Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-02
PERCY PLAT,
LAKEWOOD GOLFER,
SHOWING CLASS

Some most excellent matches were
played in the afternoon at Van Cort-
landt Park yesterday, and judging
from appearances the dark horse in
the race, seems to be Percy Platt, the
Lakewood golfer, who Is living In New
York City at present and Is playing
golf on the public links at Van Cort-
landt Park. His father was the stew
ard at the once famous Golf Clubfo Of
Lakewood, and Percy learned to play
golf over hat course when quiteElaE
small boy. He did not show any ex-
| ceptional work in this tournament I'M
til yesterday afternoon When John
Downey made a call on him for his
very best efforts, when he proved equal
to the occasion by playing the best
golf that has thus far been seen in the
tourney. He qualified seventh with q
score of AZ, 42--S5, and won his morn
ing round by s up and Z to play, with
o. score of SO. Downey did a 10, and
beat his mar by 6 up n 5 TO play,
In the afternoon Downey set a rapid
pace, but to his surprise he found Platt
right with him on every hole. He was
playing the course In DOGGY and bet
ter, but that did not disturb Plat
In the least. The first hole was halved
in 3 and the second in 4. and to Dow
ney's surprise, Platt won the next two
holes in par and DOGGY and led by 2
up at the fourth. Downey won the
fifth in par, but after halving the sixth
In DOGGY, Plat won the seventh in
par and was again 2 up. The eighth
was halved in DOGGY, n Downey
won the ninth IN par, going out In 80
and Platt In 81, with q lead of l up
at the turn, the best golf of the
tournament. On the homeward jour
ney the playing was equally as brill
liant. The tenth hole vas halved in
DOGGY, and Plat won the eleventh in
par, again leading by 2 up, but it was
of short duration, as Downey won the
twelfth in par. The thirteenth was
halved in DOGGY, and the Lakewood boy
again increased his lead by 2 up by
winning the fourteenth in par. The
next three holes were halved in fault
less golf. Plat winning the match at
the seventeenth green by 2 UP and 1
to play. Their cards were:
Downey 1900, 4S5
Plat ........... 343444345- -S4
Downey ........ S 5 e-42--72
Platt ........... 4 3 8 8 5-40-74
j. M. Clarke. of Amherst, proved an
other surprise, as he beat D.. p Healey,
who was regarded as the most danger
Gus player In the tournament. in a
t~wenty-hole match in the afternoon.
They played good golf and carried the
gallery of the day. They each did
their round in rs, Clark going out in So
to Healey's 81, and leading by 1 up at
the turn. Healey, however, came home
In Al, to Clarke's AZ, the match being
all square at the sixteenth green, the
seventeenth. eighteenth and nineteenth
being halved, and Clarke scoring at the
twentieth. Their cards were:
Healey ..........4 4 A "a 5-37
Clarke ...........4 43455344 --36
Healey ..........3 4 5543665 -4l-7s
Clarke ...,.......4 4 8 8 5-42-7S
Extra Holes-Healey, 3, 8; Clarke,
8, A..
The other matches in the second
round resulted as follows: A. r.. Clark,
unattached, beat d. @. Mcconnell, New
York Golf, by 1 up; c. w. Broker,
New York Golf, beat P. II. Davis, UNI
attached, by I UP and 8 to play; E. r..
Alexander, Brooklyn-Forest Park Golf
Club, beat P. r. Gilmartin, New York
Golf, by 1 up F. NJ. Gould, New York
Golf, beat C. NJ. H. Anterior, unat-
tached, by 8 up and z to play; q. s.
Costigan. Schoolman's Golf Club, beat
Donald Carr. New York Golf, by 5 up
and 4 to play, and w. F. Purcell, New
York Golf, beat M. G. Hammer, unat-
tached, by 2 up.
The beaten eight in the second
round will compete today for a special
cup presented by John P. O'Connel.
There will also be an e~ighteen-hole
handicap played today, in which there
are many entries.
The third round and semi-lnals will
be played today and the finals will be
played Sunday morning.
NEu- ENEIANn IrACUE