The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-27
busy WEEK AHEAD
IN GOLFERS WORLD
Invitation Tournaments and
Lesley Cup Matches Are on
Programme.
OUTMET AT GREENWICH

Although the competitive season soon
will be over this week will be one OF the
busiest of the year for the golfers OF the
East. In the early part OF the week the
Greenwich Country Club and the Merton
Cricket club near Philadelphia will hold
invitation tournaments. and on Friday
and Saturday the annual Lesley cup
matches will take place at Merton.
or course the Lesley cup matches will
be the big event Of the week. and they
will possess an added interest this yea
because of the presence for the first
time of the old Timers team. composed
OF three former Lesley cup players from
each of the visiting associations and
four from the district which Is acting
as host. This years Old Timers team
therefore will be composed OF three
Metropolitan golfers. three from Niassa-
chusetts and -four Pennsylvania
The Metropolitan Golf Association at
present holds the Lesley cup and the
members of the team named last week
ought to be able to defend II success
fully. for the team on paper surely seems
To be as strong a combination as could
have been picked. In the event OF VIC
tory for Massachusetts over pennsyl-
vania on Friday while the New Workers
are beating the Old Timers. a TraVers-
Ouimet match will he on the programme
for Saturday afternoon, and the Merton
links will bc crowded by u big gallery.
Many prominent golfers have entered
the Greenwich Country clubs invita-
ton which begins to-day
and will end on Wednesday. francis
Ouimet and probably several other
members OF the Massachusetts Lesley
cup team will play at Greenwich. ana
q number OF prominent metropolitan
golfers. Max Marston among them. viii
he on haud,
A good many 81 the college golfers.
including Dudley Nudge of Yale and st
Paul. MINI, who won the medal IN the
qualifying round of the national cham
pionship AT Detroit, expect to play al
Greenwich. and the tourney. which Is
restricted to golfers whose names are ON
the national handicap list, should prove
one OF the best of the season.
The Greenwich course is a good one
and those that visit the links to look
on will be sure to see soine eNcellent
golf before the tourney ends on Wednes-
day afternoon.
The women golfers OF the Metropoh-
tan district will hav. another chance
To try their skill at match play IN the
Piping Rock clubs invitation tourney
for women which will be held to-day
and tomorrow.
Sassau's tourney for the feminine
golfers last week was a success IN every
sense OF the word, and Piping Rocks
bee - - - a,.nh shA a. a ~ n A
sort of affair.
I'm At The Scarsdale Golt and Country
club to-day the newspaper golfers will
play the second half OF the seventy-two
hole medal play competition, the firSt
half of which was played a week ago.
Grantland Rice played the first two
rounds last Monday In 1873 and begins
the third round to-day with a lead or
twelve strokes over his nearest rival. w.
W Harris. the present holder OF the
title
The rain last Tuesday caused The
pn,tponrment Of the Engineers club
tournament which was 10 have been
plaNed on that day At Scarsdal". The
tourney will he played tomorrow, ana
the engineering golfers are hoping for
better weather this time.
Members Of the Republican Club who
find themselves able to combine politics
and golf will visit the Sleepy Hollow
Country Gu on Thursday. October :,
for q one day tournament TIL" man
event OF the day will be "A thirty-siN
hole medal play competition on a scratch
basis for the Haviland cup ralph n
pav is the present holder OF the trophy.
which goes each year TO the champion oil
/, the club. In addition to the champion
shin there will be several other hand''
cap competitions.
, Work began last week on the st
Albans links neal Jamaica. l.. l., and
/. II Is expected that the eighteen hole
course will he ready for play early mex
! season ON Friday the club will estab'
lish a permanent office at 81 Alban'
station
I Arrangements have been made to hole
IN. annual staten Island championship
ON October 9, II and II. IL VIII III
nlay,d this year on the INKS OF th'
Richmond County Country club,
D Formal and official announcement %
the complete list OF winners In the Sc
niors' tournament at Apawamis last wee'
nrohably will be made to-day and II 81
viii he published in the morning paper
=, tomorrow.