The sun., 1907-04-03
CLUB PAR RATINGS WERE the
SAME as COMMITTEE.
All the Figuring only Br"ught Out what
the Returns HSd Demonstrated Pine.
hurst Tournament Brings out fine
Matches --ScarSdAlo links Improved.

admitted there was little between the four.
In placing them they ina gined the four
playing a round robin, each playing thirty
six hole matches with every other player
on one or more Of our best links. The per-
centages, as they figured them, justified the
ratings. When asked II this was not viola
tiOn OF the par basis of ratings Leighton
Calkins. chairman Of the handicap COM
mittee, said
The point has been made that in working
out an maginaTy round robin contest betW cen
the four TO FIX their relative standing the com
mittee nullned its own system, which was TO
rate the players on the par ratings from their
clubs. In reply TO this may say the COM
mittee had plenty of leewsy In picking the
first three or four. but rs IL happens the nnal
from the club secretaries. At Fox Hills the
former champions, Travis aud Egan, and the
present chamIon bTers & MERE ,i re.%rHTgn a%t TTays
scratch and gave one stroke to Egan and
Byers Az st. Andrews. his own local clup.
Byers is low man on the clubs list at ?. Archie
Reid being next and alone at 4. Travis IL at
scratch at Garden City. and IraVeTs scratch AZ
M0ntoiair. The general list, after ~! Inc
lists. We had not agreed on the placing OF
the quartet until the last meeting, One mem
other wanted all four scratch and the third
committeeman wanted three OF them AZ
scratch. Then We " ent into the records, Win WITH
around to the opinion Of the lone dlssenter,
who stood for the rating as made public.
player' sSs makes the charge that he has never
beaten any one great in the two national cham
plo1shlps he won Thls critic, whose " yieHs ,n
handicap committee at least, cuts out all OF
Egan's Western golnng. The facts are that
in the fiity,FoIr hole qualifying round with
80, SO, S2-2t2, which beat Travis oy IouT and
Sy s:G sDd RSSSe DsSS SSd SEsa
won four open tournaments that year, and
3: A. Havemeyer. I and 3; Fredericks, and I.
In 1905, at Wheaton. Fredericks won the score
medal with 1856. the scores OF the Tour under
discussion being: ESan. lc2; Travis, 100; Irav-
defeated Macdonald, up; Or. Carr. and 5:
Herreshof. ? and /; Weber. and !. and saw
last championship EGGn only lost on the
twentieth hole to Lyon
After being closed for some weeks there
will be a resumption Of play on Saturday
at the Scarsdale Golf Club. Throughout the
army and for the last month aided by experts
from the city, AleCk Findlay has been blasting
away the granite outcrops that have marred
facing the stone walls with turf and making
an entirely new set OF turf tees. a matter OF
had TO be changed from a conical mound to a
plateau. The fair green and putting greens
we're taken in hand in the fall. and for the
first time a full equipment OF rollers has !
been obtained. The course Is so hilly that !
rollers cannot be rolled from putting green
R III! usSR sUriRK sen eSoh green green viii have its own
roller.
PTNEHURsT. n. c., April 2--Ons round was |
played to-day in the seventh annual United
North and South amateur championship golf |
holes TO decide them and an even half dozen 1
were decided by a put on the home green.
hole sats ., mi Fred Of GSfdeS
City and Louis A. Hamilton OF Englewood, |
which the Garden City player won with a
Stroke for stroke from start TO finish. Ham
ilton was one up at the turn. but herreshon |
on the eleventh. Hamilton gained a lead on |
the short seventeenth; herreshon won the |
eightsenth to even the match: The nine,
winning the twentieth, IS: II amilton finding |
. couple OF the traps on the way to the green.
The cards uu.a1.ao,,
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HAMILTON.
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Another close first division match was be- |
S .Dd DdTa e wssa Of Fos as Es Fs
even eve % az the turn III and md it Was nsoli and NECK
won. "a, giving him the lead, which he |
saved on the home green with a halved hole. |
On the eighth green long put saved q hole
~ Allan Lard OF Columbia and J, D. Foot Of
Apawamis fought II out 70 nnish, Lard
70. bv taxing the last three holes in order.
feature OF the match was the making OF the
eleyenth HSe 6 IN che Ss 1y home ESOt green Goa.
Bowers OF Brooklawn the hole and gave the
match to T: C. Stevenson OF the Brookline
have been carried several holes further.
. As a result Of tO5days play Fleming and
Lard, W. X Wood OF HomewoOd and c. F.
Becker OF Woodland. Nathaniel F. Moore
OF Onwentsia. and Herreshon, survive and will
Wood. Becker and Moore ali having easy
Ia tie second division F. o. Dodd Of zsn.s
VILE won from J. p, Gardiner OF Midlothian
in min eteen holes and in che third J. Shepard,
Jr. Of Providense defeated j. n. Kellogg
yri, Mount ATTY. bs.t G. west T.in.or: EoH HiIis
=. b. Bowers BrOoEiawn Country. 1 up W. p.
SehatE. Wheaton, chicago: beat X n GTaltney.
beat .. D; Foot. ApAyamls,, UP, W: D. Wood.
cPssSS %Sssrnj Sss, = aPpE
bold Chevy chase, I and q n. r. Moore, onwsntsi1,
Chicago, beat Dwight PartrIdEs Bedford; and s.
EnglewOOd, up go holcsl.
Second PiyisSn1FiP5s; % PSg t9andaL sId,o d PsTcs
F. q. DOdd GAINESVILLE. beat J. p Gardiner, Mid
cT Beat W Harry W bSon oaE,y Snd e
TAppsn: Garden City beat " " l. @ Fish Roseyllle
7 and B, George HODeoen, YAK NIL, HOcheSteT, |
beat J. r. LArendon EnglewOod, 3 and p W. H. |
Lyon. MsQuAmicut, Watch Hill. beat II. s. Holden.
Syracuse, and I; I. c. Bates Dana, |
Wyantennuek Mass. beat George WoTthlngton,
beat A. ?. SoGtherland EnElewOod. 4 and 8.
Third Divislon-First round-G. =. Mckinney,
SlwanOy. N. ". beat J. V. Hurd. OakmonL and
); A. 3. Higgins, Sgrlngneld. beat w " Ross.
Essex Country, New Jersey and ]: T. e. Baldwin.
KenIlwOTth. Bostoe beat n. s. Gordon. TwaAlfskiiI
". Y. and 2: c. r. Cameron, BaltusTol beat W. l..
HuTd, OakmOnt, and /: J. shepard JT., PrOvi- |
dence. beat J. z; Kellogg. Alpine: Eltchburg. up
twenty hOlesl; W. r. Stcnger, Mount Airy. BRAT
r. J. Bailey. CharievoIx. 8 and 6: r. A. FOgarty,
ElkwoOd, n, ". beat w. II. North. Riverside, chi
rAgo 4 and g. r. r.. Barrett, Fox Hills beat p. r.
Pretto. Plymouth, and :.
Fourth Divlsion-Flrst round-H. s. Miller, |
N. Y, beat J, N. Robinson Little
ton, o and 7: W. A. BArnum, Brooklyn. drew a bye:
O. r. Booth. Park Club, Buhalo, beat W L. Murphy, |
PittsburI. and 4: n r. o'Reilly. ElkWoOd, ". Y,
drew q bye: A. p. Wright, C0OperstOwn, beat n. W. |
Goodman. West Newton, ! up: A. II. Brainerd, |
Essex Country, New jersey, drew q bye; A. q. |
Martin, Forest Hills, beat T. ". Weeks Storm King
Cornwall. s andf !. N. Jackson, Plymouth. Mass,
drew bye.
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