The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-12

ing stars failed to materialize, the twenty-second annual national open championship at Baltusro1 next week promises to equal in every way pre- ceding title tournaments. A repre- sentative entry list has been filed and the course at Short Hills, N. J., is of 1 a character to test the aIl-around go1fing ability of the leading anna teurs and professionals of all sections of the United States, Tuesday and "Wednesday will be devoted to qualify 1 ing rounds while on Thursday and Friday the sixty-four survivors will | compete in seventy-two hole cham pionship play!
 This is the second open tournament to be played at Ba1tusrol, the first 1 having been held on the New Jersey club course in 1903 when Willie An derson won, this starting his string of three consecutive victories which still stands as a record. Anderson Hunt club at Hamilton, Mass, in 1901, l giving him a total of four cham ptonships. Alec. Smith in 1907 and 1910 and Jerry McRermott in I 1911 and 1912. These two players with Anderson are the only ones to
 repeat in the United States open. Harry Vardon, of England, came close to duplicating this feat, winning at Wheaton. ILL. in 1900 and being de- feated at Broozline, Mass, in 1913 1 by Francis Quimet 72 to TT in the sensational play-off of the tie be- ] between Vardon, Edward Ray and l Quimet, after the trio had tied at BOA at the end of four days play. With the preliminary season finish l ed and the college crews gatherin at Poughkeepsie and New London for the final races. of the year, Interest in the intercollegiate regattag turns l to the probable outcome of the varsity 1 fH ina Of ! months. The result of the dual and triangular regattas during April and l May point to closely contested four l mile races on both the Thames and | Hudson rivers
 Harvard and Yale have had a, sue l cessfuI spring on the water, winning 1 all the races in which their varsity crews started although the schedule 1 was not as heavy as in previous years. Harvard won from the Naval .Acad-- I eI1ay eight at Annapolis on April 24 defeating the Middiese first crew in 1 a race of 1 5-S miles by twelve sec onds. On May 22 the Crimson oars men won from Cornell in a two-mile race on Caynga Lake by a, length. l. Yale figured tn two preliminary races defeating Pennsylvania in snow storm at Philadelphia, April 8. lwhen the QualHers were outrowed l over 5-16 mile course. The EH first crew also had the honor of win
 
 l ton on May Is when both Cornell and Princeton followed the Blue oarsmen at the finish of a 7-S mile race. Less than a shell length separated
 Yale and Cornell, with the Tigers 1 trailing badly Of the two defeats administered to the cornell crew the 4 race won by Harvard was more inn
 pressive than the victory secured by l Yale.
 Of the five varsity crews entered
 
 Poughkeepsie the Leland, Stanford
 eight is the only one undefeated. The 1 Cahfornians won the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate title, defeating the university of Washington and Cali
 forrfa crews in a mile race on l April 10. The Stanford time was 15 l m. S7 4-5s. Among the eastern crews Pennsylvania has been defated by
 Yale. Proinceton, Columbia and has l won from the Navy; Cornell lost to Yale and Harvard and defeated Princeton The Princeton eight and f the Navy crew will not row in either l of the four-mi1e races scheduled for
 the closing days of the month
 The plans of the Amateur Athletic
 Union for the holding of eastern and
 middle western tryout preliminary to 1 sending a team to San Francisco for the junior and senior track and field championshtps, will be modelled along the lines or the O1yInplC S<4H1oS LAAoAS in the spring of 1912. Nineteen events will be included in the pro gram; the 44O yards hurdle being a. new event.
 | At the eastern competitions, to be held at the Harvard stadium, Cam
 bridge June 26, the winners of each event will make the team as will some of the second place men. Each mem Der of the team will be allowed about S15O for his expenses to the Exposi- ~z-7Sk 41,% %1,1 l ners several of the larger eastern athletic clubs are planning to send additional men to San Francisco so
 the party will number between thirty l and forty contestants.
 1 The western trials are scheduled for lChicago and will probably be held on July IT. The entry conditions will
 be in a general way, similar to those 1 governing the eastern try outs. The entry fee for each event will be one dollar and the expense fund allowed to winners for the trip to the Paci- fic Coast approximately one hundred dollars The question has arisen as
 to whether entrant, having failed to qualify in the eastern games, shall be permitted to compete in the Wes- l tern meet This point, as we'll as sev-
 eral others, including the dividing
 line between eastern and western ter
 ritory, will /be decided at a, special
 meeting of the A. A. U. Pittsburgh has been named as the probable point
 of division.
 American yachtsmen are still pug zling over an alleged interview with
 Sir Thomas Lipton in which he was credited with the statement that if it developed that the lines of his
 Shamrock ". were known, he would
 build another challenger. The Lip
 ton yacht arriver here last fall and 1 when the European war prevented the
 races for the Americas cup, Sham
 rock ". was hauled out and housed.
 The greatest secrecy was maintain ed during the operation. Huge can
 vas curtains were dropped over the l yachts sides before she left the water and as soon as she was berthed for