Evening star., 1915-03-26
NEW YORK IS GOLF
CENTER OF COUNTRY
Metropolitan Players Number Near
ly Third of Names on
Handicap List.

NEW YORK, March 26.-That the
golfing strength of the United States
is in the east and that the metropolitan
district is beyond a doubt the greatest
golfing center Of the country are shown
pretty clearly by geographical analy-
sis of the recently published national
handicap list for 1915. AS far as the
little group OF ranking golfers is con-
cerned-the nineteen who are honored
with handicaps Of three or better-the
east and the west break almost even.
with shade of advantage in favor Of
the latter.
OF the first ninetee-. ten are from the
west and nine from the east. The ten
westerners are Charles Evans, jr., Chi
cago. at y: Eben NJ. Byers and w. C..
Fownes. jr.. Pittsburgh, and Warren K
Wood, Chicago. at 2: f. P. Allis, Sd.
Milwaukee: II. Chandler Egan. Robert
a. Gardner. Mason Phelps, Albert Seek
el OF Chicago and J. B. Schlotmau of
Detroit at g.
The nine from the east are Francis
Oufmet. Boston. and Jerome d. Trayers,
New York. at scratch: Walter J. Tray-
is. New York, at 2: John G. Anderson
H. K. Gorton and Parker w. White
more OF Boston; Fred Herreshoff and
Oswald Kirkby of New York and 3.
Warren Corkran of Baltimore at ?
East Has Big Advantage.
1t is among the bulk OF the list
rated at and S, however. thar tho
east gains an overwhelming adyan-
tage over the west. There as 271 golf
ers in the country who are considered
skillful enough to be placed on the
list and allowed to play in the ma
n nf hi
Der 184 are from the east, IS from the
west and the remaining IL are from
the south. 1t shows an overwhelming
majority in favor of the east, and in
the east are included only the New
England states, New York. New Jersey,
Pennsylvania Except the Pittsburgh
district, which is considered as part of
the West), Delaware, Maryland and the
District of Columbia.
The seventy five golfers credited to
the west are from all of the United
States west of the Alleghenies, except
the southern states. The dozen south
ern golfers who have been placed on
the national list are recruited from the
following states: Louisiana, 3; Texas,
3: Florida, 2: Tennessee, Kentucky,
North Carolina and South Carolina, !
each.
1t will be seen from these figures
that over two-thirds of the good golf
ers in the United States live east of the
AIleghenies, and that it is here in the
east that the game has been developed
to the greatest extent.
Washington Sixth on List.
AS the great cities Of the country are
naturally the great golfing centers, and
each Of them is surrounded by a circle
Of golf courses, the relative standing
of the cities from the point Of view of
the number of men each has on the
national list may be interesting.
Such table shows that New York
stands almost alone. for ninety golfers,
practically one-third of the entire
number on the national list. are resi-
dents Of the metropolitan district, the
territory included within the limits of
the Metropolitan Golf Association. Far
behind, Boston and Chicago are prac-
tically even in the second place, Bos-
ton with thirty-two golfers on the list
and Chicago with thirty-one. Phila-
delphia Is fourth with twenty. Detroit,
where the national championship is to
be played in September, is. fifth with
| ten. and Washington Is now sixth with
eight. Pittsburgh. which for years has
been considered one of the big golfing
centers of the country. is now no bet
ter than seventh. for only six Pitts
burgh golfers have been rated.