The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-01
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP RENEWAL
GOLFERS OF NOTE GATHER AT
BROOKLAWN LINKS.
Will Anderson Gets Low Score Prize After
PIay-Ofr with Gardner-Record
for Course Cut to S3- Harland
Makes q a2ss- Yard Hole I'm One stroke

PIay-Or with Gardner Record
for Course Cut to 81 - Harland
Makes a2ss-Yard Hole I'm One stroke.
All the placed men in the open champion
ship. except Auchterlonie and the Roses,
were contestants yesterday in the tourna-
ment for professionals and amateurs ut the
Brooklawn Country Club II was fste day
FOR Bridgeport society, the women and men
in outing attire making the clubhouse and
grounds as gay as II garden party. The
play was Of the most brilliant order, for
"a and rs was not good enough to qualify
in the four to keep on to-day at the match
game. Then, as climax, Will Anderson.
the new open champion. and Stewart Gard
ner had to go an extra round to determine
a tie for the low score money
No time could have been better. every
lie being perfect through the fair green, and
the putting greens ideal. The round was n
short one. but by next year. through the
acquisition Of more land this fault will be
remedied. The fair green narrows in toward
the hole on nearly all the holes and only on
the second and the ninth tees did the pro-
fessionals feel free to put their full strength
into the tee shots. The distances were 325,
4sl 1872. 223. 39l, 2i9. 1893, 80 and $50 yards.
the round being 1851 yards. The record
had been IS, made by Will Smith in match
with Harland last year. Gardner made the
new record Of 80 on his first round in the
afternoon and Anderson did a.
record of the unique order. and the first Of
the sort on the records Of professional compe-
titions about New York. was that John Harland
holed out in one the 223-yard fourth hole.
Another incident, confessed by Aleck Camp
bell with the comment that he was "gey
daffy." was that after lifting from an unplay-
nh Ia Irpt md sv,tsN
rough again at a penalty of 2 strokes instead
OF teeing up on the fair green, as he could have
done under the rules. The mistake cost him
an eight.
Gil Nichols led the field with ~ in the MORN
ing. Anderson and Gardner being tied at 70
The latter made the 33 record on the first
round Of the afternoon. and on, the second.
although he had a Q on the second hole through
slicing the drive into long grass, had only to
get for a 80. "Dinna dee IT," said ;, Aleck
as mis- e m max US al h S2S
enough. an oyerrun approach put making ita5.
Anderson's first round was 80. but. making no
mistakes. the second round was "a. and made
the tie.
Eveyy one followed the play of. even the
coachmen deserving their carriages and
chaureurs their automobiles. A. brace OF
Is was the jotting on the first hole, but both
drove into the long grass from the second tee,
wasting stroke getting out, and, as Anderson
was also short on an approach put the hole
was a 0 for Gardner and for him. Anderson
got the stroke back and a lead Of one by get
ting the next two in s. At the sixth Anderson
was. still one ahead. for he saved himself on
the last by nlblick shot from the worst part
Of the bunker to the green. very clever work.
squaring the match. Anderson took the
lead again by on the eighth, his mashie
shot leaving him fairly long put to negotiate.
while Gardner had to hole twenty-foot one
for A. The ninth was 4. The strokes
were:
Anderson . ......4 3 8 4-97
Gardner. ........,,4 o 4-B