The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18

the donkey baseball game in Perry
Stadium. On Wednesday the non
bualihers will engage in driving and
pitching contest and the U. S. G. A.
offers prizes of gold and silver
medals and cups as trophies to the
winners. These contests are held
instead Of consolation flights.
The tournament proper will begin
Monday morning. Each contestant
will play 18 holes Monday and the
same number Tuesday to constitute
a 36-hole qualifying test. The 81
players with the lowest scores for
the 36-hole test will qualify for the
championship match play that will
begin Wednesday. First and second
round matches Wednesday morning
and afternoon will be 10 holes each
and reduce the field by elimination
to Is players. Third and fourth
round matches Thursday morning
and Afternoon will reduce the field
further to four players, or the semi
flnalists.
THE semi-flnal matches will be Sc
Il holes each with 18 holes in the
morning and the remaining part of
the match in the afternoon. The
final match Saturday will be held or
the same basis.
The Harding cup is offered to the
four man team that has the low
est aggregate score for the So holes
of qualifying golf Monday and Tues
day. The huge cup is held for one
year by the winning team. Each
member of the winning team will
receive a medal.
Coffin course will be closed to
public play on next Monday. The
final dressing up of the links will
begin. New sand will be placed in
the traps, tees will be resodded,
new flags will grace the poles in
each cup and the fairways will be
cut.
Season tickets or badge buttons
for the tournament are on sale now
for 81. They admit the bearer to
the course on all seven days of the
tournament, including the exhibition
match. Daily tickets will sell at so
cents each.
The ScOrebOard that will be kept
for the public, as we'll as the press,
will be the regular U. S. G. A. board
such as is kept at the national open
and other big tournaments spon-
sored by that association. Tele-
phones will connect the scoreboard
with the green's.
TOUR MA MENT officials are
Il training 225 of the best caddies
obtainable at the local municipal
and country club courses. They will
be assigned to the players by draw
ing and will wear the number of the
contestant on the front and back
of their shirts. The Coffin course
grounds will be closed to the park
tent will be on the driveway
just back of No. 1 tee.
SIMPSON banged out |
~ some fancy links Skinny yester-
day afternoon to win the mid-sum
mer Columbia Club tournament held |
in conjunction with the member
picnic at Ulen Club in Lebanon.
Any one who has played or watched
a tournament over Ulen course re-
Allies the fine golf Simpson must |
have played to score a 70. He was
two strokes better than Talbot Len
nox who did we'll enough with a IS,
and three better than the veteran
DR.. M. E. Clark who did mighty we'll !
with 76
Frank Weiland had 78 and DR.. G.
A. Nafe and c. D. Babcock 70 to
complete the list of those who
broke 80.
In the low net division there were
ten players who beat 70. Hoyt
Young was the lowest with 63, the
result of having a gross IS with a
23-stroke handicap. He bested j. H.
Lang Jr. and H. G. Tyson by one
stroke, Lang having an 88 with a
24-stroke allowance and Tyson an
SO with a 25-stroke leeway. G. A.
Cones had 90-25-65; o. E. Logan,
97-30-67; j. H. Lang Sr., 96-29-67;
R. L. Lowther, 83-15-68; M. Rob-
erts, 83-14-69, and E. Park Akin,
85-16-69. A galaxy of prizes were
distributed by Wallace o. Lee, club
links committee chairman, assisted
hv DIR Paul T Hurt