Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-14
FRANK CAVANAGH SHOWS he
HAS CHAMPIONSHIP QUALITIES
GOLFERS INTEND
CUTTING ENTRIES
Association Plans Elimination
Round for National Cham
piOnship Tourney.
TO AVOID CONGESTION

TO AVOID CONGESTION
A qualifying or elimination round,
preliminary to the national open golf
championship at2 Brookline, Mass.
September II and IS, is being consid-
cred by the executive committee of
the United States Golf Association,
with view to cutting down the entry
list. This list has not yet been made
up, but the experience of last year
when there was a great congestion,
has suggested the desirability of some
method to keep this years field within
smaller proportions. 1t has become
practice for professionals all over
the country to attend the national
open tournament If for nothing more
than to meet old rivals, and to make
holiday out of the event. Discrimi-
nation against this class of players,
who retard the real business of the
championship, has become a knotty
problem to the golf authorities. Re-
course to the records Is not altogether
reliable index to the dead wood, and
therefore the suggestion of the elimi-
nation round has been proposed.
A hot fight for the Taconic Cup
over the Ekwanok links for the four
days beginning Wednesday next is
assured, as the entrants already in
clude Walter ]. Travis, Fred Herre-
shoff, Hamilton X. Kerr, w. w. Tay-
Tor, C. II. Gardner, F. A. Martin.
Robert Jolly, the professional, a
brother of Jack jolly, the local crack,
was recently beaten by Harold
Ridgely, the Western interseholastic
champion, at Ridgemoor, in a match
that went two extra holes and
Ridgely laid Jolly a dead stymie on
the seventeenth green, and later
holed a twenty-foot putt to win the
twentieth and the match jolly is
a member of the Park Ridge Golf
Club, near Chicago.
BY defeating Donald Carr up
and to play in the final round of the
championships, played at thirty-six
holes Saturday. J. Barton Garfield
again won the title of champion of
the Forest Hill Field Club. Garfield
covered the eighteen holes with a
gross 20, which is a new record for
the course. The first round of the
match play for the July cups was also
decided. H. ID. eastman. Count Olo-
zaga, G. w. Romaine and A. M.
Linnett were victors, while DR.. w. S.
Washington and C. E. T. Sharps, who
We're tied. will play their match over
during the week. The latter and H.
ID. eastman won the trophies in the
ball sweepstakes, while Sharps, Wash
ington. Albert Allsopp and Almond
Heller were tied for the eighteen-hole
medal play, special competition.
George D. Smith, in class A, and
II. ID. Whittlesey, in class b, each
turned in a net score of IS in the
eighteen hole handicap event over the
Deal Golf Club links Saturday. A.
Nathan, with a II net, won the ball
sweepstakes. Competitors for the
presidents, vice-president's and treas
urer's cups started the second round
on match play. The rounds In the
presidents cup match were completed,
while only three out of four were
played in the presidents and
treasurer's.
The Upper Montclair Golf Club
team defeated the Hackensack Golf
Club men by points at the Hacken-
sack links Saturday. Pomares and
Morrell, of class A. and A. B. Hill
totn, jr., and Tregs, of class b, quail
fed in the Saturday afternoon prize
contest for members.
Theodore S. Snyder. president of
the South Orange Field Club, cap
tured the eighteen-hole handicap con-
test. the only event carded at the
Suburban Clubs links Saturday. Mr.
Snyder's gross score of 40 was lowest
Burnett c. Kenyon, with a net score
of 20, captured the ball sweepstakes
over the Plainfield Country Club links
Saturday.
Livingston Whitney. A. D. Swords.
Oliver C. Billings and C. N. Halsted
were all tied for first place in Satur-
days round for the President White
cup at the Morris County Golf Club
Morristown. Each was awarded half
point toward the trophy. They fin
ished even with DOGGY.
Leigh Best, with a score of "a. took
first place in class A, and Harry S.
Hayward. with net score of Y, took
first in class b, both men winning
medals in the eighteen-hole medal
handicap match on the Spring Lake
Golf and Country Club links Satur-
day.