New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-29
NEWS FOR THE GOLFERS
Season Now On in Earnest, as
Clubs Issue Schedules.
GAROENCITYT0URNEY NEAR
Team Matches Of Women Begin
Soon, Too-No Lack of
Competition Anywhere.

one of the surest indications that the
golf season Is on in earnest is the ap-
pearance of schedules issued by many
clubs in the immediate vicinity Of New
York Half a dozen organizations start
ed their list Of seasons competitions on
Saturday. including such well known
clubs as Montclair. Fox Hills. Nassau.
Englewood and Oakland. At Baltusrol
the first of a series Of team matches was
PLAYED.
There will be temporary halt in tour
nament golf however. now that Lake
wood and Atlantic city are down on the
pages of history, but another week will
bring about the Garden city meeting,
furnishing the hrst opportunity for play
ers to compete in the immediate vicinity
OF New York and at the same time to get
n better idea of the course which VIII
he the scene Of the national amateur
championship i'm September.
The women's list Of dates begins next
week with a match between New York
and New jersey teams at oakland.
As for club competitions. the lists
seem TO contain more of these than
usual Fox Hills. for instance, provides
for something in a competitive line clear
on until November %, and there is
scarcely an interruption for midsummer
Until the time for the metropolitan anna
teur championship late in May the MEM
bers viii he interested in the spring
tournament. after which the vice-presi-
dents cup. offered by g. W. Lembeck
will come in for attention until the an
nua initiation tournament beginning
on June IS.
Then will come the Colonel O'Donoghue
cur. the Richmond trophy. the Manhat-
tan cup. the president cup. offered by
Joseph J. Donohue, IT.; the captain
trophy and the Brooklyn cup. George r
Armstrong offers the medal for the
club championship. conditions governing
which call for seventy-two holes. medal
play September and {. y. II. Pogson
offers n prize for the best selected score
during the season Team matches Will
be arranged from time TO time.
Montclair golfers have changed the
time for their club championship from
fall to summer. the reason given being
that the course is I'm better condition at
that time. The qualifying round is card
ed for May 81. eighteen holes. medal
play being required.
The first sixteen Will continue At
match play at the convenience of the
contestants until June IS, at which time
the final round, at thirty-siX holes. Is on
the calendar This will mark the close
Of the spring schedule OF the club.
Monthly tournaments are feature Of
The programme.
Next Saturday the Ardsley club will
get under way with an eighteen-hole
match between teams OF members, the
losers To entertain the winners at a
beefsteak dinner in the clubhouse that
evening Eighteen-hOlc medal play han
dicaps are on the card for nearly every
Saturday until November p
While the schedule issued by the Dyker
Meadow Golf club provides for competi-
lions only until the middle Of July. the
tournament committee calls attention 10
the fact that every Saturday during July
and August some sort Of contest VIII he
held Although no dates have been SET.
the club Championship will he held IN
October.
According to the conditions the six
teen PLAY ers who return the lowest gross
scores in the monthly handicaps VIII
qualify for match play. Similar condi-
lions are imposed for the Dyker Meadow
Gun and the Marine and Field Club cup.
No schedule has been issued by the
Great Neck Golf Club. but by way or
providing something interesting match
has been arranged between James FRA
ser. the clubs professional, and John J..
McDermott. the national open champion.
The pros" viii meet At Great Neck next
week and the match will be the first OF
several similar attractions.