The sun., 1909-06-28
GOLPlNG DATES AND DlCTUMS
TOURNAMENTS AT APAWAMIS
AND YAHNUNDASIS NEXT.

TOURNAMENTS AT APAWAMIS
AND YAHNUNDASIS NEXT.
Two Holes in Ono stroke Each by Rumpei
at Fsrest Park-Executive Committee
Restores Old Rule Ten-New Arcoia
Country Club Takes Up the Optiops.
There will be tournaments to attract
players OF the Metropolitan Golf Assocla-
tlon this week at the Apawamis Club. Rye.
aud the Yahnundasis Club. Utica. There
Is nothing on In the West. the lull before the
crowded schedule for the last fortnight
Of July. August and September. The open
championship Of Massachusetts, win be
played at the Woodlands Golf Club on
Wednesday and Thursday Aleok Ross Of
Brae Burn Is the holder. and at the national
open championship at Englewood last week
Tom McNsmara. Andrew and Aleck Camp
bell and NJ. j. Brady finished In lower scores
than he. The quartet will be In the field
at Woodlands. and Ross must turn the tables
to retain his title. To-day. tomorrow and
Wednesday Alexander Wilson must defend
the Canadian amateur championship at
the Toronto Golf Club. while on Friday and
Saturday the open championship will be
on the same course Albert Murray Is the
holder. and George Sargent. who won the
American open last week. wss second TO
him. Murray started at Englewood, but
was not playing we'll.
That the far away Utica tournament
should this time be an attraction to M. q.
A. players is due to the hnundssis being
The home club Of Vlce-President Sherman
4 Il. Anf
The latter has induced Walter j. Travis and
Allan Lard Of washin gton to enter and many
others OF note Tom Sherman invited
Fin dlay Douglas. but the former amateur
champion had arranged to spend the Fourth
and the week end at East Hampton. He
has visited the same family there at that
time for several years and golfed at the
Maidstone course. Travis won the Apa-
wants tournament last year and II and
Nassau are Douglass home clubs. so that
their prior engagements will keep away
two who would have had q fine chance
to win
There are to- be no lack OF players. how
ever. judging from the advance names.
The entries close on Wednesday at the Apa-
wants club. The Qualifying round will ne
for cups There will be cups also for two
beaten eshts and q thirty-six hole handicap
on Saturday. The seml-fnalists and Hnalists
In the cup contests are barred from the
handicap. which seems a wise plan.
The governors Of the Apawamis club at
last weeks meeting. by the way. voted to
change the date Of the Seniors tournament
from October z and to September 20 and 20.
There we're so many entries last year.
although nobody may play who 10 under IS
Ak.k ~ 80, npt haa AA
two day affair. There were q number Of
reasons which Influenced the change Of
dates. notes Horace L.. Hotchkiss. the orig
inator OF the competition. Not the least
was the natural gallentry OF the Seniors In
Womens nstionsl champio nship at Merton
the week Of October to o..
rules as revised and secepted By the United
States Golf Association OF appliances used
10 irrlgstine the fairway or putting green's.
hsy ds and did ne, CONSIDER the nss
condition. are reversed, and al = specisi
meet & hf sns.soSd Vi Go cas .ss sss
voted to add to new rule IL the former note
to rule 10:
II. bali lie on or within a club length q drain
assPass ss Sss. 10. s: r ds sos
chsmpionship at the oreenwieh Country
ia the Metropolitan Golf Association dis.
eost sst HILL HILL tss ae nSasGS Cas on: =: I sP1n'
The Arcola Country Club has taken up
has Been appointed to begin the .plannins
acres At Arcola, \. j.. with . front.se Of
rssiS.nes Of Gn T. s. Easton Sonsst.
soiows ,anH md dssorSed as Well p .daptsd % fe1
Sossl es John g. eooss aIs
es%i &sai .nd a:p7 i hMta Mcsi, sss' '" n
pssr.on 81 e' EnSe @
wood. Psssaic. and all the regions there
abouts as well as from New York. The
Of tss h in 20
sss rns Ts% SSs1' M Ho San
,nd %i.m %sddrop. ;r:ss%,er so"n sSSsE.
Country and Hsekensscf Golf clubs mas
been suggested. The Areoia Country Club
out at any time BY the encroachment OF
house builders.
same afternoon would seem to be a record
breaker. The fifteenth hole. 1s0 yards. at
the Enelewood Golf Club was holed from
tho tee By Aieck Ross before the open cham
T. .onship and by George Gordon during the
progress Of that competition, The eighty
players In the open championship drove
days. s,o drives. but only Gordon holed
out. which gives about the percentage OF
odds against the feat even, on such short
hole. Yet on last Wednesday at the Forest
Park golf course the professional Fred
Rumpel made the Cabbage Patoh. las
also In one. The first Is pitch over a
hollow. the latter. as the name denotes. a
tee shot to hilltop green. Rumpel made the
Cabbage Patch In . match With Mr.. Gal.
way and the San Juan" record the next
time around with Charles Kruse, both mem-
bers OF the Brooklyn-Forest Park Golf Club.
New Record for Two Hops and Jump.
The Kerry football team ran on q small
programme Of events at Celtic Park yester-
day. and the running two hops and jump.
proved to be the best because Of a new
American record. d. Ahearn. the scratch
man, won with 40 feet * inches. and II
the Investigation to which the feat will be
subjected comes out all right the mark
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