New-York tribune., 1910-05-09
ON THE GOLF LINKS
Women's Metropolitan Golf As
Sociation Active.
PLAN FOR BUSY SEASON
Programme Announced for An
nual Championship Tourney
in June.

in June.
According to the programme received, TINS
years annual championship tournament OF
the Wornen's Metropolitan Golf Association
will be practically the same as before IL
will be held at the Montclair Golf CIuo
from May 81 10 June 8. The tournament
will start with eighteen-hole medal play
testing round, and those with the best eight
scores will qualify to continue for the title
Provision has likewise been made for sec
ond third and fourth eights.
AIi-match play will consist OF eighteen
holes. and the rounds will be played in the
forenoon. The first championship round IS
carded for 1870 o'clock on June 1, while
the ether divisions will be got under way at
II O'Clock There will be nine-hole put
ting competition in the afternoon At 1870
o'clock on the morning Of June 2 the semi
final round will be started I'm the champion
ship division, and this will be followed haif
an hour later by the senli-hnal round
matches in the other sets. An eighteen-hole
medal play handicap is the side attraction
scheduled for o'clock that afternoon On
June 3, the last day, final round matches IN
the championship and other classes VIII Do
run off on the same schedule as on the pre-
vious day. while the tournament VIII De
brought TO a close at o'clock with
mixed foursomes handicap
Entries will close with Mrs. E. F. san
ford, the secretary, No. 81 West 93d street.
this city, on Saturday evening, May 2s, ana
all entries must be made through the sec
retaries of the players clubs and De ac-
companied by a 81 entrance fee One OF the
rules of this association is that no competi-
tor may use caddies other than those sup
n cad
shall not be more than sixteen years orc.
The course will be open to contestants the
week previous to the tournament
The schedule of spring events under the
auspices of the Womens Metropolitan Golr
Association has been issued In addltlon
to the dates for the championship tourna-
ment of the association the card also calls
attention to one-day attractions that VIII
be held at several of the nearby CLUBS
The first of these will take place az tne
Richmond County Country CLUB on May u
The women will also gather at the ram
field Country Club some time this month";
but the exact date has yet to be nxed-
Jerome d. Travers, the we'll known Mont
clair amateur, who displayed much Of his
oIdtirne form at Garden City last week, has
entered for the invitation tournament at
the Fox Hills Golf Club this Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. G.. w. White, the
younestsr who gave Travers such q hard
match earlier in the round, has also en-
tered. while the redoubtable Walter j.
Travis will run down for the handicap on
Saturday AS additional traps have been
put in this spring, the Staten Island
course will be a greater test than ever.
The interscholastic championship tourna-
ment to begin to-day over the links of the
Huntington Valley Country Club. near
PHILADELPHIA calls for an eighteen-hole
qualifying round this morning, and co1ncf-
dent with this will be the team matches TO
determine the team championship of the
East Each school will enter four men, the
total score to count. The top sixteen will
qualify to continue on at match play, and
the final round on Wednesday Will consist
Of thirty-six holes The schoolboys will also
hold a. meeting to-day for the purpose of
effecting the permanent organization Of an
Eastern interscholastic body
George Sargent. the national open cham
pion. has been doing some great scoring in
recent practice rounds at Chevy Chase Not
long since, in a match with Robert Nc
Watt. the pro connected with the Co.
Iuubia. Golf Club, Sargent broke the course
record, doing the Chevy Chase circuit IN So
The card contained no less than nine Ss-
Starting with the eighth. he had four in a
row. The eighth hole is 4SS yards Sargent.
who IS determined to be at his best when
he defends his title at the Philadelphia
Cricket Club In June, visits that course
every Monday for a days practice His
record round at Chevy Chase was as fol-
lows:
In 2gt ::::::.::s 80 s : 5 5 4s5se
In selecting the Morris County links for
their semi-annuaI handicap tournament the
University Club golfers are again depart
ing from custom Until last fall, when
the tournament was tried at the Nassau
Country Club, It had been held at ST.
Andrews for several years without inter-
ruption. The handicap at Morris County
will be held on Wednesday, May IS. and
consist of an all-day affair. conditions
calling for thirty-six holes. The commit
tee In charge consists of R. l.. Harrison,
chairman; B. B. Lawrence. A Leo Everett.
John Reid, jr.: A. B. Meacham and A. II.
Lockett, secretary-treasurer.
Dave Ogilvie, professional of the Morris
County Golf Club. has secured a leave of
absence from his club, the vacation 10 be-
gin in July. He plans to visit relatives
in Scotland, and will be gone for couple
of months. Ogilvie alternates between
Morris County and Augusta, and in that
way manages to keep busy the year round
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