New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27
qllbGE GOLFERS READY
r.s,ney for Individual and Team
Titles Next Week.
eovTEsT TO BEGIN TUESDAY
s.v.rsl Institutions Hope to
vrest Laurels from Yale
History of Fixture.


.,.,~,,mrnes are out for the annual in
.....llsgiste golf championship tournament
- at Bsltusrol on Tuesday. Septem-
Because of the fact that Monday is
-. nav II was found necessary TO make
800 IN the original plans which had
= - for the entire week. AS IL is now
.o,si,ions call for five days Of con-
-. golf. which will advance the tour
-, 10 the anal stage. but II is not
-, AZ present exactly when the de
-. rourd N the individual matches will
4. dsIprmined.
=. ruesday morning the programme calls
"a first round OF the team champion
,se Imposing forces meeting in four
matches. singles will be in order in
.,,.rroon. The second round fl, on for
.s.ssdsv. with the final round for the
80 dav The team championship
"a herin ON Friday morning with an
....n-hole testing round. sixteen 10
,,,gt for the title. The first ma;cn round
h. run of she same afternoon, with
- and seminal rounds on saturday.
!, ay.sent the Intercollegiate Association
,.sss Yale. Harvard. Princeton. Penn
sv,nia. Dartmouth. Williams, Columbia
- Cornell 10 is not known how many
= ,sese universities Will try tor team
80, In the tournament a year ago
-. ,be links OF The Essex County Club.
nsDchester Mass, the individual title
a.. won by Robert Hunter, of Yale. and
-. ssue forces won the team champion
snip
y was back Ia 1897 that the college boys
rs, NET IN tournament play over the links
=, ,be Arisley club This organization pre-
a,,,Ad fine cup for a team match, to
s.core the property Of the university that
,.or II three times. conditions STIMULATING
hs,t IN first three contests should be held
kg,r the course of the Ardsley Club.
vale won tU0 games, once after The play
ksd ne with Harvard and the latter
EAssof the matches held at Ardsley, one
s, M and TWO in 1855. The tied match
ksss caused bv a falldown of one OF the
vale team. the holes piled up against him
kxpng out tine gains by that team in a
kuajority Of the matches won. This led 10
khs sdouuon OF modified system OF
SCORING OF one point for each match. plus
hre-half the holes up. 10 cancel on the
tssm result as far as possible the defeat
h one member by the excessive number OF
holes. il was justified by the difficulty
~ getting together In those days college
kesm of PLAYERS of the same grade OF Skin.
The match m the fall of 1889 at Garden
kliy was the first held away from the
Ardsley Club. and Harvard won under the
rev system of scoring, which AoweVer'
IA not alter the result by hole play, ana
keyer has. for college golf hal begun 10
improve IN quality boy a coincidence from
me year Of us adoption. The system, with
rbs passing Of the conditions 20 bring II
INTO existence. became too cumbersome
and three years ago the preliminary
matches were counted by one point ana IN
The ina on the Nassau three-point pIah'
The one-point plan a match has since been
voted the official manner Of scorings.
Al the Atlantic City Country Club, III
fhe spring Of 1901. Harvard won its third
team match and the permanent possession
-csthe Ardsley trophy. At the winter meet
iny OF the intercollegiate Golf Association
II was voted t1 chip in 800 apiece with
which to bus a new team prize. which was
20 be a pe~retgaI trophy. The cost was
sEo-mora than had been anticipated-anu
II put the league into debt. This Is now on
he book and there is a cash surplus IN
ne treasur- The college golf associations
. have no revenues fron a gate OF nom any
Of the college sports that make money
each year and 10 has Consequently oeeh
skle7 process t9 set the main league Oh
sEssy stree. as 90 finances. In 100 the
executive committee Of the United States
-GoF Association voted a handsome piece Of
yzte 20 the intercollegiate Golf Association
-as a perpetual team trophy. IN accepting
Is the students voted % make their own
trophy for which they are now out OF
debt. three win-a0d-oUt prize. The sue
cess of Yale az Brae Brun ln lfN was lhe
third on succession and gained the perma-
nent possession Of the trophy.
After the first individual championship
gained hv Louis B8vard jr. there has
always been qualifying round, eight gain
ing eligibility Tho second time. when J. F.
Curtis OF Harvard. was the victor; Percy
Tr.ne ID. Frank I'D Reinhart and Albert
ssckel are now r-acketed with Bayard as
ginnsrs for Princeton. Listed with curtis
7oH the honor roll for Harvard are II.
Llndeev t-e dark horse Of the year; n.
tnsnd'e- Esan. s. J.. White and II. n.
Wilder Tho successive winners for Yale
after John Reid IT,. sci the ball rolling. In
'hs IAN NJ r.-. have been Charles Hitch
cock. Dr.. Robert Abbott. vs.. r. Glow. IT,,
Ellis Knowles and Robert Hunter
hook ~ stirring incidents might ne
written nm the decisive matches ~ the in
6ividral .ra7,-iors1irs The breaking Of q
stvmie .- "a .ofted store stroke with
nb0ck. more unusual occurrence with
he solid ruua than witt tho sutta shell.
was a factor I'M Pvne's g~oees. II won the
~t'fie fo~ him ON the thirty-seventh hole