The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-23
MANY DATES FOR OPEN GOLF.
MORE TOURNAMENTS BOOKED
THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
II. Chandler Egan Sure TO Defend Title In the
Amateur Championship at EnglewOod
Western Clash VIII Not Keep Him
Away-News From CIubs Far and Near.

Amateur Championship at EnslewOod
Western Clash VIII Not Keep Him
Away-NeWs From Clubs Far and Near.
There will be no open tournament TO appeal |
to the Metropolitan Golf Associa ton players
until May 3, 4 and 8 at the Country Club of
Atlantic City. Thereafter there will be an
open tournament on an NJ. q. A. course with
hardly a blank until the late fall, and. as the
amateur championship Is also to be in the
district, at the course of the Englewood Golf
Club, the local season has not been so thor
oughly booked since the boom years OF
10000. There Is an equal increase In the
tournament way among the Philadelphia
and Massachusetts clubs, A tournament
from June IL to 10 at the Huntingdon Valley
Country Club will open the Philadelphia
open contests for women and mems Invita-
ton tournaments at Merton. June I, s and 0,
and al Huntin gdon Valley, June %, 20 and 80,
will usher In a policy of bringing in outside
players to be fostered this season by the
Phlladelphians, The mems championship OF
Philadelphia will be at st. David's. juno 10
to 81, and for women at Haverford. October
% to 20. The Massachusetts Golf Associa-
ton announces dates for the tournaments for
women and twenty-five open tournaments
for men, beginning with a two day affair at
the Wollaston Golf Club, May 0 and 10. The
States open championship will be at Wollaston,
aflDg II uiiN 49, oaN NhS AA'NN~a
Burn Country Club, June ID TO 10. The
Boston women's champ ionship will be at the
Woodland Golf Club. May II to %. while the
women's national championship at Brae
Burn. October s to IL. will add lustre to the
Massachusetts season OF open play. b
1t has been learned at the Englewood Golf
Club that H.. handler Egan will defend his
title at the amateur championship there.
July 10 to IA, although to do so he may be
compelled to forego the Western champion
ship, in which he is also titleholder, at st
Louis July 8 to Z. ii. Chandler Egan Is now
with a life insurance company at Chicago
and he has already had some goldng, doing
an so at Exmoor ON his first attempt this
season. The Englewood players have been
handicapped on a par basis, Oswald kirkby.
the club champion, being at scratch; j. q.
Detmer and Murray ELEPHANT being at one.
II. NJ. Britain. d. Clarke. Jr.. and +. NJ. wilson
at two, and E. NJ. Barnes. c. II. Blake, Jr..
N. B. Cole. l.. A. Hamilton. w. +. +. Moore
and w. s. Stafford at three strokes, and 1855
others being rated at higher marks. The
Englewood season will be an especially active
one under the stimulus Of the clubs frs
national championship. To supplement the
mems list of last week the associate members
have issued a schedule Their season begins
on Wednesday. May o. Their club cham
pionship. now held by Miss Julia Mix, will
| DPRH III lpllNh OtlopVt-i. -, ~
Jewett and Mrs. S. v. Beckwith, will aid the
Women's NJ. q. A. committee in managing
their tournament at Englewood, May 20 to %.
In the All Philadelphia and District of
Columbia match on Saturday, played al the
Philad elphia Country, Club TIE home players PIE, ,To
E Sat R' E. FL Hanson Ssl&S S Snf y" y. vi" Il. Gray hhGaIIvvtoai
their match. There were fifteen on each
team.
Gilman p. Tiffany. captain of the New
York Golf Club, has sent a number OF requests
fer GIrh iq bss aS6ep 59sieh isc dates dts to ro be aTTun E9ti
later. and also the New Brunswick Golf Club,
which will serd a team to Van Cortlandt
at New Brunswick September 10.
The da tes of July 5, g and I have been de-
cided on for the championship of the Hudson
River Golf Association at. the st. Andrews
Golf Club. It will be the first championship
gan Ganization. and the st. Andrews course has
been secured through the saegklL Golf CIV
81 i tndTaw;s Mmen ! The dates selected
clash with the open tournament OF the Ara-
wants Clue.
There has been so much dissatisfaction
over the fixing of the Western amateur cham,
pionship for the week. preceding the national
papers. that the date may again be changed
To- the last week OF August.
David Orilvie. who divides his year be
tween the Baltimore Country Club and the
North Jersey Country Club was married at Bal
timore last week; His BRIDE came from Scot
land for the wedding.
at the Glen Ridge Golf Club on SATURDAY
with 100, i9.,sl, Al the Forest nm Con llmn
beat {. 4, %@odEud, T; Curtis FEAT W re- +,
amman prppn9 were nut INTO use SATURDAY
at the Roseville Golf Club, giving a course
of 5000 yards.
Jack Campbell, brother of Aleck Camp
bell OF Brookline, has been hired by he Over ,
has returned from the South to the Morris
County Golf Club and VIII have tho course
PPi 6%niY 1r May 81; HTns MI Mi be- 3; W vi D. N Sans
derpool, Grinnell Willis and John Gillespie,
James A.. Tying of the B~altusrol Col, Club.
who played more b tSs II tha11 6 GGr ina ias !
better game than ever before.
Names and dates have been decided onfol
the three tournaments of the National Freight
ppironsEip viii be decided at Virginia .Ho,
SSbp ss aiss6;ts "nY hole p opening nj i ioS$d he TEiast{!eTiI
championship will be, at the Fo{ H,llS Col
F FTefsh 3H Ffai IL, f II sR %ili Il Be ana IN contest ont GI at ne
midlothian links, near Chicago, on October
-. % and 20. Lloyd Lewis now holds I'M
national title.
The Westchester Golf Club, which has a
fine nine hole course on the old Watson estate
in The Bronx, with a car line running direct
to the clubhouse. opened its season yeSter
day with an eighteen hole medal play handl
cap, in which there was a fine field OF CON
petitors, and twenty cards were returned
The club has been assured of its course 10
at least another year and thirty new mem
bers were recently elected. The competitor
resulted in a tie at 80 between Lasher anC
Nielsen. The scores follow:
Iasher. SO, $50: Nielsen. 90, 1870; Deanc, lUl
pa a.: q. PIckard. Of, s-63: Aiken, l02, ISL
| i Plckard, Jr, 81. e-S5: Station, %, 1886; Has
keli. lilo, $50: Baylau. 10, 12-SI: blabic, 90. l2-S
Strlthers, ln2, 14-SS; Campton, 50, O-S9; Altsheler
IO3 1a-el; ROsenqueSt, l01, ll-93, Butter. los, l2-a.
NaisvaId, ITO, l6-a4; Van Loan. 10l, 3-as; Gull
ford, ia, l6-9s; Austin. 100, 2O-lOO; Bruce, rs
l6-l02.
MILES F4NCIES JAY GOULD.
English Tennis Expert Says American Lat
Has Fine Chance to Win.
Special Gable Despatch 10 THE sun.
LONDON, April 22.-Eustaoe Miles. after
watching the play of Jay Gould. who vii
Compel in the tournament for tn @ TENN
championship at the Queens Club on April 30
saws his stroke is not yet very severe. Mile