New-York tribune., 1908-06-15
BIG GOLF TOURNAMENT
At FOX HILLS CLUB.
Conflicting attractions ON the Card
This WeeE.

The annual Staten Island golf championship tour
! nament will this year be held on the attractive
course Of the Fox Hills Golf Club at Clifton on June
25 2s ard 81 The qualifying round will be at
eighteen holes. There will be two sets OF sixteehs
and less than nine prizes will be competed for.
The winner of the tournament will be allowed 10
hold the Branch medal for year, besides receiving
a replica of the same. which he will retain perma-
nently. He also receives beautiful solid silver cup
the winner of the first sixteen.
There will also be silver cup for the runner-up
in the sixteen. solid gold medal for the 10"
gross score in the qualifying round, silver cup
fer the winner of the second sixteen and silver cups
for winners OF the beaten eghts in the frst ana
second sxteens. On Saturday there VIII be an
eightecn-hole handicap the player having the low
gross receiving attractive gold meoai anu
the player with the best net score soho SILVER
loving cup of attractive design 1t is not improbable
that Walter j. Travis. Jerome Travers and II. D.
Wigham will represent the Fox Hills Cluo' they all
being members.
The tournament committee has stated positively
that stymes must be played In the preliminary
match rounds The rules of the United States COR
Association will govern there being no local rules
At the adjourned annual meeting of the Fox Hills
Golf Club held at the clubhouse, nearly $1,000 was
subscribed by the members for added improvements
TO the course With this additional amount OF
money, together with their regular appropriation,
the greens committee will give the members and
their friends a course which in condition VIII De
excelled by few courses in America
Conflicting golf attractions on the tapis for
this week-the seventh annual championship tour
nament of the Hudson River Golf Association at
the Briarclif Golf Club Thursday Friday ana
Saturday, the invitation tournament OF the Nassau
Country Club Friday and Saturday, and the
annual gathering of the East Jersey Golf League
al the Forest Hill Field Club. also on Friday and
Saturday. AS these compentitons, especially the
Hudson River and the East Jersey. interesting
more particularly certain localities 1T cannot be
said that the conflict is likely to work any hard
ship
Quick action is promised at Nassau, where the
eights for the Nassau Country Club North Couh-
try Red Spring, Dosoris. Overlook and Mil Neck
cups respectively. The first round will be played
that afternoon. with the semi-fna and final ROUNDS
the following day. There will also be an eighteen
hole medal play handicap Saturday. 1t Is quite
probable that Walter j. Travis and Ffndlay >.
Douglas will compete
That the Nassau course is at its best these days
is made evident by the recent phenomenal playing
of Alec Smith, the clubs professional, who one day
last week made consecutive rounds of 20 and Do
for total So The latter beat the old thirty
six hold record. held by himself, by four strokes.
while the 66 is only stroke worse than Smith
sensational score of year ago In his recent per-
forInance Smith only had single the entire day.
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