1900. 1901. 1902.

Singles.

1887-Miss Alice Hansell.. 1888--Miss B, Townsend.. 1889-Miss B. Townsend.. 1890-Miss E. C. Roosevelt. 1891-Miss Mabel E, Cahill 1892-Miss Mabel E. Cahill 1893-Miss, Aline M. Terry. 1894-Miss H. R. Hellwig.. 1895-Miss J. P. Atkinson. 1896-Miss E. H. Moore... .1897-Miss J. P. Atkinson. 1898-Miss J. P. Atkinson. 1899-Miss M. R. Jones... 1900-Miss M. McAteer. 1901-Miss (E. H. Moore..

There were no mixed doubles before 1892.

There were no doubles before 1890. Misses E. C. Roosevelt and G. W. Roosevelt Miss M. E. Cahill and Mrs. W. F. Morgan, Misses M. E. Cahill and A. M. McKinley.... Clarence Hobart and Miss M. E. Cahill. Misses A. M. Terry and Hattie Butler.. Clarence Hobart and Miss E. C. Roosevelt. Misses H. R. Hellwig and J. P. Atkinson.. E. P. Fischer and Miss J. P. Atkinson. Misses H. R. Hellwig and J. P. Atkinson.. E. P. Fischer and Miss J. P. Atkinson. Misses E. H. Moore and J. P. Atkinson... E. P. Fischer and Miss J. P. Atkinson. Misses J. P. Atkinson and K. G. Atkinson. D. L. Magruder and Miss Laura Henson. Misses J. P. Atkinson and K. G. Atkinson. E. P. Fischer and Miss Carrie Neely. Misses Myrtle McAteer and Jennie Craven.. A. L. Hoskins and Miss Edith Rastall, Misses Jennie Parker and Hattie Champlin. Alfred Codman and Miss M. Hunnewell, Misses J. P. Atkinson and Myrtle McAteer. R. D. Little and Miss Marion Jones. 1902-Miss M. R. Jones.... Misses Marion Jones and J. P. Atkinson...W. C. Grant and Miss E. H. Moore.

The American Whist League is made up of 103 clubs having a membership of 6,540. These, however, are not all players, as the number includes the active membership of social, athletic and similar organizations, which include whist sections, but do not wholly consist of players of the game. The officers of the league for 1902 consisted of John Mitchell, President, Chicago, Ill.; T. A. Whelan, Vice-President, Baltimore, Md.; H. T. Fry, Recording Secretary, Chicago, Ill.; C. W. Vaill, Corresponding Secretary, 43 Decatur street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; F. C. Thwalt, Treasurer, Milwaukee, Wis., and a board of twelve directors. The object of the organization is the encouragement and promotion of the study and play of whist, and such other literary, educational and social purposes as are connected therewith or incident thereto.

The league holds an international tournament each Summer lasting a week. That in 1902 was held at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, June 23-28. Over 400 players participated and sessions were held twice each day. The American League challenge trophy was won by a team from the Philadelphia Whist Club, the Brooklyn trophy by the New York State Whist Association; the Minneapolis trophy by the Cleveland Whist Club, and the Milwaukee trophy by the Knickerbocker Athletic Club of New York City. The Associate Members' trophy was won by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Newman, of Bergen Point.

The Summer tournament of 1903 will be held at Detroit, Mich., July 18-18.

James.

GOLF, 1902.

By W. A. CURLEY.

American ingenuity finally asserted itself in 1902 in the ancient sport of golf, the one pastime of which it had been conceded that our British cousins had nothing to learn and we

Travis.

But on this side was devised a new golf ball that has during the year practically revolutionized the game. The ball is constructed of a thread of white rubber tightly wound inside a skin of gutta percha. Its principal characteristic is its remarkable life. It enables a man to drive nearly twice

as far as he would with the gutta percha sphere, and it rolls considerably more after it lands. It has neutralized the effect of bunkers on many links that were supposed to be difficult to clear, and on some courses the hazard that was formerly an impediment on the approach shot is negotiated by means of the lively ball on the drive. In the opinion of many experts it is of a greater benefit to the poorer class player, and narrows down the game to a question of putting.

ers there.

