New-York tribune., 1909-11-08
ON THE GOLF LINKS
NEU COURSE 1T HUB.
Gossip AbOut the 1tiaHtic City
Tournament.

Tournament.
Golfers over Boston way are locking for
ward 10 the time when they will be able 20
boast Of a new eighteen-hOle course thsr
may compare fsvorahly with any u New
England The new course viii be az the
Belmont Country Club. and the plan is a.
have everything ready for formal opening
n the spring.
One advantage which me Belmont ccurse
will have over older ones Is that eVeryth
will be lone along the most ND 20 date liues
from the start. In the old days cluh- b.
san in the wrong way and sine then many
Of the leading ones have spent thousands Of
dollars in efforts 20 keep pace with tne
times. The club already has a membership
Of two hund 81 comprising many prorni-
uent Bostonians.
The rolling country. with its luNarianr
turf is well adapted for golf. Eight green's
have already been treated and "put to
sleep" for the winter In total length ths
pans call for playing distance of about
s'Xty-ive hundred yards. rather long eFea
i'm this hard hitting age.
a comparison OF the cards returned 2,
the open tournament at the Country club
% Atlantic CITY last week. as against pre-
vious gatherings there. shows decided
tendency on the high side. The scores. "a
rule. averaged from three 10 ten strokes
higher. and were Il not for the fact that tho
course. because OF recent scientific trapping. 3
had been made that much more dificult. ths
quality OF golf furnished would have 70 De
stamped as mediocre.
Even n the course was several strokes
harder because OF the many extra traps and /
pitfalls. II will take more than that % ex- /
plain the Indifferent golf played by Walter
J. Travis. The metropolitan champion. 10
be sure, did win the medal IN the qualifying 4
round with an So. but this did not represent
good golf In fact. the Garden City man
made several mistakes. quite unlike ths
Travis OF old. They were mistakes. how 4
ever. that have been noticeable with him irr>.
z majority OF his matches this season. Why
he should have lost his erstwhils machins-t
Ike game Is a question which possibly even
Travis himself cannot answer.
The practics OF playing under an as
sumed name has not claimed much sttsr- 7
tiOn thus far. for rule those wishing /
70 conceal their real identity either for Z
business or other reasons have not played Y
well enough 70 attract attention. In the /
case OF c. p Buxton. who won the chic.
cup at Atlantic City on Saturday. the situs-
ton was different As "a. $ Cameron" OF
Atlantic City, he attracted little notics un-
I'll he reached the semi-finaI round. Theirs I.
was another golfer who played through the
Atlantic City tournament incognito. bur
complications were avoided IN his case be-
cause OF his failure to win one OF the "hfty-
-,
Although the scores throughout the NJ
iantic City tournament were almost with
out exception on the high side Robert wier.
OF Wilmington. a former Lakewood winner,
succeeded in getting inside OF so on tho
last day. IL was in the final round for ths
first beaten eight cup which Wier won de-
feating W. f. Shackelford OF the hons
club. returning card OF 20
The newspaper golfers are scheduled TO
gather for tournament At Fox Hills to-
morrow. Because OF the shortness OF the
days competitors will have 70 start before
2:SO O'Clock. There will be an sighteen-hoIs
medal play handicap.
A foreign correspondent writing on the
styTnie problem. suggests that there are
several kinds OF hazards which operate with
greater Enfairness than the much ma
ligned stymie- Cows are mentioned as an
especially bad example. and he instances
his own links. where the meditafive kline
have learned that golf ball dry on the
tongue provides an excellent vehicle for
the removal Of pieces OF grass which have
got wedged between their teeth.
In recent match between teams OF
women OF the Hackensack Golf Club and
the Forest Hill Field Club over the lat
ters links Hackensack won BY a score or
: 20 4 A return match az Hackensack viii
be played shortly.