The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-07
TOURNEY GOLF PLAY
GETS IN FULL SWING
Bic end Little Affairs Every
Day This Week; Conflicts
on Several Days.
JERSEY TITLE IN BALANCE

little MI the goifing alenda this week
and by next Saturday night Walter j.
Travis. the new metropolitan champion.
will be only one of a group OF golfers
with newly won titles to attest their
proves on the links. There is not a
day this week that some championship
tourney will not be in progress and on
closing stages at Shawnee. while on
the same day the Jersey champion
ship will begin AZ Essex County and the
hrst westchester championship will get
under way at wykagyl. II Will be a
busy week for the golfers. both In the
amateur and professional ranks.
Not only 10 his week full Of cham
ptonships. but the biggest golfng event
OF the year In the metropolitan district
the national open championship-win be
played next week at Baltusrol. And all
golfers either professional or amateur
who aspire to the crown now worn
by Walter Hagen n who have not
yet sent in their names should remem-
Der that the entries for the national
open close at : y. ". tomorrow. They
should be sent to Howard r. whitney.
secretary of the United States Golf
Association. at II Broad street. New
York. to reach him by the day and
hour noted above. Each entry must
be accompanied by "A fee Of IS and
II checks are sent they should be made
payable to the order of the United
States Golf Association. Entries for
the open do not have to he sent in
through club secretaries as Is the case
with the other national championships.
but may be sent In by the players them
selves.
The New Jersey championship will
be the most important event Of the
week and there should be a keen fight
for the title now held by Oswald Kirkby,
who won II last year at Morris County.
This will he the sixteenth tournament
held by the New Jersey State Golf Asso-
citation. which is only one year younger
than the Metropolitan Golf Associa-
ton. The record of the last fifteen
years show that the Jersey title Is an
important one. for the names Of the
golfers who a held 1t in the past are
nearly all familiar to every fol-
lower OF the royal and ancient game. \
list of the New Jersey champions fol-
lows
1900. Archibald Graham: 1901, Allan
Kennaday 1902. Allan Kennaday 1908.
w. VI II : " . 'lN man =
1905. John NJ. Ward 1905. Archibald
Graham; 1907. Jerome r.. Travers /;
1908. Jerome ID. Travers; 1909. Max II.
Behr 1910. Max II. Behr 1911. Jerome
d. Travers 1912, oswald Kirkby 1913.
jerome d. Travers 1914. Oswald
Kirkby. =
Play for the title will begin on Thurs
day morning at Essex County, with an
eighteen hole qualifying round. The
first sixteen will constitute the cham
pionship division and three minor six
teens will qualify for cups. Coincident
with the qualifying round will be the
annual club team match, teams OF four
from the various clubs also counting
their qualifying scores for the team
match. on Thursday afternoon the first
match round will he played in all four
divisions. and on Friday there will he
two match rounds. the four beaten
Fights also getting under way on that
day. All OF the finals on Saturday will
be at thirty-six holes, and there also
Will be the usual handicap.
sAll golfers who live in New Jersey
and are members of clubs belonging to
the association, and also golfers who do
not live in New Jersey but who belong
to, New Jersey clubs and to no others.
are eligible TO play for the Jersey title.
The entries close at noon to-day with
Nathan S. Schroeder, the secretary OF
the association, at his office, 395 Broad
way, New York. The entries should he
sent through club secretaries, and must
be accompanied by a 81 entrance fee.
wykagyl's experiment OF holding a
Wcstchester county championship on
Thursday. Friday and Saturday will be
watched with much interest. There are
fifteen golf clubs in Westchester county.
and their members all are eligible to
play at Wykagyl.
The qualifying round on Thursday
will be ut thirty-six holes. and the first
sixteen will qualify for the title. Pro-
vision also has been made for two other
sixteens and for the beaten eight in the
championship division.
The first and second match rounds
will be played on Friday, leaving both
semi-fnals and finals for Saturday.
There also will be a handicap on Satur-
DAY.
Entries for the tournament which
probably will he an annual affair In the
future. should he sent TO Winthrop Pond,
secretary, Wkyagyl Country Club. New
Rochelle, y. Y, and none will be re-
ceived after 4 o'clock on Wednesday
afternoon.
A big field Of professionals is expected
20 assemble at Shawnee on Wednesday
10 play for the Eastern title, revived
last year and won by Isaac Mackie.
Coming as II does so soon before the
national open, the Shawnee tourney
should attract d fine field, and the win
ner will have 10 play good golf,
The regulation championship test,
seventy-two holes of medal play. is the
Shawnee programme. The first thirty
six holes will be played on Wednesday
and the second on Thursday.
Over at Fox Hills this morning the
eolhnc members of the New York Ath-
letic Club will begin play in their NTH
championship tournament. There will he
an eighteen hole qualifying round, three
siNteens to qualify. the first for the
title, and a handicap also will be played,
the qualifying scores TO count There
Will be two divisions in the handicap, one
for golfers under 30 years of age and
the other for the veterans who have
passed the half century mark.
The tourney will continue through to-
morrow and Wednesday. the finals
being reached on Wednesday afternoon.
The present Holder of the New York
A. G. title Is Chisholm Beach.
The committee In charge OF me SEN
TORS Tournament nj Apawamie has
not yet reached a final decision on the
proposal to raise the age limit n year
at "A Time for the next few years In order
10 keep the tourney from becoming
ossrcrp sded. In fact, opposition to the
plan has been heard and many OF the
seniors feel that the change would he