New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-10-21
ON THE GOLF LINKS.
Close Contests Promised This Week
IN T'ri-City Matches.

W Il TE-CtLY AHULCbCo'
/ Many Of the leading amateur golfers OF the East
viii be congregated this week lot ule ul-oiIy
matches at the Country Club of Brooklne. near
Boston Teams of ten have been selected from the
Philadelphia Boston and metropolitan ulsu4CIS'
and. according the programme, the first match
will be playad on Friday October %, between the
Philadelphia and Boston forces. The winner VII!
earn the right to play New York present holder OF
the Lesley trophy, the following day.
". Felowes Morgan. president Of the Metropoh-
tan Golf Association; Robert Lesley president Oh
the Golf Association of Philadelphia and u. tieI
bert WindeleT, president of the MASSACHUSETTS, IOi
Association, are trustees for the Lesley cup w +.
Smith is captain of the Philadelphia team HUGO
r tombstone Of the Boston team and Walter j.
Travis of the Metropolitan aggregation
Travis has announced his team as follows: 'e-
rome D. T'ravers, Archie Graham. Findlay 5 Doug
las Walter J. Travis George 7. Brokaw, ftopei |
| Abbott Archie Reid. John NJ. Ward FRED Her
reshor, A NJ. Robbins and Marshall Whitlatch
Boston will have J. G. Anderson. A G. Lockwood
W. Z. Chick, 2. w. Whittemore n. II. " ,''1eI'
Richard Kimball. Hugo r. tombstone. Tenlpeton
Briggs. C. H. Crocker, J. G. ThorP T. g. SteyFn
Stanton and r. II. Daniels. 49,
Philadelph,a-W p. Smith. Dr.. Simon Carr, H. W
Perrin H. +. Mcfarland. A. W. I1uinghast D. W
man H J. McCurdy. w T. West ana George
Cooke. 1000.
Robbins. Brokaw and Whitatch. on the other
hand Howard J. Gee Dwight Partridge, c. j.
Sullivan. c. B. Macdonald and J. q. PATTERSON
have been dropped. The absence or farlrluEe
NAV surprise a good many especially as the Yale
player won his match year ago. defeating Gil
bert In the four-baI affair during the afternoon
Partridge also figured the winning side. The
ignoring of Max Behr is also matter of general
comment.
While the team might be strengthened, it is IN
doubtedly a strong and quite capable or put
ting I'D a great fight against the winner OF the
Boston Philadelphia match. on paper session SIC, n
looks TO have an unusually formidable team and
few will be surprised the Bay State COM
bination defeat Philadelphia without much trouble.
As all close followers Of these interclty aNaiIs
know, the conditions this year have been changed
that the four-ball matches are to be dropped
in favor Of the two-baT foursomes. II has been
claimed that the days this time of the year are
TOO short for four-baL contests. At Philadelphia
and Garden City the last Of the four-ball contests
were finished in the dark. The following table
gives the results Of the two previous competl-
tons for the Lesley Cup:
1905 October e. at Garden City q19E san6> G sf
massachusetts, crew a bye Attro'!lth -
asbe To two sISn oo 5G 5a r6a 10 points
1905 October q at Garden City long Isls3d a.. COZ
FOUR in eingles; MetToTolijan beat MassaT
aiif o H9ie yassa5 .. onts
beat Philadelphia seven matches
conretton two being unfinished owing 70 darkness,
1896 1896 oao6dr e. at Ms5toa csSe Cub Haysrfad
matches In singles Metropolitan beat Massachusetts
matches TO ere IN fouTobal cor2petiti2n T@ta b
| matches we're finished tho dark
Four we'll known professionals competed in a
bes+-,aU match at the Engevood Golf Club yester-
day Alec Smith. Of Nassau. and Isaac Macbie, OF
Fox Hills defeated Dave Hunter. of Essex County,
! and Jack Hobens, Of tho home club by ! UP IN
! IIobens secured a lead OF up, returning a best
| ball Of 60 The card read 81 out and So in. Smith
| and MacEe had S7-35-72 The special individual
| score prize in the morning was won by Hohens'
| who made r.
The tables were turned In the second half Of the
| match when Smith and Mackie had things all their
own way with a card OF 37-34-71. against 81
87-74 the other pair Smith also Won the after
! noon prize, with -
Members Of the Eastern Professional Golfers As
sociation will have a chance to compete over the
links Of the Country Club Of Brookline on October
! % 30 and 81. The second annual championship Of
! the association will be held the first day, and Is
70 consist Of thirtysx holes medal play, for which
| the following eight money prizes have been an
nounced: First 800; second, $50 third. so; fourth
SO; fifth $50; sixth 500. seventh so; eighth SO
/ Four-balI matches viii he I'm order on the second
day the prizes to be so, so and $50 The follow
ing day will also be devoted to four-hall matches,
| but on that occasion professionals and amateurs
| will team up partners. II IS the wish Of the
/ Brooklne officials who are giving tho prizes for
the extra competition that the professionals so far
| as possible secure their partners beforehand. En-
| tries for the championship VIII close with David
Hunter the treasurer. at the Essex County Country
! Cub Orange, \. J., not later than October "a.
The thirteenth seni-annual golf handicap. open to
| members of the University Club will be held over
the course OF the St. Andrews Golf Club on Wednes-
| day. October 90. As usual. the competition Will
| consist Of thTty-sx holes, medal play. The handi-
caps viii be based far as possible on the metro
| poitan ratings. Prizes will be given for the three
best net scores. Entries should be made TO Frank
| 4. Moore. No. 81 Fifth avenue New York City,
| before p m, Tuesday, October %
The annual womens championship Of tho Bal
tusrol Golf Club will be held october o. 30 and
q. The entrants VIII be paired TO fight it out At
| match play, and some keen contests are expected
| Mrs. s. T. Lefers. Of Englewood, who has
joined the Batusrol club, will compete, and so Will
! Mrs. n Pendleton Rogers, of Plainheld who has
| the title three times
H. H. Barker, who TO this country a short
time ago, has made good impression at the Gar
den city Golf club where he has been engaged
as professional. The first time he played over
! this difficult Barker made rs, and since
then he has been round in 70. Until few years
ago Barker, who IS native of Yorkshire, was
| an amateur. He the amateur title there sew
eral times, and in 1906 the Irish open cham
p!Onship-
The Brae Burn Country Club has offered
purse for Alec Smith. Alec Ross Alec Campbell
and Gilbert Nichols compete for Thurs
! day of this week The quartet viii play thirty.
six holes medal play.