The sun., 1919-10-16
GOLFERS GATHER AT
GREENWICH TO-DAY
Big Field for Invitation Tour
nament-AnOther White
Graham Match Possible.
BY INNS BROWN.

The invitation golf tournament OF
the Greenwich Country Club starts to-
day with an eighteen hole qualifying
round. In spite of the fact that the sea-
son is rolling along into the scar and
yellow the fact would never be suspected
from perusing the long list of links nota-
bles who are scheduled to appear. In
all something ike 1875 players are carded
to jump off in the tussle for the col
lection of handsome prizes offered to
the winners on various counts.
The tournament promises one match
which will arouse interest over aud be-
yond that to be expected in the course
or an invitation tournament. Among the
list OF entries are Gardiner w. White
OF Nassau and Samuel ]. Graham of the
nome club. Another match between this
pair is due to stir up interest out Of the
ordinary.
The Nassau golfers fur has begun to
stand on end bit at the mention of n
brush between himself and Graham. A
Few late developments have set things
very much awry. Said developments
amount to a double defeat at The hands
OF Graham in tournaments at Nassau
and Piping Rock. Not that White feels
any poignant humiliation at lowering his
colors TO the Greenwich man. He has
immersed some good ones in his days on
the links. But to Whites way of think
Ing he is rather rubbing II in by trounc-
Ing him twice within two weeks time,
going even further to choose Nassau as
the scene of one of the beatings.
1t is no cinch that the pair will meet
at Greenwich. There arc quite enough
good men and true entered to make it
entirely possible that the twain may fall
by the wayside before they are ever
damned together in match play. The
field carded for the tournament contains
the names of more than few formida-
BILE opponents for the best in the district.
Newton in the List.
In addition to White and Graham, F.
c. Newton. who added the Staten Island
championship to his string of conquests
on Monday of this week, when he wal
loped A. Z. Walker, Jr., up and to
play, will be present to have his say in
the disposition of first honors of the
tournament. Newton is playing fine
golf Just now He will operate at dis
advantage against several of the field
to-day in the matter of distance from the
tees. but after he lands within a hundred
and twenty-five or fifty yards of the
Besides this trio there is another tri-
umvirate of a Princetonian persuasion
which figures to take quite a hand in the
ultimate disposition of honors of the
event. These three are Grant Peacock
and E c. Beall, former Princeton player.
who halls from Uniontown, Pa. and ]. S.
Dean. This trio has taken part in sew
eral local tournaments of late. and either
of the three is capable of rising up and
,gts, l. ,f,r1, NJ wi Ia he has
that the field has to offer. Dean an
nounced after he had been eliminated
from the Piping Rock tournament that
he was going to try his hand at Green
wich, and either set a pace that would
make the rest dizzy or else lay aside his
golfing paraphernala until the coming
of another season.
The above mentioned are just a few
of the field. There are several others
who have the stuff to cut quite swath
in the going In fact. the field appears
quite well balanced, with no single en-
trant standing out TO overwhelm the
rest II looks like real battle royal for
the privilege Of taking down the winners
trophy.
"snake" Ames Scores Victory.
The ancient warlike spirit of Knowlton
L. (Snake) Ames, famous in Prince
links of the Onwentsa Club at Chicago
few days ago. The famous gridlron
vet stepped out and covered himself with
considerable glory by capturing the
twelfth annual Powwow golf tournament
from strong field of golfng braves. 1t
was seventy-two hole battle, and Ames
trekked home one stroke ahead of his
nearest competitor, with total of 33S
BY way OF lending ceremony to the
occasion a fitting requiem over the re-
mains of a noted deceased was held.
The late lamented J. Barleycorn in the
guise of the famous nineteenth hole
was laid to rest with appropriate cere-
monies. Departing from the usual cere-
monies of forhears long resident in the
happy hunting ground, the body was
not sent to rest aloft on brush arbor
covered with leaves and twigs but was
duly buried amid profound weeping and
mourning of the assembled brethren.