The ball created quite a furore in England and Scotland and attained great popularity among the playIndeed, it was used by Hutchings and Herd, winners respectively of the amateur and open championships of Great Britain. The innovation was viewed with horror by the conservatives abroad, who endeavored to have the golf associations legislate against the American ball. But the majority of English players were advocates of it, and cried down its attempted suppression.

In America the lively ball is used by nearly every player of prominence. The men's eighth annual Amateur National Championships, decided on the Glenview links, Chicago, revealed the strength of the younger element in this venerable game. It was won by Louis N. James, of Chicago, a lad still in his teens, who only by the greatest of luck was among those to qualify for match play. Another youthful player, E. M. Byers, of Chicago, proved the undoing of Walter J. Travis, twice holder of the title, and who the experts believed would win it again. In the medal round Travis divided the low score honors with G. A. Ormiston, of Pittsburg, each doing a 79, while James, who was destined to capture the title, tied with six others for 64th place with a score of 94, 15 strokes behind the leader. Had the rule in vogue in 1901 and previous years, that only 32 qualify for match play, prevailed, James would have been hopelessly out of it on the first day. Travis was beaten by the narrow margin of 1 up in the third round by Byers, who faced James in the final match for the title. He lost by 4 up and 2 to play. That Travis's defeat may have been due to that element of luck which enters greatly into the game of golf was shown throughout the season, as he won a number of open tournaments in which some of the best experts of the country competed and easily took first honors in the Metropolitan Championships.

Of the sixteen open tournaments held during last season first prize in seven was won by Travis. Travis also distinguished himself in the open championship, which was won by Jacob Auchterlonie. Travis tied for second place with Stewart Gardner, the first time an amateur ever achieved a place in this event. Another feature of the open championship of 1902 was the playing of John H. Shippen, who tied with Anderson, the 1901 champion, for fifth place. Shippen is an American-bred golfer and hitherto no man had ever been placed in the championship who had not learned the game in Scotland.

The women's National Golf Championship for 1902, decided at Brookline, Mass., was truly a national event, as among the contestants were players from Chicago and San Francisco. Thirty-two, instead of sixteen, as heretofore, qualified for match play.

Disagreeable, rainy weather marred the early days of the tournament from the spectators' viewpoint, but did not discourage the players, who bravely faced the elements as they trod the links in quest of championship laurels. In the medal round Miss Margaret Curtis, Essex County, and Mrs. L. A. Wells, Brookline, tied for low score honors, with 89, the best score ever made in the women's championship, and eight strokes better than the previous women's record for the course.

MEN'S NATIONAL AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP, GLENVIEW LINKS, CHICAGO, JULY 15-19, 1902. FIRST ROUND.

(Score in qualifying round is given in parenthesis.) W. J. Travis (79), Garden City, beat W. T. G. Bristol (89), Midlothian, 5 and 3; J. C. Davidson (86), Washington. beat H. Vose (91), Milwaukee, 4 and 2. J. A. Holabird (87), Glenview, beat J. B. Rahon (92), Omaha, 2 and 1; E. M. Byers (84), Allegheny, beat Howard Griffin (90), East Orange, 3 and 2.

Stephen Bull (90), Racine, beat W. P. Smith (85), Philadelphia, 4 up; L. L. Harban, (88), Washington, beat S. T. Chase (93), Onwentsia, 4 and 2.

J. C. Daniels (92), Midlothian, beat W. Fairbanks (87), Denver, 1 up; H. C. Egan (82). Exmoor, beat W. R. Kirk (89), Onwentsia, 7 and 6.

Thayer McMillan (89), Detroit, beat Harold Weber (83), Toledo, 1 up; Percy Pyne, 2d (87), Princeton, beat J. O. Hinkley (92), Midlothian, 1 up.

F. R. Hamlin (86), Chicago, heat C. B. Fownes (91), Pittsburg, 3 and 2; G. H. Leslie (88), Skokie, beat O. C. Fuller (94), Milwaukee, 6 and 4.

D. P. Fredericks (84), Oil City, beat W. H. Bennett (90), Skokie, 4 and 3; A. G. Lockwood (88), Boston, beat E. J. Buchan (92), Racine, 6 and 4.

Max Behr (87), Morris County, beat B. F. Cummins (92), Exmoor, 2 up; A. Poole, Jr. (80), Onwentsia, beat C. Zeublin (89). Midlothian, 4 and 2.

