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Show GOLFERS NOW DESIRE MORE USEFUL PRIZES Silver Cup- Trophies Are Rapidly, Going Out of Style. Persistent Tournament Winners Have Long Since Ceased to Admire Mementoes Me-mentoes of That Kind Evans J Has Big Collection. Silver cups as golf trophies are fast going out of vogue, according to sll-. , "versmlths, who say that the demand among the golfers for prizes has "'"'' turned to more useful articles since the day of red iacketa and red caos on the links has passed. There Is still a goodly demand for cups among golfers who win events . only occasionally, but the persistent tournament winners have long since censed to prize a silver cup that can only be added to a large number of previously won similar trophies. Two years ago Stewart Stlckney of St. Louis, who-1 has won a barrel full of cups during his golfing career, ca-reer, arranged the pHze lists at the Trans-MisslsslppI championship, held over the links of the St. LouIb Country Coun-try club, so that f watches and othtr useful Jewels took the place of SO Chick Evans. cups. He declared that he would not help other golfers to clutter up their attic with useless cups. The utilitarian type of prizes for golf contests con-tests has been becoming more popular ever since. The largest collection rof cups won by any one player bears the name of Charles Evans, Jr., of Chicago, the only man to win both an amateur ama-teur and an open chuinpionshlp In the same year. ,. Evans has turned over all these cups to his club, and the Edgewater Golf club now has the work of keeping them polished and lni,iml nnni,t 1 fl'l, A . 4 insurance on some "OO cups is considerable, consid-erable, and the burnishing of tbe vessels ves-sels is equally as expensive. In addition to useful articles of Jewelry, Jew-elry, medals are said to be coming into use more generally. |
