New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-26
Nearly Two Hundred Fifty
five-Year-0IderS ReveI
in Click of Ball
Against Club.
MANY TIES TO PLAY OFF
% E. Truesdell Makes Best
Gross Score for Eighteen
Holes, with a Card
a ouimet Could
Be Proud Of.

s,cking maufully to their guns until
=. last shot had been fred-the last put
..isd 10 be more 'eXact-nearly two hum
80 Youngsters. ffty-ive years old or
80 plsved over the Apawamis Club
..ss in the second and final round OF the
..-ors' golf tournament yesterday.
= there had been any doubt before, this
ooressive muster sounded the keynote
.,st proclaimed il a national institution.
While not lacking in vigor and enthu-
.,sm II must be admitted that a num-
,s- Of the veterans. .classed a. belonging
=, the envied list on Wednesday. fell bad
= nv the wayside Alexander Milne. the
,,,ogenarian. VINO so proudly led the deld
m the frs day with d = net. returned
card higher 10y thirteen strokes yester-
3,v He tried to forget that. however
hen he reviewed his second days wan
,,rirrs over the links rejecting as fol-
ogs.
although have been playing the
zane for more than sixty years, ] must
,onfsss that al times golf appears 70 me
much as il did to the timid man who
.,s moved a large field with dull
srythe for the first time. A golf course
INSISTS Of four and one-half inch holes
q the best quality, carefully concealed
,hout a 1S0-acre Aeld. The object OF
me game is to put an understood rubber
hall into each Of the holes in succession
without breaking a blood vessel Kicking
an, the ball or attacking it with a knife
Is forbidden. one must do the trick sole
ly by sticking the ball with the club.
counting each stroke doggedly and in
neh. redolent undertone.'
others there were more optimistic than
Mr.. Milne. Simeon Ford, for instance
came in with a e7, four strokes better
than Yesterday. while the methodical ;.
z Egan. of Chicago, turned the course
in III. the same to a stroke as on
Wednesday.
Il remained for Winthrop Sargent, the
we'll known Boston architect TO construct
Z card twelve strokes lower than before.
His round OF IS gave him courage 10
have the dangers Of long railroad
Journey, even to Boston.
Another veteran. 7. c. Ennever. OF
Baltusrol. whose hair is not so plentiful
IS once upon a time, had nothing hut
plsasant thoughts and words for the tour
rament. And what glorious autumnat
weather." added Mr. Ennever.
Yes. quite different from the day you
rot lost in the fog on the Montclair links,
several years ago" observed friend.
Il know 7 did. and you would, too. II
you had been playing there retorted
Ennever. why. the fog was so thick
that I couldn't see the bunker"-hut
that's another story.
Lest they be forgotten. il may be well
70 lnger a while with the actual prize
winners. Some were known last night,
while others are still involved in ties.
For instance, the most coveted trophy
thai FOR the best thirty-six-hole gross
score OF the tournaments unclaimed, for
me reason that Herman Wendell OF st.
Davids. and Walter Fairbanks. Of Den
ver, completed the double circuit in l66
strokes They will settle their deadlock
to-day.
Wendell was able 10 point 10 a little
hard luck. otherwise his score Of S. yes
tenday might have been improved at least
two strokes From the fourth tee Wen
dell drove a straight ball, which should
have been found in the middle OF the
iairway. yet after a long search no one
succeeded in locating the rubber core, il
having vanished as IL the earth had
swallowed il up Wendell was then com
PEELED 70 20 back and drive another ball,
and with the penalty for so doing the
hole cost him =
The thirty-six-hole cards Of the leaders
were as follows: