Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-24
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
DR.. Lee Harlan Best in Golf
Tourney at Baltimore.
HIS SCORE WAS 81
PERCY PYNE, I'D, LED IN COL
LEGE CHAMPIONSHIP.
Trotting Records Broken at Memphis
Good Racing at Morris Park
Interesting Bowling Games.

The golf tournament for the champion
ship OF Maryland and District of Columbia
began yesterday at the Baltimore Country
Clubs links, at Roland Park, and will con-
clude tomorrow. There was a fair gallery
present to witness the play in the qualify
ing rounds.
The links were in good order, the greens
being fast. There were forty eight players
in the qualifying round, the conditions Of
which were eighteen holes, medal play, best
sixteen scores to qualify for the champion
ship There were thirteen players from the
District of Columbia present and Of these
six qualified, Ten members of the Balti-
more Country Club qualified.
The lowest medal score made in the quail
flying round was 81, made by DR.. L. L..
Harlan, Columbia.
Left Six to Two.
After playing the first round two Wash
ingtonans and six Baltimoreans were left
in the race for the championship. While
there were few brilliant plays yesterday,
the games as a rule We're marked merely
by good, steady golf playing Much inter
est centered in the play of DR.. L. L. Har-
ban of the Columbia Club and G. c. Laf-
ferty of the Chevy Chase Club, who last
week won the championship in the Chevy
Chase Club tourney.
Both qualified yesterday with low scores,
DR. Harbans being 81 and Mr.. Lafferty' S
81 These two were paired in the first round
and played a close game, DR.. Harlan win
ming with score of rs to Mr.. Lafferty's 10.
The record for the links is II, made by
John D. Reynolds on July 81. The links
than formerly because of extensions made
this season.
Nothing Over 80 Would Do.
To qualify yesterday it took a score Of
SO or better. The only out-ef-town man en-
tered who did not appear was E. H. Duff
of the Columbia Club. Some of the players
did not turn in their cards. Failing to
qualify, Mr.. T. Courtney Jenkins. one of the
crack Baltimore players. acted as caddy for
Mr.. John D. Reynolds, who defeated Dr.
w. s. Harlan in the first round.
The L. L. Harlan and j. c. Laferty game
played in the afternoon was by strokes as
follows:
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Lafrerty-Gqt .,. SS4ts54saa s a.,
Lafferty's score Of two in the sixteenth
hole was very clever but Harlan holed in
three. By taking six strokes for the eight
zenith hole, which was made by DIR. Harlan
in five, Mr.. Lafferty lost by 1 up. Last
the Baltimore links, but it has been beaten
this season by both Mr.. T. Courtney Jenk
ms and Mr.. ]. D. Reynolds.
Another Round in 70.
DR.. Harban's score of IS yesterday was
equaled by Mr.. B. W. Corkran, who de-
feated Mr.. C. S. Abel 1 up in the first
round. Mr.. H. A. Orrick made a record in
the qualifying round by using irons exclu
sively and scoring 90 in his game with Mr..
G. ODER. Mr.. ]. C. Davidson. Columbian
Club, who is the tennis champion of the
District of Columbia, in the first round
yesterday defeated Mr.. W, E. Parsons, Bal
timore Country Club, byN up. They were
all even at the seventeenth hole.
During the first round, in which Messrs.
D. F. Mallory ard F. o. Horstman were
playing for the tenth hole. Mr. Horstman's
ball went in the high grass near the edge
of the woods. A stone in front of the
ball and Mr. Horstman moved 1t out of the
way. Mr.. Mallory commended that it was a
hazard and Mr.. HorStman replaced the
stone and played. 1t was suggested that
the golf committee rule on the question as
to whether or not it was hazard, but as
the game was over the committee took no
action.
In the Qualifying Round.
The medal scores made in yesterdays
qualifying round, given according to the
pairings. We're:
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