P. H. Hoyt (82), Glenview, beat R. R. Kimball (89), Omaha, 4 and 3; M. Doran, Jr. (92), St. Paul, beat C. Beach. (87), Cleveland, 3 and 2.

H. J. Tweedie (93), Belmont, beat F. O. Horstmann (88), Washington, 4 and 2; R. E. Hunter (85), Midlothian, beat W. S. Harban (90), Washington, 3 and 1.

L. H. Conklin (86), Princeton, beat W. C. Carnegie (91), Allegheny, 2 and 1; L. N. James (94), Glenview, beat Maturin Ballou (88), Apawamis, 6 and 5.

R. W. Keyes (87), Glenview, beat W. A. Stickney (92), St. Louis, 1 up; Ralph McKettrick (84), St. Louis, beat F. D. Frazier (90), Glenview, 6 and 5.

Allan Hibbard (83), Milwaukee, beat R. E. James (89), Glenview, 4 and 2; H. C. Smith (87). Onwentsla, beat H. C. Fownes (92), Highland, 6 and 4.

L. T. Boyd, (88), Milwaukee, beat C. Counselman, Jr. (93), Midlothian, 2 and 1; F. O. Reinhart (86), Baltusrol, beat O. D. Thompson (91), Allegheny, 7 and 5.

W. E. Egan (84), Lake Geneva, beat A. C. Browne (90), Springfield, 5 and 3; N. F. Moore (88), Onwentsia, beat J. G. Thorpe (92), Oakley, 3 and 1. G. T. Brokaw (91), Princeton, beat J. R. Maxwell (86), Des Moines, 1 up; G. A. Ormiston (79), Pittsburg, beat J. D. Cady (89), Rock Island, 2 up.

SECOND ROUND.

Travis beat Davidson, 7 and 6; Byers beat Holabird, 1 up; Harban beat Bull, 6 and 5.

H. C. Egan beat Daniels, 3 and 2; Pyne beat McMillan, 5 and 3; Leslie beat Hamlin, 3 and 2.
Fredericks beat Lockwood, 5 and 4; Poole beat Behr, 2 up; Hoyt beat Doran, 1 up.

Tweedie beat Hunter, 2 and 1; L. N. James beat Conklin, 1 up; McKettrick beat Keyes, 5 and 3.
Smith beat Hibbard, 5 and 4; Reinhart beat Boyd, 2 and 1; W. Egan beat Moore, 3 and 2; Armiston beat
Brokaw, 2 up.
THIRD ROUND.

Byers Beat Travis, 1 up; H. C. Egan beat Harban, 6 and 5; Leslie beat Pyne, 3 and 2.
Fredericks beat Poole, 3 and 2; Hoyt beat Tweedie, 5 and 3; L. N. James beat McKettrick, 6 and 5.
Reinhart beat Smith, 5 and 3; W. Egan beat Armiston, 2 up.

Miss M. Curtis (89), Essex County, beat Miss A. Phipps (97), Springfield, 5 and 3; Miss P. Mackay 100), Oakley C. C., beat Miss E. Lockwood (96), Lexington, 3 and 2.

Miss M. Brownell (96), Agawam H. C., beat Miss E. Hurlbert (101), Morris County, 3 and 2; Mrs. W. M. Gorham (99), Huntingdon Valley, beat Mrs. E. A. Manice (93), Lenox, 5 and 4.

Miss B. Anthony (94), Glenview, beat Mrs. E. S. Porter (99), Oakley C. C., 1 up; Mrs. N. P. Rogers (97), Baltusrol, beat Miss Ruth Milne (102), Albany, 4 and 3.

Miss G. Hecker (96), Apawamis, beat Mrs. E. Sanford (100), Essex County, 3 and 2; Miss R. Underhill (90), Nassau C. C., beat Mrs. R. G. Brown (98), San Francisco, 1 up.

Miss L A. Wells (89), Brookline, beat Miss E. Farrington (98), Vesper C. C., 6 and 4; Miss M. B. Adams (96), Wollaston, beat Miss C. G. Willis (100), Morris County, 6 and 4.

Miss M. W. Phelps (97), Brookline, beat Mrs. J. B. Kenney (100), Baltusrol, 5 and 3; Miss F. C. Osgood (93), Brookline, beat Miss M. K. Wetmore (99), Newport, 1 up.

