The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-16

ments, which are 80 far apart that travelling
| expenses eat I'D much OF the money IL he Il
lucky enough % win He Is sure. however,
OF the offer Of h first class winter job at
a resort, with expenses paid 10 and fro,
and he gains from tuition fees and the sals
OF clubs. Alec Smith had a phenomenal
record last year, for he won Tournaments
at Washington and Van Courtlandt Park
besides first place in the Western. Eastern
and National open championships.
Besides all this Smith won. or shared tha
money in a half dozen exhibition matehes,
and although beaten in the MetIopoltan
Golf Association open championship by
George Low, he took second prize and
picked up also several minor prizes. All
told. aside from IN open champtunetL[
Smith probably earned by play 1000 IA
81. 500. 1t is understood that he is paid a
salary TO boost a certain brand of ball and
to be abroad now In the same interests
He has also made money from a book on
golf, and considering everything, Smith
has probably made his year of supremacy
pan out better than any other player who
| has ever held the title in this country. In
the aggregate, having had four bites at the
cherry, Will Anderson has made more,
but no one has struck 30 much pay dirt
in one year as the canny Aleck. Yet to win,
either here or abroad. makes the profes.
| sional a made man. Harry Vardon is the
only player who has been the winner in
America and Great Britain.
To avoid providing and to sift out ,hs
players with more ambition than playing
strength, the open championship at Hoy.
lake will be under entirely new conditions.
After years Of quibbling, the American idea
Of a qualifying round is to be tried, and
il the experiment pleases some such plan
may be tried for next years amateur cham.
p~ionship. On Tuesday and Wednesday
for the championship by thirty-six holes
on each day. One half Of the number will
play on Tuesday and one half on Wednesday.
The thirty players returning the lowest
scores on each day, plus those who may
tie. will qualify to play on Thursday
championship proper.
Hoylake, one OF five most famous links
in Great Britain, is within n half hour hy
rail from Liverpool. IL is on the shore
Of the River Dee and the Bay Of Liverpool.
with natural sand bunkers and the hest
of turf. 1t has only been included in the
round Of British championship links since
1907, when the amateur H. II. Hilton won
with 3l4. Alex Herd won the last open
played there, in 1902, with 307. The e1-
tended course is stated to he 3,17O yards
out and 3,1s5 in, making 1855 yards, The
record is II.
The course OF the Philadelphia Cricket
Club dates to the natal Year of the American
golf boom, 1896, and while not quite e.OOO
yards II is a testing course not easy to scors
on. II. w. Perr1n, amateur champion
OF Philadelphia, holds the record at y. q
performance equal to par. Donald Bali,
the clubs professional, has had a ~ and
A. w. Tillinghast, who is to captain an
American team at Toronto in Angus.
has never been able TO get under "a. The
turf is always good in June, but the I'M
dulations and bunkers compel plenty of
headwork to make a score. Slicing is
badly punished. and as there are several
blind greens the approach shots have
often to be played with faith as we'll a.
good works. The eighth hole is held by
many to be the best hole in America.
This is a bold claim, yet both the ANA.
teurs and professionals of Philadelphia
will die in defence of the statement. A
creek bounds the entire fairway to the right
and there is also woodland. Where it crosses
the course before bending to the right
the creek has to be carried by a long shot
from the tee and the creek also guards
the green, compelling n very delicate ma
SHE shot. A road Furnishes a pulled drive,
SO that accuracy is at a premium all he way
Ii is the first time a Philadelphia coursa
has had an open championship, although
the national women's championship has
been held at Bala and Merton. The nearest
the amateur championship has been played
to Phil adelphia was at the Atlantic City
Country Club in 1901.