The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-22
AMERICAN GOLF PAIR
{ TO WASTE'NO TIME
Travers and HcrreshOff Likely
Even to Play on Tourney
Links Any Day Now.
BRITON DISCUSSES PLANS
Secretary Of Club at Sandwich
Says They Probably VIII
Stay In south.
BRITON DISCUSSES PLANS

SANDWICH BAY, England. March a.
Tie probable practice schedule VI Jerome
D. Travers. amateur golf chrnpion of the
United States and Fred Hcrreshon. who
Is travelling with him. was discussed to-
day by Ryder Richardson. the genial hon
orable secretary OF the Royal 81. Georges
Golf Club, over whose trying course at
Sandwich Bay ON the east coast of Kent.
the British amateur championship IL 10
be played for n few weeks hence.
II Is assumed In golhng circles here that
Travers aud Herreshoff will get right
down to practice before the end OF this
month. and MIR. Richardson Will NOT be
surprised to see the American amateur
champion turn up any day with keen
desire to play a found or two over the
famous sand hills among which the great
international contest is to be fougth out.
The. amateur golf championship
tournament will begin at Sandwich on
Monday. May is, II necessary" says Mr..
Richardson otherwise on Tuesday, May
IS. The draw will take place on Wednss-
day of the previous week. May IL. The
championship trophy. valued at $500. and
four medals will be competed for.
Competitors must enter through the
secretaries of their respective clubs and
ON q special form obtainable from the
secretary OF the Royal st Georges Golf
golfers shall contain two signed declara-
tions one by the entrant that his handi-
cap at every golf club OF which he ID
member has been scratch or below IL
since the first day OF this year.. the other
by the secretary OF the club from which
the player enters stating that the en-
trant is an amateur according .t0 the dell
nitions given. The right Of the Amer ca ms
70 enter will depend on whether they are
rated on the handicap list OF the United
States Golf Association and whether their
amateur status Is vouched for by that
body. The entrance fee is one guinea. a
few cents more than S., and II must be
received by the secretary of the Royal st.
Georges Golf Club not later than Tues
day May L..
ION May IA and Is. the Thursday and
Friday following the amateur champion
shin draw, the St Georges Champion
Grand Challenge Cup. which IL open TO
all amateurs, will be played for over the
same course. The player making the
best aggregate score of two rounds of the
links will receive IA silver replica OF the
cup of the value of twenty guineas. or
500. A draw for starting times for this
competition will be held on the afternoon
Of Tuesday, May ~. The entrance fee is
half u guinea
II they care to travel 50 far north AZ
Muirfeld, places may b. found Tor ooth
Travers and Fred Herreshon on team
being go, up for a match ON April :5
against the picked team OF the Cniversi-
ties of oxford and Cambridge. But the
expectation here IL that all the Visitirg
amateurs from the United states and
from Canada win not wander FAR from
the southern counties Of England. where
they will ind the balmy spring weather
more conducive for rounding into top
form than Scotland in April would be.
American golfers planning AN attack
upon the British open championship Will
x....- xUftf st has
been held for the past seven years has
been altered considerably. The managing
clubs having had under consideration for
some time the necessity for change IN
the conditions of the open championship.
formulated "a scheme that has been SUD
mitted successfully To the committee OF
the Professional Golfers Association.
which has resolved the following
''1hat qualifying rounds be held on
courses other than the championship
course.
THAT all competitors shall play one
round on each OF two courses; and tina,
only the nrst one hundred scores shall
play In the Championship proper -four
rounds of the green. ANY Ties lot ias'
place shall be played OF.
THAT these qualifying rounds shall be
mayed Oh June II and ~ and that the
championship shall he played FOR Al
Prestwicl; on June is and 10
The steady growth In the popularity
NJ rolf with the resultant increase yearly
in the entries for the open championship
has necessitated these changes IN the con-
titions When the competition was in5ti'
tuted by the Prestwick Club In 1850 u
WAS decided in single day over thirty
six holes, which conditions held good
until 1892 Then play was extended &c
two days over seventy-two ncies, thirty
six holes being played by each competitor
on each day.
In 1896, TO cope with the still increas
inR entry, IL was decided that any com
nstitor twenty strokes behind the leading
scor, at the end OF the second round OF
the first day should be retired from FUR
Their play. Subsequently II was founc
NECESSARY to introduce qualifying rounds
In 1906 the margin FOR elimination wal
reduced TO fifteen strokes.
Last year at Hoyiake the competition
we're divided into three sections. one da,
being allotted to each section Tor playing
It's qualifying round of thirty-six holes
The best twenty scores OF each sectioi
and such scores as tieds FOR twentieth
Mace in each section qualified to play 70
the championship proper, which Taste,
TWO days of medal play OF sevsnty-tw
holes. H.
According to the new scheme the cham
pionship proper has not undergone an.
alteration except that the number o
competitors qualifying for II shall b
limited TO 100. But the playing of quail
tying rounds for two days on course
other than that over which the champion
shin Is to be played for and the playin
of them a week In advance are sweepin
innovations.
the entries for the open championship ar
Increasing yearly may be found in the fat
that the record entry Of 2l5 received
1912 was left far behind last year by a
entry OF 269.
The winner of the open championsh'
has custody OF the open cup for one yea
and receives the championship gold medal
IL professional he also receives In cas-
$3.50.
The present holder OF the cup and tit
is j. II. Taylor. who also had been II
winner In 1894. lso5 1900 and 1909
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