Miss F. L. Vanderhoff (99), Ardsley, beat Miss J. A. Carpenter (95), Chicago, 2 up; Mrs. W. Shippen (97), Morris County, beat Mrs. J. F. Hubbard (103), Harbor Hill, 2 up.

Mrs. C. F. Fox (96), Huntingdon Valley, beat Miss M. Oliver (101), Albany, 2 and 1; Miss G. B. Bishop (90), Brooklawn C. C., beat Miss G. Fiske (99), Concord, 1 up.

SECOND ROUND.

Miss Curtis beat Miss Mackay, 5 and 1; Mrs. Gorham beat Miss Brownell, 2 up; Miss Anthony beat Mrs. Rogers, 4 and 3. Miss Hecker beat Miss Underhill, 4 and 3; Miss Wells beat Miss Adams, 1 up; Miss Osgood beat Miss Phelps, 1 up. Miss Vanderhoff beat Mrs. Shippen, 6 and 5; Mrs. Fox beat Miss Bishop, 2 up.

THIRD ROUND.

MIS. Gorham beat Miss Curtis, 4 and 2; Miss Hecker beat Miss Anthony, 2 up.
Miss Wells beat Miss Osgood, 6 and 5; Mrs. Fox beat Miss Vanderhoff, 1 up.
SEMI FINAL ROUND.

Miss Wells beat Mrs. Fox, 2 up; Miss Hecker beat Mrs. Gorham, 4 and 2.

FINAL ROUND.

Miss Genevieve Hecker, Apawamis, beat Miss L. A. Wells, Brookline, 4 and 3.
Scores of final match in Women's Championship:

OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP OF AMERICA. (Played at Garden City, October 10 and 11, 1902.) Won by Lawrence Auchterlonie, Chicago, score 307; second, Stewart Gardner, Garden City, 313, and Walter J. Travis, Garden City, 313; fourth, Will Smith, Chicago, 316; fifth, W. Anderson. Montclair, 318; sixth, J. H. Shippen, Marine and Field, 318; seventh, Charles Thorn, Van Cortlandt Park. 319; eighth, Harry Turpie, Auburn, Ill., 320; ninth, Donald J. Ross, Oakley, Mass., 322; tenth, Alex. Ross, Pinehurst, N. C., 323. Scores of first three:

Two championships were played in 1902, one in the Spring and the other in the Fall. Harvard having won the championship team trophy put in play in 1897 by 3 successive victories, a new emblem was played for in 1902. In the team contests the intercollegiate system of scoring, 1 point for each match plus the number of holes the winner is up, was employed. The summary of both championships follows:

(Played from May 6 to 10 on Garden City Links.)

First Round-Yale beat Princeton, 8 to 0; Harvard beat Pennsylvania, 22% to 1%, and Yale beat Columbia, 121⁄2 to 3%.

Final Round and Championship-Yale beat Harvard, 13 to 5.

Individual Championship-Medal round won by H. I. Wilson, Princeton,, score 79.

Final Round and Championship-Won by Charles Hitchcock, Jr., Yale, who beat H. B. McFarland, Penusylvania, 12 up and 11 to play.

During the team match Hitchcock made a 75, the best record ever made over the course by any player save Travis. (Played from October 21 to 25 on Morris County Links.)

First Round-Harvard beat Columbia, 16 to 1%; Princeton beat Pennsylvania, 15% to 0; Harvard beat Yale, 7 to 52.

Final Round and Championship-Harvard beat Princeton, 10 to 6%.

Individual Championship-Medal round won by Percy Pyne, 2d, Princeton, score 77.

Final Round and Championship-Won by H. C. Egan, Harvard, who beat H. B. McFarland, Penr sylvania, 4 up and 2 to play.

Past holders of Individual Championship:

1897-L. P. Bayard, Jr., Princeton. 1898 (May) J. F. Curtis, Harvard. 1898-(Oct.) John Reid, Jr., Yale.

1899-Percy Pyne, 2d. Princeton.
1900-Halstead Lindsley, Harvard.

MEN'S METROPOLITAN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
(Played on Tuxedo Links May 28 to 31, 1902.)

Medal Round-Won by W. J. Travis, Garden City, with 76.
Final Round and Championship-Travis beat F. A. Marcellus, Yountakab, 11 up 10 to play.

