The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30
GOLFERS TALLY O-MORROW
AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP ASPI.
RANTS TO COME OUT.


orary Member -COurse 10 Up 70 Date.
Tomorrow entries close for the national
amateur golf championship and letters
from ell parts Of the United States will
fall as swift as ~snowfiakes at the golf as
Bociaton's Office In this city. The entries
Nnust be made by the players club secretary
and S. must be inclosed for each entry.
Whether q person enters to please his club
or merely TO please himself. all are accepted
II the entries are In due form. The qualify
ing round is the sitting test to disclose
whether an amateur is properly ambitious
or merely vain. II is the latter reason that
makes certain golfers such violent advocatee
Of all match play for the tournament.
There should be an especially large and
well balanced entry tomorrow. for the
amateur championship lie to be at the Euclid
Club. Cleveland, which is equally accessible
TO golfers from the West and East. There
were 13l starters last year at Englewood,
N. j., and I2e in 1905 at Wheaton, Ill. A
week ago four opposing tournaments were
slated in the East on the championship
dates. but the two TO attract players Of
championship caibre have been postponed.
That Of the Essex County Country Club is
OF until August, while on account Of the
burning Of the clubhouse the Springfield.
Mass, Country Club has cancelled it's dates.
However. the Hudson River Golf Association
VIII hold its annual championship at Pough-
keepsie and the similar tournament Of the
Connecticut Golf Association will be played
at Hartford. 10th are neighborhood leagues
that seldom are represented at the amateur
championships.
Such conflicts are always a mistake"
said Leighton Calkins Of the U. S. G.. A..
committee, There are dates enough to 60
round and the secretaries responsible should
ascertain IL they are treading on any ones
heels before making their announcements.
By not doing 80 they in terfere with the
seasons golfing Of their own members, and
the neglect calls for home treatment"
The Euclid Club has q fine home and
course. Although only founded in 1901,
the club has run of many important West
ern tournaments with success. There are
800 resident and about 100 nonresident
members. There are four honorary men,
bers-J. G. w. Cowles, Patrick Calhoun and
John D. Rockefeller, all Of Cleveland, and
W. Il. Newman Of Manhattan. Lyman
II. Treadway is president. The green
committee, on which the work of making
ready for the amateur championship has
fallen, has for the past two years consisted
OF F. s. Borton, W. H. Brooks and W. j.
Fleming. On account of the wet spring
they have had difficulty in keeping the grass
cut and rolled. but those who have been on
trial runs to the Euclid Club say the course
will do very well for the amateur cham
pionship. Borton has been on the green
committee since 1908 and he has made a
study Of the course and its needs. Changes
for the championship have heightened the
round to e.123 yards. The card reads:
In. 2sS 500 1855 lis 5eI 500 i5 100 S1O-8'2se
DOGGY at IS, Ss-77 does not appear to be
exacting, yet it is only two strokes above
par. The professional since the start Of
the Euclid Club has been w. H. Way. who
was at the Meadow Brook Hunt for two
years and afterward at the Detroit Country
Club. Way, had a prominent place in the
professional tournaments on the Metro;
politan Golf Association links in 1897 and
1898, while in 1899 he was one Of the trio
to tie for second place in the open cham
pionship. The course is only fairly broad,
yet at no time does the player feel cramped
who has been used to a wide fairway. There
and tenth holes. Some Of the artificial
hazards ave buried the hopes Of many
aspirants for scores, and they are called
at the course Ways graves" The parallel
nOlcb u ulNlltu ny OIL lpb Vi IOlkl. n
trolley line has recently been cut across
the property. but fortunately at the point
OF least possible inconvenience. with the
slight Encouragement OF the tees the upper
nne holes are nov iully as interesting as
tne lower nlhe; Inc coP ofnhess are Prac-
ucaHy PetpenmGua ~ anu Il Sunieleni PL1.
H niey hsct All The n;ts are 6iIad witb
49, IaLa sand The nnner and lever
conraas are entirely distinct Roth how.
ever, begin and end at the club house.
Fine golf is II, but to warn the amateur
championship spirants how much higher
may be their scores, one OF the Euclid
players has prep red this terse compila-
lion OF possible troubles to confront each
golfer:
l.. 800 Yards-The Elms-A bload, slopins,
fair green TO bunker $50 yards, the green
large and level. A slice or pull into the
tough. An overapproach disastrous.
2. 1853 Yards-The Willows-An easy or hard
hole. A brook $50 yards from the tee: a slice,
into the rough: a pull, into clump of willows.
Beyond the creek ground rises gently TO green
sand trap for an overspproach.
8. 2o5 Yards Cedar-In front Of the green q
low. rolling ridge. a sand pit beyond. A