The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-18
CONTINENT DIVIDES GOLFERS.
CONTESTS on THE OREGON,
SCHUYLkILL AND HUDSON.
Pending HapneninEs or the Links This
Week OF widespread Interest -Amerl.
can Entries At the st. Andrews open
n Championship Had the Rattles

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Visitors at, the Lewis and Clark Elk
position mays wing golf clubs ifthey choose
The amateur championship Of the Pacific
Coast Golf Association has been made al
open event and line Of side compel tiom
opened to attract players from distance
Play begins tomorrow, on the links OF
the wayerly Golf Club, Portland, Ore
for the championship and will last through
the week. The club has 800 members anc
has been running since 1905. The course
is Of eighte cen holes, with DOGGY OF SO
Aleck Smith, who has been representing
an American club at St. Andrews. Scot
land, holds the record at rs. He has
played on every links along the Pacific
Coast from Mexico TO Puget Sound and
owns the record on most OF them. He
has won the open championship OF the
Southern California Golf Association for
three years in succession. There the
putting Ia on greens" made OF oiled sand,
and in Mexico the putting is mostly on
sunbaked clay but on the Waverly links
the visitors will find good turf to play
over.
Far from where rolls the Oregon the
individual championship Of the Golf Asso-
citation of Philadelphia will be decided
next Saturday on the course OF the Mer1on
Cricket Club at Ha verford. The links ls
mile away from the main clubhouse ana the
cricket crease made famous by international
nae ches and it Is the course on which Miss
Georgianna Bishop OF Bridgeport won the
women's national championship last fall
The competition began yesterday with
thirty-six holes of medal play. and the six
teen who made the lowest scores will begin
the match play on Wednesday, the final
TO be at thrty-six holes. The winner will
receive a cup outright, and the permanent
trophy is awarded for tho year to the club
from which he enters, The trophy Is now
held by the Huntin gdon Valley Country
Club, through the proves Of II. B. McFar-
land remembered as the captain OF the
University of Pennsylvania golf team and
runner up twice In the Intercollegiate Golf
Association championship.
The team as well as the individual cham
pionship of the Golf Association OF Phila-
delphia is to be settled entirely before the
summer holidays this year, leaving the fall
clear for local tournaments and the national
championships. This is new departure
by the Phila delphia clubs There are etgh-
teen members in this league, which ~ the
oldest of the local associations, and very
we'll united. 1t awards trophies each year
on the point system to the club and the in
dvidual players that do most honor to the
Golf Association in the national and local
tournaments, each win or place gained
counting certain number OF points. The
leaders Of the 1904 season were the Hunt
ingdon Valley Country Club, 4S2 SO; Merton
Cricket Club, 1851, and the Philadelphia
Cricket Club. 1907 points. The individual
record for men was carried of by A. W.
'Tillinghast, Philadelphia Cricket Club. with
IS points, W. P. Smith Of Huntington
Of the league, second, with AZ, while II. B.
Mcfarland was third with IS points. The
difference Of twenty points does not mean
that Tilinghast IA the superior Of McFar-
land in any mark ed deg rec, but only that
the latter has ha d to go to work from college
and won't be seen at many tournaments
except those near at hand until he earns
his leisure. This is the fate OF most Of our
young phenomena In golf. and it is healthy
!Crichton" Of school and college days fades
away from golf and athletics after gradu
htion unless he is one OF golden spoon sort
by birth, and about the time his hair Is
thinning out he reappears on the links.
on the Hudson as well as near the schuyl-
kill and the Oregon. 1t is the annual In
dividual contest OF the eight clubs in the
Hudson River Golf Association and s in
progress at the Twaalfskill County Club at
Kingston.
to the New York golfers will be at the
Englewood Golf Club. The New Jersey
State championship. has twice been held at
in 1900 and F. Murray olyphant, Jr., In 1904,
but the club has not held a tournament
since 1893. 1t was only nine hole
links then; DR.. Burdett O'Connor won the
score medal with 81 and j. Insley Blair,
now very prominent in polo, won the first
cup, beating. Maturin Ballou in the final
The course is now OF eighteen holes the
playing distance being $500 yards. and the
competitive amateur record IA rs, estab-
lished on Memorial Day by two players
In intercity team matches Philadelphia
has beaten a Washington and Baltimore
aggregation, and Pittsburg has defeated
Philadelphia and Cleveland. What may be
will be set going In October, on some course
near New York, with tha first tri-city match
between teams Of the Metropolitan, Phila-
delphia and Boston associations, the new
annual match between New York and Phila-
deiphia. The Western Golf Association has
put up the Olympic team trophy won by
it's representatives at st. Louis last fall for
an open team contest at Wheaton, on Mon
day, Aug. 7. the day before the national
amateur championship is to begin there.
The Transmississippi Association is sure to
eend team, and there should be enough
Fasteners on to make up a scratch team,
hut formal entry from any of the leagues
on the Atlantic side OF the Aleghanies Is
Very doubtful.
Amateur championship competitors at
Wheaton from the New York group Of clubs
promise to be limited in number, but there
will be more New Workers. at Chicago than
came from there to Baltusrol last year
The slim showing Of Westerners, however
included II. Chandler Egan, the winner.
Those who may be regarded as sure to pack
grips for the Wheaton trip are only c. H.
Seely, M. G.. A. champion; John NJ. Ward
New Jersey champion; Walter j. Travis
and Jerome d. Travers. The long, fiat
Wheaton course should suit Travis's SO
inch shafted clubs and this championship
may be the monkey in the woodpile to &C
count for the devotion Of the veteran to
his new fad. Fred Herreshof, runner-up
last year. Is also d possibility. Travers
while streaky is on his best game In the
true championship class
A. G. Barry, the lad who has stirred up
the old guard abroad by winning the anna
teur championship at Prestwicl, 1t turns
out, Is not Scotch. but merely Cornwall
youth attending st. Andrews University
While the victory, on this account, will not
serve as text at Burns dinners to point
out the turning Of the tide against John
Ball, Jr., H. H. Hilton and the English host
who have been laying low the chivalry Of