New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
OceanP nPlunges Open
1919 Atlantic Citv
Season i'm Earnest
Plans Under Way for Next
Golf Championship Meet
ing; Air Contestants To
BE Given Special Prizes
Special CorYcspondencs

Spec'dI CorTcspondencs
ATLANTIC CITY, March 29.-Golfers
from the metropolitan district are ex.
pected to make up a goodly proportion
Of the field which will tee off Nav s
for the annual spring tournament of
tho Atlantic City Country Club at
Northficld. A week has been allowed
between tho tourney at Lakewood anc
the first shore golfing event of the sea-
son to allow. for practice and a number
Of golfing stars are to be spe.
clally invited to play. The first
day will be given over to medal play
Tor qualification, to be followed by two
days of match play. Beside the regu-
lar events which will settle the shore
championship of the early season there
"lit pe consolation matches for de-
leated elghts and special handicap.
FINAL details for the big air contests
to take part over the boardwalk in
May during the meeting of the Pan
American Aeronautical Association are
being completed here and in New York.
George +. Kerr, who heads the aero
nautical committee of the Hotel Mems
Association and the Chamber Of Com
merce, is in favor of offering a heavy
purse for the first overseas trip started
or finished in Atlantic City, and the
Atlantic City Aeronautical Club, which
staged the first big air meet here in
1910. has been reorganized and will
furnish trophies for other events. Plans
also are going forward for a series Of
weekly Intercollegiate races through
the entire season, and the convention
Will open with an air race from New
York.
Conventions Are Scheduled
Scores of important conventions will
begin their sessions here during Nav
and June. The American Medical Asso-
ciatlon, with headquarters at the Tray
more, will bring several thousand dele
gates, and will be followed by the
convention of the American Federation
of Labor and the National Conference
Of Social Workers, which will invite
Pre- ident Wilson as guest of honor.
The American Car Builders, the Ameri-
can Master Mechanics and the Ameri-
can Society for Testing Materials will
be among other meetings of impor-
tance.
Styles on the boardwalk took on
real spring tinge this week. The first
epidemic Of spring fever made rolling
chairs popular and bathing suits were
much in evidence on the beach. Hotels
week, and plans are being adjusted for
establishing a hotel directory to care
for late arrivals who fail to find quar-
ters at their favorite hotels during the
remainder Of the Lenten and Easter
season.
Canadian Senator Present
Senator William c. Edwards, of the
Canadian Parliament, is among the
guests at the Traymore. Among the
well-known New York visitors there are
Judge A. G. Addoms. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles e. Burden. Mrs. George c.
Dewey and Chauncoy Dewey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Z. Clifford, jr.; Mr.. and
Mrs. S. o. Vanderpoel. Harrison Will
iams, Reginald Brooks, Mr.. and Mrs.
George W. Kavanaugh and Mrs. Rem
son Coles. Mr. and Mrs. william
Hecht and Miss Jeanette Hecht are in
a family party from New York Mt the
Shclburne. Mrs. Richard l.. Tyner is
entertaining Miss Lydia Taggart, of
Short Hills, at the Shelburne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Brown and Miss
at the Marlborough Blcnheim. Countess
Argiagc arrived at the Hotel Cont
mental with Miss y. G. Won Tetzcl, Of
New York. Mrs Clarence Corey and
Miss Mary T.. Ford, OF Brooklyn, arc
at the Strand. Mr.. and Mrs. 6. u.
Peck and Miss Marjorie Peck are in
New York party there.
Mrs. James II. Kennedy, Of Mont
clair arrived at the Dennis with Mrs.
Louise Kennedy Mabic and Miss Mary
Louise Mabc. Mrs. Mary Coleman
and Mrs. William Porter came up from
Asheville this week and are at the
Strand. Miss A. e. Sloan, Of Port
Chester, is visiting Mrs. 7. F. Higgins,
of TerryviIle, Conn, at the Wiltshire.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Dimond arrived
at the Grand Atlantic. Mrs. George
B. Anderson, Of New York, is entertain
ing Mrs. H. r. Wilkinson at the Black
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