New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-13
THREE GOLF JOURNEYS
ON CARD THIS WEEK
rne Day Meeting for Women
and Semi-AnnuaI Fixture
of University Club.
FOR STATEN ISLAND TITLE
players to Gather at Richmond
Country Club to Clash
in a Two Day
Affair.

While American and British women Of
hsmp,onship calibre are competing at
uunington all this week for the Ameri-
=, championship. golfers in the metro
Titan district will not be idle. On Tues
s,y there Is scheduled one-day meeting
:, tho Woman's Metropolitan Golf As
.,.,s,on at the Arcola Country Club. On
~,prsday the University Golf Club Asso-
,,.,on will hold its semi-annual tourna-
r,snt at Apawamis. while on Friday and
saturday, the Staten Island championship
,4u be held at Richmond County.
ina tournament Of the University Club
al bs the twenty-hfth semi-annual thr-
,.sx hole medal play handicap. open
ony 10 members OF the club. Prizes will
/. given for the best three net scores and
4, medal for the low gross score for thir-
,r.sx holes. A prize will also be given
,,r the low net score and n medal for the
ov gross score for the afternoon round.
Those who win prizes for thirty-six holes
Tll not be eligible for other awards.
The New Brunswick Country Cub will
visit the Somerville Country Club next
saturday for the purpose Of running off
team match. In the course Of the sum
ue- months a remarkable Improvement
has been made In the Somerville links.
me turf having been developed and about
,rty new bunkers built. John j. McDer-
mott recently visited Somcrville and de-
cared that in time the course would be
m. Of the best In the East.
Mrs. James r. Bayne won the silver
nate offered by Mrs. A. II. Howard for
he woman making the best net score
'or the nine holes Of the course of the
G.nwood Country Club during Septem-
her, Mrs. Bayne had card of 6o-l4-io.
Mrs Russell Doubleday returned Sf-o-4S'
While Mrs. II. c. Severance had S0-15-65.
For the remainder Of this month the
nsmbers OF the Oakland Golf Club VIII
h engrossed in the annual club cham
pioaship. the first and second rounds or
which are scheduled for to-day. Other
rounds will be run off later on. Gardiner
" White won the title for the fourth
fine last year. The championship OF the
oakland Golf Club is now an historic ar
Air beginning as il did as far back as
lS when I. Chauncey McKeever became
he holder of the title. After that wal
,,r J. Travis was the champion Tor four
YEARS in succession. and was the only
nan to hold the position for that length
4 time besides White. The record foi-
tVs:
lNs I Chauncey McKeever; 1871 war
,y Travis: 1898, Waiter ]. Travis; lsSs'
Walter ]. Travis. 1900. Walter J. Travis;
M. W. Stuart Brown; 1902 stephen r.
Nash. 1919 Herbert L. Riker; 1904, Her
bert r. Peck; 1905, Herbert r. PECK
lw L. Martin Richmond; 1891, Frank II.
Rossiter: 1905 William B. Donnell; Ips'
Gardiner W. White; 1910. Gardner W.
White; 1911. Gardiner ". White; 1917 Gar
diner W. White.
pespite the repeated warnings against
such dangerous practices through the
,rsss and on the part of the United
States Golf Association, accidents from
opening golf balls still occur. Inc Idte''
victim is DR.. Friend d. Gilpin' OF tn'
Crnford Golf Club. II seems tha' III '"1
oo,rse NJ a round the other day Samuei
r Jones found an old golf pan VIM"
sprsarad n be cracked. He handed II 10
his companion, Abeel Canda, VINO tooA
out his penknife and pushed the blaze
INTO tie crack. The. ball exploded ana 'he
LIQUID souirted into the eyes of DR. 1iipin,
who was approaching, unconscious Oh F."
an, a few feet away Fortunately Ut.
Gnpin's sight Is not in danger ,houe"
Ia wa, in severe pain for several days