The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-16
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METROPOLITAN TOURNAMENTS
TO START AT LAKEWOOD.

TO START AT LAKEWOOD.
Happenings at Englewood and st. Andrews
TO Presage q Busy SeasOn-GOod Adj
vice on the Forest Hill Standardization
NJ. Byers Back In the Game News Notes.
On Wednesday night entries close with
Secretary de Forest for the open spring
tournament Of tho Country Club of Lakewood
and on Friday for the closing handicap.
AS the first call for competitive golf about
New York this season there should be a hearty
response. and as the open winter should have
conditioned the players OF other cities there
will likely be a large outside entry. The
tournament has always appealed to out
siders. and. not to so further back. H.. Chan
dler Egan won IL two years ago. w. j. Travis
that fall. Walter +. Egan last spring and
W. c. Fownes. Jr., last fall-three successes
for strangers within our gates TO one for a
native. 1t viii be the twentieth semi-annual
open tournament under the same auspices,
the only change being that the original Golf
club oil. Lakewood, after two removes. Is now
it's own landlord and developed into the
Country Club OF I.akew God.
The only other open tournaments about
New York In 1898, the dawn OF the Lakewood
fixture. were at Shinnecock Hills, st. An
drews and Morris County. Two OF these
CLUBS nave iapseu az times IN their yearly
'oulnaileu', out tne ohlhHecock r''iis HoIi
,iuo haS iiaihta'neo lS annual series "i'hout
Il break since that year. besides having had
two national championships and several other
side events. such as the match with the visit
ing Oxford and Cambridge golfers. The open
tournament at ShlnneCock Hills this year will
be on August .. 3. and 4. In these days,
when NJ. q. A, open tournaments for women
and men are as the sands OF the seashore In
number IL ia hard m raalI1a thlt tho uap,a
n'U I" - maiu " lea',He ,ns. .ne game
was new ana bizarre mere only eleven years
ago.
1t may be too much TO expect, but as OPEN
ing uays are soou ones on when 10 turh over
a fresh leaf. Secretary de Forest and the seCre-
taries OF all the open tournaments that are TO
follow Lakewood wnuIl n. WY ~urstefuI ~
tIoyars Wiz rr,a,d ,a ,I,,, ,,I, +, - ntaa,.
b plusvts ~n w,m r"r nn, a 10 pa. snts on, ~, ~ Tn sne closing
this with the resuIt that a great deal Of extra
work is put on the secretaries and committees.
for OF the list OF 100 or so they pair for the
qualifying round only about eighty may
,beir n.mes bovo orIy the ,a M"vn ,nT tn r Tm"'
,hen names nave onIy ,he nahuIcdp IN 'ieN'
but they omit to state SO win olearness. AZ
the clubs give away many valuable prizes.
TO expect some consid eration from the PLAYERS
III return does NOT seem 100 great a boon TO
ask. To recapitulate. that tho point may be
clear, the Lakewood Tournaments, entries close
on Menhes""y ana ''e Nanu'c"p entries on
Friday.
To give ample time for the shifting Of
holes and the making of new hazards. in view
of the requirements of the national amateur
'n""lp',nSn.p 'ne Eneie"oou "o'. Oiun "W
not open Its regular competitions HHite as
politan Colt ASSOCIATION championship, May
- - = y "'' - Una ~ - ''u 'bpl,hk
after, that there Will be weekly competitions
for the men on every SATURDAY and holiday
until late in he fall, excepting in tho national
tests are scheduled for each of tho holidays.
including that for the perpetual trophy ne
1 Fl, I Sih6 aiiaM MSy'1 %T'"% %oa &SeaiRR' SSg@ ods sNvTalti
Kirkby. will open on September 5. and tie
final WIN be on November q. THE closing
annual dinner match. The teams are al
ways made up of ali VINO volunteer, the losers
II bs i1 1SE 2iE Iced at the clubhouse and
4 peculiar custom al the EnElewood Golf
Club that has many. points to commend it
days, al eighteen holes medal PLAY. 'The low
The second sixteen Tor the consoia ZION cup.
contestants may play on any two of The
from the frat tee; The plan vas framed orisic-
nHlIN to please me golfers VINO are Only Tree
ON Saturday afternoons. but there are many
other good points about The plan. The En-
glewood team has closed only three dates for
matches; or May 10; at Dyker, Meadow. june
june O., with Yale at Englewood. The team
arrangements have been held back TO await
the action Of the New Jersey Golf Lea que,
The Englewood committee ON handlCaps
and competitions consists Of II. V. Keep,
chairman; H. VI. Banks, Jr, 6 #. ienerts, |
John Munro and W. II. Sykes. Jr.
Harold 4. Sands. the young son Of the early
St. Andrews champion. has now scored four
consecutive wins on the Southern Cross cup
at the Aiken open tournament for, four sue.
Cpssive years. He beat Fav ingalls,. one Of
Harvard's bunch of golnng graduates. in tho
final, Young Sands is a sound and at times
brilliant golfer. He does not golf much in
the North. but he has PLAYED in the Garden
city tournaments. and az 81. Andrews is
only a short run for the car from his home
in West Chester Sands will probably he in
the metropolitan Golf Association Champion-
ship. 1t is good news that Eben NJ. Byers is
in good trim for the same contest at St.
Andrews. He won the gold medal in the last
n. z, 4. and also took part in the national,
time Bynrs had to succumb to Harold Weber