New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-16
GOLFERS WILL
HAVE PLENTY TO
DO FROM NOW ON
Schedule Piles Up Many
Tournaments on Links
Near and Far.

This week is replete with matters
golfing. and it marks the end of the
temporary lull always experienced at
this season of the year. From now un-
til the snow flies tournaments and
other competitions of more or less i'm
portance will crowd the calendar.
Chief among the local happenings
will be the annual tournament of the
National Golf Links Of America, at
Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. The
date has been made earlier than usual,
so as 70 precede the national amateur
championship instead of following it.
Originally the National Links held
it's gathering with a view to inviting
without inconvenience to them the star
golfers who played in the American
classic. II worked out finely enough
q several seasons. notably when the
>ritish amateur champion. Harold H.
Hilton. was in this country. both in
1911 and 1912. The first year Hilton
also was the American tItle holder, and
he captured the National Links's chief
cup.
For the last two years. however. the
star golfers have been too tired after
their strenuous efforts to play com
petitive golf for a while. so the club
evidently desires to provide tuning
I'D opportunity in changing the date
TO the middle of August.
The alteration has brought about a
conflict with the New York Golf Clubs
annual tournament at Van Cortlandt
Park, a competition which is open to
all bona fde resident amateurs OF
greater New York. Thursday, Friday
and Saturday are the days for the Ma
tional Links tournament, while the one
at Van Cortlandt Park is down for
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday. -.
Although not within the confines OF
the metropolitan district, there Will be
sufficient entries from the East to
stimulate more than passing interest
in the Western open championship at
Glen Oak, near Chicago, on Wednesday
and Thursday. Most of the profess
SIGNALS from this region have already
started toward the land of the setting
sun.
Tom Anderson, of Montclair. the
Pennsylvania open title holder VINO
was killed last Friday in an automobile
accident, had made all plans for the
trip and was to have started yesterday
for the West. The funeral Will be heid
tonight at 81 Grove Street, Verona,
~ j., at o'clock, with the interment at
Ivy Hill, Philadelphia, tomorrow.
Other events Of the week will be the
L., L. If
Newspaper Golf Club at Van Cortlandt
Park to-day, the New York Traffic
Clubs gathering at Hsworth on
Wednesday. and the Engineers at
Greenwich on Friday. Entries for the
national amateur championship at De-
troit will close next Monday with How
ard F. Whitney at II Broad Street.
this city.
James Fraser, the Great Neck pro-
fessional, has been engaged by me sea,
view Golf Club to succeed Wilfrid
Reid. who recently resigned. Oil
Nichols, the metropolitan open cham-
pion, will go to Great Neck, as ALREADY
announced, and although it was hrst
said that Reid would succeed NICHOLS
at Wilmington there is by no means d
certainty about IT.
One of the effects of the recent rams
has been to reduce the income OF the
caddies to an appreciable extent. "nen
myriads of golfers have taken to the
links on the weekend rest days the
boys have made out well enough put
there have been so many days wnen
one had 10 swim to play that the lads
have found themselves idle to an I'M
usual extent.
Although the vast changes now pelng
made in the links of the North Shore
Country Club, near Glen Head Long
Island, will not permit of all OF the
full golfng facilities, the committee
has arranged a series of competitions
to keep matters going until late IN the
fall. Most of them are handicaps on
SATURDAY., occasionally interspersed
with sweepstakes. The club champion
ship will begin on October with a
qualifying round at eighteen hoies'
Sixteen will become eligible tor matcn
play. which will be run off at the rate
of one round each week until the oe-
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