Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-09
Tourney Is Set for July 2.
Straight Drives Gossip
About Other Clubs.
BY STRAIGHT DRIVE.


OLIVER loving cups. to be awarded
as the prizes for IN invitation golf
to be held at the
Ardsley Golf Club on July 2, are now
on exhibition at the club headquarters.
Cups will be given for the following
winners: First sixteen, second sixteen,
third sixteen and fourth sixteen. The
runners-up in each case will also receive
a cup suitably inscribed and there will
be a cup for the thirty-six-hole handi-
cap and one for the beaten eight. The
cracks are expected to be among the
competitors. The cups were made by
the Black. Starr & Frost Co. of New
York. v w
One of the most active of the New
Jersey golf clubs Is the Englewood COLI
Club, which has a large membership
and a most interesting eighteen-hoie
course, laid out about the base OF the
western slope of the Palisades.
Although the I'll practically opened
its summer season April 80 with an
1S-hole medal play handicap, the mem
bers did not settle down to good nara
work until last Saturday, when they
turned out In goodly numbers for the
Austin medal qualifying round. 1t Is a
much-treasured trophy presented by
George C. Austin, for which previous
inner are not eligible. Those VINO
qualified on this occasion will compete
at match play May IA, 81 n %. There
will also be a medal play handicap
Nav IA. in which all the members OF the
club can take part. and on May Il the
general event will be a match play
handicap against par. in which there
will be a prize for each class, A and b..
The regular club event for May 2S is a
medal play handicap for classes A
n b.
The most important event of the sea-
son is the club championship, the quail
fying round of which, at thirty-six
holes, will be played on May 30. -Four
sixteens are to qualify for match play;
the first sixteen for the championship
trophy presented by the board of gov
ernors, and suitable prizes have been
provided for the other sixteens. The
match play has been set for Tune 4. IL,
IS and the final July 4. An annual COM
petition for Memorial Day is an eigh-
teen-hole medal play contest for the
olkOuIIltH t. ClIS @eFt
with the first round of the course to
count. The winner will have his name
inscribed upon the cup, and will re-
ceive a miniature thereof. A special
handicap will be played June IL. for
those not in the match play, while on
June IS there will be another medal
play handicap for those not in the
match play, -four of whom will qualify
- -Io., n IN Tlnrrad Iffnn Ok
and July 2, and on June rs there will
be an eighteen-hole four-ban match,
the best ball to count.
Another Of the big important days of
the year is the Fourth of July, when
all hands will be busy. The final round
for the club championship at thirty-six
holes will be a feature. The other
members of the club will compete in a
medal play handicap in the morning
and in a four-ball best ball match In
the afternoon. Prize-winners in the
finals. are not eligible for n other
competition this day except the Wells
memorial. DIR. John A. Wells vas one
of the most active and prominent MEM
hers of the club, and his memorial cup
event is q cherished memory of their
departed associate. 1t is an eighteen
hole medal play handicap, with the
handicap limited to fifteen strokes, and
the first round of the course that day
to count. The winner will have his
name inscribed pon the cup, and will
receive a miniature thereof.
AS sort of a coincidence for the aching
hearts there will be an eighteen-hole
medal play handicap July 0 for those
who have never won an E~nglewood Golf
Club prize, and on July 16 the men,
bers will have their skill officially
tested in a handicap match play against
par.
All medal play competitions and COM
petitions against par, unless scheduled
for the afternoon only. may be played
In the forenoon, providing declaration
is made before starting.
In all competitions cards must be
promptly turned in properly attested
and bearing the date and name of the
event, otherwise the score WIN not be
accepted.
All match play rounds of the various