Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-02
COLFINC ON THE SAND DUNES
shinnecook Hills Club Tourney Starts
This Week.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE COURSE
Travis won First Match Play Cup I'm
This Competition and Holds the
Records for TrOphies-
Long Island winners.

there will be great amateur golf tourna-
ments this week. the Onwentsia club hold
ing its annual tournament at Lake Forest,
Ill. from tomorrow until Saturday, and
che shinnecock Hills Golf club acting as
host for is yearly invitation competition
on Thursday. Friday and Saturday. The
Long Island affair is tabloid and On
wentsia allopathio golf. At shinnecock
Hills they qualify In sets OF eight at eigh-
teen holes OF medal play, and the tourna-
ments In which four cups find owners. is
over on Friday evening. Many OF the COM
petitors leave for home then without wait
ing for the thirty-six hole handicap OF the
last day. which appeals mostly to a new
set OF week end visitors. But at onwentsia
there are half a dozen challenge cups. with
individual prizes added, for which the con-
ditions really crowd three or four tourna-
ments into one week. and the fun is con-
tlnuous and varied from Monday at break
fast time until the dinner bell rings on
Saturday.
Both Onwentsia and shinnecock Hills
have been the scene OF amateur and open
championships, but the latter club In 1896
ran off the two national competitions in one
tournament. as was then the custom. The
Southampton club also held the women's
CHAMPIONSHIP OF 1900, pronounced by those
who took part to have been the most gem
erous managed tournament Of the sort ever
held, Championship years or not, neither
club has ever skipped It's tournament. The
function Of the shlnnecock Hills Golf club
began in 1896, but there were competitions
there from 1894. when the links held only
one course OF twelve holes. On July 4, 1895,
willie Park. jr.. won a thirty-six hole
match from Willie Dunn to open the eigh-'
teen hole course. and there was also a sep
arate course OF nine holes for women.
The mems course was Of about $500 yards,
and Harry vardon in 1900 beat Tom Hutch
inson over It by IL UP and 10 TO play, es-
tablishing the records Of 70. 71-1n.
Course at s~hinnecock.
In 1908. through the acquisition Of new
land to the westward and the Incorporation
OF the women's grounds. the shinnecock
Hills course gained It's present length OF
5,sS2 yards. The order OF the holes is, in
yards:
out ,.,,...2pi s5 2s 28 1852 s0s $50 256 3Oa-2,sO 800
In .,.,.....a0 81 1856 Ss7 4Ss 295 1853 3s 21s-2,s72
The first important competition over the
extended course was during the flying visit
of the oxford and Cambridge society's
team in 1908, at eighteen holes of medal
play, for a cup given by r. II. Williams.
W. ]. Travis and r. J, o. Alsop. then OF
Yale, were tied at "a. and H. @. B. Ellis Of
the visitors came next with 70. Travis won
the playoff, making six cups and three low
scores gold medals he has won on the
dunes. There have been four cups for sets
of eight since 1901. and the list Of the
Shinnecock Hills tournament winners is:
1s9e-Best qualifying score, l. Tappin,
westbruok, l4. Presidents cup, James A.
Tying, Morris county.
1se7-Best qualifying score. 8. d. Bowers.
Otsego, and Tying, 100. Presidents cup,
Tying; consolation cup. w ]. Travis, Oak
land.
jr., Westbrook, 1856. Presidents cup, Hol-
Inns, jr.; consolation cup, A. l.. Ripley.
Oakley.
lSss-Best qualifying score, Hollins, jr..
second cup, s. p. Nash, Maidstone: third
cup,-F. c. Havemeyer, Seabright.
1eoO-Best qualifying score, Travis, Garden
City, and A. M. Brown, Shinnecock Hills,
100. Presidents cup, Travis; second cup,
Hollins. tr.; third cup. Daniel Chauncey,
isM-Best qualifying score, C. Tiffany
Richardson. Lakewood, 80. Presidents cup,
r. c. Watson, jr.. Lakewood; second cup,
L Livingston, Westorook; third cup Percy
OBJ qualifying score, Travis and
N. A. Murdoch. Shinnecock Hills, So Presi-
Robertson. st, Andrews: third cup. M. TIL,
den. jrn Morris county; fourth cup. ]. A..
Tying, Balturol.
19G3-Best qualifying score, F. o. Rein
hart, Baltusrol, a. Presidents cup. ]. w.
Baker. Plainfield; second cup, E. 8. Knapp,
Westbrook; third cup, ]. +. Byers. Yale;
fourth cup, w. A. Putnam, ~Shinneeock
Hills.
iSO4-Best qualifying score. f. s. Douglas,
Nassau. a. Presidents cup, Malcolm
McBurney, Stoekbridge; second cup. e. 7.
Watson, 1r., Essex county; third cup, J. w.
Baker, Plainfield; fourth cup, G, ID. Barnes,
iaas 80 a,aI,s,,,n1 soora 1D-a,,. 20
Presidents cup, Travis; second cup. Oswald
Kirkly, Englewood; third cup. jay s. Jones,
Crescent Athletic club: fourth cup. John
l0e-Best qualifying score, ]. D.. Travers,
Montclair, 7e Presidents cup. Travers;
second cup, II. b. Hollins. jr. third cup,
Chester Griswold; fourth cup, Morgan J.
O'Brien. Oakland.
1907-Best qualifying score, L. +.
Lacocque. Shinnecock Hills; l. w. Clark
third. Philadeiphia. and r. L jackson,
South Norwalk Is. Presidents cup. Travis
second cup H. w, Perrin. Philadelphia
fourth cup c.. A. Dunning. Nassau.
Long Island Golf History
me brief synopsis is a history Of Lons
Island golfing in a nutshell. In I6s5 and
1881 dyng. then hailing from the Morris
County Golf club. was the greatest tourna.
ment player about Manhattan. : The con.
sOIation cup won by Travis on the dunes
IN the latter year was the first match play
trophy OF his career, his previous victorie:
having been the open handicaps In tuc-
cessive weeks at the Meadow Brook and
Knollwood tournaments. In 1899 Ripley
beat Travis for the presidents cup on tn,
twentieth hole, but the next year he scoret
the win for it. The trophy always is to b,
won outright II. B. Honins. Jr. as a West
brook Junior. was the sOlfing star OF tn,
Metropolitan Golf association courses anC
he never has played as well as an adult
In 1904 ]. d. Travers was runnerup q
Malcolm McBurney for the Presidents cup
and also in 1893. when Travis beat him oil
the twenty-first hole. Travis won boil
score medal and Presidents cup IN 1906
He did not compete last year. when Travi
won his fourth Presidents cup.
The nearest Findlay Douglas has come I,
gaining a Presidents cup was TO win tn
low score medal In 1900 with "a Adrial
II. Larkin. who came home with a gran,
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