The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-29
TO GOLF ON PUBLIC LINKS
AMATEUR CHAMPION TO PLAY AT
cVAN CORTLANDT PARK.
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Beginning tomorrow morning. there will
be four days Of the best sort OF golf at Van
Cortlandt Park. The contests will he on the
public links, and all who choose TO do so may
follow the players over the course or watch
them from the walks or hills. The public
holiday aspect OF the Van Cortlandt Park
tournaments make them unique in the COM
petitions OF the season, and although the
course Is none too good they bring out some
OF the most interesting golf from the specta-
tors standpoint. Amateurs Will play to-
morrow In a thirty-six hole handicap, and for
the first time In the history Of the public
course the amateur champion Of the year
will play over II In a competition.
Besides Travers. the titleholder. others 20
play will be Archibald Graham. runner up
TO him at Euclid: Findiay Douglas. former
amateur champion; X. Borup of the New Haven
Golf Club: &. ". Seely. former Metropolitan
and Connecticut champion Gilman y. Tiffany,
Oswald Kirkby and Robert Abbott Of Yale.
last years intercollegiate champion. There
will be many other celebrities In the contest.
and with the starters from the New York
Golf Club the field should aggregate eighty
or more.
Wednesdays competition will be a four
ball foursome contest with an amateur
and a professional in each pair. Travers
will have Tom Anderson. professional Of the
Montclair Golf Club, as his partner. There
will be professionals from Philadelphia and
Boston, as well as the best of the New York
group. IN this contest with amateurs as part
ners. There will be pr izes for each OF the
pair making the best and the second best
net scores. the prizes for the professionals
to be in cash. To determine the net scores
the handicap Of the amateur will be sub
tracted from the sum Of the scores Of him
sell and the professional partner. This ia. d
plan 20 be tiled for the first time and the
outcome. as a test Of golf. is p~roblematical.
1ravers and Tom Anderson by this plan
Thursday and Friday the professionals will
meet In their annual seventy-two hole medal
Maokie won first prize in 1905 and Aleck Smith.
who will make his American reappearance
faGs is t sS h aSYi az Van iri yo;rt TH@ II chat as0 Il. bnsi
gets a great run. but although the putting
greens have been rested for some days they
tear Of scores Of eager golfers has told its
tale on them Yet there are some who be-
has only been eaualled once this wear in the
open championships, The winning scores
have been: Aleck Rose, So2, United states;
simpson. Western. 3O7; Arnsud Massey. France.
2es: Percy Barrett, Canada, 307: Aleck Ross,
Massachusetts, 3O2.
Arrangements for an open tournament in
the fall are under way at the Montclair Golf
new hazards, although the playing distance
10 now only 5000 yards.
MlvcHEspEn. Vt. July ,s.-In the final
for the Taconic cup on the Ekganok links
yesterday frederick Herreshof. Gsrden City.
lrountry Club. in the thirty-six hole contest
by 0 up and 3 to, play. Herreshon's great
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day; The open handicap was won BY Henry
70 James .Conroy. Brockton Country Club.
whose card was 50, $50. The winners in the
different events follow
shof. Garden City, beat Clarence N. Clark. Phila-
delphia Country Cub. Q up and ! TO play.
c,s ss.'s 81. nE TSgo kos Ses. GYM y. &Se nR' r sSSaS-E Rich X;
mond County; ? Up and ! 70 play ,.. v,w.,o,
losing Flight, second ssteen, nnsl rUahd. N.
son. Dyker Meadow, 5 UP and Q 70 play.
Consolation Cup-Final round-A; J Mcclure.
Albany. beat T. {. Black. Cincinnati. 10 up and s
Losing Elsh.-ThIrd sixteen. mai IrOqpd.II.
Fourth si~Stsen,@Flnsi round Paul o'Copnor.
Fo.hills, eea. K: P. Simmons. Richmond County
Medal PIayIHsndicsp rs holes James corroy.
Rutland, %, i4-62: c. West TAintoI. Richmond
County. a. plus Is; a. w. Harrington. Island
Golf. %. e-SI; r. p. Worrall. Nassau, o.. S--s4: ".
p. Wilder. Vesper. Al plus $50: J. r. Larendon,
Englewood. %, = So: c. p. Fay. Oxford, IA. iz-eo;
r. A. stack. oxford County, 100, iA-.So: =. I.
clark, Ekwsnok, SO, / 50; Myron I. Keith. Brock;
ton. io7 is-se y, w. Clarke. I'd; EkwsnoL. 81
W. C. King. Brockton Country. i07, l4-e3: W. 4.
Bog, Richmond County, io4, l0-e4; W, L. David
son, Fox Hills. 10, I0-l0o: W. 3. Leeds, Garden
City. 10. l0-l0O: W. A. Hamilton. Fox Hills, i0<.
3--iU.
PLAINPIKLD, ". j., July 7s.-George Shoo-
maker, won the golf committee cup yesterday
ut the Plainheld CountryCClub. also a leg on
scores we're returned Tor the cup:
George Shoemaker. 81. SIS: Frank o. Rein
hardt. 10. On; W n. Riggs. 81. $50: W. L. Estes
Glenn. 81. plus So.
These scores we're returned for the green
committee cup: James r. Murray, 0s. Ii 81:
Harry Williams. l23, 27-@. 70
dents and July cups at the Park Golf Club
these scores were returned:
r. A. Lyon, ll8, 800; A. \. Kenworthy, lO8,
ls-ss: Charles B. Morse. 100, II 30. :. Y. Carpenter,
III. 2e-ei: J. b. Belts. 12i. 30 81: Reuben Knox.
los, i0-ss: Nelson 4. Miles, ii5, 1890.
CRAWFORD, N. j., July 2s.-The Crawford
Golf Club driving contests, best ball, was
won yesterday by Maxwell Marston, and the
best three balls contest was won by c. J. y.
Frasier.