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YALE GOLFERS.
Some of the Players, Graduate and
Undergraduate, and Their Work.
The tremendous popularity which
golf has won in the athletic world dur-
ing the past year or two implies of
course that Yale and Yale men are
deep in the game and are doing things
in that line worth writing about. The
fact that Yale’s only inter-collegiate
championship during the past season
was won by the golfing contingent
speaks strongly for the position the
game holds in the University.
It is not the intention of this sketch
to chronicle the performances of all the
leading players throughout the country,
who chance to be Yale men, but simply
to note the performances of a few
which have come especially to notice
of late.
S. D,: Bowers, ex. 07, J. ea, r.,
‘99, W. B. Smith, ’99, and A. M. Coats,
91, are perhaps the strongest quartet,
so deserve first mention. “Bowers, of
St. Andrew’s and Otsego, and Reid, of
the New Haven Club, have played
steadily during the season with almost
uniform success. The former has
proved a more consistent winner in
open tournaments, while the latter has
done remarkable work at medal play
and in establishing new records on
various courses. No less than nine
such records, so the report reaches this
office, are held by Reid.
Coats is a player whom it is very
hard to “get a line on” before the
National Tournament at Chicago, in-
asmuch as he refrains from frequent
playing in open events and contents
himself with taking things quietly until
the championship is on. Last year he
performed splendidly in the National
and was ranked among the first six
players in the country. Reid and Coats,
by the way, both learned the game in
Scotland originally, and thus have an
advantage of no small amount over the
average player.
Walter Smith of Onwentsia and
Wheaton completes the first quartet.
Of his play this Summer little report
has been made, but what has been
given redounds highly to his credit.
In Chicago, the centre of American
golf, he is ranked as among the very
best, and many look to see him land
the national championship this coming
week (Sept. 14-18).
In addition to these four there are
R. Terry, Jr., 98, a very strong player,
prominent also as Captain of the Yale
team, and President of the Intercol-
legiate Golf Association. Terry has
played chiefly at Newport during the
vacation, and is scratch man among
the numerous players of that vicinity.
He also did good work in the Sea-
bright and Shinnecock Hills tourna-
ment.
W. R. Betts, ’98, and H. T. Kneeland,
’97, are the only other members of the
University team whose names have
been frequently seen, during the sum-
mer. Ofthe two Havemeyers and Craig
Colgate no report has come in.
NEW MATERIAL FOR YALE GOLF.
Entering College this. Fall are two
exceedingly clever players, Robertson
of the Hotchkiss school and Cheney of
South Manchester, Conn. These two
are said to have unusual ability at the
game, and should strengthen the under-
graduate team this coming season.
Play on the New Haven course is
by no means confined to undergradu-
ates, for almost any day during term
time a number of the Faculty may be
seen busily at work with driver and
iron. Of these the most active are
Professors Woolsey, Hooker, Beebe,
Raynolds, Hadley and Fisher.
Among the well-known golfers of
the country may be mentioned the .
following alumni: i, SWeney,
ex. ’90S., of Albany; Rev. Dr. Rode-
rick Terry, ’70, president of Ardsley;
J. B. Tailer, 96, and H. S. Brooks, ’86,
of same club; Wyllys Terry, ’85, and
W. K. Fowler,.’95, of Dvkes Meadow;
R. B. Duyckinck, ’91, of Morristown;
Austin Colgate, ’86, of the Essex
County Country Club; Albert Francke,
’o1S., and R. P. Huntington, ’91, of
Far Rockaway; W. T. Haviland, ’8o,
Captain, and S. B. Thorne, Jr., 96, of
the Brooklawn Club of Bridgeport;
A. Z. Huntington, ’95S., and Rev. W.
R. Richards, ’75,- of Plainfield, N. J.;
Julian W. Curtiss, ’79, and G. B. Phelps,
os, of the Fairfield County Country
Club of Greenwich; F. H. Betts, ’or, of
Shinnecock Hills; G. B. Case, 94, of
Madison, and C. P. Lineaweaver, of
the Philadelphia Cricket Club.
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Gouverneur Morris, Jr., ’08, has a
short story in the August number of
the Century. Mr. Morris is an editor
of the “Yale Literary Magazine.”
VW ey
THIS IS ONLY AN “AD.”’
BUT IT WILL ATTRACT YOUR ATTENTION, THEN
INTEREST YOU, AND THEN DO YOU GOOD.
WE
ARE AS CONFIDENT OF THIS, WHATEVER YOUR
OWN PRESENT OPINION,
AS THAT YALE UNIVER-
SITY WILL OPEN ITS DOORS ON THE THIRTIETH
OF THIS MONTH.
BEFORE COMMENCEMENT, 1898, THE TEN THOUSAND
OF THE “YALE FAMILY” WILL LEARN (AND WE
MODESTLY BELIEVE TO THEIR PROFIT) A FEW
THINGS ABOUT AN AMERICAN FINANCIAL. INSTITU-
TION, WHOSE RECORD FOR THE PAST TWENTY-.
TWO YEARS MAKES IN ITSELF A‘ VERY INTEREST-
ING CHAPTER IN THE INSURANCE AND ECONOMIC
HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY.
A FEW POINTS WILL BE GIVEN HERE ABOUT IT FROM
TIME TO. TIME.
WHEN FURTHER INFORMATION 1S
DESIRED, THE FAMILIAR ADDRESS WILL SUFFICE:
THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO.,
JOHN F. DRYDEN, President,
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Yale Tennis Players.
Four undergraduates of Yale have
played in many of the important tennis
tournaments this summer. These are:
G..P Sheldoa, jr, 1900, G. PP. Dodge
’99, Richard Hooker, ’99 and ie bee =
Hackett, 1900.
Sheldon, together with Ware, won
the first place in doubles at Orange,
Niagara and Newcastle. By winning
the Western championship in doubles
at Chicago, they won the right to play
at Newport where they defeated the
English team, Nisbet and Mahoney.
Dodge won first place in singles at
Sorrento, and he and Hooker the first
place in doubles at the same place. — At
Newport Dodge won the Consolation.
These four Yale men will probably
represent Yale in the Intercollegiate
Lawn Tennis Tournament this Fall.
Dodge'and Hooker have won the right
to this place, the former because he is
College champion, and_ the latter by
winning the University Tennis Tourna-
ment last Spring. 1 2 f
There are to be three representa-
tives of the University in singles and
two teams in the Intercollegiate Tour-
nament, and soon after College opens
a tournament will be held to decide -
who shall be the third representative
in singles and the third and fourth in
doubles. If Sheldon wins, as he prob-
ably will in this tournament, he and
Dodge will make up one team_ in
doubles, and Hackett is spoken of as
the most promising man to play on the
other team with Hooker.
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A False Report About a Former
97 Man.
It is not customary or desirable to
follow all reports about Yale and Yale
men. It will, however, be a relief to
a good many graduates to know that
the unfortunate rumor concerning Mr.
Huntington Mason, formerly a mem-
ber of the Class of ’97, and son of E. G.
Mason, ’60, which alleged his sudden
death at his home in Chicago, is quite
false. The report was very widespread
and caused a great deal of anxiety.
The mistakes arose from confusion of
name with that of another Mason who
was outside of this family.
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