The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-23
EASTERN WOMEN 10 NASSAU.
LONG ISLAND COURSE SELECTED
FOR TRINITY GOLF.
Also for the inaugural Championship
Boston Players Active in Final Selec'
tion-COntest to BE, at Score Game
Team System OF Counting Changed.

NtbO " NtO IiiAuAuA -
boston Players Active in Final Selec'
tion-COntest to BE at Score Gane
Team System OF Counting Changed.
According to Mrs. C. l.. Tiffany OF the COM
mlttee. the inaugural championship OF the
Women's Eastern Golf Association viii be az
the Nassau Country Club on Thursday and
Friday. June 7 and 9. On Tuesday ana
Wednesday, u n s and Q. the annual matoh
between the women's teams Of Boston. Phil
adelphia and New York will be decided on
tho same links. The Nassau Country Club
has formally accepted the tournament. said
Mrs. Tiffany. and the fixture will be ratlned
at the meeting Of the women'e committee
next week In this city.
The women had everything fixed UP to
hold their tournament and the team matches
at the Brae Burn Country Club OF West New
ton. Mass. until the selection OF that course
by the United States Golf Association for the
women's national championship. - The MasHa-
chusetts women waived their right TO have
the team matches. and the Wonen's Eastern
Golf Association clrculariZed the Atlantic
City. Nassau. Deal and New Haven clubs to
learn their feelings towa ard their first cham-
pionshlp. There was no response from Deal
but the three others extended cordial invita-
lions TO the women, and similar tenders were
received from the Country Club Of Lake
wood and the Baltusrol Golf Club. The
Boston women were most In faVor OF the
final choice Of Nassau.
There iB every prospect Of the tournament
being the most successful yet held by women
In the East. Although it will lack the stimulus
Of the check for $1,000 usually voted by the
U. s. G.. A. to the club holding the women's
national tournament, the Nassau Country
Club will do Its part with enthusiasm, and
the women have an equal ardor to make their
At IL m /
one. The Nassau folks have never held a
women's national tournament. but they had
the Women's NJ. G. A. In 1901. when Mrs.
Stout gained her second victory. and IL Is on
the records as the best tournament ever held
In the series.
1t will be the seventh lntercIty match for
the Griscom cup. The New York team won
the first two matches from Philadelphia, and
then the Boston women were admitted. VINO
won the trophy for three years running.
Last fail the New Workers could not keep
Miss Pauline Mackay from taking the women 9
championship to Boston, but they won me
match play. the Philadelphia and Boston
team playing the New York team on June Q,
As a contrast, for the first time in any c%ountry,
Association championship is TO be entirely at
medal play. Eighteen holes will be played
on June 7 and eighteen holes more on June 8,
the maker of the low score to win,
it was voted to hold the trioity matches there.
shbtsT na Il o thi e ehaSp ss%aRft5 a4 fhs s' iattsr e lFem
takes up a week and is sun ciently absorb
ing in Itself, but the new medal play cham.
after. the team matches and afford a quick
decision before The hittins, for home on
SATURDAY, While r M0nday If free ,, for arrivals isSm
point a match. The three point, or Nassau,
Miss Margaret Curtis beat Miss GeorGtanna
Bishop in the tIIcity matches last fall by one
up. yet counted two points by the system
the fate OF the method was sealed
Jerome Trayers. who. ranked with Waiter
,; Tra ! at wi ne nd heq SaS O., NE N; a. a. HI his sPR ome
course, this season. nor will his sister Miss
Gertrude, runner-pp last veal, In the Women's
Consolation cup In 1904 play from that club.
h home 's at o{yst a%v Bay s' asd sS!Rtr p sayos q SS e
cousins, the Misses Mary and Kate Travers.
viii do the same.
Young Travers has been identified with
won the last two open tournaments there.
defeating Walter j. Travis each time in the
ship timber, and wherever Travers locates he
will be a help to the team.
A special committee is to be appointed next
week at the Englewood Golf Club to take
full charge of the national amateur cham
the members are forming ideas individually
of the changes to be made on the course. ana
the committee will sift out all the opinions
before starting the work of preparation.
The Boston Interseholastic Golf Association
Wlla Ss 5 eRt 81 ihe S ps a Y ieaR I nj lq" eho a. Tic
Association at Garden City In May.
MANCHESTER, March 2?.-The fixtures for
1909 OF the EkWanOk Country Club are as