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...first tournament will be an eighteen hole handicap medal competition held at the club grounds in Watertown on Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23. It is open only to members of the club upon payment of an entry fee of 50 cents and signing the blue-book at Leavitt and Peirce's. No entry will be received unless fee is paid at time of signing book. Entries will close on Tuesday night. It will greatly aid the handicapping committee if the handicaps on the home links as well as the three best scores on the Harvard links be given...
Though the course, at present, is but six holes in length, the club hopes soon to increase it to nine. The first hole is 300 yards long over rolling ground, with a bunker 133 yards from the tee. The second hole is 186 yards long, and the third, which is up a steep grade, is but one yard shorter. The fourth is on the top of a hill with a stone bunker 130 yards from the tee. The length of this hole is 258 yards. The fifth and sixth holes are respectively 213 and 152 yards long...
...Ardsley Casino yesterday afternoon L. P. Baird, Jr., of Princeton won first place in the Intercollegiate Individual Medal Golf Competition, with a score 91 for the 18 hole course. W. B. Cutting, Harvard 1900, tied R. Terry, Jr., Yale, for second place with a score...
...first supposed to from a great Arctic continent, but is now known to be an island. It is by passing from the northernmost point of this island through the open sea that Lieutenant Peary thinks the North Pole will be reached. The old supposition that a volcano or deep hole would be found at the Pole is now discarded, and explorers expect to find there either land or an open ocean. The pole is now only 260 miles from the farthest northern point reached, and Lieutenant Peary stated it as a certainty that it will soon be discovered...
This afternoon the golf team leaves for New York to play in the intercollegiate tournament which is to held there on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. On Wednesday will be the individual eighteen-hole medal competition, and on Thursday and Friday the team matches. The matches are to be conducted like the matches in a tennis tournament, that is, the Iosers dropping out each time...