The New York herald., 1922-10-31
SEASIDE GOLFERS
EXTEND WELCOME
Atlantic City Country Club
to Hold Tourney This
Week.
ny KERR N. PETRIE.

Away down there on the New Jersey
coast they don't seem to have noticed
the encroachment OF winter. It may be
that they have been lulled into a belief
that they are in the middle of April by
the blossoming of the trees in the
too busy catching bluefish and weighing
them by the light Of the moon to,notice
such things.
But be this as It may. Atlantic City
long has threatened to tear itself away
from tradition and become the winter
garden of golfing activity north of the
Mason and Dixon iire and now It's op-
portunity has arrived In the clash of
schedules Of the Country Club and the
new Linwood organization.
Since away back in the dim ages when
mosquitoes still were wrangling over
the relative merits of the plus and the
long handicap man the Country Club
has been holding its spring and autumn
tournaments Always the latter have
been given an October date, but this
time November has been selected. and
probably on account of the fact that
not many weeks ago Linwood decided
to crawl into the ring as host to the
golfers To invite the iinksmen to the
seaside twice within so short a space
Of time would OF course be counting
disaster.
On Thursday. Friday and Saturday Of
this week the Country Club is to hold
its meeting and It remains to be seen
just how the golfers will take to q
November event. Tho date really ought
to have very little bearing on the case
as long as the weather remains at all
propitfous. The Atlantic City course
readily lends itself to winter golfing
inasmuch as its soil Is Of sandy ma
ture and does not bake like the courses
Of inland character.
Turf Conditions Excellent.
But seaside course has still another
quality to commend It. Its turf condI-
tions are such that they still continue
to hold the ball up and to give good
iies even after the growth has departed
from the meadow grass On inland
courses at this season Of the year II is
the exception to have good lies. The
grass withers and willis and the ball has
TO be picked from a close lie. Then
again the putting green's become bare
because Of the stoppage Of the growth
and close cutting makes them slippery
and uncertain
f. 9. Robbins, the secretary, is receiy-
Ing the entries and Is preparing for five
sixteens In the match play. The quail
iying VIII be at eighteen holes, but It
is long since Atlantic City abandoned
the plan Of playing thirty-six holes the
first day Huge fields used to attend
these functions and the picture still re-
mains vivid of how the officials had to
scour the countryside for lanterns so
that the last dozen or twenty couples
marooned afar could be brought to the
home green with cards intact The lam
tern light play became a feature Of the
Atlantic City fall tournament and so re-
mained until the increasing size of the
entry list necessitated a change to
single round.
The Bankers Athletic League will
have charge of the links of the West
chester -Biltmore Country Club to-day
when an army OF talent will be sent out
there to compete for the trophies pre-
sented by Alvin w. Crech of the Euuita-
BILE Trust Comany and by Percy John
ston Of the, Chemioai National Bank.
The latter will be awarded to the indi-
vidual making lowest gross score. For
the player returning low net card there
will be cup from the Bankers Athletic
League.
About twenty banks are expected to
send teams. The officers Of the league !
are President. c. Z. Reid, Atlantic Ma
tional Bank; vice-presid ents, l.. r. Nc
Donald, Chase National Bank; ]. M.
Spindler. sGotham National Bank, and |
p j. Tobin, American Exchange Ma
tional Bank; treasurer. c. p. Poole, In
ternational Banking Corporation finan-
cial secretary. p. ]. Mccullough, New
York Trust Company secretary, A J. |
Lonto. American Exchange National
Bank.