New-York tribune., 1907-11-18
BUSY YEAR FOR GOLF.
LONG TOURNAMENT LIST.
EaSternerS' Good Sho5cing-Br
Burn Wants Neat Cham ponship.

held Thanksgiving week, the open, invitation and
! championship golf tournaments for the season OF
] 1907 in the North matter of history. But
there will be need for the devOtees the game
TO retire to winter quarters and the consolation Of
| the nineteenth hole unless they desire. for
there is the sunny South already becoming restless
! after months of inactivity. Pnehurst, that Mecca
| FOR golfers, will soon resound with the crack OF
| drlVeS ana ring or the lron ana from then untli
well into the spring competitions will follow in rapid
succession at the many resorts where the game is
! popular below the Mason and Dixon line.
| But to get back to the North. A start made
| hereabout with the invitation affair given by the
| Garden City Golf Club April 1920, and, oddly
| enough. the tournament productive of one of
| the most sensational matches ever seen I'm this
country gale of wind prevailed the first day.
| making low scores in the qualifying round well
| nigh impossible Although Marshall Whitlatch, or
| Montcair had the distinction of leading the field
| in the qualification test with score of So. he was
quickly eliminated match play.
The wedding out process narrowed the field down
TO Walter ]. Travis. of the homo club, and Jerome
| ID. Travers. of Montcair Lack of practice during
| the early spring caused by the backward season
told against Travers but for all that he carried the
Garden City veteran to the thrty-elghth green ere
the latter finally won with after being trapped
on his tee shot. This of the few occasions
where Travers lost during the
In looking down the list 1t only requires cursory
glance TO reveal the fact that the precedent set by
WhitlatCh was pretty generally followed A ma
| jority Of the medaflists in the qualifying round
| failed 10 Survive match play.
Fred Herreshof, Of this city, n familiar
! figure in most of the early tournaments In fact
| he began his competitive season at Pnehurst and
! after winning there won first cups at Lakewood.
| Virginia Hot Springs Atlantic City, Huntington
| Valley and Ekwanok in rapid succession. AS a
| tournament winner Herreshof pushed Travers
| closely. But the Iter embeshed his work by
accounting for thr, ttles-the national, metropo-
| tan and New JeTSey-an achievement previously
| unheard of in this country.
Right here I'm the metropolitan district and for
that matter, througho It the East, interest never
| tagged. Tournaments Iolowed each other with al
most weekly regularity early in the season at near
ny courses while the demand for dates in the fall
| was so numerous as to render conflicts un-
J avoidable
! Never in the history Of the game were the tour
! to reach the high water mark in August, when a2
players were started in the qualifying round There
were also more than one hundred starters at At
anuc City in the spring. when the golfers qualified
| in six sixteens.
| The women kept up their rounds OF the links
with little cessation. They were especially active
| I'm the Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago districts
| but when the rivals met in championship battles
the glory clearly rested with the East, more espe-
cially Boston. Representatives from that city not
only won all the honors in tho national champion
ship tournament at Midlothian, but also formed the
main strength of the team which defeated the rival
forces from the Western and Canadian associations
| Tournaments and exhibition matches in which
| professionals took part numerous ever
| but there tournament-the Metropolitan
/ open-that missed this year. Although IT was
dropped. even after plans had been made and dates
reserved the general impression seems to be that
| IL will be resumed next season.
The year of 1907 Will be memorable in that no
national championship was held here. It rarely
| happens that of the three fixtures is not given
10 the metropolitan district but for all that this
| section its share OF the honors. This es
pecially the in the amateur at Cleveland where
Travis the medal in the qualifying round with
a score Of 146 for thirty-six holes. while Travers
and Archie Graham figured principals in tho
Honors in the Olympic Cup competition played at
| Cleveland the day before the championship,
| likewise won by the metropolitan team The latter
also retained possession OF the Lesley trophy in the
| recent match at Brookline. Following is a table
| OF open and invitation tournaments In the metro
politan district. including Atlantic City, and
! mary OF the more important championships
OPEN TOURNAMENTS.
| April Is-2n-Garden city medallst, whItiatch. ss
Wnner II Trsys Iinner-qP ITayGIs 4,.r.s.,
neI Herreshon Tunner-up, Forrest O.
Herreshof. ru1uer-up, Or. Carr.
May sfTiHee'SP' S InedaiS'' rraveTS So winner
July 4-6-Manhanset medallist. Detmer. 10: winner
August s shlnnecock: nedallists Kobbe IArocquc
august l5-17-Manhanset medalllst. Downing s2
August = 2i-peai facdallst. Turner II: winner AA-
August % 5i-van CoTtlandt: medaIl!st. Floyd. H.
September ia2i"Mosris Couaty: rnedalIis, vanderpoe
' %ReeT TSyeSs Th9grgP As "A sea IT,
october is-ia-Baitusroi. medalsts. o'Connor and
November 7-e-Atia.tic City: redaiiist Tappin $751;
winner. shackelford runner-up sherman.
,., 60. CHAMPIONSHIPS -.
Walter Val Ts as Winner Eu GeTams qy
intsd SaIe Up o SfIe ocaan cIa rvoen Midlothian
October Gle Medallst. Margaret Curtis 05 winner
Miss Margaret curtis runner Miss Harriet Curtis
s4 & Stas r GS % A5s9Gaon SPf3 0 haae4hta M
Gilbert Nichols 800,
Metropolitan Coli Association. Nassau. May 22-25-
MedaIst J. D. Travers. 15S winner, Travers
Womens Golf Association. Atlantic City. june
Ilol4.Winner Miss Mary b adams after a. holes I in
Eastern Professional Golfers. Association Brooklne
Low eG ana Aee Smith & 1871 Shd place.
Western e, Got Ass9Gi'Sp qmatsgT Chicago 9 Golf Club
! H. Chandler Egan; runner-up. IL F. Jones
| 20 Medalst Miss Sale Ainsue 95 winner. Miss
Lillian F9eneh nnTuP oSar Miss Ans ssaao 81 1ou
September % and 23Winner Fred Mcleod aO5; second
2sWiHner RI Robert SIMPSON 5o3; second place a 1e bs
! tv,.en WiIiie Anderson and frred McT,eod 3O . " "
Intercollegiate Golf Association. Nassau. october IS 10
| up Ralph Peters. jr team championship by Yale.
New Jersey state Golf Association BaltusrOI June es
! Travers: runner up Max Behr.
club October IO-12-M -Medast John NJ. Ward S. winner
East jersey Golf League September 27 and o. Canoe
Brook Country Medalist. A. W. Maine. jr; winner
InteseSoiastc Association May 2o2 Garden city
Nedaist. E W. Wild SO; winner, Harry Lesg; runner
| up wild
| Apropos of courses for the amateur golf cham
pionship next year. the first has been fred by
| the Brae Burn Country Club, of West Newton,
Mass Golfers both amateur and professional, have
spoken in praise OF the Brae Burn course, which
the scene of the women's national tournament
year. The quality of turf the putting
| has greatly improved. The organization also pos
sesses ample clubhouse accommodations and is
easily accessible to Boston. At any rate. 1t has
| determined to ask for the tournament.
II Is admitted all sides that next years ANA
| teur championship will be held in the East Not a
| few of the leading players in the middle West
Harvard They know the Boston links and
might like visit the haunts of their college days.
New York and Chicago clubs have divided the cham
| pionshp tournaments with the exception of the one