New-York tribune., 1907-09-09
ON THE GOLF LINKS.
Western Professionals to Return to
Medal PIay-Other Matters.

VIII Sherwood who is at present i'll with typhoio
fever will ba unable to defend his title as cham
rion ~ +he Western Professional Golfers Assocla-
tion in the coming tournament 10 be helo over uo W
links of the Normande Park Golf Club or Of,
Iouis In the tournament a year ago SHERWOOD
defeated Fred Mcleod in the final round
On that occasion the innovation of running on
the affair at match play was tried ms sly st!le
however has been abandoned, as the pros 'o'e'.
TO return to the regulation seventy-two holeS Oh
medal play Sherwood's success last year createu
ouite a stir because OF his being home bred
One of the favorites in the coming tournament
will be VIII Anderson, whO two seasons ago.
left the Apawamis club to accept the position OF
professional of the Onwentsia club at high salary
Anderson. by the way, after year OF experiment,
ing, has gone back TO the rubber core1 pail anu
the friends of the former nattona! open chdllploh
declare that he is playing better in consequence.
Stewart Gardner the former Garden CITY pro,
now identified with the Exmore Country Cup ls
doing well and playing at the top of his game
Dave Robertson and Fred Brand, the Flttspure
nrofessionals are also going well these days In
a recent four-balI match at the Allegheny country
Club these two defeated Peter Robertson and JACK
jolly. The feature of the match was tne iiian'ii5
of the first nine holes in 81 by Dave Robertson
breaking the old nine-hoe record by three strokes
Robert H Cunningham jr. has broken the record
for the North Jersey Country Club links In re-
cent round with A P. Gray, jr., the former Went
out in 81 and home in 81 for a. which IS 'hree
strokes better than par. On his card were nVe os'
but all save one taken at holes of $50 yards or
more in length. The exception at the 260-yard
twelfth but on the other hand. he made no fewer
than six IS. His card was as follows:
Out Gn ......,...,..,,,,,.,s .....,...,..,,,,,.s -, 80
Well known professionals have been engaged 10
compete in a four-ball match at the Hackensack
Golf Club Tuesday. September H. They are Alec
Smith, of Nassau; George Low, of BaltuSrol; Jack
HobenS. Of Englewood. and Isaac Macbie. of Fox
Hills Smith, besides being former national open
champion is the present title holder IN the eastern
Professional Golfers Association while Low is open
champion OF the Metropolitan Golf Association. The
Hackensack course laid out by Low r. B
Smith holds the record for the links-73
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has been arranged for September Is over the links
of The New Haven Country Club. There will be ten
side. and opposing teams are to be com
posed of representative Connecticut and Rhode Isl
and golfers w. K. Shepard. OF New Haven. is TO
captain the Connect cticut team and Harold Congdon.
of Providence. will lead the Rhode Island forces.
Lynn Johnson, formerly OF Rdgewood. n. J.. has
won the Minnesota state championship In the final
round the Town and Country Club recently John
defeated Harry Legg, the Lawrenceville stu
dent who won the Eastern interscho!asuc chan-
rionship at Garden City in the spring Johnson de-
feated Legs by / up in thrty-six- match
1t is unlikely that the next fall open tourna-
during Thanksgiving week. had been the Gus
tom prior 10 last year. The only reason the club 9
officials changed the time was through fear OF bad
weather. There IS. however. a strong sentiment IN
favor of = return to the original dates.
An invitation tournament will be held by the Nor
ris County Golf Club September 10. 90 and q.
a week earlier than the dates first announced. Two
players will be asked from each club in the Metro
poiitan Golf Association. and besides others 10 be
specially invited. all present and past winners and
runners-up in the United States Metropolitan, New
Jersey and intercollegiate championships will be
asked Acceptances have been received from J. d.
Travers. ". J. Travis. r. NJ. Byers, II. j Whigham.
c. 3. Macdonald. Findlay Douglas and Archie Gra-
ham thus far. With the home contingent. the club
expects from sixty TO eighty starters.
An eiEhteen-hoIe medal play round will open the
tournament cup being awarded 70 the maker OF
the low There will be cup at match play
for three of sixteen. and cup for each beaten
eight. All the final rounds will be at thfrty-six
hOle An eighteeu-h0ie haudiCaD for hest
and net cups. will be extra feature of the
last day.