New-York tribune., 1916-07-17
GOLFERS GATHER
ON PARK LINKS
THIS AFTERNOON
Pros and Newspaper Men
to Pair Off-Big Tour
nament Tomorrow.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.

With only day intervening, tne ma
jority of those professionals who com
peted in the metropolitan open goit
championship tournament that finished
at Garden City on Saturday will tee up
this afternoon at Van Cortlandt Park
in sort of preliminary skirmish to
another and even greater tournament
that begins tomorrow and finishes on
Wednesday.
Although upon this occasion they will
not be competing for a title so famous
as that of the metropolitan open, the
pros will be rewarded with fatter
purses in case they finish in the money
and in these days, with the grocers
butchers and bakers Just as insisten'
as ever about being paid for the neces'
sites of life, to say nothing of the
/ landlords, that is something for the
, professional golfer to consider.
J We refer to the first tournament OF
the Professional Golfers Association
| Of America, TO be conducted under the
| auspices Of the New York Newspaper
! Golf Club. The tournament proper VIII
begin tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock
and will consist Of the regulation sew
enty-two holes Of medal play, thirty-siS
tomorrow and thirty-six on Wednes
day.
Paired with Amateurs.
In order to allow the stars Of the
| links a chance to get acquainted witf
the course. they will be paired of with
amateurs this afternoon in an eighteen
hole four-ball competition. To the
winner, provided he is n professional
will go $50 in gold. while the amateur
will get the equivalent in plate. Fol
the second paif there will be S25 casf
and plate of the same value.
! Besides their known skill as golfers
Of the first rank, the pros will be calle'
upon TO display another virtue IN th'
competition this afternoon, that of pa
tience or forbearance, for in most cases
they will be paired with the newspaper
golfers. There are lot of good goi
reporters who do other things bettel
than they play the rollcking, royal ant
ancient game. But the paid player
will probably take this philosophically
and regard il as partial retribution To-
the money they arc to draw down. .,
In the big tournament the prizes vii
be distributed as follows:
First prize, $500 in cash and 81
cup; second. $3.50; third, SIS; fourth
$50; fifth, $780, sixth, S40 seventh
$50; eighth, S2O ninth, SIS, and tenth
$40. There will also be other prizes
namely. S25 for the best thirty-si'
holes and the same amount for tn
best eighteen. hole selected score of tn
sevAnty-two. Then there are fou
prizes of $40 each for the bes
eighteen-hole circuit and two more ten
spots for the men finishing in twenty
third and thirty-third places.
Il Following are the names OF some o
those who will start this afternoon i
the amateur-professional four-bal
competition:
John G.. Anderson and Walter Hagen
Frank W. Dyer and William Scott. o
Montclair; Grantland Rice and Jac
Hobens. Englewood; Tom Kerrigan an
Al Hedley, Siwanoy; Arthur Reid an
William Wallace: Tom Boyd and "
Roy Barnhill, Fox Hills. and Ere
Hawthorne and Louis Teller, tn
Brookline pro.
Martin Arranges Details.
II. B. Martin, president of the News
paper Club. who has lost severa
pounds in weight and added several gra
hairs to his head in arranging the de
tails of this tournament and gettin
together the $1,000 in prize money
gave out a partial list last night o
those who will play in the professiona
tournament.
A glance at the list will show II
names of Walter Hagen, who won tn
Metropolitan open at Garden City o.
Saturday; Jim Barnes, the Brito
from Whitemarsh Valley, who finishe
in second place only stroke behin
the new champion; Charley Hoffnei
Philmont, third at Garden City. an
Wilfrid Reid. Louis Teller, Gilber
Nichols and Tom Kerrigan.
The pairings and starting times o
the entries received up to Saturda
night follow:
9.00-Frank Eastman and A. II Merritt
gOl-Iirl Hendy aud " walsh
9OS-M smith and c ?. SpariuG
al2-W MacFarlane and John Bredemus
a.l6-B A. Conroy and AieN flre
9.90-rom Kerrigan and George Mclean.
a.2i-E VI Loving and Alex. Milne.
a.aS-Ben Nichols and J. Il. Thompson.
9.32-C " Hackney and James 'rossan.
. 3G-garl Anderson and Tom Boyd
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