New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-03
Many New "Five" Men
Come from the Metro
politan District.
SEVERAL HAVE SHOWN
WELL THIS SEASON
New Public Links at Weequahic
Park, Newark, To Be Opened
Tomorrow.

Twenty-Five golfers in various parts
of the country, especially the dis
tricts surrounding New York, have
been added 70 the national handicap
list bv the United States Golf AssOcia-
ton. It will be recalled that unless a
golfer is ranked he IS not eligible 10
compete in the national amateur cham
pionship. which this year will be held
over the links Of the Ekwanok Country
Club. at Manchester, W.
The field in the last tournament. at
Garden City. was so large, despite the
previous efforts Of the association TO
reduce the number of those eligible by
means of a handicap list, that 1t was
found necessary last spring 10 clint
nate all OF those who were rated al o.
There was a provision made that
golfer who thought he was entitled 10
. rating could send in three properly
attested rounds over his home course,
and if the average compared fayorably
with the par Of that course he would
get rating.
As a result the following have been
added to those allowed five strokes
in the national list:
Charles II. Brown. st. Andrews; 1.
W. Denton, Saegkill; Frank T. Clark,
Ekwanok: Thomas d. Conroy, Fox
Hills; Ralph Carroll, Knollwood; D..
Clarke Corkran. Baltimore; G. 7. Eddy.
Arcola; Devereux Emmett, National
Links: Charles Hitchcock, jr., Fox
Hills; G. +. Kohler. Ridgewood; A. T.
Mlligan. Baltusrol Frederick 0'Con-
nell. Alpine. Fitchburg, Mass; W. f..
Purcell. New York Golf Club; Morris
s. Phillips. Redlands, Cal; ii. Grant
land Rice. Englewood; Maurice b. RS
ley. Atlantic City; L. VI. Richmond
Oakland; G.. H. Walker, St. Louis;
Oliver Perrin. National Links; Percy
Plat, New York Golf Club; Il. T..
Reinmund. Englewood, and Arden VI.
Robbins. Garden City.
The addition Of the foregoing brings
the total number of golfers on the
national handicap list up to 249. There
are sixteen who had no ratings at all
last year, while six were allowed SIX
strokes in the 1913 roster. These SIX
were Brown. Carroll, Emmett, Phillips,
Perrin and Robbins.
A noticeable fact about these men
is that the majority of them have done
something worth while this year. d.
Clarke Corkran, younger brother OF
b. Warren Corkran, did some great
work in the spring tournament OF the
Baltimore Country Club; l.. VI. Rich
mond has been going great guns al
Oakland. while Maurice RiSley was
runner.up to Oswald Kirkby in the re-
cent New Jersey championship at Nor
ris County.
The new public golf links at Wee
quahic Park, Newark, will b. formally
opened tomorrow, and IS an evidence
of the interest taken in the new nine
hole circuit the Weequahic Golf Club
has been organized. Abraham Due.
has been elected president. The club
recently sent a letter to the ESSEX
County Park Commission by way Of
introducing itself and offered its as
sistance to keep the course in good
condition and to properly regulate the
play over il.
Incidentally, the club requests an
unbroken section Of about fifty lock-
ers. the use of practice putting green,
a bulletin board for club notices and
the employment of professional.
Charles F.. Martin has offered a trophy
for annual competition over the public
links among players in Essex County
who are not members of a regular golf
club