New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-17
GOLFERS GATHER
At GARDEN CITY
TO-MORROW
warston, Carter, Topping
and Others Insure a
Spirited Tourney.
Pv FRED HAWTHORNE.

-. Garden City tournament, begin
q .o.r,orrow and lasting through
ss...ss-ssv will mark the real beginning
- -. Connective season here in New
Work Men like Marston; carter ana
~Ionning, not 90 mention half dozen
-. Of equal standing who Will
ee...Ssblv be on hand when play Is
EYe5 insure the quality OF the golf
&c, vill be seen on the Long Island
lI nsr..ofore some OF the best Of the
'.ronoY,sn district players have
80 holding back from tournament
-. 1oubtiess thinking 10 safer 20
I.e.,,.-vo their energies until the last
s svr~, Whether tho call Of the
zee, will be sufficient 20 lure the
- Walter =. Travis from his tenn
-: retirement Is still matter
co,;ecturc. but even without the
ecrsnd ola man the battle for the
,S;sf cup Is certain 20 be bitterly
contested one.
A workman In any line develops q
-ssj affection FOR his tools Of trade, as
.,.,,ess the fondncss Of the locomotive
engineer for the great steed or IRON
h suides along the rails, or the gun
rs-s In the navy. who have pet names
a. the biz lz-lnch guns that belch
s...b Il is not strange, therefore,
,ss, The golfer becomes infatuated
S,I-b certain of his clubs and Is un-
tonnv and I'D az ease unless he has
~, with him on the links.
Rv. did YOU ever heGr OF a golfer
- ,ras so Sweet on club that he
,ook II on a trip for its health when
ia vent abroad John O.. Anderson,
~ .hs Siwaroy Country Club, runner
l n, for the national amateur title last
vssr did that thing when he went
ieok 10 Scotland a YEAR ago.
John G. confessed this 20 us last wee <
during the Ardsley Club tournament.
The yotng Scot had Just holed out
rom fifteen yards off the green IN the
qualifying round with a little chip
rasbie. and several times before that
he had laid his approach shots dead
70 the pin with the same club.
"That must be O. great little favorite
Of yours. that stick some one re-
mar ed. as Anderson handed 1t back TO
bis caddio.
Tpdee5 70 u.s." said J. G. 81 have
Rad that club for eight years, and u is
never out Of my bag for long. Two
wears ago I couldn't do much with H.
and so when ] went back home last
wear ! took the little chip-mashie along
with me. and visited al the famous
old courses with IT, Sort Of giving u
'stnosphere.' YOU know, and when
started playing with IL This season, u
worked as well as ever. a club needs
that every now and then
No complaints were heard az Ardsley
last week about lack of caddles. Mlln'
Never. who has been the mentor OF The
caddies for twenty years az the Hudson
River club. spent a week previous u
the opening of the tournament II
Up the boys who were 20 tot
the clubs. When play began he haC
just 40 Of them, and every
one was drilled in the fundamentals OF
what makes a good oadcie.
Willie Meyer is not a great. general
neither is he great college president
nor a social welfare worker, but hC
has tire art Of keeping 40 lively coun
try boys out Of mischief and on th'
Job. and that is sufficient praise fol
one mans epitaph.
The success of the Ardsley tourna
ment was even greater than any Of tn
club members hoped for. The entr,
vas the largest Of the season ant
every detail was run of with machine
Ike regularity. There was none of III,
exatious waiting at the first tee, n
congestion Of the course and othe'
things that sometimes tax the tempe