Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
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Scores of Contenders Practising
for National Open Tie
tie Play.
ESSEX COUNTY TOURNEY

American golf championship, which
starts tomorrow at the Brookline
Mass, Country Club, found nearly al
the oontenders hard at work study
ing the distances and the run or tht
putting greens.
Included in the ranks were score
of amateurs who will match thei1
game against the professionals in
the hope of finishing IN the plate
If not In the money" No amateur
in this country has ever duplicated
the feat of H. II. Hilton, OF Eng
land. by winning an open champion
ship from a professional. and it was
not until Jack McDermott captured
the event in this country two years
ago that a strictly American-bred
golfer had overcome the English
and Scottish productions. SO large
was the number of players at the
first tee this morning that half the
field began at the eighth hole. The
first drives were made before .
o'clock.
Good caddies were at a premium.
although nearby professionals
brought their club bearers, while
many carried their own bags.
The field numbers more than eight
score of players of whom twenty
five are amateurs. With such an
entry list the association has been
Obliged to split the players into two
divisions and run of two prelimina-
nary rounds of 36 holes each on Tues
day and Wednesday. The best thirty
two scores in each of these days viii
qualify for the 72-hole champion
ship on Thursday and Friday.
Great preparations are being made
TnsfTafry (slIh for
its invitation tournament on Septem-
Der 25, 26, q. There will be an eigh-
teen hole qualifying round on Thurs
day September 25, pairings being
made at the tee. Three siXteens Will
be arranged with the first match
round the same afternoon. On Fri
day the second and semi-f1nal rounds
are on the card, while the decisive
test in all sixteens will be over the
double circuit on Saturday. Coin
cident with the final rounds an eigh-
teen-hole medal play handicap will
be run Off, finalists being ineligible.
A tournament unique in golf will be
played Wednesday when grandfathers
of the Homewood Country Club, Chi
cago, will vie for honors. The event
was once postponed through the infiu-
ence of prospective grandfathers. I'm
less visits of the stork make other
members eligible, thirty-four players
will enter. Each has been invited to
bring q guest who also must be a
grandfather. Each contestant will
be allowed half stroke for
each grandehild and a full stroke
for each grandchild produced at
the tee. A bronze statue of a child
teeing a ball, designed by the daugh-
Ter of member of the club, who is a
grandfather, will be awarded the
winner
y Louis L. Clarke beat George S.
Ludlow, 3 up and l to play, at Deal
yesterday and carried off the class A
September cup of the Deal Golf and
Country Club. The John F. Stanley
cup was captured by E. C. NJ. Kemp,
who defeated Harry A. Watson, 6 up
and to play. ]. S. Griffin won the
class A Saturday, when he turned in
an 50 with u Off, making him n. F.
II. Eaton. with 91-1S-79, captured
the class b trophy The class B Sep
TENDER cup play resulted in tie be-
tween J. S. Griffin and K. L. Byrne
at the end of Is holes. The tie will be
played off today. In the class John
king won from W. r. Hees, up for
is holes. The qualifying rounds for
the sweepstakes cup will be played
next Saturday.
Jason Rogers. with S1--10-71, was
high in class A. W. r. Hotchkiss,
with S7-1S-69, was best in class 3,
while II. W. Lotus, with 96-20-76
was best in class G in the ball sweep
stakes event in three classes at the
Nontclair Golf Club links yesterday
Hanford Ayres, with a net rs. won
the trophy in the special medal play
handicap at the Forest Hill Field
Club Saturday. A. II. Gussman, Fred
erick G. Stone and William V. Lyons,
who We're tied for second, used only
one stroke more than the winner. j.
NJ. Wells, with a net score OF 70,
captured the ball sweepstakes event.
Wells was handicapped 25. The first
round for the September cup was also
decided.
Fred Turrell, champion of the South
Orange Field Club for the past two
seasons, was eliminated from the
cham pionship tourney by Schuyler
Van Vechten Saturday. Four matches
were decided in the class A division,
the survivors being Ernest A. Smith,
Walter G. Banks, Harold Napier and
Mr. Van Vechten. Four still remain
in the class B tourney. namely, An
drew w. Bray. jr., II. c. Olni, Theo-
dore +. Handy and e. T. Magoftln.
Hardy Vardon and Edward Ray,
the English professionals, displayed
to Jersey golf enthusiasts that they
have few peers in their class, when,
in an exhibition match at the Bal
tusrol golf links Saturday the pair
decisively defeated Alec Smith and
George Low in four-ball match, Z
up and to play.
Nathaniel Wheeler, of Yale. won the
Individual intercollegiate golf cham
pionship in Philadelphia Saturday,
defeating John Marshall. jr., of Will
Jams College, UP and to play.
Yale made clean sweep in the tour
ney this season, the team champion
Ship having been captured by the
Blue and White earlier in the week.
DE ORC TO DEFEND TITLE
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