New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-28
FRANK GOULD WINS
JULES CROW MEDAL
Noses Out Smith by a Stroke
in New York Golf Clubs
Annual Tourney.
A FIGHT ALL THE WAY
Bredemus No Match for w. F
Purcell in Qualifying
Round Of the
Fixture.

Frank NJ Gould. Of the home club. won
the Jules Crow medal In the qualifying
round OF the annual tournament under
the direction Of the New York Golf Club
over the public links at Van Cortandt
Park yesterday. His score was 70, sin
gle stroke lower than the effort OF c.
II. Smith. OF the Scottish-American Golf
Club. The luck OF the draw brought to-
gether Gould and Smith in the first round
of match play in the afternoon, with the
result that II was necessary for the New
York Golf Club man to go to the eish-
teenth hole before winning.
Another pair Of favorites brought to-
gether were Walter f. Purcell. of tho
home contingent and John Bredemus'
unattached. champion all around athlete
Of the United States last year.
Bredemus took up golf couple OF years
ago, and he does some remarkable work
al times. but there is one peculiarity
which does not make for the aesthetic IN
golf: that IS his habit Of using putter
off the tee when he is particularly anX-
lOuS lot n Sll alb hliN's ~ lHNNN'
the hands OF Bredemus often gets as much
distance as an ordinary man does with
the regulation driver.
The Princeton athlete was no match
for the more experienced Purcell and the
latter was the winner by and mar
gin. Purcell vas under par figures on
the third. seventh. eighth and eleventh
holes. on the seventh and eighth he ran
down long puts.
Gould's medal winning card was par
,icularly good on the outward journey,
for his 81 was only one over par. lie
needed one six during the round. that
being at the long twelfth hole. His card
follows:
out ................t "a 30 -.
In ...................5 $50
In his match with Smith. Gould took the
first three holes in succession. The match
stood the same way by the time the sew
enth was completed, and II was then that
Smith got in some fine work By winning
the eighth and ninth holes and reaching
the turn only one down. II was good
fight up TO the twelfth. Gould winning two
holes and Smith one. but the former took
the next when Smith needed an extra
put.
Smith made an excellent effort TO even
matters by WANING the fifteenth and sew
entecn,h holes. the latter when Gould s
drive brought UP in an unplayahle lie.
This left the medal winner one up. ana
as the last hole. matter Of 30 yards
downhill. was halved In three. one under
par. the match was settled In Gould's
favor.
Miserable weather greeted the sixty-sK
contestants when they teed up, and sever
al showers during the day made the going
ANYTHING out easy or comfortable. There
were twelve more golfers TO start this
year than last. Original conditions for
the remainder Of the tournament have
been altered 70 allow for a second division
OF sixteen.
Another fight was also provided. when
in addition 10 the beaten eight OF the sec
end round continuing for cup II was ar
ranged that the sixteen players elimi-
mated from the first round would also con
tinue for a prize. This beaten sixteen
division will get under way this morning
at $3.50 O'Clock.
The summary follows:
FIRST DIVISION