New-York tribune., 1910-07-26
PRACTICE FOR TOURNEY
Professionals Out in Force on
Salisbury Links.
MACKIE MAKES BEST SCORE
The Fox Hills "Pro" Reels Off
a rs in a Four Ball Match
Yesterday.

Practice rounds on the Salisbury links
yesterday gave indications of much low
scoring when the real shov-the fifth an
nuai championship tournament of the East
ern Professional Golfers Association-be-
gins this morning. The best individual eff
fort of the day was credited to Isaac
Mackie, the Fox Hills pro" who reeled off
IS. coming home in 81.
Mackie accomplished this in a four-ball
match with his brother Dan, OF Dunwoodie.
for a partner. They defeated Robert Thorn
son, of KnolIwood and Joe Mitchell. the
homebred from the Upper Montclafr Coun-
try Club, by the narrow margin of l up.
Mackie, who was i'll a deadly putting vein,
went round as follows:
Isaac Macke. Fox Hills
1n 2pt .s ...:s 3 ! ! 5 ! ! IA f-a47s
Miss Lillian B. Hyde, champion of the
Women's Metropolitan Golf Association,
motored to the links with party of friends
in time to see the finish of an interesting
four-ball match between John M. Ward.
the Garden City amateur, and Herbert
Strong, of Apawamis. on one side. against
Gil Nichols, of Wilmington, and James
Thomson, of Philadelphia. on the other.
The last named pair started their opponents
up, handicap whicn proved to be about
right, as the match was all square at the
end. The great length of Nichols's drives
proved the feature of the match. Favored
by the wind Nichols overdrove the 310-yard
second green. while on one or two occasions
Gil got tee shots close to 300 yards. In
this match the brunt of the work fell upon
Nichols, as his partner was off his usual
steady game Nichols had a 76 Ward and
Strong fitted well, though neither got
round under 80.
Jack Holmes, of Englewood. and Orrin
Terry, of Canoe Brook, finished up on
Dave Hunter, of Essex County, and James
Norton, of Trenton George Sparkling, of
Brooklawn, and Irving Stringer, of ST. An
drews, proved winning combination
against James Maiden. of Nassau. and
John Inglis, of Fairview, the margin in
favor of the first named couple being and
2 Stringer had rs and Maiden IT, Mitchell.
who figured in a losing four-ball match
previously mentioned, had a II.
Because of the long dry spell the turf,
both through the fairway and on the
green's was burned out, but the lies were
generally fairly good. Conditions call for
an eighteen-hole medal play qualifying
round this morning, contestants to qualify
in eights Entries will be received at the
first tee, but already twenty-five profess
sionals have sent in their names. They are
as follows:
Gil Nichols, Wilmington; Alec Cunning
ham, Glen Ridge; John Inglis, Fairview;
Irving Stringer, st. Andrews; George
Sparkling, Brooklawn; Dave Hunter, Essex
County; Jack Hobens, Enslewood; Isaac
Mackie, Fox Hills; II. II. Barker Garden
City; Willie Anderson, Philadelphia Cricket
Club; James Thomson, Philadelphia Coun-
try Club; Joe Mitchell, Upper Montciair; !;
James Norton Trenton; Alec Findlay. jr.,
Ridgewood; Herbert Strong. Apawamis
Robert Thomson, Knollwood; Dan Mackie,
Dunwoodie; James Maiden, Nassau; Orrin
Terry. Canoe Brook; George Low. Baitus-
rol; Tom Anderson, tr., 1nwood; l.. 5.
Jacobs, Onondaga.
Programmes are out for the fifth open
championship tournament of the Metropoi-
tan Golf Associat ton, 10 be held over the
links of the Deal Golf and Country Club
on August "a 25 and 2S. The championship
proper will not begin until the second day.
as Wednesday will be devoted to an invita-
ton four-ball competition under the au-
spices of the Deal Golf and Cuntry Club
Teams will consist of an amateur and a
professional, and they need not necessarily
represent the same club.
The championship will consist of seventy
two holes of medal play, thirty-six holes
on August 25 and a like number on the
following day. There will be eight regular
prize moneys, as follows:
First, $3.50 and a gold medal; second, 800;
third, s75 fourth, $50; fifth, $40; sixth. $50;
seventh. $50; eighth, s10
In addition to these, the following spe-
cial moneys have been offered: August 20
Best morning round, $40; best afternoon
round, $40; best thirty-siX-hole score, $40.
August 26-Best morning round. SO; best
afternoon round, $40; best thirty-six-hole
score, so.
Entries must be made with w. d. Van
derpool, secretary of the Metropolitan Golf
Association, No 500 Broad street, Newark,
n. j., on or before Saturday, August 90