New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-19
GOLFERS HAVE
A BUSY WEEK
AHEAD OF THEM
Shawnee Tourney and
Nutmeg State Champion
ship Tilt on Card.

Two tournaments will occupy the at
tention of the golfers in this vicinity
this week-the annual invitation affair
for amateurs at the Shawnee Country
Club and the other the Connecticut
open championship at the Shennecos-
sett Country Club, New London. The
last named affair is open TO all corners.
Although it is a trife early to pre-
dict who of the star amateurs will be
seen at Shawnee on the last three days
of the week, it is the intention of such
players as Maxwell r. Marston, the
New Jersey champion; Frank w. Dyer,
Of Montclair; Hugh l.. WillOughby, the
Philadelphia title holder; Eben NJ.
Byers, former national champion; Gar
diner W. White, of Flushing, and pos
sbly Philip Carter, of Nassau, TO make
the trip.
There has been an unusual amount of
competition at Shawnee this season, for
besides the women's tournament there
have been two oper meetings, and the
one this week will make the second
amateur gathering.
Louis Teller, of Canoe Brook; Tom
Anderson, of Montclair; Walter C.
Hagen, of Rochester,; Gilbert Nichols,
the metropolitan open champion; Will
frid Reid, of Seaview; Michael j.
Brady, of Wollaston, and Thomas l..
Mcnamara, of Boston, are among those
who plan TO visit New London for the
Connecticut open.
There will be two days of golf, with
prizes offered amounting to $1,000. On
Friday morning driving, approaching
and putting contests will be run off.
This phase of competition is something
quite unique in professional golf In
the afternoon an professional
four-ball affair is down for decision.
On Saturday a 36-hole medal play
tournament involving the state title is
scheduled, with appropriate prizes. No
attempt ever has been made to hold a
! Connecticut open championship.
Although Walter J. Travis is sup
posed to be one of the most "concen-
| trated" golfers in the country, refusing
| TO permit anything on earth to inter
| fere with him, he has admitted the fact
/ that he has at least one other love. A
paragrapher remarked recently that
/ Travis is never without his familiar
cigar when he is playing a close match.
! The metropolitan amateur champion
/ explains his side of the situation with
| the statement in the current issue OF a
magazine that he "does not allow even
/ golf to interfere with his smoking.
Perhaps il requires real smoker TO
appreciate the point
Women members of the Montclair
/ Golf Club will hold a special eighteen
/ hole handicap on Wednesday for them.
/ selves and invited guests. The medal
round will be followed with approach
ing and putting.
/ A bit Of enterprise is shown by the
announcement of the Glen Oak Coun.
try Club, at Lombard, ILL.,, that it will
hold a professional open golf tourna-
ment on Monday and Tuesday, August
/ Is and II. These dates happen to come
the two days prior to the Western open
championship over the same links, anc
doubtless will attract many OF the
Eastern salaried men. About $1,000 N
prizes is offered entirely outside of the
championship.
Four-ball foursomes, with partners
determined by a draw, are scheduled
for the afternoon of the first day
eighteen holes being the distance. On
| Tuesday thirty-six holes of medal play
will be in order, with ten prizes offered
Thus professionals visiting the Western
open will have an opportunity to pick
up some stray awards while getting
practice for the championship proper.
Details of the record card of Edward
II. Cow, assistant to Leonard Biles, pro-
| fessional at the Sleepy Hollow Country
Club, show that the diminutive Scot
went out in SO and back in 81. He
played with II. II. Smith and Gail Dor.
den. The previous record was "a, and
was held by Alec Smith, Biles and Cliff
/ ford A. Dunning, the Nassau amateur
| Cows card follows:
Out ............t Z 3 S 5 : t5-1-7.