New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
GOLF DATES FIXED
FOR Two JOURNEYS
Championship of Amateurs
Over EkWanOk Links First
Week in September.
SAME MONTH PICKED
FOR WOMEN'S FIXTURE
Work Will Be Pushed on Course
in Vermont to Make II an
Ideal Test.

Following closely on the heels OF the
annual meeting OF the United States COL
Association at the Waldorf-Astoria on
Friday night the executive committee
allotted dates yesterday for two Of the
championship tournaments The amateur
~ Ekwanok. Vt will be played from
August 81 70 September ;, while the
womens at the Nassau Country CLUB is
carded for September Il 10 70
/. will be some weeks before positive
date can be decided upon for the open
championship at Midlothian. Chicago for
the reason that the executive committee
wishes TO select time that would make
It possible for the foreign professionals
to compete.
June IS and following days have already
been named as the dates for the British
open this year at PrestWick. which makes
it appear as if the open on this size
would get either midsummer or ran
week. In case the latter selection IS
made the task imposed upon the |. > u
A. officials would OF necessity become
burdensome. crowding As ii would all
three championship meetings into me
narrow space Of a few weeks
Now that IL has received the champion
ship award the Ekwanok Country club in
tends TO push with even greater zest GER
tain work that is calculated TO make the
course an ideal test by the time the
momentous week rolls round.
For years it has been CUSTOMARY TO ho.d
three tournaments during the Manchester
playing season-one in July another IN
August and the third in September IN
discussing the situation last night james
L. Taylor, who stands to EkwanoH
much the same as Charles 3. Macdonald
does 10 the National Golf Links OF Anne
lea. said that in all probability the only
change in the clubs regular schedule
would be to dispense with the september
tournament.
one Of the distinctive FIXTURES OF the Eh-
wanok links is that the holes. on alrllhe
measurement. are really longer than they
seem when compared with holes on other
courses. In fact, Walter j. Travis, VINO
has always been partial to Manchester
does no. hesitate TO say that several OF
the holes there, ranging in length from
so TO 800 yards and slightly up hill, are
harder 10 cover in two shots than most
OF the 425-yarders TO he found elsewhere
This is especially the case when contend
ing with the prevailing southwest WINDS.
AS it Is. Ekwanok covers playing
length Of trifie more than 5000 yards
but after few Of the tees have been
pushed back to the limit this circuit VIII
become one OF the severest tests 10 be
found i'm the East
Knowlton l., Ames. one Of the Western
delegates at the annual meeting. was tree
to admit that he regards Ekwanok as
about the best golf course TO be found IN
the United States. To use his own words.
Well If Ekwanok isn't the best course II
is the best to play over. anyway
When il is remembered that Miss Gladys
Ravenscroft. who carried the title TO
England last fall and Miss Muriel Dcdd
are expected to return here next season
New York golfers can count themselves
fortunate In Ia ing the women's cham
pionship so close at hand.
Miss Ravenscroft won the title AT VII
mington last fall. eliminating in the course
Of the tournament Miss Do6d, the British
ttleholder
Miss Marion HoHins, runncr-up 10 MISS
Rayenscroft. won the ch championship of the
Women's Metropolitan Golf Association
a. the Nassau course last spring, which
means the Westbrook girl will be much
at home