Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-29
VETERANS
MAY BAR
BOY GOLFER
Philip Carter's Age Is
Discussed at SHINE
cock Club.

If young Philip Carter is allowed to
start next week in the annual tour
nament of the Shinnocock Hills Golf
Club he will get in by the skin of his
teeth. That organization has revived
its rule tina players must be more
than 16 years old In order to enter.
Young Carter is close to his sixteenth
birthday, so everything depends upon
the st%rictness with which the tourna-
ment committee i%nterprets the ruling.
Last year the Carter boy, wearing
short trousers, was allowed to start.
Being unknown, he was not given n
second thought.
He qualified by an excellent card,
and in the first round walloped Joseph
s.. Clark, of Philadelphia, long a Shin
necock summer resident and a commit
teeman of the United States Golf AS
ISOLATION. Quite likely Mr.. Clark vas
two-thirds beaten before he knew what
he had run up against. At n rate
when he finished he was one of the
most surprised golfers that ever COM
pleted a round. On the second and
third rounds Philip defeated Ernest
Thomson, of Garden City. and Chester
Griswold, of Shinnecock Hills, the lat
ter a former Princeton player, both
being beaten on the home hole.
Thomson, a world golfer, who has
several times competed In the British
event, although warned by Clark's de-
feat, was none the less genuinely sur
prised. In the final John M. Warl
beat the youngster, but he was kept
busy in doing 1t until toward the close
of the contest,
The outcome was a coincidence, be-
cause the Shinnecock Club, Of all
others, years before had sought to seq
regate the youthful element by giving
it a special building on the grounds
and keeping the kids in separate
classes when it came to competitions.
Then, almost a dozen seasons later, n
kid from a small summer club hard
by (Bridgehampton) popped up as u
dark colt n took practically every
body's measure of from two to four
times his years. When the program
was made-up recently and the condi-
lions named, the managers took pains
to revive the old regulation as to age.
There will be no more trouncing of
grizzled veterans by players in PIN
feathers if the management can pre-
vent 1t.
A former chairman of the tourna-
ment committee said yesterday that
he thought young Carter would be al
lowed to play because he is so near
the age requirement and did so we'll
last year out that other boy wonders
need not apply unless they would prove
themselves well over the limit.
The field at Shinnecock is going to be
stronger this year than for several sea
sons, partly because it is the last gen.
eral tournament before the national
amateur championship. 1t will include
Eben M. Byers, ex-national title
holder; Max Behr, twice New Jersey
champion; John M. Ward, once title
holder of that State, and Walter Tuck
erman and Wolcott Tuckerman, both of
Washington, the first named having
more than once taken high rank IN the
national affair. Walter ]. Travis will
not be in the running, while neither
Gardner White nor Oswald Kirkby has
yet positively decided, but will probably
be on hand. Max Behr is already on
the spot, and this week made a II
there, which Is fast going.
A number of important changes have
just been finished on the course. The
centre of the cop bunker guarding the
second green has been taken away and
the same thing lone on the fifth,
where a pit has been substituted, 50
one can see the hole. On the twelfth
the bunkers at the putting green have
been so reshaped as to better the ap-
proach to the cup.