The Washington herald., 1907-12-23
Club Revenues Depleted by
Clashes of Journeys.
WASHINGTON is INTERESTED
In metropolitan District Three or
Four Contests Occasionally over
lap the Same Week, and When
Journeys Are Being Held on Local
Links other Matches Are Played.

TO prevent clashes in competitions Since
that time. however. the number of players
has trebled. clubs and competitions have
probably doubled. new sectional and many
trade associations have been established.
while conditions generally have changed.
In the metropolitan district at least. each
is acting independently of the others. so
that three or four contests occasionally
overlap the same week. while the next
week or two may be without a one-day
event. A few of the clashes cannot be
avoided, but nearly all of the most an
noying conflicts might be, according to
the Brooklyn Eagle.
II seems as If there should be some re-
pository of dates. and as II would be well
to have the entire East covered, the na-
itional secretary. who has a paid assistant.
might properly be asked to serve as an
information bureau.
The trouble began in April at the time
OF the Lakewood tournament. During
that contest was held the annual team
match between Philadelphia and the Dis
trict of Columbia. in this city The next
week. along with the Atlantic City tour
nament, came the spring tournament Of
the Columbia CLUB, in this city. The re-
suit was that not one Quaker City crack
started at Lakewood. although there are
usually half a dozen in the list. In the
Isecor1 case. just one WashingtOnian ap-
peared at Atlantic City. Records will
show that half a score here have often
teed up on that seaside links. The very
next week the Chevy Chase Club had
tournament which collided with the
Princeton affair. That did not matter so
much. but entry lists WI show that the
Columbians have scarcely been heard Of
this season in metropolitan tournaments,
mainly because their home contests fel
on the same dates as the more southerly
New York competitions.
Big Journeys Clash.
The most annoying clash. as usual.
came the third week in May. when for
the third time the mems and women
metropolitan championship cvehapped
three days II was worse this year than
ever before, however. for the inter-
scholastic championship fell the same
wee'l. also the contest OF one Of the
largest Of the trade association. On one
day of that week, therefore. there were
four important contests between New
Workers, three for titles. II was openly
declared by two leading members Of the
trade association that the date OF that
circle was purposely taken, while they
were tied up In the metropolitan cham
pionship so that they could not get leg
on certain trophies.
There were but twenty-one starters IN
the women's championship. d surprisingly
small number. and at the time the officers
, declared that the too early date was
largely responsible. and that another
week must hereafter be selected if the
event was 10 endure. The clash. too re-
duced the gallery 20 2 shadow OF that IN
earlier years. The next week was met
ropOltan blank, partly because II is not
advisable 20 hold Journeys on or near
Memorial Day. That, however. did not
prevent the Middle Atlantic States cham
pionship from being held at Baltimore,
which must have interfered more or less
with the tourney of the Huntingdon Val
ley Club at Noble
The second week in June there was an
/ overlap of two days between the wOmen's
Eastern championship in Atlantic City
and the Wilmington tournament. but that
caused no great Inconvenience.
Classy Players Indignant.
: After the national open championship
there were two vacant weeks which were
followed by triple conflict. the ma
tiOnal amateur, the Hudson River, and
the Connecticut championships. an as
tonishing bungle. which made several Of
the classy Hudson River players indig-
nant. Two or three Of them declare they
do not intend such a mess shall occur
again Such a date seems 20 be an ad-
mission on the part Of an association that
il has no players who dare enter the ma
a.
larger and more important clubs gave no
tice last year at the metropolitan meet
ing that they wished to cast off their
Nutmeg allegiance and identify them
} selves with the New Workers. The last
two weeks in July were blank.
Then came two weeks conflict between
the Van Cortlandt and Shinnecock tour
naments and the Lambton (Ont) and
Canadian-American team matches. Lead
ing amateurs played two days at Van
: Cortlandt along with the professionals
who might have gone to Canada, and
several were at Toronto who otherwise
would have been at Southampton Each
event hurt the other.
The second week in August there were
tournaments on the same days at Shelter
Island at Ekwanok. and the last week in
August at Ekwanok and Watch Hill. The
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seems determined to run foul of larger
events.
QuakerS suffer.
New York does not have monopoly of
clashes, however. The third week in Sep
tember there came together the Phila-
delphia open championship and an anna
teur tournament at ST. Davids. The re-
suit was that with one exception the
leading amateurs of this district cut out
; the amateur contest. The latter might
have had some New York entrants but
for the Morris County, n. J., tournament
at the same time.
! September, the best golhng month of
the year. was never so overlooked before
: by New Workers. the result being a rush
TO finish the season in October. The
second week brought out the Womens
National in Chicago, the fall tournament
Of the Columbia Club, Washington:
tournament of the Montclair Club, and
the Staten Island championships. The
last two were especially to be regarded;
z not one Staten Islander entered at Mont
e clair.
Three conflicts occurred the next week,
: the intercollegiate championship. the