The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-27
GOLFERS TO GATHER
AT CHERRY VALLEY
Last Tourney of Local season
Starts There Thursday
Strong Field Promised.
BY INNS BROWN,

The links Of the Cherry Vallev r,,.a
at Garden City are the mobiliz,nr no,rs
for golfers OF the district In tho fea,r,s
event Of the current week. sta,ttns
Thursday this club stages its FIRST inv.
tation golf tournament In addition =.
being the maiden effort Of this club, me-
meeting will also be the anal even, 4,
a season which has been fertils in invI.
tation tournament play.
Advance indications foster the bensf
that the club will get away under mos,
suspicious conditions for It's ma,8,n
tournament, Already a list Of notab,ss
who expect to take part In the tourna,
ment has been compiled. Sam ]. Gra,
ham, c. L. Van Week, Jr., and A. p
Ranney Of Greenwich are on this lin
Gardiner white of Nassau and probable
j. N. Stearns, Jr., will enter Several
of the Westminster clubs are sending
along strong delegations, while Garden
City and several other Long Island clubs
promise good representation.
Tournament arrangements are IN INA
hands of Arthur Whitney, and It ia m,
ticipated that the course will be In An.
condition for play. The qualifying round
of eighteen holes will be held on Inurs,
day. Match play viii continue through
Friday and Saturday, all matches being
at eighteen holes. In addition the usual
medal play handicap will be staged on
Saturday.
C1arey shows Promise.
The victory of Eddie Clarey, the
/ husky young golfer of the Bala Club, IN
the Philadelphia district in the final
| round of the Atlantic City Tournament,
indicates that this young man may soon
prove quite figure In important tourna.
ments. True enough, he wasn't pitted
against field OF champions or even
near champions. But he was called on
to meet several rather strong players
His victory goes to substantiate his
showing against Ouimet in the Oakmon.
! tournament. 1t may be recalled tina.
the Boston crack was unable to shake
| him off for twenty-seven holes, the match
going to the thirty-ffth hole
| 1t is a surprising thing how little many
| golfers know about the rules Of The
game. An incident in the New York
| Athletic Club tournament at Fox Hills
last week will illustrate. During the
second round of play one contestan,
| TedCn6u the green Oh MS lillEu eklOht,
! whereas his opponent got into trouble
and took FIVE. The former, in making
his approach putt hit his opponents bal,
whereupon he picked up and remarked
to the other chap that the hole was his
as he lost the hole in hitting his ball
| Being somewhat doubtful of the RUS
himself, the man to whom the hole had
been conceded brought the point up after
| coming into the clubhouse at the closs
Of the match. OF course he was IN
formed that his opponent had been sA
wrong. Fortunately ignorance OF tho
rules had no effect IN the outcome OF the
match. The discussion brought up
further points, among which was the
matter of when a penalty may cost
player two strokes in medal play. L A
Hamilton, the Garden City veteran, after
pointing out the rule. related an Incident
in which Walter ]. Travis had wisely
accepted such a penalty in the chan'
pionship at Garden City several years
ago.
Travis Accepts Penalty.
Travis overdrove the home green IN
his qualifying test, and his ball landed
In cavernous trap His playing mate
Marshall Whitlach, suffered the same
! 1dIe. 1t meant q IIldHlt4 III e4SH~ 'N'
either to recover with heavy damage
possible in the event OF failure Know
ing that on the hole would get MN
into match play, Travis dropped back
with a penalty OF two strokes chippea
on and got his 8. Whitlach, with a
chance to win the qualifying rourh,
elected to take his chances and WOUND
up by running into double figures fo'
the hole, dropping out the list OF QUA
ifiers.
The handicapping committee was
closely on his job IN the mccall pN
handicap of the Athletic Club tournS'
ment at Fox Hills that three players
II. L. Stratton, NJ. J. Grammont ana
Wesley NJ. Oler, Jr., tied for hrst plso
at 70 all. Saturday morning OF thi
week has been named as the GATE ioE
playing off this three cornered ue 'O'
the prize.
Among other young players VINO ha,a
come forward with a bound during nH'
season which is coming TO close. Mh'
Glenna Collette, the slender ProN!lehI'
miss, is entitled TO no little consiue'a
ton. Last week she took part IN ~
eighteen hole medal handicap on r'p'
Brookline course and came home "'-
the low net round OF IS. Her ETo''
card was 100, being hut two SuoHe,
back OF Miss Fanny OsEood, VINO i eD
| ztl.- TnI1atta made a CreQll'