The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-11
'FENN'S PHENOMENAL GOLF.
RKc0RDs X EN- ar TEE COUNTRY
OLUB or WEsTcHEsTER.

Tnr,e R,uuas n the neEte Score sr 90 ana n
retail Of nol-vright Makes = sinEie neuna
n ss-The Canadian Chnmpion - lspS
Gains n Piace-Isssuits ct Other L,nkn.
Phenomenal play by Fem marked the Pre-
liminary round yesterday In the annual open
tournament OF the Country Club of Westchester.
He won the rold medal for the best score with
l8i, ana made = new record for the links for
both eighteen and thirty-six holes. Wright was
| second with ia, and made one nine hole round
in az. also q best on record. Rushmore was
third with 178, and Gillespie, the Canadian
amateur champion Of 1890, took fourth place
with III. IL was his fret appearance In q tour
nnnent near New York. Gillespie learned his
golf In tho Dominion, but ho has the full ewing
| Of one born TO the heather. while his short game
Is equally good.
Three OF the players represented the soran-
ton Country ~Club-Brooks. Huntington, and
whitmore. Brooks 10 the former captain Of the
Princeton baseball team. and Huntington 10
said to be the best player In Pennsylvania out
side Of Philadelphia. It was the arst time the
Scranton club has been represented In . Me-
| tropolitan Golf Association tournament.
Tho crisp, cool day was stimulating. and the
course was In such hno order that tho golfers
could blame nothing but their luck for any
poor scores. The course has been heightened
since last year. Tho playing distances were
ia, 4s7. 9s1, 334, 1876, lot, l7s. 354, and 875
yards; in all. 1888 yards. Tho boyle 10 80.
which was thrice oqualled by Fem and beaten
BY Wright.
Fenn's play on the throo opening rounds was
as consistently good golf as any amateur has
ever displayed in the East. He was as steady
as q rock on the toe and brassey shots. and safe
In approaching, but his putting was the greatest
feature of the game. Ho had no easy puts
throughout tho twenty.seven holes, the at
tempt having to DO made each time from dis
tances varying from ton to twenty-five feet, yet
Fem rolled the ball safe in as surely as the
magnet attracts the needle. He started we'll on
the fourth round, but the ball was trapped by the
drain on the second shot. Under the local rule
Fem should have lifted under a penalty OF q
stroke. but, In ignorance Of this. he played out,
which took him two strokes. He made the hole
In z. This is an instance OF how careless the best
players are regarding the local rules at the
printed on the score card. and Fenn's only ex.
euse for rot reading 1t was that he had not
Wright, except on the third round when he
beat the bogie, played unsteady; The same
@ ss' Sa Ge r ssld ,o 90 1 a9sh% po e. : y of 3 had si fHe hGaG SAW IN
the course for tho first time. He made the fifth
hole in Q and had Ave holes in 3 strokes. q good
made The long eighth s,h hole in in 3 suppose, ps.ss s eI:
Reynal were up to the anticipations Justified by
their form. Tho latter player, due to q IL for
the eighth hole. where he sent three balls into
tails were well managed by Potter. Sands and
Cary Of tho committee.
Goodwin was disqualified for putting before
the disk had been removed from the holo, the
ball hitting the stat and dropping in. Edge,
playing the seventeenth hole on tho second
round, cut out a divot with the ball, ana, follow
ing through with the iron, he hit the ball again,
while II was soaring away. Under the rules he
hrst time this peculiar accident has occurred
this season. The cards follow, 196 O.. better
qualifying for the Country Club Cup: