New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-26
GOLF.
ENGLEwooD CLUB BEGINS ITS FIRST
OPEN TOURNAMENT.
4 COLI, MEDAL. FOR o,coNNoR AND A NEW REC
ORD FOR THE COURsE-LARocQUE BEATS
M'KENZIE-TO-DAY's DRAWINGS.


M'KENzIE-To-DAY's DRAWINGS.
With forty players in the qualifying round. the
Englewood Golf Club had good reason 10 be pleased
with the success OF It's first open tournament yes
terday About twenty clubs were represented. and
the scores as a rule excellent Burdette
OConnor. Of the Staten Island Cricket club made
the hes: card In the medal play, and estaolisned
A new record for both the nine and the eighteen
hole distances. The best previous record for nine
holes IS. made by Finlay Douglas. but OCon-
beat this both rounds. doing i3 and -,
respectively. grand performance In medal play
means two things-good golf and good luck OCon-
nor certainly had the latter. Perhaps the best IN
stance Of II occurred on the second and third
holes. where wild shots In each case stopped
by trees, the ball bounding back on to the course
Again the brook hole. OConnor struck rock
and landed almost dead sor the hole. But he
played good golf. too. the following card shows:
G fS .....'....' ............s Sts-s
The Englewood course IS not an easy to play,
but just what makes It difficult IS hard 10 say.
Perhaps the explanation is 20 be found IN It's situa
ton The links laid out a sloping hillside.
with almost no level stretches. This is likely 70
result in kicking the ball from the line Of play
and sending It into unexpected places The man
who can't play a hanging lie should avoid Engle-
wood because ne will have hard work with the
course before he gets through. But whatever the
reason a glance at the summary Will show that
the scores were a bi; higher than IS usual In open
tournaments For instance the dividing line be-
tween the sixteen who qualified and the rest Of The
field l03 but this does not mean that the play
was mediocre. for. said before II was IN
usually good This Is the course the contestants
played.
E 4sra: "a 3is 20 so ase 80 rs 80 80
The morning was devoted to the qualifying round
at eighteen holes. medal play in which the hrsi
sixteen qualified for the Englewood Cup. Those
who failed 20 qualify then met In another eighteen
hole round In which the best eight Will play for
a consolation cup For an initial tournament the
smoothness with which the pairs were started was
unusual. and for this considerable credit is due
| TO W. 6 Van Antwerp and william Green, OF the
Greens Committee. All the were away by II
! O'Clock O'Connor's 81 got the gold medal offered
! FOR the best score IN the preliminary round. but
between that and the rest u the field there was
| somewhat Of "A gap Louis Larocque OF SHINE
| cock. and John MOorehcad OF the Allegheny Coun-
| try cub. came next 70 O'Connor. each with So
| /. Blair Jr.. OF Princeton. followed with %. and
| then came Mare Michael. o, Nutley. and VI. Bal
| lou. Of Apawamis. Moorhead s captain OF the
! Pittsburs g0i team ana Keen golier. ne n.si
| put. IarOcQuc did the FIRST Two holes IN each,
but after that h. misjudked the greens. and ms
! Glnther. "a Westbrook youngster. who qualified
/ In the work done by the younger golfers. Take
/ one Of these tall 1.-The. sunburned boys. who swings
/ usually be- put down as crack particularly u ~
/ bears the stamp Of Westbrook Or Shiunecock
| Gluther has much 20 learn, but his natural apu-
/ tude for the game promises wei
! When the nrst sixteen had been selected, the
/ drawings for the first round at match play re-
J suited ~ CLOVIS. Mchae. and Mccord Moorehoad
! and Van Bruut Ballou and Wells, MckenAe ana
! l.arocQue c. " O'COnnOr and kellogg. Gunther
! and Blair. Kellogg and 3. OCOnnor and Clark and
| Baker. OConuOr. the morning medal winner vas
| beaten by kellogg by NJ ana to so. This was
! tho surprise OF the day Blair had bad scare IN
! his match with Guuther. n" was up az the turn.
! but Gunther got this down 10 all even, taxing
! four holes IN rafting succession. With ~ and
20 20 Blair got the decisive hole and won the