New-York tribune., 1909-05-19
FAST GOLF BY PROS"
LOW SCORING THE RULE
amateurs Also Play Well in Tour.
neU at ScdTSddIe.

After lapse of nine years the scarsdaie cour..
picturesquely located among the hills of westrbs,
ter County. was once again brought into pror,,
nence yesterday with the start OF the fourth sn,,
tournament OF the Eastern Professional f;oigs-,s
Association. The championship proper will tai.
place to-day conditions calling for Is holes OF uss,t
play Yesterdays competitions. consisting Of t,r-
ball foursomes. being in the nature Of preliminary
workouts. Professionals teamed up I'm the r,o-,
ing with the result that Alec Smith and Ja,,.,
Norton tied with George Low and Robert Thomso,
for first place. with a hest ball OF Il
Later i'm the day well known amateurs nut IN a,
appearance and paired with the pros In thi,
event George T. Brokaw and H. r. Barker tbs
Garden City green keeper. won with an even N
Twenty-odd couples returned cards. and with fSx
exceptions all the best balls were well under 81
Teams for the professional foursomes were u,a4.
I'D bv drawing from hat, and It so happened tha4
no champions fell together Before the start n was
expected that Smith and Jimmy Norton would havs
a good chance. Their card for the outward iournev
showed nothing but 4s and 3s, but. even So their
total OF 81 to the turn was stroke too many. in
cluding as It did, at the short third Comiaz
back Norton began auspicously for his side n,
dropping a useful put for a the tenth zrsen
From there matters moved along smoothly untn
both men got into difficulties the sixteenth.
where a narred the card A az the hole IN
question would have resulted in g.
Oddly enough. Low and Thomson also went out
IN "a but to do so Thomson had TO bring of a long
put for a at the ninth Their slack play vaz
marked by 5s at the fifteenth sixteenth and seven
teenth holes Isaac Mackie. the Eastern chamuion
playing with Alec Finlay. jr,. went well in spots
and the same could be said Of Jack Hobens the
metropolitan open title holder. who had FTnlay tba
elder for team mate. \ tendency 10 pull hfs
drives got Hobens I'm frequent trouble
After luncheon the gallery displayed a lively in
terest in a number of the groups One OF the frs,
away consisted of Oswald Kirkby the EngIawoos
crack, and Hobens side. and Charles "
OConnor, of Essex County. and Hunter on thu
other At the third OConnor hoIed a rlashie shot
from or the green for . Both pairs went out IN
s5 and the Englewood pair got a Il for the round
as against IS for O'Connor and Hunter.
The II remained low until the last quartet fin
ished. Going out BrOkaw and Barker had six a.
and three 3s for total OF 33- The same clever
team work continued the honevard Journey
until they reached the treacherous sixteenth where
neither could do better than s. When taey
reached the home green II seen that Broksw
and Barker needed TO win Brolcaw who Rad
been doing than his share Of the work throuxa
the round. again proved equal 20 the occasion
The other members OF this foursome were Find
lay S. Douglas and Herbert Strong. oS Apavrau1ls
Neither was his game. and the best that
resulted a 20.
The low card read foIlows::
Brokaw and Barker Garden City:
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