New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-18
NO POLITICS IN GOLF
Rather Politics Is Forgotten
in Day on the Links.
REPUBLICAN CLUB PLAYS
F. P. Duryea Gets His Name
on the Haviland Cup with
Good Score.


club gathered at the Wykagyl Country
/ club for their semi-annuai tournament
Yesterday. All made the double circuit
OF the course IN the trirty-slX-hole medal
play handicap. prizes being given for
gross and net scores. Most coveted OF
all the awards was the Haviland Cup.
a perpetual trophy presented by the Re-
publican Club for the contestant MAX
ing the best gross score Of tho day
This was won by i. J.. Duryea with
rounds OF S. and 81 for a total of 10.
This makes the fourth time that the
Englewood man has had his name In
scribed on the cup.
Ralph a Day. Of the home club, won
the second gross score prize with card
OF go-9l-ls. while the third gross went
to +, u. Mclean. another Wykagyl man,
with sl-2-ls3 First net award In the
all-day handicap would have gone To
Durvea had II not been for a rule which
prohibits player from taking more
than one prize. His card read l7j-ls-
III As a result r. y. Scohle won with
! 6-3s-l5S G. NJ. De Mott getting second
prize with lg9-3S-l6i. The cishtoen-hole
| handicap, played I'm the forenoon, was
won by Gerald StrattOn with E-l9-7s.
| All the prize winners. with the exception
OF Duryea. are members OF the Wykagyl
! club.
| Lovers Of golf residing IN Brooklyn, as
well as those belonging 10 clubs on Long
Island, are eligible to compete In the an
nual tournament 70 be held on the links
| OF the Brooklyn-F Forest Park Golf club
| on July o., 26 and q. According TO the
I programme there will be an eighteen
| hole testing round on tho morning OF the
, first day, and those making the top SIX
/ teen will qualify for the chief cup FRO
vision has also been made for second
| sixteen, and there may be third.
| BY running of he first match round
son the afternoon Of the opening day the
way will be cleared for a thirty six-hole
! final a gold medal will go 70 the player
making the best score In the qualifying
round, and another medal awaits the
winner OF the tournament. This success
ful player will likewise be allowed the
custody Of the chief trophy for one year.
! The runner-up will receive a silver tro-
ply. In the second sixteen the winner
| will get the Eliot cup, while a silver
trophv has been donated for the runner
ND. An open handicap is on for the last
day
The tournament committee consists ot
Wilson II Curtis, chairman; f. H. Alex
andcr. q. G. Buechncr, w. Cameron j.
W. Kent Devereux Lord, Samuel Peace
and c. A. Powell
! Inward Of one hundred and MY en-
tries have been received for the open
tournament which starts al the Dun
woodje Country Club to-day. gold
medal will be presented to the contestant
with low score at the end OF the eighteen
hole qualifying round, which Is all that
will be attempted to-day. Provision mas
been made for four siXtcens, ana IL was
| stated at the club last night that players
would be allowed 10 start In the testing
round as late as 4 o'clock. with the eN-
cepton OF the first sixteen match rounds
will be conducted on a handicap OASIS
on what is known as the "Dunwoodie
system: that is, the receiver or the odds
| will start one-half as many holes up as
there are strokes difference In their
medal handlcaps Half stroke counts
as one.
Advices from Shawnee state that the
advance guard of the professionals en-
tered for the open tournament scheduled
for tomorrow and Saturday arrived yes
terday. It IS generally conceded that the
competitive record for the links VIII Dc
placed at low notch, at least consider
ably lower than the existing mark. In a
match there last season Walter j. travis
made a H. but a short time since Alec
Cunningham, the clubs professional got
round I'm 70, giving an idea what may be
expected when the Scots, Britons and
homebreds get to work in earnest. Sew
enty-two holes OF medal play Will be In
order.
HAZARD WINS ON COURTS.
Tho July lawn tennis tourney OF inc
Marine and Field Club at Bay Ridge