The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14

Weatchester county, from the prevasncs
Of rocky outcrops. has few natural golnng
stretches. and the Dunwoodie folks have
had to oops With many troubles, but they
have evolved a good oourss Of S,7o0 yards.
Il viii be better next year, when the turf
In frmer. and then by q change or two the
playing length will be 200 yards greater.
DunWood'e In the station beyond Van
Cortlandt Park by rail and .op the trolley
road between Yonkers and Mount Vernon.
The club has a long lease Of 100 acres, owned
by a corporation that has refused 100000
for it's holdings. The club only gained the
right Of way in April and work began sim
~ultaneously on the links and the clubhouse,
now completed aud equipped.
The building 10 OF wood and stone, in
Colonial cottage style, the wide porch cOm-
handing a fine view that includes Fort
| Plain. where Washington camped on the
way to White Plains. About seO, 900 has been
expended on the house and oourse since
the spring.
A now played the out. holes are ASIA
yards, and the in S,27S yards. The course
is all good golf and 20 modern in h ar
rangement Of the holes as to be a permanent
benefit TO the golhng community.
The only artificial hazard In a chain Of
bunkers to guard the tenth green. The
h'teenth hole, 24S yards, Is q drop from
! th, hilltop and the play TO the seventeenth,
called Gibraltar, il 40 yards from the bee
to a hilltop and then at right angles to the
green, the hole being Of $50. yards.
There is a knoll running through the
property, an elevation called in the South
a hogs back, and the rises and falls ave
| 49, Aro~lxr ,,kttt-.l Nhr~.Uh,oKN 80 otva
good golf on eaoh hole. The best score
as yet made by an amateur is 50, by Gilman
p. Tiffany, champion Of the Hudson River
Golf Association.
Two other eighteen hole courses put into
play this season are at the Forest Hill Field
Club, near Newark, and the Oakland Coli
Club, Bayside. Both have extended their
original nine holes to meet the demands
Of an increased membership.
The Forest Hill course is OF $500 yards,
and although in play since Decoration
Day will AVE its formal opening to the
public on October % and "a at the tourna-
msnt OF the Eastern Professional Golfers
Association. The Oakland club is one OF
the Oldest in the district, and Walter Travis
played his first good golf there in 1897,
holding the record still for the nine hole
round.
The club has frequently held open tourna-
ments and Harry Vardon, who played
in a match at Oakland in 1900, pronounced
it the best nine hole course he had seen in
this country. The new nine holes, on adj
joining land, purchased for $780, 900, is a
reproduction Of the best on the original
course. The round is now OF CLOS yards.
The club has a number Of political celebri-
ties on its roll, such as Charles F. Murphy,
Justice Morgan J. O'Brien and John B.
Mcdonald, the contractor, who golf there
regularly.
A fourth eighteen hole course to be COM
pIeted in the Metropolitan Golf Association
district this season is at Garden City and
has a playing length Of $500 yards. 1t has
been laid out by the Garden City Company
and while complete in every detail, except a
club house, will not be played over until
the spring.
1t is designed as a semi-public course, on
the plan Of clubs about London and else
where abroad, to which persons who are
introduced may become subscription men,
beers for a single day, a week, or the season
The plan, aside from the laying out OF
the links, is still in embryo, but the Idea has
the approval OF the United States Coli
Association.
After the links, the players. There ia
impending this week the annual champion
ship of the college boys, to be held at Garden
City over the imp~roved~finks. 1t will be
the first tournament there since the bulk
head hazards and undulating greens have
been made.
There 10 no prodigy this year inthc college
crop Of golfers, for the measure Of Robert
Abbott, the titIeholder, Dwight Partridge,
Howard Gee and all the best has been
well gagged at the seasons tournaments.
There is no golfer TO achieve greatness
among them, but many possess a sound
game and at times a brilliant one.
Jerome Travers, who Is in a GLASS by him.
self among the younger set, Is now q COL
Iege freshman, but the rules will not let
him play in the intercollegiate until his
second year.
Among the local juniors the player OF
most pre- mise is 4. NJ. Wild Of the Crawford
Golf Club. He is IL. with the height and
physique that give the impression OF 20,
and he is regarded as very promising ma
terial in the golfng way. At the Deal
tournament Wild, who was a dark horse
among the seasoned entrants, revealed a
very steady game and beat d. II. Barrows
of Princeton for the second cup.