The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-24
STIFFEN APAWAMIS
FOR MET. TOURNEY
New Traps on Several Holes
Will Serve to Penalize
Strokes Off Line.
GOLF NEWS AND GOSSIP

lrawa-ris mas Oeen pTSphEl0B IUT tne
Metropolitan amateur ~amp!cnsh!p,
whlrh now IL only a little over a week
a. nv putting In a number Of new
s,,srds and constructing several new
..,s II rs expected that the changes
Iii make tho course a better test ri
al, and that when the asplrants for the
.,,le begin play next week they will fud
n. links In the best Of condition.
rhs frst Of the new bunkers will bs
.,coun,e-ei al the second hole. Several
s.s hsve been dug along the dlvidins
Inc between the fairways of the second
.,d third holes. They are so placed hat
.ney will catch sliced drives from either
On the long ninth two bunkers have
,Sso constructed which cross the fair.
w.y about 400 yards from the tee. They
rtil catch a poor second shot and II nc
Eager will he possible to play an In
S,xeren. second and still get nome safely
with the third.
Two bunker with a mound between
,s,m have been placed across the seven.
,.enth f4irway on the crest of the hill
.rd they will add considerably to the
amenities OF that hole. The big bunker
Guarding the home green has been
moved closer 10 the pin. so that the
r,rsn is no longer quite so big as II has
been In the past.
ssyeral new tees have been built where
me old ones were wearing out. and al
,ns hrs, hole the new tee will not he
r.ed until the championship tourney
s,s,n.' The tee for the seventh hole
s,s been moved back and 10 the left
much nearer the sixth green than II was
h,fore With tho new tee in use about
,s,r,y or forty Yards will he added tc
N. length NJ the hole. and the tee is 50
,lsrea that 4, emphasizes the dog les
ou,li,y Of tho hole and makes accurate
NAV more important.
The turf at Apawams Is in fine con-
dNton this spring n the greens also
as in good shape. The long grass
N, which Apswamis Ia famous and
Witch makes a splendid natural hazard
also is growing luxuriantly and will he
on duty next week to catch topped tee
,ao,s or shots that stray of the fair
ways. -
Entries for the Metropolitan amateur
championship mus; be sent to f.. Morti-
me- Barnes, secretary OF the Metropoli-
tan Golf Association. by Saturday ot
his week They should he sent through
the club secretaries and SHOULD he ad-
dressed n Mr. Barnes AT his office. 81
Pine street. New FORK city. The usual
entry fee must he enclosed.
With a Aeld OF nearly eighty the an
nual championship OF the Women's Met
rorolitan Golf Association will begin thi.
morning on the course of the Sleepy
Hollow Country Club AT Scarborough
!, IL likely that the women golfers viii
ind the climbing of the steep hillside'
II sleepy Hollow "A rather e~Nhaustinc
TEST, and high scores may be expected
n the qualifying round.
Nothing but the eighteen hole qualify
ing round rs on to-day's programme, bu'
on the remaining days of the tourney
here will he special competitions in ihs
afternoons. the championship rounds he
!Hg completed in the mornings. sixteen
women golfers will qualify for the title
Today and one match round will ht
played an each day following. the ina'
being reached on Friday.
Miss Lillian b. HYDE. the present
champion, has entered 10 defend hei
title, and as has been the case for tn,
past two or three years. she and Mis-:
Marion Hollins will he the favorites
TIE AIRS, pair will be sent away a
$50 this morning and the field is sc
big that the last pair will not star
until nearly ! O'Clock.
fuxedo's annual invitation tourna
nent will begin on Friday Of this weel
and will not be completed until Mon
day Of next week. As next Monday 1
a holiday, n was decided to include I
in the tournament schedule instead o
BEGINNING on Thursday and finishing
Saturday.
Members ~ the New York News
paner Golf Club will he the guests o
ne Siwanov Country Club to-day
Last year the newspaper golfers Wis
Ted the Mount Vernon links and hat
such an enjoyable time that the fiei'
,o.day is likely to be the biggest of tn
season.
A comparison of the afternoon round
r'ayei by Walter Hagen n Jerom'
y Trayers al the Greenwich Countr'
Club last week illustrates pret-'
r'early the wide gulf between matci
and medal play. Hagen played tn
curse IN S., Travers in an approx
mated u, vet a comparison Of the card
rom a match play standpoint make
Travers 'he winner nv 2 NJ n ] u
STAY Travers was out in "a to Hagen
u, hut every one OF those strokes woul'
ave meant a hole In "A match. AM
Travers would have been 4 up at IN
Urn.
Coming IN Hagen made a 30, Jus
even strokes better than Jerry's ~. ON
sTeral OF the open champions stroke
rre wasted from the match play roin
" view Al the 90 famous thirteenth
ar example, Hapen's great 2 woul'
ave done no more than win one mol
IN match, hut on the medal scores J
rtpresents n gain OF four strokes. tn
AIDS show Just what the two golfer
lid