New-York tribune., 1907-12-03
ON THE GOLF LINKS.
More than Fifty a Side Expected IN
Team Match at Forest Hill.

Members of the Forest Hill Field Club are
looking forward to d team match on Saturday
which the committee is pleased to term the
Merry War" Harry Allsopp. the club cham
pion. and Herman J. Egner will be the captains,
and the plan is 10 press into service every
available player. Women golfers Of the club
eligible, and if the weather proves pleasant
Ii is expected that there will be at least fifty
players side. making one of the largest
team matches ever held in this country. A beef
steak dinner viii follow the match. and of
the conditions is that the losing side must pay
all expenses. At the Forest Park Golf Club the
married and single men to clash in match
on the same day There Will be about twenty on
a side
The open championship tournament of Great
Britain. which will be held at Prestwick next
year. will begin on Tuesday. June is. This
competition was last held at PrestwiCk in 1893.
when Harry Vardon won with of 300.
six strokes better than his brother Tom, who
was second. The amateur championship viii be
held at Sandwich the latter part of May. This
tournament when last held at andwich. in 1904.
made memorable because of the success Of
Walter J. Travis the American entrant. Apro-
pos of this achievement Golf Illustrated says:
Although the average American golf has
certainly improved. il may be doubted If there
is anv American amateur at the present mo-
rnent quite so good as Mr.. Travis was in 1904.
Still. there is Mr.. Travers. the present amateur
champion OF the United States, who. some say,
is better But. unfortunately, he has not Mr..
Trayis's wonderful temperament, and in any
case there is vet word of his coming. OF
course what has happened before may happen
again but or the whole It much more
likely at the present moment that the open
should return to France than that the amateur
should go TO America
Following closely upon the elevation of Deal
10 the championship peerage on the other slde
comes the announcement that d match mas at
Noes and
James Braid, the present and former open
champions They are to meet December ~
for substantial purse. privately subscribed up
TO date Massy and Braid have never met at
match play, but in stroke competitions during
the last year the former has had considerably
the better of it He won the Cannes tournament
in the early spring. beating Braid by eight
strokes in thirty-six holes. Massey also won the
open championship at Hoyiake with 312. Braid
taking 31S The former also won the French
championship a week later with a, score of US
as against :301 for Braid Recently Braid won a
tournam ment at Cassiobury Park, beating the
Frenchnnan by two strokes. but this represents
Brafds only victory the open champion in
the last year.
Leighton Calkins. secretary Of the Metropol-
itan Golf Association calls attention TO the fact
that clubs intending TO apply for next seasons
amateur and open tournaments should send in
their applications at once. 1t will also be help-
full if the clubs which have elected new secre-
taries since April would send In the names anu
addresses of the new officials Mr.. Calkins also
states that more than half the above clubs have
failed TO send in the names Of voting delegates
for the annual meeting.
The captains of oxford and Cambridge uni
yersities have agreed to have the next annual
team contest decided by matches instead of
holes This change was probably hastened by
last seasons affair." which resulted in the defeat
of Oxford through the woful showing Of one or
its players In matches oxford would have won
bv a comfortable margin.
Marshall Whitlatch has won the prize for the
hest eighteen hole score made in competition at
the Dyker Meadow Golf Club during the fall.
He had a 7e stroke under William B. Rhetts
best effort.