The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-19
MANY CLASHES IN ..GOLFING
AMERICAN TEAM 70 VISIT CANADA
THIS SIMMER.
Women. ~SehOOlboys and Seniors 70 Play
Their Annual Championships on New
York Links Fixture at Far Away
Clubs -ByerS 10 Play Next Week.

There will be much doing on American
golf links this week. About New York
there will be three annual championship
tournaments alone. One will be for the
New York interscholastic title, now held by
Frederick Herreshoff; another the Women's
Metropolitan Golf Association champion
ship. and the third will be for the Metro
politan Golf Association championship, at
present held 10y Jerome ID. Travers. An
other tournament Of the week will be the
open championship Of the Massachusetts,
Golf Association, at the Brae Burn Country
Club, while at far away Spokane the Pacific
Northwest amateur championship is on for
action. The holders OF the two titles are
respective Aleck Ross and G.. X. Magill OF
Victoria.
The schoolboys begin tomorrow at the
Garden City Golf Club and will play until
Wednesday 10 decide their individual and
team rivalries, the latter championship
now being held by Lawrenceville school.
Fred Herreshof Is out OF schoolboy gon,
but it is an axiom Of the tournament that
the winner seldom defends his title, and the
chiefinterest in the affair to outsiders ls
revelation Of skill in the rising generation.
The tournament has been held since
1889, bar one year, and usually each time
on q different course. II has always been
open to the preparatory. chools OF all
parts Of the country and to win has meant
more than a victory in the local ~schoolboy
tournaments that are now held at several
cities. From it's open conditions the New
York tournament is a national one. The
tendency is to restrict the entries in all
local tournaments TO residents Of the dis
triot N possibly, should this be done at
New York as we'll as outside. a regular ma
tional championship for schoolboys may
follow, But as boys of the preparatory
scho OILS are so. o to be eligible for COL
lege and other championships such a
tournament may never be necessary. TIT
New York schoolboy has pro-
duoed some fine golfers. The champions
lave been: 1889. st. Andrews. G.. Owen
Winston; 1900. Garden City. H. B. Hollins.
DR.; 1901, Oakland, Pierre A. Proal; 1908.
Westbrook~ j. l.. Batohelder; 1904, Nassau.
jerome D. Traven; 1905. Garden City.
Dwight Partridge; 1905, Garden City, Fred
H~erreshoff.
The earlier contests we're arranged by the
Cutler School, and for three years the tour
nament has been run by st. Pauls School
Of Garden City. Hollins was runner up
to Winston and put c. II. Seely when he won
his title. The team championship winners
awe been: 1889 and 1900. Cutler; 1901, st.
Paul's OF Concord; 1908, Lawrenoeville;
1904 and 1905, st. Paul's OF Garden City;
1905, Lawrenceville.
KnoIlwood Is the garden links Of the
many beautiful ones about New York.
The play is over q lawn and often between
parterres OF flowers. yet there are some
fine testing holes that appeal to every
golfer. The two water hazard holes are
better than most iron shot holes near New
York. The playing length is 1920 yards
and the record OF, held by Travis. The short
distances will be a change from the long
courses, all trudge and slug, that the women
have been using in recent years and an adj
mirable opportunity to test their iron shot
and putting. This is the championship
roster as to finals for the title:
1900, Morris county, Miss g. Hecker
beat Miss r. Underhin; 1901. Nassau, Miss g..
Hecker beat Miss R. Underhill; 1902, Essex
county, Mrs. L. A. Manice beat Miss Her
nandez; 1908, Richmond county, Mrs.
Z. A. Manice beat Miss Yanderhoh; 1904.
Apawamis, Mrs. 4. A. Manice beat Mrs.
H.. D. Paterson; 1905, Baltusrol, Mrs. q. i.
Stout beat Miss Gertrude Travers; 1908.
EnRlewood, Mrs. G. I. Stout beat Miss G.
As will be seen, only two persons-for
Miss Hecker became Mrs. Stout-have ever
held the championship. a most remarkable
record. Consolation cups, in sets OF eight,
four bail matches. a handicap and other
special contests I'LL up the tournament card.
The handioaps have eldom been so close as
in 1902, when there was q tie between Mrs.
NJ. D, Paterson. %, l0-S3. and Mrs. N.
Pendleton Rogers, q, amSs: Ihe latter,
Golf Association. also won the gross score
Douglas and Travers. having won out
between them the plate for the Nassau
Country Club, the ninth championship at the
the gift OF Daniel Chauncey. on retiring
from the presidency OF the Metropolitan
Golf Association, 70 fill that Office in the
United States Golf Association. Like the
old. this is also a three win CUP. but with the
important change that 1t must be won by
the same player before his club may claim 1t.
The new rule is sure TO keep the player in the
game who once gains a win until every
hope is lost. The qualifying and the final
rounds al at thirty-six holes, with all inter-
mediate rounds at eighteen. Thirty-two
qualify for the championship. while the
third and fourth sixteen also qualify for
prizes. The defeated sixteen Of theoham-
pionship set will start againfor the presi-
dent's cup this year the gift of w. Fellowes
mOTRhU. lH6 championship ICSOIu 10
In 1900, at Garden City, II. M. Hartman
beat Reginald Brooks, 2 and 1; 1900, Nassau,
W. ], Travis beat II. NJ. Hartman. 8 and 2;
1901. Apawamis, F. s. Douglas beat G. Fl.
Seely, IL and 10; 1902, Tuxedo. W. j. Travis
beat F. A. Marcellus, ii and 10; 1908. Deal,
r. s. Douglas beat John Moller, DR., 10 and
0; 1904, Garden City. Harold Wilcox beat
p. r. Pyne, 3D.. Q and d; 1905. Fox Hills.
C. II. Seely bea A. Graham, I up 1905.
st. Andrews, j. d. Travers beat +. NJ. Byers.
8 and /.
Travers last year also won the qualify
ing round medal with ~, 72-lH. Travis
did the same, with 10. when he won his title
at Tuxedo. Hartman was In a triple tie
for the soore medal, In his year. The others
were: F.S. Douglas and IA. Tying, the total
being i79. In the other years the SCORE
medallist has not gone through.
There has been an increased entry n
more enjoyment for everybody since the
change In the tournament conditions In
1905 to the present plan OF giving cups.
Before only the championship set qualified,
and those defeated played for the presi-
cup. The club pairs, four ball match
and the handicap have however been
played from the start. IL has been found
that the success Of a tournament as to
minor features depends or the number
CT players attracted for the qualifying
round. and since the adoption OF a more
generous policy there has been no CON-
plant Of small fields at the NJ. G. A. meet