The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
GOLFING BY The SCHOOLBOYS.
ANNUAL CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE AT
THE GARDEN CITY COURSE.
Boston 10 Send Q Team-~Tournament
Has value In Revealing Quality OF
Youthful Aspirants-Prominent Players
to Graduate In the Kindergarten.

Has Value In Revealing Quality OF
Youthful Aspirants-Prominent Players
TO Graduate In the Kindergarten.
Schoolboys will hold first place in the
golhng horizon this week, for the seventh
New York i~nterscholastic tournament is
10 be held on the links Of the Garden City
Golf Club, beginning on Thursday. The
play, as in all competitions OF the young
sters, will be chiefly Of interest in its revela-
tons as to the golfng future OF those who
participate. The records OF the tourna-
ment show 1t TO have been a true index of
class, a true insight into the condition OF
the game among the youthful aspirants
and a guide to the degree Of distinction to
he expected by them In their more i'm
portant essays on the links this season, as
well as in years to come. The competition
"a really a national one, for 1t 10 open to all
preparatory or high schools wherever stu
ated, and, while IL has not developed q
national amateur champion, some who have
played in the i~nterscholastio have sub
sequently taken very high honors on the
links. Two in this class, Fred Herreshoh
and Jerome d. Travers, are still eligible.
The first interscholastio, In 1899, at St.
Andrews, and the three to follow were
under the auspices Of Cutler School, which
provided the prizes. There were two
surprises at st, Andrews, for H. B, Hollins,
Jr., on the fine game he had revealed at
open tournaments, had been regarded as the
logical winner But Edward Bell, Jr.,
won the score medal with POI, rain helping
the hills to make a good card difficult for the
boys and G. Owen Winston defeated Hol-
Inns In the final, by ! up, in thirty-eight
holes, the hardest match In the annals OF
the tournament, A year later, at Garden
City, Rollins won the score medal with 80,
and the title, by defeating Charles II. Seely
by z and Q. Seely has since been Con-
~necticut champion In three different years.,
and he 10 the present titleholder In the
Metropolitan Coli Association. q. Owen
Winston was among the beaten at Garden
City, but he and Hollins, Jr,, we're subse-
queptly prominent in the Harvard golf
team.
oakland's fine nine hole course raj the
ecene OF action In 1901 and since then the
Venue has been a Long Island links. Emo
wilder, Jr., entered from st. Papl's,, Con.
cord. took the score medal with OF, but
Pierre A.. Proai beat him In the final, by
and 2. Both now divide their allegiance
between motoring and golf, and, besides
making the Harvard golf team, they have
bNSN olVoh SOulb w Wv
a lapse In 1902, but the boys were out In
force at the Westbrook Colt Club In the
spring Of 1903. II. p. de Wright won. the
score trophy, with, as, while j. /. Batchelder,
ship from Paul Murphy, by Aand 9. Batoh-
elder has height, strength and q fne game,
but he has forssken golf for other athletic
sports, Murphy, who hailed, from 81.
paul's, Garden City, was at the time the
tournament there he once, beat Frank, 9.
Re.r art In a notable match. Murphy left
u. Paul's In 1903 and went to his home In
Arizona, TO be lost TO Eastern golf. The
mestorook tournament was tne hrst 70 90
scholastic players, volunteers who came
from their colleges TO serve IL the oapaoity
VI advisers.
At the Nassau Country Club, in 1904, and
by st: Paul's School, Garden City. Dwight
Partridge Of that school won the qualifying
round at Nassau with 30, the ~titleholder
being Jerome D. Travers, who beat II. q.
golfng at the Island Club, Troy. and played
10 the amateur championship at Baltusrol.
I%ravers won the SCORE honors at Garden
Nlty last year with 10, but lost to Lynn John
son in the semi-haal. Dwight Partridge
Johnson Jahil%sa me ! s ysdfs ). t Psrt nSTsg Is nS Sy s ss Yals
and cannot defend the championship this
week. johnson, who entered from the
underwood, n. j., high school. soon after
me tournament went to live at 81, Paul,
MINI, and he is golhng well In tho West.
a team championship IL always decided
ny the scores in the eighteen hole qualifying
round, four TO a team. The winning teams
were from Cutler School In 1899 and 1900;
o. Paul's, Concord, 1901; Law~rencevlle,
iivoS. and in 1904 and 1905, 81. Paul's, Garden
Olsy. An entry Of q team from the Boston
sohools 10 expected this time, besides six or
sAeAt teams from schools Near by.