The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-24
Will Open Play at Shuttle Meadow Club Tomorrow Morning-Links News.

Tomorrow morning what is expect
 ed to be the greatest ampionship
 tournament ever held under the au spices of the Connecticut State asso-
 citation will be opened over the course
 the Shuttle Meadow Country Golf
 club at New Britain. There have been
 more than 200 players entered in the
 tournament and so far as was made known today by Secretary E. B. Nor
 ris every club in the state will be rep resented. The first match will be
 played at S:16 o'clock tomorrow
 morning between Edward C. Spargo and Harold c. Goddard, both of the Weatogue club of Stafford. Both the Brooklawn and Wea- togue Country clubs will be well rep resented at the tournament. The men
 have been paired and following is the
 list of matches scheduled for tomor-
 row between local men:
 S:16 a. m.-Edw. c. spargo and
 Harold c. Goddard, yYeatogue.
 SEQ a. m.-T. F. Mclaughlin and
 Harold Lockhart, Weatougue. 9:OO a. m.-Roger Hovey, Shuttle Meadow; John T. l.. Hubbard, Brook lawn.
 9:os a. m-George B. Carhart and
 J. D. Chapman, Greenwich. 9:16 a. m.-Joseph Stein and Chas.
 P. Shade, Naugatuck.
 9:2O a. m. Everett Japp and Clark Wilcox, Weatogue.
 9:32 a. m.-C. G. Waldo and Henry B. Stoddard, Brooklawn.
 $40 a. m.-Frederick l.. Mills and Stepehen D. Horan, Weatogue. 9:44 a. m.-W. Parker Seeley and Robert Abbott, Brooklawn. 1O:O0 a. m.-H. H. Pease, Shuttle
 Meadow; Willard c. Hyatt, Highland. 1O:OS a. m.-Roy A. Youngs and
 Harvey c. Irving, Weatogue- 1o:3o a. m.-Mortimer B. Foster | and c. A. Wagner, Sound Beach. 10:40 a. m.-Joseph s. McMahon
 and Dr. M. J. Rowe. Weatogue. 10:4S a. m.-Charles P. Rodenbach
 and Walter Gatcomb. Naugatuck. 11:2S a. m.-J. E. Bradley and E. | A. Saunders, Naugatuck.
 Allan F. Poinsette of the Associated
 Press retains possession of the press cup for aonther year as a result of his Victory in the tournament which end | ed at Englewood, N. J., yesterday. IG'oinsette overcame a lead of three strokes held by George Nf- Gould on the first 36 holes of play and led the l latter Dy eISnL SIrOkeS aI IHe lllllSI | The winner had a total of 334 for the | 72 holes. while the runnerup totalled
 342. Hiram Serine finished in third
 place, with a total of 364.
 The last of long series of one day tournaments staged under the aus lpices of the Women's Metropolitan
 Golf Association will be played today
 at Scarsdale. These tournaments have |
 women, and at the same time have
 brought to the fore several promising | players. Doubtless the fine show
 ing of the New York team in the Gris- com cup matches were due in no small
 way to-improvement and experience gained by several of the team mem
 bers in the one day contests. Youthful golfers of the Metropolitan district are to have their fling today
 and tomorrow. Starting this morning
 at the Sfwanoy Country Club, the
 qualifying round as well as the first
 round of match play of the Sixth An
 nual Metropolitan Junior Champion
 ship will be played today. Eighteen
 holes will be played both in qualify
 ing and in subsequent match compe-
 tftion.
 In line with the suggestion to allow all youngsters resident in the district
 to compete in the Metropolitan Junior
 tournaments. attention fitdngly may
 be called to the playing of young l Richard Bockencamp of St. Louis in
 the two big Western amateur events
 recently staged, the Western Amateur
 and the Trans Mississippi champion ships The youngster ran through to | the finals in each event, and suc- cumsbed only after tough battles with
 such seasoned players as Nelson
 Whitney and Harry c. Legg. l The New York Newspaper Golf Club