New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-25
ON THE GOLF LINKS
NEW LEAGUE CLUBS.
East Jersey Golfers Preparing
to Branch Ont.

AS a result of the unusually successful
championship tournament Of the East Jer-
sey Golf League. brought to close over
the links of the Forest Hin Field Club on
Saturday the officials of the organization
are planning TO branch out before another
season. It is understood that at least two
more clubs will join shortly, the organiza-
lions mentioned being the Yountakah
Country Club and the Upper Montclair
Country Club. both OF which have eighteen
hole courses.
Since the league abandoned the annual
series of home-and-home team matches. a
few seasons ago. East Jersey competitive
events have been confined TO tournaments
During the last season the members COM
peted in a two-day affair at Forest Hin In
June and in a one-day contest at Glen
Ridge later in the summer. There was q
combination Of match and medal play on
both occasions. and II. d. Smith. of Glen
Ridge, gained chief honors in these tourna-
ments. He did not compete in the recent
championship. More than one hundred
players took part in last weeks tourna-
ment, the organizations represented being
the New Brunswick Golf Club, South
Orange Field Club. Suburban Club. COlonia
Country Club. Glen Ridge Golf Club and
tOreSt hill fleld CluD-
Roy Gussman the East Orange lad who
won the low score prize in the qualifying
round and then supplemented this feat by
gaining the title. has been playing golf
only about three years. He drives long
ball with little effort. plays his irons we'll
and puts like professional. Although
fond Of baseball, Gussman now says he in
a. til -
future to golf.
The BaItusrol Golf Club has arranged to
hold one-day invitation tournament for
women on Monday, November l. when Miss
Dorothy Campbell. the British and Ameri-
can champion. and the other members Of
her party will be present. When Miss
Rhena Adair came over here several years
ego she visited Baltusrol and succeeded in
establishing a new women's record Of S.
Many changes have taken place since then,
more than one hundred traps having been
added and the course made considerably
harder in consequence.
With Miss Campbell on hand and her far
driving club mate, Miss Frances Teacher,
10 says nothing of Mrs c. T. Stout. OF Rich
mond County; Miss Julia r. Mix. OF Engle-
wood. the metropolitan title holder. and a
score Of others scarcely less prominent, the
chances are that something out Of the or
binary will be accomplished. On Friday Of
this week many of the same women will
compete at Garden City, and a comparison
Of their scores over these two courses, ad-
nittedly the best in this part Of the coun-
try, will be of more than passing interest
According to foreign advices. the new in
depreciation Of the ''out OF bounds" rule not
only leads to a great deal OF confusion, but
also has the effect Of occasionally giving
rise to litigation. Recently the club at Dy-
sart, in Fife, was sued by a dairyman in
Kirkcaldy for f1s as damages done to his
potato crop by players entering hts fields in
search OF balls. In respect to this claim
the club denies liability and pleads that the
statements given in support OF It are quite
insufficient to bear out the damages To
offset this claim on the part OF the dairy
man the golf club sues him for f2O as the
half years rent for the grazing on the
course. The dairyman's reply to this Is to
prefer claim for a similar amount owing
10 the golf club having cut the grass on
the course so short as to make ii practi-
cally useless as pasture for cows. the con-
sequence being that he had to buy a large
quantity OF feeding stuff. On this head the
club denied liability and asserted that the
dairyman's claim was irrelevant No de-
cision has as yet been given.