New-York tribune., 1908-04-13
MATCHES FOR GOLFERS
COLLEGE TENNIS BUSY.
Week End Competitions at Dyher
MeadO1C- Tournament Dates.

collegians will try their luck at the Forest Hin
Field Club. On the same day the Princeton team
will play a match at the Nassau Country Club.
Additional tournament dates of importance have
been arranged over Boston way The Brae Burn
Country Club course has been selected for the an
nual championship tournament Of the Womens
Golf Association OF Boston May 25 TO 2S, which is
the same week selected for the championship of
the womens Metropolitan Golf Association at the
Essex Country Club. The amateur championship
of the Massachusetts, State Golf Association will be
held at the WolIaston Golf Club June Il to 20.
There a tie In Saturdays bogie competition
the Dyker Meadow Golf Club between Z. A.
Freeman, ST. S-S down. and G. d. Hapgood, 80, SIS
down. They played off yesterday in the eighteen
hole medal handicap. Hapgood winning. Thirty
five cards handed in, the three prizes being
taken by e. f. Hunt, S4. 3-Sl: C. S. Pool. 81 sS3.
and A. Barker SO, 5-s4. During the week the
eghts to qualify for class prizes on April and
finished the first rounds. Results were as follows:
Glass A Barker beat Grant Notman up ard to
W. c. Freeman beat F. W. shbley up and to play;
HBs'i osf5 miller up !oShson oSss' up
to play: A. NJ. White and f. ". Belcher, byes.
The Huntingdon Valley Country Club, near
Philadelphia. will hold its annual open tournament
May Il to 16 and the principal trophy will as
usual, be the I4ynnewood Hall cup. In the spring
OF 1906 Jerome d. Travers won this tournament,
while year ago Fred Herreshoff accounted Tor
the trophy. which must be won three times pelore
becoming the personal property of any one player.
This tournament is open to members of clubs be-
longing TO the United States Golf Association. All
entries be received not later than May r. and
must be forwarded to the tournament committee
of the Huntingdon Valley Country Club, Abingdon,
Penn. This committee consists Of H. B. McFar
land. W. H. George, NJ. X. Neiffer and Frank S.
Evans.
The Huntingdon Valley Country Clubs eighteen
hole course is located at the Noble station of the
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Railway, and in addition to the trains be
reached by the Willow Grove troleys. For the
convenience of outsiders limited number of rooms
be engaged at the clubhouse upon application
to the secretary of the club George H. Frazier.
4th and Chestnut streets. Philadelphia.
map recently made of the Myopia Hunt
Club links shows that there more than one
hundred sand pits of various shapes and sizes on
this famous eighteen-hoe circuit. These traps
range from wide openings penalize wild shots
from the tees to the smallest OF cunningly de-
signed pots, placed the putting greens to
compel accurate approaching
These bunkers constitute only a small part OF
the punishment for misplay for a topped shot
from the badly sliced or pulled ball at
many OF the holes is either buried In the marsh
land found. II 1t is found, in rough country.
Nor must the brook at the fourth, fifth and sixth
holes be omitted from the hazards, nor the road
at the eighth, twelfth and sixteenth holes, which
duly appear outline the map.
Every hole is now bunkered so well that II Is
hardly fair to select any one hole and say that
it is better than any other but the placing OF the
pot bunkers the ninth green the short hole,
and the fourteenth green is admirable
| There are four at the ninth and six near the
/ green OF the fourteenth.
The quality of the turf the fair green, the
unduatng putting greens with fine and true turf'
| the whteness and lightness Of the sand in the
bunkers. and many other features Of the links
cannot be shown the map, but the map is in
valuable to the student OF the architecture OF
golf links The links is 6335 yards. 8015 yards out
and 1920 yards in.
A point raised by club handica ppers who send
in their ratings for the official lists is whether
golfer who plays his home links better than
other should be given more strokes by
the handicap committee than he receives at his
home club.
The answer that generally follows question OF
this kind is that the player should be handicapped
on what he does his home course. The fact
that q golfer cannot play strange course as
well as his own links is his fault, and is taken
as evidence that he needs only experience on the
foreign course play down to his handicap
There are many cases where golfer Will make
a better round strange course than over
one with which he is familiar, for not being aware
of difficulties, he will escape them. This Is es-
pecally we'll bunkered links
There NAV be q few exceptional cases among
low handicap who are good on their own
links and yet could not fairly be given SO honor
able a rating home on the association lists
The low handicap on the lists have to De
judged specially in relation to each other The
association handicappers cannot get an absolutely
accurate list but they get near TO 1t as they
Although almost alone in his contention that
putting with one hand is the proper thing, Harold
Hilton former open and amateur champion OF
Great Britain. persists in this style During the
amateur championship tournament at St. Andrews
the bulk of the criticism among players and spec
tators was unfavorable. 1t is generally conceded
that delicacy OF touch and accuracy of direction
are the two essential features of good putting. and
1t is argued in favor of the one-hand style that 1t
gets rid Of the constant defect of using both hands
by taking away the dragging, pulling power often
unconsciously applied to the club by the left hand
In discussing the subject foreign critic says, in
part: The reason may be obvious enough to the
majority OF players, but, nasmuch as the one
handed system has not been initiated by large
number of players, it would seem that the general
body Of golfers would rather lnger in the paths of
error and be orthodox in style than expose them
selves targets for the shafts Of ridicule."
Until recently golfers belonging TO the Royal
Portrush Club, in Ireland concerned for the
future, the lease held from the Earl of Antrim
shortly expires The fact that the clubhouse is
situated close to the railroad station and that the
first second. seventeenth and eighteenth holes
close main roads makes this portion of the
property within the zone of building ground
A settlement has at last been negotiated, however
whereby the Royal Portrush Club win be able
retain the clubhouse and practically the old course
so familiar TO crowds of English, Scotch and Amer
lean tourists. At rent of $500 lease of thirty
five years will shortly be secured
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