The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-19
ROEBUCK SPRINGS GOLF TOURNAMENT bEG|NSON THURSDAY
Over 100 Entrants For The Second Annual Invitation Golf Tournament of the
 Roebuck Springs Club

Three moro days before the second annual invitation golf tournament of the Roebuck Golf and Automobile club -t Roebuck springs begins. and the out c-town golfers are already arriving in the city. From the entries received the expectation is that this summers sour nament wil surpass that of last year. According to Chairman II. c. Seibels of the committee on arrangements there will be between 13 and 150 entrants and every large city in the south will send repre- sentatives. Atlanta, Montgomery. New Orleans, Nashville, Anniston, Rome, Knoxville Chattanooga, Faunsdale and Memphis having already announced. one of the interesting features of the tournament will be a meeting Thursday of the golfers for the purpose of form ing the Alabama Golf association. John NJ Inglis, chairman of the greens com mittee of the Montgomery Country club, has sent out letters to all the country clubs ir the state to have representatives at the meeting. Local golfers believe the association will be formed at this meeting. and the first Alabama champion ship tournament will proba biy pc played in September on the links of the Mont gomery Country club.
 Guests Are Arriving
 Of the out-of-town guests already prac- ticing for the tournament are Forrest Adair and R. s. McMichaei of Atlanta. Local golfers have been preparing for the tournament on the Roebuck links for several weeks and it is stated that the grounds of the Roebuck club are in eX cellent condition.
 Chairman Seibels announced last night that there would be as man! flights as the number of entrants in the qualifying round justified. Play will begin Thurs day morning and continue throughout Fri day and Saturday. The final matches in all flights will be played Saturday after nooc It was also announced that all the matches will be for IS holes and the teams from the various clupt will have to be announced before the qualifying round is begun. The programme of the tournament follows:
 Events
 First Flight-Roebuck Springs prize to winner; junior Roebuck Springs prize to runner up.
 Second Fight-W. w. Crawford prize to winner; junior w. w. Crawford prize to runner up.
 Third Flight-l1ast Lake prize to winner; junior East Lake prize to runner up. Fourth Flight-Wilson Springs prize to winner; junior Wilson Springs prize to rurner up.
 Fifth Flight-Jones valley prize to win ner: junior Jones valley prize to runner up.
 Prize for lowest qualifying score Prize foi winning team of four. Prizes for de- feated eiShts in each flight.
 Thursday, July 22-Morning Qualifying round. IS holes, medal play. Sixteen lowest scores qualify for Roe buck Springs prize.
 Second It scores qualify for w. w. Ora wforo prize.
 Third l6 scores qualify for East Lake prize.
 Fourth l6 scores qualify for Wilson Springs prize.
 Fifth 16 scores qualify for Jones valely prize.
 Friday, July 23-MOrning First round for all flights. Losing eight to be paired for junior prizes
 Friday Afternoon
 Second rouHd senior, and first round junior flights.
 Saturday, July 24-Morning Semi-finals for all flights.
 Saturday Afternoon
 Finals for all flights.
 The club team will be determined by the aggregate scores of the four members Of each team in the qualifying round. ing.
 All matches to be IS holes.
 Pairing Players
 Players may match themselves for quail flying round, provided they do not select club mates. The committee will pair all players who have not reported pairings to them by Wednesday, July 2l, and play CTS are requested to send in their entries and club handicap by that time to the secretary of the Roebuck Golf and Auto mobile club. Earrings and times of start ing will be published in the morning paper, and each couple must be ready to start when their names are called.
 Entrance Fee $3
 Please advise the secretary, w. G. Me- Neekin, as early as possible, in order that lockers may be assigned.
 Rules of the United States Golf associa- tion govern, with such other rules as committee may announce during week Of tournament.
 Cars to Golf Links
 Take cars marked East Lake and ask for transfer to Roebuck.