New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-18

never before appeared a public green He has
played private links by the score. but all
such occasions the spectators have been merely
club members and their friends. Yesterday any
who cared to make the trip TO Van Cortlandt
Park had the opportunity OF studying the
who has smashed golfng records and won cham
pionships. Hundreds OF people visited the course.
many Of them being laborers from the railroad
yards and surrounding villages. a detail OF
mounted policemen and a dozen bluecoats foot
hand to keep the crowd in order. but 1t
like attempting to round up herd OF Texas
steers
The police handled the crowd though they
establishing fire lines and long rope was
carried in front Of the gallery to prevent people
breaking through. Instead Of curbing the onlook-
ers. 1t encouraged them to break around the ends
Flood several times forced to push people
away from the ball with his golf club No atten-
ton was paid golhng etiquette The crowd
had come to Vardon, and there keeping
it back The official badges had been distributed
freely that almost everybody had bit OF ribbon
emitting him to parade in front of the ropes. The
players several times obliged to protest. But
on the whole 1t a good natured gathering
The curiosity seekers and ubiquitous small boys
started out though they were at football
game, but later in the day they modified their
thusiasm, and the match went with compare
tive smoothness There were many women in the
crowd in spite OF the muddy condition Of the
ground. and most of them tramped the entire
th!rty-six holes. Special trains were run from
vanced the gallery was augmented by hundreds OF
clerks and business from this city
The forenoon match started at 1870 o'clock. Var
don had the honor and opened by pulling his drive.
Freeland the next the tee and did fair
ly we'll. Then came Flood. who got away sizzling
drive and the hole for his side in l. Vardon
taking 5. Vardon used his mid-iron the next
hole and made the green with it, finally winning
in 3 and thus tieng the score. The Englishman
got the third also this time by making the green
Nd TUtrr IN EreeIa and
was down in 5. but Flood weak his long
game and took g. The next three holes were
halved.
Coming to the seventh green Vardon with
his mid-ron-a favorite club with him throughout
the day. Flood unfortunate enoLlh TO slice
into the road thereby losing stroke and distance.
while Freeland Just cleared the bunker with his
driver and took 4 Vardon won in an easy 3. which
made him up The greens were not in good con-
dition show off man like Vardon. who likes to
pitch his mashie approaches. and when the eighth
was reached the sanded surface would not hold the
Englishman's ball The result was halve in 4
Facing the ninth Vardon got away a screaming
cleek shot that was fifty yards better than either
of the other attempts. Flood chose the doubtful
expedient Of taking A brassie for his second. and
came to grief in the ditch. Freeland did not reach
the bunker his second and after making mess
of his third-an iron shot-he picked up his ball.
Vardon had a good chance win in T. but lost it.
though his 5 was good enough TO take hole =
against 6 by the best ball. At this point it was
seen that Vardor had gone out in 81, beating bogle
by stroke and the best ball by up.
Freeand responsible for the tenth hole.
which he In good I. Vardon made a grand
display from the tee and after reaching the
green his second he In to ) by both the
other men. The next four holes haved. on
the sixteenth Vardon went down in a good :. and
as OF the others needed stroke more the Eng
lishman was now up. He scored again on the
seventeenth and as the eighteenth was halve1
the morning match ended with Vardon up Here
is the way the cards read: