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ANDREWS, HUMOR, BRANDER MATTHEWS, HENRY LOOMIS NELSON, REMINISCENCE- PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS EIGHT SHORT STORIES 220 5IST0KT, THE SIXTEENTH GREEN. TRAVIS VS. BYERS IN FINALS. H- M 2r -m' £ t? % 'S w 3 ,' *: i I & • L '•' - ^ i i .*. ' -~ . -w, ...'.- GOLF BY APPOINTMENT AN OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING," ESTABLISHED 1894 VOL. XIII. OCTOBER, 1903 NO. 4 THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP NASSAU COUNTRY CLUB, GLEN COVE, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 1-5, J903 By "Oldcastle" HE Amateur championship, which is plaint was heard. A few competitors who T always the more attractive event of played off about the noon-hour grumbled the season in golf, was rendered ad- because they had to miss their usual ditionally interesting this year. For the lunch, and there were a small number first time the contest took place without who had to finish in the evening when it a qualifying round, the English system might have been lighter. But these were of all-match play having been adopted by trifles, after all, and will happen whether the IT. S. G. A. after much discussion. or not the qualifying round exists, and Dire predictions were made that when are not to be taken into account when the ordeal of a medal round no longer considering whether all-match play was a had to be feared, the starters for the success. event would attain to unwieldy num- Opinions differed widely before the bers. As' a matter of fact there were tournament was held upon this question, only 145 entries as against 160 at Glen and there will probably be no greater View last year, and 143 at Atlantic City unanimity now. Golfers are prone to in 1901. It would therefore appear that grumble, and they will without doubt the system under which the champion- assert their rights in this respect. One of ship is run has very little effect upon the objections raised against the all- the numbers who engage in the event. match play was very early brought, to the Upon the first day in the preliminary front. Three crack players, Findlay S. round there were seventeen matches, so Douglas, Arthur G. Lockwood, and Louis that 111 players drew byes, and this in- N-. -Tames, the Amateur champion, were volved sixty-four matches in the first disposed of in the first round, and their round. If there had been less it would being put out of the tournament was one have been better, but upon the whole no more burden laid on the back of the long- very serious inconvenience resulted. The suffering match-play system. But why committee handled the starters with should they not be put out if they fail to method and despatch, and little com- play as well as the men with whom they Copyright, 1903, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved. 224 THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP are paired? It is of course unfortunate was a semifinalist then, occupied a simi- that an ex-Amateur champion, an Ama- lar position now. It would thus seem teur champion, and a former semifinalist that if the object of a system is that should disappear at such an early stage good players should remain in to the of the game, but incidents like this will end, one method is as good as another, always happen under any system, and judged by results. Whether the quali- are not detrimental to golf. A serious ob- fying round adds to the interest of the jection raised by the opponents of the all- championship is another matter, and it match-play system was that the element is needless to dwell upon it now. of luck in the draw, which was always The course for the championship had great, would be increased. When thirty- been lengthened somewhat, making the two qualified it could be fairly said, total 6017 yards. The distances were: speaking generally, that the players at Out...310 500 310 325 405 391 1C1 370 375—3127 the subsequent match play were the best In 390 190 395 300 392 443 300 140 2S0—2890 golfers entered in the tournament, and Considering the amount of rain we that they were about equal in merit. have had, the fair green was in good con- Consequently, excluding possibly Messrs. dition. It was soft in the preliminary Travis and Douglas, it made little dif- round, as was to be expected, but it im- ference against whom a man was paired. proved materially during the week. Under all-match play it was claimed that Some good players disappeared in the a man if he had luck might not meet a preliminarj' round, chief of whom were strong player until the closing rounds of F. O. Horstmann, J. Whitney Baker, and the championship were reached. It is Dr. L. L. ITarban. Horstmann was put only fair to say that the plasr at Nassau out by Ormiston, and Baker was drawn to some extent supports this view.