The sun., 1908-04-26

Won QUE Atlantic city cup
The gap in the order OF sequence was
because the Intercollegiate Golf Associa-
ton had its individual and team chamuion-
ships on the Atlantic City course in May,
1901, and tho amateur championship took
place there in the fall After this surfeit
Of national golf the Country Club COM
mitts6 took'a rest Ils 10 tournaments during
the spring Of 1902. In the intercollegiate
Harvard carried OF all the hOnors, despite
the strong representation from Yale, Co
lumbiR, Pennsylvania and Princeton. J. @.
Hndsley won the individual and the team
match also, went to the Cambridge boys.
II was the third win for Harvard in this
contest and Won out HE final trophy put
up hy the. Ardsley Club in 1897 as the first
incentive 70 intercollegiate golf.
That amateur championship marked the
advent Of the rubber Cored golf ball. All
the Westerner5 had them, but the Eastern
ers, who might have had boxes'for the ask
ing--it was not then on the maTket-eyed
the new ball askance. Travis was an eScep-
ton. He received some Of them and ps sssd
the day before the championship practising
approach shots ani putting but Findlly
Douglas C, Lockwood, Allan Kennaday
and others then prominent 0i the Fast clung
10 the solid gntta percha. This was a
handicap, every one now knows yet Travis
only beat Douglas ii the semi-hnal on the
lhirtY-eighth hole. There was a post
ponSment Of the final for a week in oonse-
,luence' Of the death Of President Mckinley.
In tie match. Travis won from Walter +,
Egan by and 1.
AZ sensational an eighteen holes as the
amateur championships have brought out
marked the match between the late w.
Holabird. Jr., a Chicago boy, and A. G.
Lockwood. Of Boston during the progress
" that tournament II was lively against
sold Dan; WIN both playing wonderfully
we'll Holabird " on the eighth and eleventh
in 2s and they halved the tenth in 3 He
had besides two %, Lockwood, besides
the 2, on tho teDth, gained four holes in
5s. He finished In rs to Holabird's rs and
I up. All the rounds we're Of thirty-sx
holes ia those days and the play was as
furious 10 the afteTnoon, going out re-
spectively ID 80 and 40, and Lockwood
winning by 4 and 3. Lockwood on the
hole halved in drove the 2OO yard green
close 10 the CUP. while Holabird holed from
his approach put. On the eleventh, 156
yards. Hqlabird came within an inch or
Two Oi holing on the drive, ..
An open event OF importance to the femi-
nine wielders Of the clubs held at Atlantic
CityNss the W0men's Eastern Golf Associa-
ton toyrnament sf 1893. Harry Vardon
was at the course in 1900 and beat the best
bali Of H. M. Hartman, then amateur
champion, and Findlay Douglas In thirty
six holes by Q up and 3 20 play. The course
was pronounced by Nardon to be more
suggestive Of n British seashore links than
any he HAD seen here. Since his visit the
eighteen holes have been extended 10 nearly |
5000 yards and improved by new hazards |
and sand traps, with some undulating
putting green's,
The border 10 much Of the fair green Is
the reed covered marsh extending 10 the !
bay, but beyond Is the Atlantic, and there |
Is generally breeze from the sea 10 stimu- !
latO- tho- -players Frederick Hemsley has |
been the president since the beginning Of !
the AtlAnhc City Country Club. j. Haines |
LipReAcott treasurer and Walter +. Edge !
seqetefy. Tlbs springs tournament CON- |
mittAe Walter +. Edge, j. Haines Iippen-
cott F 8 Sherman and T. c. Robbins
FOR couple Of years the club tried tho |
team match plan, the scores 10 he the best /