New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-24
Ice RenewS Youth
on Apawan1is Links
"a Hundred and Thirty
Four Seniors Out for
Annual Tourney.
,ow NET HONoRS
~ TO JUSTICE PITNEY
s,,.s an Octogenarian, Plays
Good Golf in Opening
Pound of Fixture.

uor,ee I! Hotehkiss aptly put it,
-. ,.oiOr. always a senior. Some
- venerable, but never agedY
'- ~, was the slogan of the 2s4 golf
=, one Of them younger than
s.,,sve years old, who started in the
ny .rSusl seniors tournament on
EN- az the Apawamis Club yester-
~ 49, c.'.eytsinlv. MahlOn Pitney, the Su-
go Cont Justice, looked and acted
glsL nis.ss5 as a schoolboy when he re-
~ ne lowest net score of the day
49, card of sS-ls-T0. IL had the
w nv life" exclaimed the justice,
~ smilingly submitted to the de-
~ ~ corps of photographers.
Should the Chevy Chase ana MOTIFS
c,vrtv golfer fail 70 lead at the end
= ~ thirty-six holes, he IS at least
..,rrrd Of the best net prize for the
"a o,Seys who enjoyed the round, even
!, ,hsir scores failed TO show it, in
..SsS Colonel Benjamin Nields, Of
WILMINGTON, the dean Of the tourna-
~.st who is eighty-three years old;
rI;sf Justice William S. Gummere, OF
p,ltusrol: Admiral Theodore Jewell, Of
SSsyv Chase; William H. Canterbury,
a Bras Burn. and Judge Henry Stod-
serd. Of New Haven.
Then there was Henry W. Brown,
me Philadelphisn, who did not look q
S.v older than when he won an open
armament at Lakewood q few years
so, After taking 90 strokes to get
sSound. a fact which he tried to forget,
Brown tried to get in another eighteen
holes after the last pair had been
Mnt away.
The seniors committee, consisting
Al James D. Foot, chairman; Edmund
a Converse, Simeon Ford, DR.. Arthur
Pel and George S Dearborn, assisted
by local committeeman ". H. Wallace,
D r Hartshorne. F. S. Keller, B. F.
Nields and K. NJ. Beach, as we'll as the
vrofessionsl, William Potts, had its
hands full in getting the field round
before dark. Lights we're twinkling
when the tRilenders CROPPED their way
toward the home green.
Getting down to real golf, the early
struggle for low gross honOrs centred
between c. A. Spofford, now affiliated
With the Garden City Golf Club, and
James D. Foot, chairman of the
seniors tournament In the morning
Foot, despite numerous managerial du-
ties made the round in So, which for
several hours represented the best
effort. In fact, Foot had already been
ssceiving congratulations when Spot
ford came along with an 80. The last
aned went out in SO, getting two IS.
Afterward j. Ernest Smith, of Will
ningon. also returned an IS. Spot
isgds card was as follows:
G. A Sporord Garden CITY
e... IS 3 80
E.. 90 ) 6 44s 4-l3-Ss
In the hope Of offering an easier road
toward the coveted trophies, the com
nitiee introduced for this tournament
Arse age classes. Those from sixty
70 sixty-fve years, inclusive, were
grouped in A division, while those from
sixty-six to seyenty-twO years were
Known as the B men.
All Of seventy-three years and more
we're placed in class G. In class A there
ia prize for the best net score for
thirty-six holes, and similar conditions
hold good in the other two divisions.
No age limit applies to the prize for
ne best eighteen Holes net of the first
dsy, and the best net of the second day
and the best gross Of either day.
Alexander Milne, one of the octo-
genarisns in this tournament, received
many congratulations when he made
TIE course in 80 strokes. Milne went
out in 46, which included 9 at the
ninth hole.
still winning, ! see," remarked a
player to the Scsrdsle veteran. "When
vas II you first began that habit?"
y won my first prize in 1847 at
Aontrose, Scotland. That was sixty
seven years ago" replied Milne. He
made his round yesterday as follows:
Aainds' Milne. scsrsdsle;
ea,..-........ g. - AS
N............., . 8 S Z 6-49-95
No prizes were won outright yester-
diy, but after the second round to-day
he less than ten trophies will be dis
iributed.
Inc scores were as follows:
Name ana cluh C.ros. I4.car N,t