The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-05
PROGRAMME ISSUED
FOR WOMEN'S TITLE
Special Events for Golfers on
All Except the Open
ing Day.
TRAVERS PRAISED ABROAD
Champion Hilton Says That
BritOns May Fear the
MOntclair Man.

The programme for the women's Metro
poltan golf championship. which IL to be
played on the course OF the Essex County |
Country Club on May rs. 26. 81, rs and 10.
was sent out yesterday by Mrs. Lawrence
Swift. secretary Of the womens Metropol- !
itan Golf Association.
No change has been made since las.
year In the conditions which will govern
the championship. which will be the nj
teenth In the history Of the association.
The tourney will begin on Monday. May
rs. with an eighteen HOE qualifying
round. and no side event will be played on
that day. The first sixteen will qualify
for the title. and two other sixteens will
continue, match play for prizes.
The match rounds in all divisions will
be played at the rate OF one round day,
in the mornings, all at eighteen holes. the
finals coming on Friday. Beaten eight
classes will be provided for in the first
and second sixteens.
In the afternoon VI each day except on
the opening day. there will be a special
event 4 putting and approaching con-.
test will be played on Tuesday afternoon,
an eighteen hole medal play handicap on
| Wednesday. u two ball foursome handicap
on Thursday. and the time honored mixed
| foursomes on Friday.
Entries must be in the hands OF Mrs.
Swift. whose address Is sol West 1oSth
| street, by the evening Of Friday. May 20
They must be made through club secre-
tarics and must be accompanied by a ~
! entrance fee.
The first one day tournament OF the
| women's Metropolitan Golf Association
/ will be played to-day at tn Englewood
Country Club. rain or shine. and IL the
]
sure to be big one. There Will be but
! one event. an eighteen hole handicap. The
prize for the best net score has been given
by the Englewood Country Club. and that
for the best gross score by the association.
More praise for jerome II. Travers Is
coming across the Atlantic on each steam-
ship from England Harold II. Hilton.
British amateur champion. who won the
American championship at Apawamis In
1871. is the latest to add his word OF trib-
ute to the skill OF the amateur champion
OF the United States. Hilton. in the Eng
fish golaDg paper OF which he Is the editor
begins with the usual forebodilX comment
on the Americans habit OF driving with
his iron. but before he has, gone far his
words become wholly laudat6ry. He says
There has almost always been an tf
In connection with the game OF jerome
II. Travers. and II Is n very important IT
In that II relates to his wooden club play
and his ability to hit his ball from tn,
tee with a club made OF wood. In his owr
country II Is an If which has made but
little difference to his career as he ha.
found that he can dispense altogether will
wooden clubs and still prove too much FOL
his amateur rivals across the water. Bu
American links are not as our seaside
links ir this country, and the method
which he successfully employed In tn
, two last years at Wheaton and Gardei
City. when he drove from the tee with N
old driving iron. would certainly not avail
him SO we'll AT Sandwich
This he no doubt we'll knew before h
departed for these shores, and he cam
well prepared and with the apparent de
, termination to conquer his weakness
That for the time being ne has succeede,
Is evidenced by his great performances a
Westward Ho. And IL this improvement
Is TO be cure. even sufficiently lasting {
. carry him through his career In thi
: country, our British amateurs will hav
. to look out for trouble as the very hes
- Of the professionals cannot give him any
thing when once he has placed his ba
within reach OF the hole.
: Some Of them may possibly be slight
: more accomplished and accurate iro
players. but whatever they might happe
TO gain on the young American In hi
e department they would OF a surety lose l
e him on the putting green am not goin
o To say that Mr.. Travers can play hi
Win Quite tnt Stlnc
:, nous precision that, say, Nardon and Brai
: do. but combining the approaching and III
g putting they would have none the bes
e Of the argument"
i Word comes from England that MI.
" Muriel DOdd the holder of the women
z golf championship OF Great Britain an
l. OF Canada and " no played at Wilmngto
V last year In the United States champion
ship. is engaged To he married TO a NJ
Is Macbeth. who is said To be a golf play,
a of fair ability.
ia G. r. Parish OF THE sun won owe
10 HALL ~ the Herald In the playoN yester
Il day OF their triple tie FOR the medal
"a last Saturdays qualifying round OF III
N New York Newspaper Golf Clubs Ma
=, tournament Parish made the eightee
u, holes in 100. his handicap OF 80 strok,
~ making his net score rs, which was thr,
ie strokes better than Hall could do an
- twenty better than Mardhn. Halls car
" read 96-25, II. and Mardfns 1913
- 49, IS.
IN strong play on the last hve holes VIC
= the medal for Parish. Mardhn had be,
IN left well behind in the first nine hole
hut Hall had overcome the seven stroll
c advantage In handicap held by Parts
n when they drove from the fourteenth te
a., IL WAS necessary for the latter to no
40 Hall even at actual play In order to
&. He did even better. winning the fou
h; teenth at e., the sixteenth AZ b--6 al
~ the seventeenth at IA, halvlng the othe
r. and finishing three strokes up