New-York tribune., 1906-08-13
Jon THE COLE. LINKS.
Open Tournament at Deal This
WeeE's attraction.

Entries for the annual invitation tournament 20
be held the links Of the Deal Golf and Coun-
try Club Thursday. Friday and Saturday of this
week will close to o-Tnorrow night Assurances of a
large field of starters have already been received
This course. covering a playing length of 6,4Oo
odd Yards. IS Of the most difficult in the
country but. for all that. there is no place more
popular with the golfers Gilman T. Tiffany. of
this city champion OF the Hudson River Golf AS
socaton is to compete In the eighteen hole medal
play open handicap at Hollywood on Saturday Ttf-
fanv made a gross score of a. which shows that he
is the top of his game
Extensive improvements are in progress the
clubhouse. which is to have two additional stories,
making il possible to put in fifteen twenty bed
rooms. An extension viii provide extra locker
and shop is TO be replaced by improved quarters
The verandas are also to be extended.
An innovation will be a pavilion and dock built on
the waterfront OF Deal Lake. the shores of which
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has been purchased by the new club for sleoo an
With some alterations In the arrangement OF the
ie gai 1s cGn1 % n oe E 1s4e one rfarTns Of 10
the arrangement Travis declared that all Deal
some OF the present outward holes and substituting
others on the home journey thereby shortening the
UnduIatlng putting greens would also a.. add ., at
teenth hole over the mari pit is one OF the the oeSt
m h0es 20 Ie ouho h9e former years
the home hole good drive and pltch; put
reach T1o the the gen o4 6e d4e Ths hole
There is. every possibility that Alec Smith and
Will Anderson. the present and former open cham
pons of the United States. viii go abroad In the
fall for a series of matches The money Is as good
as in hand but chief trouble lies in the players
getting the necessary leave of absence smltn mas mas
plenty 20 do at the Nassau Country CIuo IN me
autumn. and that is also busy time Win 'he
1t was originally planned for Smith and Anderson
to meet ]. II. Taylor and James Braid but II the
former pair do not undertake the trip seIIes Oh
matches will be arranged Smith says he feels CON
hdent that they would do well IN @ a tour 10 Oh trs ms
more difficult than those here but that the nanoieap
is offset by the superior quality OF the green's
Amateurs who chance he in the White Noun
tains this week will gather at Manchester for the
seventh annual open tournament on the links or the
Ekwanok Country Club. Wednesday. Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. Entries will be received up
to tomorrow night. first presidents cup is the
chief trophy. It has been won in the past as fol-
lows: 1900 John Brooks; 1901. Charles b. Macdonald
1902 Walter ]. Travis: 19O3 F. J. o. Alsop 1904, A
NJ Reed; 1865 A. L. White.
Among those expected to compete are Travis;
Herreshoff. r NJ Sherman, Allan Lord James G.
Patterson and c. L. Tappin.
J. A. T Bramston who a few years ago was
rated as one OF the foremost amateur golfers in
Great Britain, died recently at the early of
twenty-six. The of the Rev. John Trant
Bramston assistant master at Winchester College,
he was educated at winchester and Magdalen Col
lege. Oxford where he graduated in 1904 AS a
golfer showed unusual promise, and in 1900, when
only nineteen years of age, he reached the semihna
OF the amateur championship at Sandwich. He
was then beaten by James Robb the present title
holder Mr. Bramston represented Oxford against
Cambridge four occasions
Mr.. Bramston 10 this country in 1903 with
the Oxford-Cambridge team. He won number of
his matches, and In a tournament at the Homewood
Golf Club Chicago, won the chief cup, besides
breaking the record for the links with of rs
He was the only amateur golfer who remained true
to the hard ball.
S. D. Bowers, of the Brooklawn Country Club
Won the chief cup in the open tournament at the
Highland Country Club. Stroudsburg. Penn on
Saturday. He defeated L. NJ. Schock. OF the home
club in the thirty-six hole final by up and TO
with S. 6chock won the handicap with a of