YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY _
COLE OF THE YEAR
The growth of golf in America in
the last five years has been one of the
most remarkable things in the history
of any sport. From a few courses in
1894 this great exotic has spread East
and West, North and South, till its
homes are literally a thousand and its
followers almost without number.
Among the first to take up the game
were the students in the various col-
leges of the land and they have kept
steadily abreast of the advance of the
best in the sport. Scarcely a big
tournament was played during the year
which did not bear on its list of entries
the names of more than one representa-
tive of Yale, or Harvard or Prince-
ton or Columbia, and these players
have generally shown golf of the high-
est sort. At Yale the game seems to
have taken a firmer hold than at any
of her sister: universities, and though
of comparatively short life, ranks easily
next to the four great sports. The
awarding of the coveted “Y” to John
Reid, Jr., ’09, and Walter B. Smith,
‘99 is a concession of the University
Athletic Association which may give
some idea of the place golf has won in
the athletic interests of the University.
In the following very brief review
of the year, an attempt has been made
to cover only the principal tournaments
from the beginning of the golfing year
up to date, and to show what part Yale
men have taken in them, where any
were entered. Where no Yale entries
were noticed the facts are printed as a
matter of record.
The first golf tournament of the sea-
son was held at St. Andrews links by
the Interscholastic League, April 3, ina
36-hole medal play. A field of nearly
a score of the best players of Berkeley,
Cutler, Hotchkiss and other preparatory
schools were entered, and although the
sround was in very poor shape, as might
naturally be expected at so early a date,
the play was remarkably good. J. O.
Winston, of Cutler School, won the
match at the 38th hole, by four strokes
to his opponent’s six; H. B. Hollins of
Cutler School was second. The Con-
solation Cup was won by P. A. Proal,
Cutler, who beat D. H. Lloyd, also of
Cutler, 5 up and 3 to play. ;
The open tournament of the Metropol-
itan Golf Association at Garden City, L.
L, April 12, was really the regular begin-
ning of the season. A field of 33 met in
a 36-hole medal play round, 16 qualify-
ing, with Findlay S. Douglas, Meadow- »
brook G. C.; J. A. Tyler, Morris County
G. C., and H. M. Harriman, Meadow-
brook G. C., leading, their scores being
173 all. Douglas met his first defeat of
the year in the semi-finals of this tourna-
ment at the hands of Reginald Brooks,
Meadowbrook, 2 up and 1 to play. Har-
riman, playing in splendid form. beat
Tyng 3 up and 2 to play, and won in the
finals by putting out Brooks 2 up and
I to play.
The Garden City event was followed
by the Lakewood (N. J.), open tourna-
ment, April 27-29, where 62 competitors
were entered, including Harriman, fresh
from his triumph a fortnight before,
Douglas, Travis of Oakland, L. I.,; G.
C. Tyng; H. M. Forest, Philadelphia
G. C., and Brooks. In the semi-finals
Douglas again went down, this time,
“fore R. C. Watson, Westbrook (L. I.)
G. C., 1 up; and Harriman met. a like
result with W. J.. Travis. Travis, play-
ing in his best form of the year, won
the match over Watson, 3 up and 2 to
play. .
The Crescent Club open tournament
held at Bay Ridge, May 4-5, brought
out 40 contestants, among them being
Amos T. Dwight, Yale 1900S., New
Haven G. C. -In the first round ,of
match play Dwight beat McGlachlin,
Dyker Meadow G. C., I up. In the
second round he easily disposed of
Mount Pleasant’s stronger golfer, D.
Brandreth, and met the champion, Dou-
elas, in the finals, winning from him in
19 holes, by 1 up. Dwight played an
even, strong game throughout and his
winning was not a fluke, though it must
be confessed that Douglas had bad luck
in his short work. 3
Tyng won the Batsurol open tourna-
ment, June 1, out of a field of 85 en-
tries. His score for the medal play over
the course (18 holes) was 82 strokes.
Tyng’s opponent in the finals was L. P.
Bayard, Jr., of Princeton, who was play-
ing under the Batsurol colors, 2 up and
1 to play.
