New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-14
Golfers to Spend Busy Day
in Practice at BaltuSrOl
Many Players, Both ANA
teur and Professional, viii
Have a Tuning Up Round
Over the Course.

Practice, which makes for perfection,
will be the keynote of the golfers TO-
day, when most of those entered for
the national open championship, be-
ginning with the first qualifying round
Tomorrow at the Baltusrol Golf Club,
will take the kinks out % their swings.
Always the day before a national
championship the experts take the OPP
portunity 20 study the locations OF the
various traps, the run Of the greens
and this, that and the other thing
which might help them in the all-im'
portant test of skill and stamina by
which reputations-and In the case OF
the professionals, cssh-are made. -,
At Baltusrol, therefore, the order OF
the day will be practice, and more or
it. Those who have not seen the
course before, such as the western
amateur, Charles Evans, jr., who came
TO town yesterday, will not overlook
the chance to get keyed up. Francls
Ouimet has played Baltusroi on sew
eral occasions and knows IT, nut mere
are new trans since last fall, and Fran
els arrived from Boston last night with
q view to getting an early start TINS
morning.
Doubtless there will be impromptu
matches. most likely arranged after
the four ball style, for 1t is soclable
and permits of deadly comparison. One
learns by another's mistakes in TINS
roval game of golf. A few were out
Yesterday to make practice swings IN
order that the muscles of the arms and
bodv NAV be well limbered. In cham
pionship the players like TO devote
their whole attention TO scoring, ana
like not TO bother about some part OF
their anatomy which has suddenly be-
come obstinate.
The national open championship will
not be the only thing this week IN the
world of golf, although it is quite. nstu-
raj that il will completely overshadow
everything else. For reasons best
known to it's committee, the Nassau
Country Club will hold an invitation
tournament on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, although it is difficult to I'M
derstand how these dates have been
selected unless it was in the desire TO
obtain a footing in the crowded June
month, with a view TO future seasons
II is hardly to be expected that Mas
sau will attract many well known anna
tours, despite the fact that its course
is more attractive than ever. Inc
changes on the Locust Valley eide have
been put in commission, so that the
character of the fifteenth, sixteenth,
third. fourth and fifth holes has been
materially altered and made more in
teresting. Even so, the national open
championship, held in these parts for
the first time In six years, VIII COM
mand all attention.
At the recent annual meeting OF the
Women's Eastern Golf Association In
Philadelphia officers for the coming
wear were chosen as follows:
President, Miss Fanny c. Osgood
Boston; president, Miss Maud X.
Wetmore, Washington; secretary, Mrs
Lawrence Swift, New York, and treas
urer. Miss Florence McNeely, Philadel-
phia. Mrs. Swift succeeds Miss Louisa
A. Wells, of Boston, who has been sec,
retary OF the association for severaI
years and declined to serve again.
1t Is not unlikely that another year
will bring about great changes in the
course of the Essex Country Club. Con-
siderable property has been purchased
and il is planned 10 build three en-
tirely new holes and combine the six
teentb and seventeenth and abandon
the eighteenth because OF the cohges.
ton between the home and the nrst
holes. Considerable money Will be
spent on the project. incidentally y, the
course will be brought up to a length
approaching $500 yards.