New-York tribune., 1906-10-29
GOLF 1T BROOKLINE.
To Hold Tournament There IN the
Spring.

1t has been decided to have the next champion
ship tournament of the Eastern Professional Golf
ers Association held in the spring. The course of
the Country Club of Brookline near Boston, VIII DC
the scene CT action as the Country Club is consid-
cred TO have first claim on tho pros from the fact
that It had made bid for the recent tournament
which was awarded to the Forest Hill Field Cluo'
Newark
G. Herbert Windeler former president of the
United States Golf Association and prominent
member Of the club at Brooklne, has taken per-
sonal interest IN the professional movement There
Is plan under foot to run of the open champion
ship of Massachusetts the same week as the East
and over the same course. According TO Mp
per- Campbell the professional at Brool<line. there
is every likelihood that all members Of the Eastern
association VIII be extended an invitation to COM
pete for the Massachusetts tide. II this pro-
gramne is carried the chances are that the
tournament at Brookline would become second only
in interest to the national open chaInplonsn3iip;
grown steadily, and is able to boast Of ninety
odd members George Low; OF BaltGsr9i - ,it1 the
the treasurer. More benefit is to be derived from
S ganng e in the SO spring than I'm IN 'he o 1a; coss
meet with general approval on the part OF the pro-
fessionals.
The chances are that before the Metropolitan.
Massachusetts and Philadelphia golfers meet again
for the Lesley Cup the conditions will be changed.
AS the matter stands the territorial distribu-
tlon is unequal. TIE so-called New York team is
made UP of golfers OF the Metropolitan Golf AS
sociation. which comprises clubs within a radius
of 1fty-fve miles of this city, the captain Of the
Boston team has the entire state of Massachusetts
TO draw from Philadelphia. the other hand.
has aid from outside districts.
While the Metropolitan and Massachusetts teams
were competing for the trophy over the links of
the Merton Cricket Club on Saturday the donor
said he hoped to have the conditions changed so
TO enable the Golf Association of Philadelphia
10 draw upon the western section of Pennsylvania
we'll In the event of that being arranged It
would be possible 10 get golfers from Pittsburg and
Oil City. Eben NJ. Byers. the national amateur
champion. is a resident of Pittsburg. is W. c.
Fownes, jr., while DR.. d. +. Fredericks Is at OIL
City
The present set of rules governing play for the
tri-city matches drawn up by joint committees
mitted that Philadelphia is laboring under too
much OF handicap. Next year the competition
will be held Boston way, and the Bay State
golfers are already talking of what they likely
back from England. Lockwood has won the Massa-
chusetts championship title several times.
Many of the old guard planning to attend the
annual fall open tournament to be held over the
links OF the Country Club of Lakewood Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday November Is, 16 and II.
This will be the last opportunity golfers will have
of meeting in tournament play on Northern links
this year. In the old days these Lakewood tour
naments generally brought out high class fields.
Fifty-eight members OF the Forest Hill Field
Club engaged in a team match Saturday. There
twenty-nine a side. and the affair was
known as the civil War" Paul f. Heller and J.
Campbell Cory were the captains. Included among
the contestants were four The final score
dined at the expense of the losing combination in
the evening