Thirty playérs began the Baltimore
open June 2. Although Douglas beat all
records on the course with the remarka-
ble score of 165, 15 strokes better than
his nearest competitor, he fell before F.
H. Bohlen, Philadelphia G. C., in the
semi-final round. Bohlen won the
match and the Baltimore Club cup by
overcoming J. C. Jenkins, Baltimore
G. C., 3 up and 2 to play.
THE CHICAGO TOURNAMENT.
The great contest of the year, the
championship, was begun July 3, on the’
Onwentsia links, Chicago, and lasted
the whole of six days; there were I12.
entries and among the 36 who qualified
in the medal play were, besides Douglas,
Harriman, Tyng, Travis and McDonald,
the following Yale men: John Reid, Jr.,
’°99, St. Andtews G. C.; W. B. Smith,
’°99, Onwentsia G. C.; Roderick Terry,
98; Sheldon Cary, ’93 S., Cleveland
C. seu.
G. C. In the medal play John Reid; Jr.,
came within a stroke of tieing C. B.
McDonald, Chicago G. C., for the gold
medal. McDonald’s score was 168. In
Jr.,
G,
the first day’s match play Reid beat
Sterling Beckwith, Cleveland G C., 7
up and 6 to play; Cary was beaten by
J. G. Thorp, Oakley G. C., 8 up and 7
to play; Smith beat McBride 13 up and
12 to play; Terry beat S. Thompson,
Onwentsia G. C., 2 up and 1 to play.
Douglas, Harriman, Tyng and Travis
won their matches. At the end of the
third day’s play Reid was the only Yale
man left in the game, Smith having
been disposed of by Thorp, 2 up and 1
to play, and Terry by Harriman 2 up.
Reid was put out the next day in a very
close and exciting match with Travis.
Reid led with a margin of 2 up till the
sth hole. At the oth hole both men
were even, continuing so until the very
last hole, when a miss of Reid’s on a
4 foot put gave the game to Travis, 2
up and 1 to play. Douglas and Harri-
man by winning over*their competitors
in the semi-finals came together on the
last day, in one of the greatest matches
ever seen in this country. Harriman’s
victory over the former champion by
2 up is now a part of golf history.
THE CONNECTICUT TOURNAMENT.
A tournament which attracted many
Yale players among the graduates living
near New Haven,.and undergraduates
- was that of the Connecticut Golf Asso-
ciation on the Brooklawn Country Club
links at Bridgeport, Conn., July 18-22.
There were in all about 100 entries from
the twenty-two clubs in the Association,
for the three events of the meet, the
individual State championship, the
champion foursomes and the team
championship. In the first round for
the individual championship, T. L.
Cheney, Yale 1901, beat E. Leavitt-2 up
and 1 to play; R. S. Hincks, Yale ’97,
beat O. C. Sterling 7 up and 6 to play;
W. B. Cheney, Yale 1900, beat T. S
Woolsey, Yale 1901, 4 up and 2 to play;
S. H. Patterson beat P. Cheney, Yale
1901, 8 up and 6 to play. In the second
round T. L. Cheney won his match;
Hincks was put out by W. B. Cheney
7 up and 6to play. T. L. Cheney, after
beating W. B. Cheney, met and defeated
J. H. Patterson in the finals, thereby
winning the State championship.
In the Consolation division, F. G.
Beach, Yale ’83, beat W. T. Haviland,
Yale ’80, 7 up and 6 to play; I. Lyon,
Yale 1900 S., beat H. L. Williams 7 up
and 5 to play; Louis E. Stoddard, ’99,
beat M. Austin 2 up, and D. N. Barney,
Yale ’81, beat P. Bonner 1 up. In the
second round Lyon put out Beach 3 up
and 2 to play, and Stoddard was beaten
by Baldwin 2 up and 4 to play. Bar-.
ney won his match with Eaton of Staf-
ford, but lost in the third round, as did
also Lyon. This put all the Yale men
out of match, which was won by W.
