Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-13

poiitdi, oH WHICH were waiter j.
Travis, Jerome C. Travers, Archie
Reid and Fred Herreschoff. The east
ern players defaulted this year. send
ing no team to defend the title. This
years match was the first Olympic
contest for Edwards, and his playing
was the feature of the day.
Notes of the Links.
Harold Wyatt of Fond du Lac,
Wis. is the youngest player in the
tournament. He takes the honor
away from Paul Hunter of Chicago
who is II, and until Hunter arrived
was the youngest of the visitors.
Wyatt is 16 and has fine reputation
in Wisconsin. He was runner-up last
year in the Wisconsin championship.
He is accompanied here by his PAL
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. S. D. Wyatt. Mr.
Wyatt is one of the "old guard" and
winner of the veterans cup at Pine
hurst, n. c.. last winer.
Joseph E. G. Ryan of the Chicago
lnter-Ocean was the first of the news
paper correspondents to arrive, but
staff men will represent most OF Chi
cago papers here this week, as the.
tournament is the big event in west
ern golf.
H. F. Smith, president of the South
ern Golf association, and his wife and
daughter are here from Nashville, in
| terested visitors at the tournament.
Judge kenesaw Mountain Lands of
| Chicago was at the course Saturday
and played around, the noted jurist
going out in 53 and coming in in AS.
Judge Lands didn't have to boiler
| fore" to John d. Rockefeller any
where on the course, but it wouldn't
surprise the golfers if Mr.. Rockefel-
| Ter should drop in at any time. He
was at the last tournament and is one
of the great golf enthusiasts of the
country.
| Local golfers will be glad to see
Harry G. Legg of Minneapolis play
| ing his best stroke at this tournament.
| Legg was runner-up in the Trans
Mississippi championship here last
year, losing in the finals TO Sprague
Abbott, the lanky Omaha golfer. This
lyear Legg also went into the Trans
mississippi finals.
There was a dancing party at the
lclub house Saturday evening in honor
of the visiting golf players, given by
the club This evening Decker French
will entertain at the club house in
Honor of Kenneth Edwards and Others
of the visiting competitors for the
championship.
Chandler Egan, present holder of the
, association title, will defend his title
: here. He is entered in the match fol
: the Louisville club instead of from
; his home club, Exmoor. He had eX
, pected to gather up team to repre-
t sent the Southern association in thu
! jOlympic contest.
: With the exception of Chicago, st
. Louis has the largest delegation here
Five clubs are represented, Glen Echo
the Country club, the Field club, Al
gonquin, and Normandie. A represen
| tative of the American Athletic asso
citation, which also maintains golf links
is looked for Any of the four men OF
the st. Louis team may show up wei
| in the ionship-Lambert has pos
sibly the best prospects. Magill is TIL
only one of the st. Louis players wh'
played in the Western year ago. HI
: was defeated by George Clingman @
!, lyear.
III Rules for Spectators.
e Following are the rules for those VIII
e follow the matches of the tournament
r Do not move or talk during a stroke
d This means from the time the playe
n commences. to address his ball unit
: the stroke has been made.
t Those following match on foot wi
: keep at least % yards behind the real
S most player and will not move forwar
:. along the sides of the course until
n lstroke has been made.
Those following match in carriage
electric automobiles or on horsebac
II will find many of the roads closed. TIL
following plan is laid down for tria
|during the first few days of the tourn;
= lment. If any annoyance to players OF
y ours further restrictions will be lai
down
l. After the drive from the first tie
carriages, ETC., may proceed by TIE
u race road; thence south on East av'
nue. and by the stables to the vicinit
lof the third putting green; thence vi
u Park drive ito the vicinity of the fit
= iputting green; thence along Par
drive to the ninth putting green, an
return to the twelfth putting green
Thence via Golf lane around the thi
: teenth putting green and via Mai
Y avenue to East avenue; thence mort
q to the vicinity of the fifteenth putin
green; thence around the sixteent
putting green or to the seventeen
X lputting green; thence eastward {
Hedge lane and via Terrace road
id 1.-THE vicinity of the eighteenth putin
,olgreen.
,el There must be no movement
lie conversation during stroke.
es The utmost consideration for playe
lis requested
s. If the excellent weather confirm
"a the course Will be in perfect conditil
r ar the time of the finals