New-York tribune., 1910-07-27
SMASH OLD GOLF marks
Mackie Sets a Record and Ho.
bens Again Breaks 1t.
"PROS" FIGHT FOR A TITLE
Combine Medal and Match Plsy
in Struggle for Eastern
Championship.

Championship.
Past masters in the art Of welding dr;vs,
and iron did themselves proud on the Sails
bury links at Garden City yesterday in the
opening rounds Of the annual championship
tournament of the Eastern Professional
Golfers Association. The fact that ths
course record was twice broken speaks for
itself Isaac Mackie, Of Fox Hills, did tbs
trick in the early hours when he won tbs
medal for leading the field IN the eighteen-
hole testing round with -. and Jack Ho-
bens, of Englewood. gained additional fame
by reeling off 20 in the frs. match play
round against Mackie in the afternoon.
The unusual spectacle OF professional,
mixing medal with match play appealed to
the gallery, and the many women present
seemed to take as much interest in tire
struggle as the men. Every one voted ths
affair a success. despite the absence of
Alec Smith.
So keen was the struggle among the favor
ties that three were tied with scores OF Sd
for last place in the qualifying round of tina
championship eight. They were Dave Hun
ter, Of Essex County; VIII Anderson. OF
the Philadelphia Cricket Club, and George
Low. OF BaltusroL. Hunter gained the COW
eted place with at the second hole, 50
that Anderson. who has won titles galore,
and Low. a former metropolitan champion,
had to drop into the second set.
When the pros got under way in ths
morning a gale of wind was thrashins over
the links. and as it came from a westerly
quarter It was OF scant benett, except on
one or two holes Consequently, few ex-
pected to see low cards returned Machle.
however. seemed perfectly at home IN tns
wind ard the harder IL blew the better he
played. With nothing worse than hyes re-
corded at the first and sixth holes, the Eox
Hills man reached the turn in flne % he
continued his sound golf on the homeVard
Journey. making another 50 and - Tor tha
round. a stroke better than the previous
record Mackie received gold medal as
reward for leading the field His card was
as follows:
Isaac Mackie. Fox Hills:
Ga' IN .....9 .,..9 5 5-Se-7a
The next best scores in the morning were
IT'S. returned by Tom Anderson, jr-. and
Herbert Strong The last named deserved
credit for his good showing considering his
wretched start, wherein he took for the
first hole. Thereafter hts golf was wellni5h
fawless. the honeward journey of 30 being
especially brilliant.
Aside from the failure Of VIII Anderson
TO make the championship set, the showing
of H H Barker, of Garden City, came as
one of the most pronounced d1sappolnt-
ments Barker was utterly unable 10 COPE
with the blustery conditions. and took SIS
for the round, a score which sent him down
to the third eight. Orrin Terry. the home
bred from Canoe Brook; r. Wakerley. OF
the home club, and Alex. Cunning nam. OF
Glenn Ridge, tied for last place In the sec
ond eight, with scores Of IS. On the 2lay-
off. Terry won
Drives of exceptional length and ap~
proaches that were r1arveIs for their ae-
curacy were the distinctive features oc
Hobens's golf in the afternoon. when hs
eliminated Isaac Mackie to the tune OF D
I'D and to play In the first round Hohens
PLAYED most of his long shots with pull.
keeping the bail low and cheating the wind
wherever possible. An idea OF his length
can be gathered when il is stated that
drove the 2sS-yard thirteenth green. and
won the hole easily IN 3.
Just previous to that the Enslswcod
profes sionaI had brought off a twelvs-fOoc
put for on the twelfth green Against
such golf as this Mackie was helpless, and
the end was in sight when he topped ni5
drive going to the fourteenth. HooeHs won
that hole In 4 and the match. but played
out the bye holes for record His drive
to the seventeenth was fully 800 yards. and
he missed getting 3 By a hairs breadth
Tho same narrow margin robbed him OF 4
stroke on the home green. where he got a
g. His card was as follows:
Jack Hobens. Enslewoot
In 4
The other winners in the championships
set were Tom Anderson, who beat Frank
Belwood by 3 to margin; Dave Hunter,
who defeated Strong on the fifteenth green,
and James Maiden. who downed the re-
doubtable Gil Nichols in match that was
carried to the home green. Nichols won
the first hole where Maiden got into trou5is
and picked up. but thereafter the Nassau
man generally had command of the situa-
ton.
\ happy provision whereby the defeated
twelve in the first rounds will be able 20
cuntipue for other prizes to-day IS a raoys
calculated TO maintain interest in the tour
nament- The twelve unfortunatss will CON-
pete In thirty-six-hole medal play contes,
for three moneys, portioned or at the ratio
Of $40 for first, $40 for second and S15 for
third. With such strong players as Nichols
and Mackie eligible this extra competition
VIII be worth watching.
So far as the struggle for the title is con-
cerned the draw calls for Hobsns TO meet
Maiden in one bracket and Anderson 20
face Hunter IN the other. With the excep-
ton of Hobens the other three have been
playing about on a par and they have
hopes CT scoring lower to-day Provided
the wind let's no they are almost certain
to make things hum.
Three OF the four matches in the second
division were hard fought Willie Audsr-
son had 10 play an extra hole in order TO
lefeat the homebred Terry, while Low and
James thomson wen their matches on rhs
nome green
Tho summary fellows:
Out. In Tots
saac Nackte. Fox FiuS 81 SIS y
Herbert strong. Apavan1is. ..... AZ @S -
Ton: Anderson. ir Inwosd- . ~ q II
tilScrt Nichols. WilmIn Ston. . 4@ SS -
lsrnes Maiden. Nassau. ...-... 80 50
!. H Belwood Garden CITY,. 81 a. -
! Bcbens. Elglewood .......... a. 81 -