L. Baldwin of the Wee Burn Golf Club.
Professor Theodore S. Woolsey of the
Yale Law School, and his son Theodore
S. Woolsey, Yale 1901, defeated their
competitors in the first three rounds and
met E. Leavitt and George Phelps in
the finals for the interclub foursome
championship. They lost the match by
'5 up and 3 to play. The tournament
came to an end with a spirited team
contest, there being 11 club entries of 6
men each. The trophy went to the Fair-
field Golf Club, of which the ex-cham-
McBride, ’90S., Cleveland .
pion, Findlay S. Douglas, is a member.
At the Shinnecock open tournament,
July 26-29, at which remarkably low
qualifying scores were made on the first
day’s play, these Yale men won the
right to continue the contest for the
President's Cup: Jk. Lerry,..ir,. 08 7.4,
M. Robertson, 1901, Captain of the Yale
Golf Team, and C. Hitchcock. Terry
alone survived the first round, Robert-
son being beaten by Jasper Lynch 3 up
and 2 to play, Terry himself defeat-
ing Hitchcock by the same _ score.
Terry went out on the second round to:
D. Chauncey 3 up and 2 to play. The
cup was won by A. L. Ripley of the
Oakley Golf Club. The Peconic Cup
was won by S. P. Nash, Maidstone G.
C., who defeated €. T. Richardson,
Lakewood G. C., 5 up and 4 to play.
The Consolation Cup. was carried off
by F. C. Havemeyer, Yale 1900, New-
port G. C., who defeated DeLancey
Nicoll 9 up and 8 to play.. Havemeyer
was in his best form of the season.
THE OPEN BALTIMORE MEET.
One of the great tournaments of the
year was the open championship at
Baltimore Sept. 14-15, where amateurs
and professionals met in friendly rivalry,
and where cash and plate prizes were
offered to the winners, a condition not
permitted by the rules of any other
sport. There were 78 entries, of
which 64 were professionals and 14
amateurs, the latter including the cham-
pion, H. M. Harriman, Jenkins, Thomp-
son and Quincy A. Shaw. .
Willie Smith, professional, of the
Midlothian Club of Chicago, won first
honors, doing the 72 holes in the re-
markable score of 315 strokes. The
next thirteen players were also -profes-
sionals, but H. M. Harriman, Meadow-
brook, the amateur champion of
America, showed that his defeating
Douglas at the Onwentsia was not a
fluke, as he turned in a card with a
total of 339. The professionals next to
Willie Smith were G. Low, Dyker Mea-
dow, W. H. Way, Detroit, Val Fitz-
john, Otsego, who were tied for second
place with a score of 326, just eleven
strokes greater than Willie Smith’s
score.
The tournament was one of the most
successful of its kind ever held in this
country.
THE YALE GOLF TEAM.
The first play of the Yale Golf Team
was their match with the Fairfield
County (Conn.) Golf Team on the lat-
ter’s links, May 13, the results of which
were printed in the WerEexkLty of May
with a score of 19 to 15, her players
doing splendid work. The team was
made up as follows: John Reid, Jr.,
’99, Captain; W. B. Smith, ’99; T. M.
Robinson, 1901; F. C. Havemeyer, 1900;
E. F. Hinkle, ’99; A. T. Dwight, 1900S. ;
1a: Myers. 1902; T.-L. Cheney," 4001 ;
P. Cheney, 1901; C. D. Barnes, I902.
Smith, who was playing a trifle off his
game met Douglas, the champion, who
is a member of Fairfield; and was
beaten 5 up and 3 to play. |
Reid later won the Yale championship
by defeating all comers, including W.
B. Smith, the champion of 1808. —
Since the close of the College in June,
Yale men have taken part in many
tournaments in various parts of the
country and have, generally, made ex-
cellent showings. Besides the part
taken by them in the principal open
tournaments of the country as set down
in the first part of this article, the fol-
lowing good work has been reported:
C. M. Hitchcock, P. G., won the Con-
solation finals in the Newport -match,
Aug. 1, beating E. M. Byers, 1901, and
T. M. Robertson, 1901, won the Stock-
bridge, (Mass.) tourney. The prize, a
very handsome silver cup, has been won
by Mr. Robertson twice in succession
and now becomes his property. There
are doubtless many other good records
made by the Yale men during the Sum-
mer’s play which have not come to the
ears of the writer. ;
INTERCOLLEGIATE LEAGUE NEWS.
