New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-31
K|RKBY MAKES LOW SCORE
Leads Field in Tuxedo Tourney
with Card of 10.
REID IS THE RUNNER-UP
Qualifying Round MARRIED by
Rain-One Player Could Not
Hole Out, as Ball Floated.

Oswald Kirkby the Englewood record
holder, won his second low score medal In
q week by leading the field in the qualify
ing round Of the invitation tournament at
the Tuxedo Golf Club yesterday, with a
card of 7S This was two strokes better
than his partner. Archie Reid, of St An
drews, who finished second.
A cloudburst, so severe while Il lasted S
to place many OF tive greens under water
came within an ace of bringing about a
postponement Of the tournament. The last
pair TO tee uD in the qualifying round.
Gilman Tiffany and Louis Livingston. had
zone only a couple of holes when the rain
began. Consequently. these two, along with
a few other late starters, got the brunt OF
the storm.
Kirkby and Reid had to play the last
three holes I'm the wet. Others were so
helpless when the grips of their clubs be-
came slippery and wet that they were COM
PEELED 10 seek temporary shelter, with the
result that a number of disqualfcations
followed. The committee had no other
alternative than 10 live up 10 the rules. but
at the same time it came to the rescue of
the unfortunates by placing these as well
as others who had withdrawn, In third
match play
Had the committee thrown out the morn
ling testing round and started new one
latter luncheon it would probably nave oeeh
Justified. as some of the greens were FOR
time unplayable. one player gave up al'o-
gether upon reaching green Where the
water about the pin was three inches deep.
He had ball that floated. and the retusal
iof the rubber core to dive prevented MN
from holing out Tiffany declared after
ward that it was fortunate ne had one OF
the sinkable kind. else he never would nave
been able to finish.
BY the way Kirkby started out 1t looked
as If he had a record in prospect. HIS only
. going out was at the sixth hole which Is
nearly five hundred yards in length. lie
supplemented this with at the seventh.
This might have been improved upon as
the green can be reached with an iron, ou1
if a stroke was dropped there hlrKoy
atoned few moments later with me at
the eighth. Another at the ninth gave inc
Englewood golfer 81 for the outward
journey
Coming back he made no mistakes until
he pulled his second shot going 10 the
fourteenth and resulted. Nhen ne
took another at the seventeenth by iand-
ing an approach into the bunker, the storm
was largely responsible. He hnisned with
a % for the inward half,
Although Reid went out in IS and con-
tinued to play steadily, yet his oard Tor
thirteen holes showed six strokes worse
than Kirkbys. BY that time the Engie'
wood man had ceased to regard his partner
as a possibility for the medal. but Va
don-like finish, in which Reid made the last
three holes in ten strokes, landed him
good second.
G. NJ Livingston. of the home club. AM
C. r. Watson, jr., of Baltusrol. tied for last
place In the first sixteen, with scores OF %.
and on the play-off Livingston won He
met speedy elimination at the hands OF Gil
Tiffany Kirkby also won handily from
+. B. Schley, of Morris County. and George
Brokaw had everything his own way with
Belts After a hard match William A.
Larned, the national lawn tennis champion.
finished / up on Charles Hitchcock, jr.,
who ten years ago was one of the best of
the college golfers. Reid won his first
round match, and so did Louis Livingston,
who downed K. ID. Wrenn. a lawn tennis
champ" of days gone by.
The summary follows: