The sun., 1919-09-03
JERSEY LADS READY 4
FOR GOLF TOURNEY
Twenty-six in Championship
Starting at Essex County
on Thursday.
ny INNS BROWN.

Jersey are now lined up waiting for the
starters call that will send them on
their way In quest of the first Junior
championship staged by the New Jersey
State Golf Association. At Q o'clock
Thursday morning they break away
from the barrier at the Essex County
Country Club for the qualifying round
OF the title battle
Twenty-six entries have been received
by Z. p. Holden, Jr., secretary of the
Jersey association, and paired for play
In this qualifying test. 1t Is possible
that few more may be added, since
entries will be accepted at the tee right
up until starting time.
The list includes quite a few names
well known among the younger element
OF players hereabout. George A.
Bomann, Jr., of Plainfield is one of the
number. Bomann was an entry in the
Metropolitan junior meeting at Siwanoy
several weeks ago and .battled his way
through to the finals where he was
beaten by Peter Harmon, the present
champion.
Nathan Also Entered.
Another well known young PLAYER
slated to start is Alfred Nathan, Jr.,
entered In this event from Hollywood.
Nathan also played In the Metropolitan
and was defeated by Harmon. He has
been quite active in club tournaments
at Deal, where he was a semi-hnalist
for the club championship last season.
Others on the list ere A c. Willis. one
OF the leading yrdng players at Shack
ah.exon; Stephen Berrian of Upper
Montcis'r; c. Il. Peirson, Montclair, and
Donald Bumann. another member of
Plainfields premier goling family.
Play will start at o'clock entrants
Qualifying In flights of eight. Two play
ors will leave the first tee at intervals
OF nve minutes until all have gotten
away, Following are the pairing and
the sequence of starting: George A.
''oman,. Jr. Plainfield. and A. c. Will
lis. Shackarnaxon c. b. Mitchell Wood
bury and Alfred Nathan. Jr.. Helly.
wood: Stephen Berrian, Upper Mont
clair. and ]. E. Billings, Morris county:
G. l.. Pierson. Montclair, and II. V.
Bower. Jr.. Essex county; Sidney n.
Browne. Jr., Baltusrol and C. A.
Strouse. Jr.. Norwood.
P. G. Baker, Essex county, and Ma
thaniel Stevens. Plainfield; Allen G.
Downey, Canoe Brook and II. Compton,
Suburban: Z. w. Haley, Essex county
| and A. Z. Hopkins, Montclair; f, NJ
| Snyder, Jr., Westfield. and Frank Hart,
Essex county: S. II. Davis Essex county.
| and Charles Conklin. Hackensack. b.
| Straus, Norwood. and Sidney Davies,
| Madison N. S. Taylor. Madison. and r.
| Miller, Norwood Donald Bomann, Plain
! field, and John McMurtrie, Freehold
| Golf Club.
| Grimler Leads Scrtbes.
T. r. Grimier returned the best round
| in the qualifying test for the annual
| Newspaper Golf Club championship, on
the public links at Van Cortlandt Park.
1 wl,Na
holes. In this competition handicaps
are applied His allowance of twelve
strokes also gave him the low net with
| 65. p. T. Levins with round Of
| S7-lS-69 finished in second place. Fol-
| lowing are the other fourteen lualifyers
r. A. Kennedy. 93-2o-73; ii. l.. Perez,
| S9-I5-74; Fred Flaugh, S2-7-75; Dave
Hall, 90-14-76; Clinton Scollard, 100-23-
~; a NJ yelling. s61S-7s; NJ. S.
Moore. 110-32-7S; w. b. Wood, 3d. .
LIS; C. F. Loux, 96-17-79; J. William
Leiper, 1O3-24.Ts; F. p. Nowian; 80
1873; F. NJ. Laverty, 103-23-S0; L >.
! league. lO4-2O-S4; E. B. Davis. lO-lG-S7,
! Having completed extensive eXplora-
, tlon of golf courses on lower Long
| Island and certain parts of Pennsyl-
vania several weeks ago, Jack Doyle,
purveyor of sports via the ivories ana
cues, is just now making AN extensive
solfng intinerary. leading through Can
ada to the far Northwest and down the
! Pacific Coast. leaf from the log OF
his journey advises that he touched Vic
toria, Vancouver. Seattle, Portland and
San Francisco. and has suffered but
one defeat Willie Ritcihie, the former
lightweight boxing champion, whe is
also quite a golfer. turned the trick by
! a margin of ! up. He expects to add
tLos Angeles and San Diego to his list
of conquestsa
Ellsworth Augustus won the golf
championship OF Cleveland. defeating
J. X. Boyle in the final match on Sat
friday of. last week. thereby retaining
his title for another year. Bole finished
the first eighteen holes / up. and after
dropping to an even footing managed
tc carry his lead through the first nine
in the afternoon. Augustus squared the
match at the tenth and won the
next two. Bole never caught him
from there out. Augustus led the
'Ist OF amateurs who entered the West
EN- open at Mayfield several weeks ago
na1N GHaUuS. I,IrNNTH FINALS