WOMEN'S METROPOLITAN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
(Played on Essex County Links June 10 to 14, 1902.)

Medal Round-Won by Miss E. W. Goffe, Essex County, with 86.

Final Round and Championship-Mrs. E. A. Manice, Baltusrol beat Miss Helene Hernandez, Essex County C. C. 1 up and 6 to play.

In the semi-finals Miss Hecker, who had held the title for two years, was beaten by Mrs. Manice, 4 up and 3 to play. ENGLISH GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Charles Hutchings, on May 2, beat Sidney H. Fry, 1 up, in the final round for the amateur title on Holyoke Links. The Open Championship was won June 4 on Holyoke Links by A. Herd, with 226. was second, and Tom Vardon Braid (1901 champion) and Taylor tied at 234 for third place.

ANNUAL INTERCITY MATCHES OF 1902.

Harry Weldon, 229.

The 2-green 72-hole match between the Metropolitan Golf Association and the Golf Association of Phila delphia was won by the former, 81 to 31. The first half of the match was played in May and the second half in November. Philadelphia won the first half, 27 to 16, but lost the second half, 65 to 4. New York's third consecutive victory.

This was

Boston women won the Griscom Cup, which was played for at Baltusrol Links October 29 and 30. The Boston team beat the Philadelphians 44 to 11, and the New Yorkers 31 to 18. champion, was one of the players on the New York team.

Miss Hecker, the national

In cycle competition during the season of 1902 the record list received a very complete revision, though there was little done with the against-time slate. Joe Nelson at Pittsburg travelled a mile in 1:18 3-5 erasing Major Taylor's wind-shield effort of several years ago, but otherwise the fast work behind the "devil machines" was accomplished in competition. Not only does the public consider that time in actual racing is more meritorious than when made against the watch. but the makers have lost interest in this former widespread form of advertising.

Nelson, the little Swede, excelled in rapid journeying up to twenty miles, when Champion secured credit for the next five miles, and then Elkes, one of the greatest pace-followers the world has ever seen, rounded out the hour. His 41 miles 250 yards at Charles River Park, a third-mile track with inadequate banking for the present rate of speed, is a more wonderful ride than the European times negotiated in the rear of the cumbersome wind-shield pacing artillery with double the protection allowed American riders.

The N. C. A. endeavored to bring about uniform pacing restrictions, but it was outvoted in the congress of the Union Cycliste Internationale, though the necessity of adopting the American ideas was admitted toward the end of the season, when in Paris an attempt was made to do away with wind-shields and otherwise limit the amount of protection. The greater the protection, the easier it is for a rider to follow, but the increase of horsepower resulted in miles entirely too fast for the banking of the tracks, and it was this contingency that caused the N. C. A. to decide upon only twelve inches in the rear of pacing machines. The performances of American riders are more praiseworthy than those of the Europeans, except those established in England, where the conditions are nearly similar to those in this country. Again at the Easter congress of the international body the N. C. A. will endeavor to have a general plan adopted for paced riding. In unpaced competition there were few changes, the most notable of which was Frank Kramer's 54 4-5 seconds for a half mile, done in a handicap at Vailsburg. Woody Headspeth covered 26 miles 19 yards in the hour at Dayton, Ohio, and this ride by a newcomer was very creditable. Samuelson, the Salt Lake rider, who held the world's unpaced mile at 1:53 2-5, pedaled a half in 52 3-5.

The amateurs had a busy inning, and much happened both in competition and against the watch. Walter Smith lost the mile to Joe Nelson, then an amateur, early in the season, and later regained the honor with a ride in 1:25 3-5, and also continued and appropriated everything up to and including five miles, when Nelson's figures of a year ago entered the table. Sam Sulkins obtained the competition figures for five miles, and then Nelson's 1901 times held good for the next ten miles.

Hurley rode like a champion and attached many unpaced records to his list. With the exception of Linley's ten miles at New Haven, the N. Y. A. C. flyer dominated the competition revising. Hopper at Salt Lake City, where the air is favorable to fast riding, established new unpaced time records for the half at 0:53 2-5, and also tied Snow's old quarter of 0:25 at Providence in 1896.

NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

Kramer again won the championship of the Grand Circuit by a convincing score, and then, to prove indisputably his right to the title, he defeated decisively Major Taylor, his only rival, in a match race.

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