New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-28

A LULL BEFORE 4
STORM in WAY
OF GOLF Tits
Metropolitan Junior Clash,
Beginning Tomorrow,
Only Tourney of Week.

After several weeks with the goit
calendar crowded almost to overflow
ing with various attractions, II seems
strange that there should be only one
tournament this week-the metropo!i-
tan Junior championship beginning to-
morrow at the Garden City Golf Club.
In a way, IL is lull before a storm,
for the holiday, with ITS myriad OK
club competitions. comes at the end OF
the week and lasts over Monday. Then
will come the metropolitan open &C
Fox Hills, the invitation affair ae
Sleepy Hollow and another at Shaw
nee in the successive weeks following.
Apropos Of the junior metropolitan,
the lads will qualify in fights OF eight
each tomorrow morning, match play
beginning in the afternoon. The SEMI
final and final matches will De staged
on Wednesday. Coincident with each
round, except the qualification test,
are special events, such as approach
ing and putting, driving, and, on the
last day, a handicap. Nearly forty
lads will tee up for the medal round
tomorrow.
The st. Adams Golf Club has been
organized and a tract Of 1877 acres OK
land purchased at ST. Adams station,
Long Island. II is planned 70 proceed
at once with the construction OF a
full eghteen-hoe golf course some
5000 yards in length, on which no
two holes will be parallel. Those who
have seen the property declare 10
naturally adapted for golf purposes
and that in time the course may be
developed into one of the best.
There are some thirty five acres OK
forest land on the property, with
ample ravines and brooks TO supply
not only natural hazards, but water in
experts say that il will support an
excellent turf without the aid OF ferti-
lizer. There are two streams flowing
through the property, ore through the
centre and another near the aide. Tho
location is adjacent 70 the railroad,
and il Is planned TO construct the
clubhouse within a mashie shot of the
station.
By way Of comment, D. J. McGuiness,
a Boston writer, has something to say
about the recent national open cham
pionship at Baltusrol. He also takes
occasion 10 mention Francis Ouimet.
The two following paragraphs, which
were culled from McGuinesss column,
need no explanation:
"What an awful howl went up when
Ouimet and Travers played at Brook
line, in the Lesley Cup competition. a
couple of years ago, when the latter
was trapped at the second extra hole,
losing the contest by up TO the Brook
line youth! 1t was claimed at the time
that the gallery which followed the
match gave vent TO its feeling by cheer
ing when the New Jersey golfer made
this misplay, but according to reports
the gallery which followed the final
eighteen holes at Baltusrol, with Mike
Brady and Travers paired, behaved far
worse than any gallery which has ever
followed an important match in this
section. IL is pretty rough when a
player makes his shot to have the gall
lery close in before the man he is
paired with gets away his shot. Never
theless, Brady showed that he was q
good loser by stating that if the same
conditions happened in Boston the shoe
would be on the ether foot.
an all fairness to Francis 0uimet,
the national amateur champion, and
without any alibis of his showing at
Baltusrol, it would be we'll for those
who claimed MIN the best golfer In the
country for the last two years to wait
a while before they start to take back
water. Ouimet was not in good physi-
cal trim before he started from his
home to take part in the tournament.
but after little rest will start again
to win more honors. Some people are
of the opinion that Ouimet has gone,
hut watch him when he starts in tha
qualifying round in the United States
amateur championship couple Of
months from now"