New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26
EKWANOK LURES
MANY GOLFERS TO
ANNUAL TOURNEY
Few Local Contests on
Card for Next Fort
night or Two.

This is the season when many golt-
ers ME away TO shore and mountains
for a brief respite prior to the begin
ming of the fall tournaments. 1t Is
appropriate, therefore, that the SIX
teenth annual tournament for the first
Presidents cup should be staged this
week at the Ekwanok Country Club,
Manchester, VT, beginning Wednesday.
Usually this fixture attracts some OF
the best amateur players in the coun-
try, for it comes at time when some
of the experts like to get in practice
for the national amateur champion
ship, only few weeks away.
James l.. Taylor, chairman of the
tournament committee, in announcing
the conditions, says there will be no
change from the usual programme OF
having a qualifying round Of eighteen
holes on Wednesday, the best thirty
two continuing at match play for the
cup offered by the late Edward >.
lsham. There will be three or four
sixteens, besides the chief flight.
Locally, the only competition sched-
ued is the annual tournament OF the
Eastern Trade Golf Association at Ar
cola on Thursday and Friday. The
qualifying round is scheduled for
Thursday morning, the field being
classified in flights of eight.
Gerome A. Paul. who won the cham
ponship last year at the Salisbury
Links. will defend the title Special
competitions have been provided Tor
those who are beaten in match play.
The annual dinner of the association
will be held in the Arcola clubhouse
/ Thursday evening. A. A. Stephens,
28l West Thirty-ninth Street, is sec
rotary OF the association.
MANY we'll known golfers have been
invited TO compete in a four-ball tour
nament from August 5 to to celebrate
the opening Of the new home Of the
Essex Country Club at Marchester-by-
the-Sea, Mass. Some of the probable
pairs in these best ball competitions
will be the following:
Parker w. Whittemore and II. ii.
Wilder, PercivLl Gilbert and Rodney
". Brown, Francis Ouimet and George
Warren, b. w. Estabrook and c. NJ.
Amory, Fulton Cutting and Dudley
Pickmen, jr., Shaw Mexican and Harry
Mexican, James R. Hyde and McKim
Hollins, of Westbrook; Edward Rogers
and Percy Pyne, I'd, the latter treasur-
err of the United States Golf Associa-
ton: George Rice, of Dedham, and
Charles Bohlen, of Myopis; Paul
Moore and Wynant d. VanderpoOl, of
Morris County; J. B. Chase and T. NJ.
Clafn.
Oliver Perrin, of the National Links;
John Overall, of st. Louis; Malcolm
McBurney, the Harvard golfer Of for
mer days; s. X. Sterne. of Tatnuck, and
Randolph Tucker are some OF the
others invited.
One of the promising young home
breds is Charles II. Hoffner, the nine
teen-year-old professional at Woodbury.,
who showed unmistakable signs OF
coming star when he finished just be-
hind Gil Nichols and Wilfrid Reid at
Shawnee in the open championship OF
Pennsylvania. Hofner plays in fine
style. and il is felt by all who have
seen him in action that a. soon as ne
gets the steadii ess which little more
tournament play will give him he VIII
be heard from. His II IN the RAIN az
Brookline shows that he has the
stuff" -
ONLY last summer he was a clddie
at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, being
AZ Bala before that. lie was born at
Schuylkill Falls. He picked up ms
game as a caddie. II Hofner cou d
have equalled his afternoon score at
shawnee in the morning he would have
won the championship. As 1t was his
golf was remarkable.
Undoubtedly the most pleasing sensa-
ton which golf affords IS that OF mt
ting the tee shot squarely and away
goes the ball far and sure. However
standing around the first tee during
any tournament many such shots might
be seen. Yet what could be prett! er
than a crisp, firmly hit hat iron night
up to the hole when the bill flies true
and checks on the green!