New-York tribune., 1910-12-19
TO IMPROVE GOLF LINKS
Apawamis Wants Blue Ribbon
Fixture-WilI Be Ready.

| ApaWamlS wants Blue hiOOOil
Fixture-WilI Be Ready.
Whether OF not it's course Is selected Tor
the next amateur championship golf tour
nament the Apawamis Club will go right
ahead in the way of advancement, which
has ever been its motto. Always good
test Of the game, the eighteen-hole circuit
at Rye has never had to be subjected TO
the bunkerins and trapping practice. which
has become almost habit with green
committees of recent years
In discussing the future, Frederick Nj
Wheeler now president OF the Mefropoli-
tan Golf Association as well as OF the
Apawamis Club. said the other day that
unuuestionably the course would be better
than ever next season The principal
change has TO do with the short eighth
hole. Down hill ali the way, with the
green itself on a slant, this hole has come
in for no end Of criticism. Next season the
knoblike formation in front Of the green
will be missing while the putting surface
will be more or less undulatins, with
mounds on the far side, calculated to keep
the balls from overrunning to the brook
There will also be a series Of traps TO the
right of the fairway.
Mr. Wheeler Will attend the annual meet
ing of the United States Golf Association
at Chicago next month as one of the
Apawamis delegates Neither he nor any
OF the other club officials are doing any
wire pulling, though they do not deny that
Apawamis would be pleased to handle the
blue ribbon fixture. The new clubhouse
compares favorahly with any in the
country.
The regulars at the Garden City Golf
Club are in misery these days In some
unaccountable manner the snowfall of
fortnight or so ago has stuck like glue, in
stead of quickly vanishing, as has been
the custom there One of the old guard
who has been in the habit Of playing over
the course the year round declared last
night that this is the first time in the his
tory OF the organization that play has
been at a standstilI for more than a few
Gays at a. stretch
According to later advices from Chicago,
the Western Golf Association factions will
have other knotty problems to solve at their
annual meeting besides that having to do
with the legality of the present ticket up
the laws of the organization are desired,
but IL IS unQSrStCOO Lfidt opposition VIII cC
met in one two cases.
An amendment, If carried at the meeting
on January 81, will prevent any under
the age of twenty-five years having part
in the affairs Of the association. It will also
be asked that any five members Of the
association, regardless of whether they be-
long to the same or different clubs. be al
lowed to put an independent ticket in the
field. and that 1t be put into the laws that
officers must belong TO a club which is
member of the aSsocia ton
In the opinion OF prominent Western
golfers the question of creating a new ma
tional organization will be dismissed. This
was left over from the last annual meeting,
when the feeling against the parent body
had reached an acute state. Since then oil
has been spread upon the troubled waters,
the latest pacifier being the naming OF a
Chicago man for the presidency Of the
United States Golf Association. SO, unless
something unexpected should break loose
at the national session, the Western body
will do nothing more than settle its own
local differences
The Deal Golf and Country Club. one OF
the bidders for the national amateur cham
pionship tournament next year, is leaving
no stone unturned in anticipation of secur-
ing the blue ribbon fixture. Joseph M.
Byrne, president of the Deal club, said
last night that any number of new traps
had been placed since the professionals
competed there in the metropolitan open
contest last August. All who visited the
long Deal course during the fall were en-
thusiastic at its condition.
, ,r,6a hSf Inst will how
a fine golf course In the near future. Plans
are being made for q new organization to
be known the Hamilton County Golf
Club. More than one hundred and twenty
acres of land have been purchased and
enough more will be secured to permit Of
a 5000 yard course The new eighteen-hole
circuit viii be laid out by Tom Bendelow
Public links for the use Of ST. Paul golf
ers have been planned for the coming year
The park board recently went on record
as favoring the laying out Of a nine-hole
course, which will be laid out IN PhaIer
Park
story is told of an odd experience
which befell P. ". Whittemore while play
ing match with Francis Ouinlet at Brook
line. It was at the tenth hole that White |
per-like material The country club cap
tain gave the ball an awful wallop. When
they got the hornets out of his system he |
was sp-echless. Thereafter Ouimet won the !
match quite easily.
A number of Baltusrol golfers, unable
stand IL any longer. visited the course YES
terday and played over the snow They
we're supplied with red balls and desn,ta
the fact that the globes frequently dissn-
peared meath the surface few balls were |
lost.
by Telegraph TO The Tribunel
Montclafr. n. j.. Dec 1S-The Montcl.jr
Ion Club viii meet tomorrow night to ar
range plans for the coming season and
elect officers. Improvement In the course |
IS one of the important subjects TO be dis |
cusSed
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