Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-25
STANLEY WINS W
TROPHY BUT TAKES
SECOND CUP INSTEAD
Fall Tournament at Lakewood
So Numerous Whole Day
Was Consumed.
BY STRAIGHT DRIVE.
FIELD of about 140 golfers com.

A FIELD of about 140 golfers com
~ peted yesterday In the qualify
ing round of the annual fall
tournament of the Country Club al
Lakewood. In fact, the field was sc
large that the entire day had to be
given up to the qualification round
The weather was ideal for the sport ano
the course was In most excellent condi-
ton.
There were two prizes offered for the
seniors tournament on Wednesday, the
Lakewood Club putting up a second
prize in addition to the handsome cuI
offered by j. F. STANLEY. of this city
As Mr.. Stanley and Samuel L. Allen
of Atlantic City. tied with a score OF
IS, their tie was played off yesterday
morning It the request Of the other
competitors. Mr.. Stanley was at the
top of his game and went out in At to
Mr.. Aliens SIS. and won handily with
an SO. Mr.. Allen becoming disguised
with his hard luck, gave up the battle
and destroyed his card. MI. Stanley
gave him the chief cup. however, as ne
had put 1t UP for competition n ac-
cepted the second prize offered by the
Lakewood Country Club.
The Lakewood course is so heavily
bunkered that all hands found 1t diff
cult to negotiate. There was a triple
tie for the low score media at IL, be-
tween Walter ]. Travis, Garden City;
p. w. Whittemore, Country Club, OF
Brook1ine, one of Boston's most expert
golfers, and II. G. Richards, st. An
drew's, which will be played off in the
handicap on Saturday.
The next best score was 70. made by
c. N. Phillips, Atlantic City. Findlay
8. Douglas, Nassau, h national anna
teur champion of 1898, did the course
in 81, and said there were entirely too
many cross-bunkers on the course for
any person to play In record form.
Walter J. Travis, in driving from the
eleventh tee drove into the Metedeconk
creek and took six for a hole he usually
gets in from two to three. There was
a general complaint about the course
being too heavily bunkered. Nothing
above 81 got into the first sixteen,
although four sixteens will qualify, and
there may yet be an additional cup
offered for the fifth sixteen, and pos
sibly a sixth sixteen as 107 players re-
turned cards. Those who will get into
the first sixteen besides Travis, Whitte-
more, Richards and Douglas are c. N.
Phillips, Atlantic City, 70; S. K.
DeForest, Lakewood, 81; Howard #.
whiting, Nassau, s5; Richard Mott,
Huntington Valley, 81; George T. Bro
kaw, Garden City, 81; Arden M. Rob-
bins. Garden City, 81; M. Malloy, Gar
den City, so: Percy Plat, Deal, 81; r.
L. Redfield, Montclair, 81; ". K. Gil
lett, Wykagyl, SO; E. F. Fraser, Deal,
81, and H. Cozens Hardy, Fox Hills. SO.
Golfers were out at Forest Hill, Bal
tusrol. Yountakah, Upper Montclair
and Glen Ridge yesterday, and sew
eral high scores were made in the
Thanksgiving events.
Herbert Taylor, of class A, made the
best score in Forest Hill, tallying 80,
1O-72. F. o. vanderpool seemed to be
the best man of the day at Baltusrol,
making 81, 6-75. At the Yountakah
Club. in Nutley, r. B.. Piper won the
trophy for class A, while class B prize
went to E. A. Tauchert. Pyper's net
score was 45, while Tauchert tailed
a net score Of 40.
A six-hole cross-country competition
was the card at the Upper Montclair
links yesterday. First class went to
c. w. Hudson, second class to I. H.
Cushman, third class to A. c.. Fet-
terolf. and fourth class to e. H. Eaton,
E.. w. Congdon, J.. II. Lounsbery and
t w. Langstroth were winners on the
Glen Ridge golf links yesterday.