Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
MANY TO ENTER GOLF MEET
Hundred and Fifty Players for An
nual Tournament.
LOCAL CLUB HAS CHAMPION
Omaha Field Club win Have Most
Entries, with Forty-Five Players,
and Omaha Country Club
Boasts biggest Chance.

Golfers Of the state of Nebraska, and
more especially those in the immediate
vicinity of Omaha are looking forward
with great interest to next Wednesday, the
date of the annual golf tournament OF the
Nebraska Golf association. This year is
the sixth since the annual contests were
started, and the outlook is for the biggest
tournament with more crack golfers on
hand than ever before.
Omaha will naturally have the largest
representation on hand. as 1t has the larg-
est number of golf enthusiasts In its vicin-
ity. The four Omaha clubs expect to have
over 100 of their members entering the
qualifying rounds of the tournament. The
South Omaha Country cluR and the Lin
coin people will also be on the field in
force. The list of clubs which belong to
the association is as follows: Omaha Field
club, Omaha country club, Happy Hollow
club, Lincoln Country club. Overland Coun-
try club, Hastings Country club South
Omaha Country club. Miller Park Golf
club, Fremont Country club, and the Coun-
Gil Bluffs Rowing association. There will
be about $50 players entered in the entire
list.
OF these the Omaha Field club expects
to have the greatest number entered, as
it has a DIST of forty-five names, and the
Country club will probably have the next
largest representation. Dick Meadows
promises that the Lincoln club will send
at least thirty-five of its members to
Omaha on that day. The Omaha Country
club is not in the least worried about the
championship going to another club, as It
has Blaine Young, the present holder of
the title, and also VIII j. Foye, the former
II.
has the added advantage of being able to
play on its own links. Young won the
title of Nebraska's best golfer last year in
close match at the state meet held on
the links of the Omaha Field club. AL
though he has improved some in his par
ticular style of playing since then, there
are those among the golf fans who pre-
get that he will have to hustle little
to be able to hold it this season.
Tournament This Week.
The dates of the tournament are from
Wednesday. June 20, to Saturday, July 2.
During that time besides the playing on
the links, the different Omaha organiza-
tons will give many entertainments in the
name of the clubs, and private people will
fill the club halls to the utmost. All play
ers will be governed by the rules of the
United States Golf association throughout
the tournament. The handicap matches
are by the rule of the Nebraska associa-
ton to be judged by the best score of each
player and his home club handicap. The
pairings off for playing are not made I'M
til each player reaches sthe first tee, then
the pairs are made just as they come up.
The prizes of the tournament consist of
a silver cup for the team championship, a
cup to the amateur championship winner,
and prize to the runner-up, prize to
the winner and the runner-up in the con-
ISOLATION class and prizes are given to the
winners and runners-up in the directors
solace and secretarys' class and the handi-
caps. An entry fee of 81 a player and 81
team is made. the money going for the
expenses of the event.
The officers of the association are VIII
liam ]. Foye, president; John B. Lindsay,
vice president; Frank ]. Hoel, secretary,
and as directors are H. c. Sumney, f. II.
Gaines, C. r. Elgas, e. A. Nordstrom, A.
j. Smith, c. F. Morey, w. A. Cox, H. c.
Townsend, r. w. Hammond and Fred
Empkie.