New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-16
lively BIDDING
FOR GOLF JOURNEYS
dozen Clubs Anxious to
Hold Some One of
Championships.
EFFORTS OF WATSON
PROVE FRUITFUL
Four Applicants for Amateur
Fixture, Including Detroit
Country Club.

,roro than dozen organizations,
...,icsllv all in the front rank of golf
s,,hs in this country, have either APP
eo,.aS or else signihed their willingness
F"Lald some one of the 1915 champion
- ~ tournaments Of the United States
SS.k Association. Instead, therefore,
~ boing surrounded by an atmosphere
% ;r6ifFerence, as some bad feared, the
V.,ociation's executive committee VIII
49, many offers to present for the
aanocyoval of the delegates at the an
IA .TYal meeting here on January 8.
ma Tar~elv through the efforts OF Rob-
-. r Watson. the U. 5. G.. A. presl-
g. e., can be attributed this hearty re-
.aonse and among the four clubs tnat
20 offered their links for the ANA
80 II is worthy of notice that two
tove never as yet been the scene OF a
AAotioral tournament. The applicants
TO- the amateur are the Oakmont
~ Club. Country Club OF De-
800 Garden City Golf Club and Will
,.;rcton Country Club. Last year the
,,orSen's national was held at Winning
,on while Garden City has held both
,be omen and the amateur meetings.
Although Oakmont has for the last
49, vcsrs been regarded as fully up
70 championship standard, the oihclals
- the Pittsburgh club have until now
vsfnsed 10 enter the field, preferrlng
20 wait until such a time as they
sbould feel perfectly satisfied with
what they had 20 offer.
As for the Country Club OF Detroit,
u l. only necessary TO recall that when
Harry Vardon played there a tribe
over q wear ago this famous PROBES
sioral did not hesitate to pronounce
(, es .bs best course he had seen dur
mo he travels throughout the United
states. The Detroit circuit was COM
psratively new then, and It mas peeh
steadily improving since. go,
With regard 20 Garden City and VIII
nington 10 may be said that they nave
nlaced their links at the disposal OF
he United States Golf Association for
any Of its chapionships; hence the rea-
son for their names appearing as APP
nHcants for both the open and the
women's. Apropos Of the open, the
others in line for this attraction are
me Fox Hills Golf Club and the Bal
tusrol Golf Club. The last named has
had both the open and the amateur,
while the Staten Island organization
has never been the scene of national
tournament. Both are able to boast
Of fine courses. o.,
As for the women, 1t may be said
that the Sleepy Hollow Country Club,
me Onwentsia Club and the Country
Club Of Buffalo are all keen for this
fixture Sleepy Hollow, perhaps, comes
rs near as any TO representing the last
word in golf architecture. Charles d.
Macdonald helped in the original lay
out. and the only adverse criticism so
far as Sleepy Hollow is concerned has
70 do with the length Of the course,
which is considerably more than 6,lOO
Yards. For that matter, the Onwentsla
and the Buffalo links also have plenty
Of yardsge.
Although Yesterday was the time set
for the clubs 20 have their reports
fled with the national handicap COM
mittee. II will be some time before ali
the lists have been rounded up. The
returns. however, are fairly satistac-
tory; in fact, better than this time
last year.