Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-13
UNIQUE SITUATION
IN GOLF TOURNEY
Play for Western Open Title
Will Be Held in
South.

More than fifty players are expect
ed to drive off next Thursday morn
ing for their first eighteen holes OF
the fifteenth open tournament OF the
Western Golf Association, which is
tc be played over the Memphis, Tenn,
Country Club course. 1t will be the
first tourney for the premier golfing
honors of the West to be played in
a Southern State.
The match of seventy-two holes
will be played in two days, and Will
he preceded on Wednesday by a best
BAH match. for which a $3.50 prize
has been hung up by the Memphis
club. A score of entrants already are
trying out the course.
The entry list includes Mcdonald
Smith, of California, present title
holder: J. J. McDermott Atlantic
City: Tom Mcnamara, c. H. Ander-
son and N. j. Brady. Boston; j. B.
Simpson, Milwaukee; Chester Nelson,
Oklahoma City; Lee Nelson Indian
apolis; Robert PEBBLES. Topeka; Tom
Hughes, Wichita: George Livingston,
Nashville; Powell Andrews, Chatta-
nooga, and R. S. Simpson. unat-
tached. Besides w. c. Sherwood,
professional five Memphis amateurs
will compete.
Harry Vardon and Edward Ray,
English golfers, defeated James and
Win Mckenzie, local professionals, IL
up in a 36-hole best ball foursome at
the Brookhaven course, Atlanta, Ga,
YESTERDAY The visitors were up
at the end of the two morning s-hole
rounds. Vardon's II was a course
record.
Gardner w. White won the semi
final round for the presidents cup
yesterday at the Flushing Country
Club, Bayside, L. l., defeating e. b.
Mitchell UP and l to play. Mitchell
had a handicap of six. In the morn
ing White defeated J. F. DeWolf in
the second wound for the cup by UP
and g to play. DeWolf had handi-
cap of Z. White will play in the
final next week against H. Kent
worthy.
At Englewood next Sunday a good
professional team will be played when
Jack Hobens and Aleck Smith meet
J. J. McDermott and Tom Mcnamara
The finals in the championship for
the Hackensack Golf Club were
played yesterday afternoon, and A.
". Tomares became champion by de-
feating Alfred Morrell 10 down and
to go at the twenty-seventh hole.
w. B. Averel the metropolitan
golfer. won the 1918 championship Of
he ~ al of nv
Springs. Va, yesterday afternoon in
A ard-fought 36-hole match that
went the full distance to decide the
victor He defeated w. r. Simons,
New York, l up. T. NJ Carnegie,
Pittsburgh won the final of the sec
und sixteen from III. c. Emmett. jr., of
New York, by the easy margin Of
So
The Garden City, L. l., Golf Club
has arranged for a medal play handi-
cap match today in celebration of Co.
lumbus Day. There are in the neigh
borhood of one hundred entries. Cups
are offered for the best gross score for
fhirty-six holes. the best net score for
thirty-six holes. the best net scores for
eighteen holes. both morning and aft
ernoon rounds, and the best selected
score for eighteen holes. Competition
is open to members only. These may
enter for all or any Of the events, but
no member. may win more than one
cup.
In the second round for the Presi-
eent Granville NJ. White Cup at the
Morris County Golf Club yesterday,
Vice Chancellor Frederick w. Stevens
beat John T. Gillespie, up and / to
play; George j. Little beat George c.
Palmer, up and . to play; Josiah
Macy beat w. Palmer Letchford, up
and 2 to play; d. II. McAlpin, I'd, beat
Adolph De Barry, . up and to play.
For the W. Ledyard Thompson Cup,
offered in competition by the beaten
sixteen in the Presidents Cup match,
George G. Thomson beat Paul Moore,
up and to play; Livingston Whit
ney beat Theodore T. White, up
and to play; W. D. Vanderpool
beat Peter II. Frelinghuysen, . up,
and c. Fl. Halstead beat T. II. Wat
son, l up.
Fair weather favored the women
golf players who today participated at
the Wilmington Country Club in the
opening round for the championship OF
America, and the Robert Cox trophy,
which goes with the title. The tour
narnent, aside from being a represen-
tative American affair, has taken on a