The Intercollegiate Golf League, con-
sisting of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and
Columbia, will hold its championship
meet at Garden City, L. I., Oct. 25. The
University of Pennsylvania golfers have
made application for a membership in
this league, but as the application is so
late she will hardly be able to enter to-
compete this month. -
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She will
doubtedly be taken in, however, at ce
next meeting of the League officers.
Each of the four colleges now compos-
ing the Intercollegiate League will send
six men to the tournament. At Yale
there are some excellent players at hand
to try for the places of Reid and Smith
who graduated in June, and there is a
lively competition among the squad of
nearly a score. The most prominent
candidates are: P. Cheney, 1901; C. M.
Hitchcock, P. G.; Byers, 1901; Meyers,
1900..3.3.1yes,. 1900-9. Ta. Le Chetiese
1901; Havemeyer, 1900; Dwight, 1900S.,
and C.D. Barnes, “1902..° Captain
Robertson will hold a tournament some
time this week to see what improvement
the Summer’s play has made, but no
matter what the showing is the men will
not be picked until about a week before
the meeting. Yale would seem to have
an excellent chance to make the cup a
permanent possession by a third winning
of it, having already won it twice. Har-
vard has a strong team, however, and
will make a great effort to tie Yale, as
she has already one winning to her
credit.
A report has come to the WEEKLY
that John Reid and Walter B. Smith
have been playing in Scotland for the
last few weeks, where they will doubt-
less uphold the good reputation of the
young American college player.
FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR.
The chief tournaments
played are:
September 28th, 29th, 30th.—Tuxedo
Golf Club; invitation tournament.
October 5th, 6th, 7th —Nassau Coun-
try Club; open tournament. .
October 12th, 13th, 14th.—Ardsley
Casino Club; invitation men’s foursome
tournament.
October 7th.—International match
between the United States and Canada,
the Morris Country Club, Convent,
October 7th.—Oakland Golf Club
(Cal.) Open handicap. |
October toth to 14th—Women’s
Championship, at Philadelphia Country
Club.
October roth, 20th, 21st—Wee Burn
Golf Club; invitation tournament.
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Late Prof. Marsh’s Estate.
The inventory of the estate of the late
Othniel C. Marsh, Professor of Palz-
ontology in Yale University, was filed
in the Probate Court of New Haven,
Friday, September 29, by the appraisers,
Oliver S. White, Yale ’64, and Leonard
M. Daggett, Yale *84.
The estate of Professor Marsh is
made up of his personal effects, which
are considered very valuable, and the
property of Prospect street on which
his residence stands. The land on
Prospect street, with a 505 foot front-
age, is valued at $60,000, but there is
an outstanding mortgage of $30,000
upon it.
Of his personal property probably the
most valuable is the collection of 217
pictures and paintings upon which the
appraisers have set a value of $2,039.50.
The bric-a-brac of his house was ap-
praised at $2,466. His splendid collec-
tion of orchids, including 1,334 speci-
mens, valued at $1,337, was sent to New
York Saturday, September 30, and will
go on sale Wednesday, October 4.
Professor Marsh’s library contains a
large number of very valuable works on
natural history and archeology and
also an extremely rare book entitled
“PDiscum Vivae Icones.” In the library
are a number of old Chinese prints and
also 150 sketches of Italian scenery
drawn in 1704-11. The Oriental rugs
are valued at $860.50 and all the house-
hold furniture is estimated by the ap-
praisers to be worth $o11.
The inventory shows that the cash in
the bank amounts to $110.98 and that
$583.53 is due from Yale University.
By this appraisal, therefore, Professor
Marsh’s personal and real property is
worth $66,269.05. * :
The will of Prof.. Marsh which was
filed in the Probate Court, New Haven,
March 23, 1899, gave all his property
both personal and real, with the excep-
tion of $10,000, to the University, his
house and grounds to be devoted to —
the purposes of a botanical garden.
The nucleus of a fund to develop this
new department, was to be made from
the sale of his personal property.
