In the first day's play in the team matches for the intercollegiate golf championship at Garden City, Long Island, the University team was defeated by Princeton by the score of 15 1-2 to 2 1-2. Yale easily beat Cornell 20 to 0. Cornell entered a team for the first time, but Pennsylvania and Columbia for the first time in many years have not entered a team, though both have made entries in the individual championship.

The summaries follow, the method of scoring consisting of one point for each individual match, plus one-half point for each hole won: HARVARD.  PRINCETON. Wilder,  0  Gee,  3 Briggs,  2 1-2  West,  0 Clark,  0  Peters,  2 Claflin,  0  Cockran,  3 1-2 Hickox,  0  Van Dyke,  4 1-2 McNeil,  0  Barrows,  2 1-2   2 1-2  15 1-2 YALE.  CORNELL. Clows,  0  Cornell,  0 Abbott,  2  Stull,  0 Knowles,  3  Owens,  0 Partridge,  6 1-2  Josephy,  0 Howland,  0  Adler,  0 Rotan,  8 1-2  Ingersell,  0   20  0

The finals of the team matches will be played today between Yale and Princeton. The individual championship will begin tomorrow, and the finals will be played on Saturday.