New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-15
BUSY WEEK FOR GOLFERS
Many Tournaments Arranged TOR
Metropolitan Links.
WOMEN GO TO FOX HILLS
Medal Play Handicap of Unlver-
sity Club To Be Held on st.
Andrews Course.

There's a surfeit Of golf carded for TINS
week, and so many are the competitiVe
meetings that the crack Of the driver VIII
be heard almost continuously until dusH
on Saturday Members OF the Women
Metropolitan Golf Association will take
possession at Fox Hills to-day, In an en-
deavor to emulate the stirring feats or tne
men there last week
On Wednesday the twentieth sem'-annua'
thirty sx-hole medal play handicap or the
University Club will attract the usual NUM-
Der OF graduates to St Andrews. while OH
the following day those affiliated with tho
Eastern Trade Golf Association VIII as
semble at Wykagyl A start VIII he maze
on Wednesday IN the first annual goli
tournament for members Of the New forh
Athletic Club at Fox Hills. This Is three
day affair. FOR which upward of Hxty ell
tries have already been received. mum
Der OF fairly prominent golfers are Keen ~
win this competition. They 'nclude H. -
Hamilton, Of Englewood. and DR.. A. l.
Haght. OF wyksgyl.
on May %. o and 81 the Eastern inter
scholastic golf championship tournamen'
will claim attention at the Merton Criche.
Club near Philadelphia. Contestants VIII
qualify IN two sxteens for the presidents
end vice-presidcnt's cups. respectively. The
final rounds IN both divisions will consist
Of thirty-six holes. Entries will close Win
W. H. Gardner. ST. Luke's School. wayne
Penn, not later than May 20. This Is tne
tournament which Gardiner White won
year ago at Huntingdon Valley.
The lesson taught by the remarkably 10"
scoring IN tho Fox Hills golf tournament.
last week was apparent 70 the most casual
observer. From tho outset when Gardner
White recred of his 10 in the qualifying
round. members and visitors alike nave
been burning" the links TO such an eN''"'
.ba, .,ahteen-hole totals ~ 70 or more we're
almost unnoticed.
The good people mt Fox HIS mink tnoS
have n championship course. Ten Year,
ago. when only tho hard ball was IN use
Fox Hills ns q IL now. both as 10 Length
and condition. would have been ideal. Then
that second shot from the plateau over
Tho brook 10 tho eleventh. would have
called for the best the golfer had. while
tho trying water carry over the hlyphoN
10 the twelfth would have proved the IN
doing OF many a short driver. Then there
would come the second shot over "BeiF
kitchen" AT No. 10: some shot with SOLID
g1.ttv. but how different now!
Fox Hills has been trapped a. various
points since last year. but the extra uouoie
has no, kep. pace With the improvement
IN tho game. due largely ~ the ever
Increasing resillency OF The balls Tnese
latest creations bore through the stmos
phere Iik. bullets. so that dufers who al
ono time couldn't drive out or their own
way. as tho saying goes. think nothing o'
getting ao Yards or NOR, Traps a-plenty
and about 2n Yards moro in length are
needed and needed badly.
rugt q, present thA friends and admirers
of Alec Smith. the national ana retropoh-
tan op.n champion. are worried lest he VIII
bo unabl. ~ defend h,s titles this season.
Alec has been quite III since returning from
tho South. and the muscles OF his back
which were en,hed are still weak. The
open championship tournament vii Be held
over the links Of tho Chicago Golf Club at
Wheaton. about six weeks hence.
Rrooklvp golfers will have their first
chance OF tho season 70 play over the
rubuc course at Forest Park to-day. Al
though III. Van Cortlandt Park links ard
most 81 the club courses have been open
month or more. tho Brooklyn players have
had 70 walt and further must be satisfied
with the old nine-hole course FOR some time
70 come There have been many changes
rrode his spring. and the course has been
grcatly improved II ~ 10 be hoped that
the Forest Park links will receive more at
tention from its caretakers than n has had
I'm previous years for hundreds n Brook
lyn golfers play over H.
Harold Steiner won the gross CUP snd
Jack Laucheincr tho net score cup vester-
day I'm the golf competitions on tho course
OF the Inwoo6 Country Club. NJ Far Rock
away. Long Island. sixty golfers teed on
in tho opening competition Of tho season.
an lS-hola handicap over tho heightened
course. which now measures 500 yards.
The par golf FOR rho course is z and the
bogie Sc.
Steiner won with score ~ S-39-i2.
while Iaucheimer had e3-25-sS The other
leading cards turned In were as follows:
Gross Heap Net
s Hcchstaiter -.....-....-... los :, ~