterday 1T
might be interesting know that the only doubt
entertained by the committee whether to place
him at plus one or plus two To be the safe side.
We decided to place him at plus one. entirely
dent that he Is at least stroke better than par
when averaging his best form any links in the
world OF course. might have put him at
scratch and raised everybodys handicap stroke
but that would be handicapping on the basis
Of par That would be handicapping Travis. and
If he should happen to die some one else would
have to be picked out as the scratch man, and all
handicaps adjusted accordingly
What the committee has seriously attempted to
do Is to make It's ratings not a players absolute
records with respect to par. but according to his
measure OF chance to improve. An underlying
principle OF the system is that each player
shall be rated on his average best game.
IF on the new list some to be handi-
capped rather low" commented Mr.. Calkins,
either because they seemed win very little last
year or else because, while able to play fine
game they often play very badly. IL may be said
that our plan in such cases has been to disregard
absolutely what may be called the bad play of
such men except In cases where we [hinK ~ pre-
dominates by large percentage the likelihood OF
Douglas; Byers and Travers get rating Of and
i is rather striking fact that Harold Wilcox, of
Montclair the present champion of the association
class. along with Murray OiyPhant, the New-Jersey
State Association champion; Max Behr. A; N Ken
naday John NJ. Ward and r. c. Watson jr.
All those whose names are not included by the
SandicaP Of IS No RandieaPs we're received by the
committee from the Century Country Club. I-arch,
the orange County Golf club.
caps follow:
Handicap 2@E H. Byers. F S Douglas and j. D
Handicap sc. T Brokaw c b. Macdonald and F. O.
Handicap M Behr. 4. \. Ksnnaday. =. NJ; ELEPHANT,
Handicap 81 " R"&sT / ii 1 consin o' D E@m.t
IapRa@. Louis ilyins;5o" "a W Msasiss s. Nj y
H4SR. IoRe e MGe REID F 4 Frq sbei Py9 ss9
{. j. sullivan, " 7, West Ii F. %hitney ana G 8.
Handicap 6-R Abbot G H Barnes L P Bayard. jr,
r. Brooks. CLARK Durham. W G. Carnegie J. H.
6 Captain @ss'f a RS ,saFd . oR' s5:s"'R
Hayemeyer ?. II, Jennings z. $ knapp. d. Laird. A.
n ROBBINS F. J sl9a3s W R ThTrs s,49 ~, A Tying
Handicap II, D. BakeE, j Q, Bates BealI il. N
B. Cole r. Conoyer j. c GoitreII Y. NJ Delano. F. n
Doubleday. II. l. Downey. a. l. Fowle p. H. b Ere
ham c. Griswod W. l. Gunther. l. A Hamilton. w
|. Hicks. A Kinds F o Horstmag. T. H9yenden H
s IT. A.
nor. d Partridge, II. r. Peck. \ NJ Reed. T. T Reid
wick SAWYER. n II singer T L. smith W, T stern
J. /. Taylor, F II. Thomas, /. Il Thomas O P Tiffany
Van Eaten. Willard wsisworth. n waters 9 F Wat
J. II. p, Wharton. NJ. Whitlach. Z, Wilder
o. L Williams F ~ Wilson. II R Worthngton II
Handicap s-w. p Armstrong George f Barnard J
@ Patterson. Andrew Bell. T. '. Birmingham, II, NJ.
T T buckley. a 5 Carpenter R. P carter. J. chad
wick. If. A. D Compton T. c. b Dana. George W.
porland, J. g Douglas. E A, Downey. J. D. Foote. W.
J. Geddes. p. F. GiImartin X S. Goodman. Fred W.
Gwyer. L. Gwyer. c NJ. Hamilton. T. Hooper W. b
Houghton A. F. Jamison P r. Jennings J. p kellogg.
?. w: Kendall F P Kimban. p. p KINGSLEY o. Kirby.
Marshall J. NJ Mason. H W. Maxwell. J.. r. Maxwell,
knight II Mcsweeney J. H Merritt W. E F Moore
P.,I X Ogden 4 E Patterson S PSSterson John
Rhet l. NJ Richmond. A W. Rooster G g. Rove
smith. ! VI. spaulding. + c. Tamadse j. 3 c Tap
pan. l. TaPpin $ Taylor. Writ L. Thompson. II. X
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