New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
Golf 4 Other Sports
DOG LIKES GOLF BALLS TIMELY BITS Of SPORT.
GobbIes Up BarneS'S Luscious
Drive and Romps Away.
TWO PLAYERS LOSE TRAIL
Rain Causes Phillips and Nc
Laughlin to Omit Part of Course
at Garden City Links.

rusvinr over the course stretches TO its
Coli length OF 64Il Yards, Maurice Malloy,
=, ,be home club, had the distinction OF
,r,,ning the low score medal in .he eigh-
,.en.hole testing round Of the s7-ing In
,.,s.ion tournament at the Garden city
co,f club Yesterday. With q score OF 81
he led Robert G. Watson ana Marshall
,rhi,Iatch. his closest rivals. by - margin
Of three strokes. out of an original entry
~ ,es nearly a hundred started
Despite the fact that Walter T.avis was
,,avjnc elsewhere, the field was cXcep-
tional Including as II did, tire, former
national champions-Charles i Macdon-
ia u J. Whigham and Herbert ~ Harri-
man. From 1895 to 1900 this trio accounted
for all the national titles. When Harri-
man was al his best and playing regular
H. he also won the metropolitan cham
r,onshp Hartman did well enough yes
,er5ay, qualifying with an 50 hut he met
s,asdv elimination in the first round az the
hands Of Watson. the United StHtes Golf
association secretary going Ike Wild
horse 10 the turn.
ono Of the upsets Of the day was the
failure Of Gardiner W. White 70 qualify i'm
-,syine with W. l. Hicks. OF Nassau. took
&C for the round, figures that placed him
81 the bottom OF the second set. ON the
rlav-off White made that division, whereas
Hicks. who had the same score fei into
the third.
As incident happened during the early
hours which, according 10 oldtimers like
q. B Mcdonald, who has been playing the
rsme since boyhood. has never been known
- hsppen before. II was the skipping OF
two holes by c. y. Phillips, Of Atlantic
City. and p s. McLouChlin. ot WykagyL
The course was completely new 20 Phillips
and the Wykakvl player had been over It
only a few times. The first thirteen holes
were played without any untoward hap
nsring. although at this point the rain be-
gan TO come down in torrents.
Holing out at the thirteenth. the pair
started for the supposed fourteenth In the
drenching rain, remarking that the distance
between tee and green was considerable
matter OF about one hundred yards, put
instead Of being the fourteenth, as they
supposed IL proved TO be the sixteenth
and they never discovered that they had
missed the fourteenth and fifteenth holes
until they finished their round and found
Two holes unaccounted for on their score
cards The fourteenth and sixteenth tees
are not far apart
The incident caused the disqualification OF
both men. which Phillips felt the hardest
as he had an unusually good score In te"-
ing the matter over in the clubhouse after
ward. causing, OF course. consideraole
merriment. 1t was considered remarkable
that the caddies did not call attention 10
the mistake at the time. One OF the cdd-
dies claimed that he had gone over TO the
fourteenth tee box and that Mclaughlin
had gone on 70 the sixteenth tee the
caddy. supposing tine players were making
a short cut. simply followed.
Another incident TO cause mirth so dis
concerted L. ". Barnes, OF Englewood. that
he withdrew toward the end Of the round.
Barnes made a beautiful drive off the first
tee and started after II in high spirits lie
was we'll out before the ball stopped rolling
To his surprise, a big, black dog. amblins
bout on the course, picked up the ball IN
its mouth and ran away.
II had been originally planned 10 nave
match play in all divisions yesterday after
noon. but the thunderstorm that broke in
the morning so delayed the qualifying round
mat the committee found IL possible to lnn
Of only the first match round in the cnief
division. As extra cups were provided Tor
fourth and fifth sixteens. match play VIII
be resumed with vim this morning.
With three exceptions, all the afternoon
contests we're close. Roy Webb, Of Engle-
wood. beat A. y. Cowperthwaite only on the
twenty second green, while Malloy had an
Wit "a I'd
rer before the first named finally won.