Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-17
THIS CITY MECCA
Of IOWA GOLFERS
Annual Tournament OF Iowa
Golf Association Will Be Held
Here Next Week
PRIZES MANY AND BEAUTIFUL
Have Been Placed on Display at Abb
bott's - Program Issued, Showing
Different Matches and the Prizes for
Each - Many Ex- Champions to Be
Here.

/ Marshalltown will be the Mecca next
week of the golfers of Iowa, when the
different events of the seventh annual
tournam of the Iowa State Golf as
ISOLATION will be played off on the
course Of the Country club. The prize
list is one of the largest ever offered
for a similar event, and the handsome
loving cups and medals are now on ex-
Inhibition in Abbott's window.
Many of the ex-Iowa champions, and
the holders of honors in other states,
are expected 10 be present, including
Arthur Gordon, of Des Moines. state
champion o6; Henry Ferguson, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa champion '04 and '05;
Warren Dickinson, Des Moines, '02 and
'O3; b. g. Guinand, Des Moines, city
champion; Ardo Mitchell, of Rock
Island, ILL.,, champion Rock Island club,
and captain Of the Williams university
team; r. H. lNinkbine, Des Moines
state champion '01, and others. The
grounds of the country club are open
this week to players who may wish to
become familiar with the course. The
course has been put in fine shape and
has been enlarged. Henry Ferguson,
who went over it several times few
weeks ago, pronounced it the best nine
hole course he ever played.
The officers of the Iowa State Golf
association are as follows:
u President-Lloyd r. Maxwell, Des
Moines.
Vice president-Warren Dickinson,
Des Moines.
4 Secretary and treasurer-.rracy Gar
rett, Des Moines.
Directors-e. R. Mcfarland, Keo-
kuk; H. H. Ferguson, Cedar Rapids;
George Kinney, Burlington; w C..
Beck, Sioux City; Ardo Mitchell, Rock
Island, LII.
The program for the tournament,
which has just been issued, shows
Tuesday, June 20, is the date set for
the qualifying rounds. At 8 a. m. the
play for the first eighteen holes will be
started and at / p. m. the second round
of eighteen holes will be commenced.
This event is medal play, thirty-tWo to
qualify.
Wednesday, the Goth, the event
known as the Marshalltowr prize will
be played. This is open to all golfers
who failed to qualify for the Champion
ship prize. It is also medal play,
eighteen holes and sixteen to qualify
The qualifying rounds will be played
at $3.50 in the morning and the first
round at p. m The first round match
play of the championship will also
start at p. IN.
The Association Prize.
Thursday, the third day of the tour.
nament, will be opened by the playing
of the association prize event at $3.50
o'clock in the morning. This prize
takes the place of the old solace and is
for those who fail to qualify in either
the championship or Marshalltown
prizes Four will qualify over eigh-
teen holes medal play. The first round
Of this event will be played at 1870 p.
m. and the second rounds of both the
championship and Marshalltown prizes
will start at p. m.
Honors for Veterans.
The fleadliner for Friday, the 2Sth,
is the veterans prize, open to all play
ers 40 years of age or over. 1t is to
be an eighteen hole handicap affair and
the contestants home handicap and en-
try must be in the hands Of the COM
mdttee by p. m of the day before. It
is scheduled for 10 a. M, the third
round Of the championship starting at
$3.50 a. m. and the semi-fnals at p.
m. The semi finals of the MARSHALL
town prize will also come at p. M,
and the finals Of the association prize
at 2 p. m. At 2:30 o'clock on this
date will also come the directors
prize, open to twenty-eight players de-,
feated in the first three rounds for the
championship. 1t is eighteen holes,
medal play, four to qualify.
Finals on Saturday.
Saturday, the last day, the cham
pionship finals, thirty-six holes, match
play, will naturally attract the most at
tention. The forenoon round Of eighteen
holes starts at $50 O'Clock and the
afternoon round at $3.50 o'clock. The
semi finals of the directors prize start
at g a. m. and the finals at / p. m. The
finals for the Marshalltown cup start
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at p. m.
individual entries must be in the
hands Of the secretary Of the state as
ISOLATION by 6 pr of June %, and
team entries by the same hour two
days later.
Mr. L. R. Maxwell Of this city, pres
ident Of the association, will look after
all hotel accommodations for the wish
tors.
The prize list is an exceptionally
rich and long one. The champion will
receive cup and medal, low score in
the qualifying rounds a gold medal,
the runner-up to the champion gold
medal, and each of the semi-fualists
silver medals. The Marshalltown
prize is silver cup, as are also the as
ISOLATION and team championship
events while the veterans prize is a