The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
GOLFTNG ON The SAND DUNES
SHINNECOCK HILLS CLUB TOUR
NEY THIS WEEK.

Travis Won First Match Play Cup I'm ThiI
Competition mi Holds Records FOL
Trophies-Onweptsia Also TO Hold An
nuai Fixture-Leng Island Winners
West and East there will DO great anna.
teur golf tournaments this week. the On.
wentsia club holding lite annual tournament
at Lake Forest. ILL.,, from tomorrow until
Saturday, and the S~hinpecock Hills Coll
Club acting as host for its yearly invitation
competition on Thursday. Friday and Sat
urday. The Long Island affair 10 tabloid
and Onwentsia ~allopathio golf. At SHINE
Dock Hills they qualify in sets OF eight at
eighteen holes Of medal play. and the tourna-
ments, in which four cups find owners. ID
over on Friday evening. Many Of the COM
p~etitors leave for home then without wait
ing for the thirty six hole handicap Of the
last day. which appeals mostly to O now set
Of week end visitors. But at Onwentsia
there are half q dozen challenge cups. with
Individual prizes added. for which the CON-
ditlons really crowd three or four tourna-
ments into one week. n the fun 10
continuous and varied from Monday at
breakfast time until the dinner bell rings
on Saturday.
Both Onwentsia and Shinnecook Hills
have been the scene Of amateur and open
championships. but the latter club in 1893
ran of the two national competitions In
q tournament. as was then the custom
The Southampton club also held the wom-
ems championship Of 1900. pronounced
by those who took part to have been the
most generously managed tournament Of
the sort ever held. thampionship years or
not. neither club has ever skipped it's tourna-
ment The function OF the Shinpecock
Hills Golf Club began in 1895, but there
were competitions there from 1904, when
the links held only n course Of twelve
holes. On July 4, 1895. Willie Park. Jr..
won q thirty-six hole match from Willie
Dunn to open the eighteen hole course.
and there vas also q separate course Of
nine holes for women. The mems course
was Of about $500 yards. and Harry vardon
In 1900 beat Tom Hutchinson over 1t by
Ia up and 10 to play. establishing the
record Of 10. lid.
In 1908. through the acquisition Of new
to the westward and the incorpota-
ton Of the women's grounds, tho Shinne-
cock Hills course gained it's present length
o,oo< Joiub' AhV oiuot VI uo hVioe 10
yards:
Out. =. ...... ~ sos rs zs iss 500 $50 $50 eos-4.soo
n,......... 100 ST. $50 81 80 tss ses se ais-2.s7s
Tho first important competition over the
course was during the flying visit
n the Oxford and Cambridge Society's team
a 1908, at eighteen holes OF medal play, for
/ cup given by r. H. Williams. w. ].
Travis and F. J. o. Alsop, then Of Yale. were
at "a. and II. O. B. Ellis OF tho visitors
anne next with % Travis won the playoff.
six cups and three low score gold
medals he has won on the dunes. There
ave been four cups for sets Of eight since
eo7. and the list Of tho Shinnecock Hills
winners is;
1soe-Best qualifying SCORE. l.. Tappin.
HestbFook. 1874. Presidents sup. James A.
ryng. Morris County.
lse7-Best qualifying score. 8. d. Bowers.
ltsego, and Tying. iSo. Presidents cup.
ryne: consolation cup. W. j. Travis. Oak
and.
ises-Best qualifying score. H. B.. Hoiiins.
r., Westbrook, 100. Presidents cur. Hol-
Ins. IT.; consolation cup, A.. l.. Ripley. Oakley. |
isae-Best Qualifying score. Hollins. Jr..
econd cup, 8. p. Nash. Maidstone; third
up. F. C. Havemeyer. Seabright.
Iooo-Best qualifying score. Travis. Garden
ity. and A.. M. Brown, Shinnecock Hills, 100. |
cup, Travis: second cup, Hollins. |
r.: third cup, Daniel Chauncey. Dyker
isoi-Best qualifying score. C. Tiffany
richardson. Lakewood. 30. Presidents cup. |
!. G.. Watson. Jr.. Lakewood; second cup.
!. Livingston. westbrook: third cup. Percy
!. Pyne I'd. Morris County.
,ooS n-.t nuaIifpfn1 aoara TEE ynn and !
7. A. Murdoch, shinnecock Hills. 81. Presi-
cup. Travis; second cup. T. NJ. Robert
On, St. Andrews; third cup. NJ. Tilden. Jr..
County: fourth cup. J. A. Tying. Bal
isos-Best qualifying score. +. o. Reinhart,
~altusrol, IT. Presidents cup. j. ". Baker, |
second cup. Z. s. Knapp. West
rock: third cup. j. F. Byers. Yale; fourth
lp. W. A. Putnam. shinnecock Hills.
,iso+-Best qualifying score. +. 8. Douglas.
'assau, "a. Presidents cup. Malcolm
IoBurney. ~Stockbridge: second cup. C. r. |
Jr.. Essex County: third cup. J. W. |
aker. Plainfeld; fourth cup. c. d. Barnes.
Hills.
ts0s-Best qualifying score, Travis, -. |
residents cup, Travis; second cup. Oswald
irkby. Englewood: third cup. Jay q. Jones.
A. c.; fourth cur. John Rowland.
Hills.
iSOG-beet uuailIylngs score. y. ID. 1rayefS, |
70. Presidents cup. Travers;
cup, II. B. Holiips. Jr.: third cup,
hester Grisw old: fourth cup. Morgan J.
'Brien. Oakland.
i907-Best qualifying score, l.. F.. Larocaue.
Hills; l.. ". Clark Sd. PhiIadel-
hia, and r. l.. jackson. South Norw ak, N.
cup. Travis; second cup. II. W.
erin. Philadelphia: third cup. John NJ.
ard. Fox Hills: fourth cur. e. A. Dunnlng,
assau.
The brief synopsis Ia q history OF Long
land golfing in a nutshell. In 1893 and
~ Tying, then hailing from the Morris
ounty Golf Club, was the greatest tour
ament player about Manhattan. The
,nsolation cup won by Travis on the dunes
the latter year was the first match play
ophy Of his career. his previous victories
aying been the open handicaps In sue
sssive weeks at the Meadow Brook and
HOLLYWOOD tournaments. In 1890 Ripley
aAt Travis for the Presidents cup on the
hole, but the next year he scored
le win for 1t. The trophy always IL to be
outright. II. B. Holiins, Dr., as q West
-ook junior, was the golflng star Of the
Golf Association courses, and
, never has played as well as an adult.
1904 j. d, Travers was runner up TO
McBurney for the Presidents
70, and also In 1905, when Travis beat him
| the twenty-hrst hole. Travers won
9TH score medal and Presidents cup In
90. He did not compete last year, when
ravis won his fourth Presidents cup.
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