The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-21
BILLS KNOWLES Is
AS GOOD AS EVER
From Florida for Visit,
f. Wins Novel Tourney Of
University Club.
Oh TWO cor RISES

tie coming back OF Ellis Enowle.
va{ the feature of he University Ciui
coll Associations w course golf tour.
nartent played yesterday AT Nassau and
pirag Rock. II was expected hat ths
f.ct'that the tourney was the first to bs
M on two courses Simultaneous,
,vottd hc the main topic Of discussion
tut 1t was the coming back Of Ellie
s. @lcs II which the University Clut
Sltrs talked ON their homeward jour.
ncy In their special train.
Ejlls Knowles is the golfer who wo,
he J intercollegiate championship IN
900 while a student at Yale. and Pen
sccSs. Fla. Is the place from which
lie tsne back to show his fellow meuA
herS Of the University Club that he still
psSessed The golfing skill that was hi,
CHI years ago. During those eight
yeaS he has been living In P~ensacolo
PLAYING golf enough to keep himself on
Inc national handicap list. but had al
rost.becu forgotten by Northern golfers.
lie game back to New York n few day,
sgo 10 spend several weeks here and
brought his golf clubs along. Finding
himself eligible To play in the Cnivet-
sty Club tourney he journeyed out to
Los st Valley yesterday morning.
Naycu the Piping Rock course. which
he never had seen before. in SO. fv,
strokes better thar any one else. and
thegl went on to Nassau in the after
rooa and made a IS. again leading his
nea rect rivals by five strokes. His total
OF il was good enough to win the
chief prize Of the tourney. that for the
.,..s .sV,-a g.A,A far sA,rs,. ~. lAl.,
By rmargin of just nine strokes
ArIiping Rock this morning Knowles
nade' a bad start. getting "A 8 at the
fourth and q : at the sixth. He was
ont IN -, hut did better coming in, his
most brilliant feat being the boiling of
@ Up shot for a 3 OF the seventeenth.
When he got to Nassau in the after
room he found himself on familiar
ground. for II was there that he won his
in,ercollcgiate title in 1907. This time
q, WAS the tifth hole that made trouble
for he took a :, but a = on the fourth
~ another on the eighth helped TO
rake NJ for ii. He was out in rs and
was PLAYING splendid golf coming in
Until darkness intcrfered. He hardly
could see the ball on the last two holes
and ooh q { on each of them. although
jar Is 4 His cards:
y Is knowles. Yale.
Morning round 1t Piping Rock:
2''' . ,..'., : s--.s-s
Afternoon round at Nassau:
az. ifl5ssS s-ss-7s-,s,
Az no golfer was allowed to take
more than n prize. Knowles took only
tie gold medal and rel!nquished all
GAIA on several other prizes TO which
rs score entitled him. The low ne,
ore prize went TO n. =. Loud, Stevens.
whose score was 2O7-4S, 1883. There
was a lie for the second and third net
" yes between William Willis. Cornell,
0-lf. lil, and Or. J.. A. Miller,
Vr'1ceton. 1910, 16l. They will de-
''e the disposition of the two trophies
N he manner that suits them best.
For the prize for the lowest eighteen
'oi'' gross score made on either course
there WIS a three ~cornered tie in which
TIE participants were Percy r. Pyne 2d,
George 7. Brokaw OF Princeton and
; Clifton Mahon OF Rutgers. Each of
L. three made an - at Nassau, Pyne
making his in the morning. and the
two, who played together, doing
N"ir best work III the afternoon. +. /.
''"hfidsr Yale. won the prize for the
'wrst eighteen hole net score at Mas
IN the afternoon with a score of
WI, -, and \. l.. Smith. Jr.. won a
SIMILAR trophy FOR thos" who played their
second rounds AT Piping Rock. His score
Vs. 9>--lN. 30.
About eighty golfers played in the
i'N'l tourney n the scores showed that
ieariy al Of them found Piping Rock
several strokes harder to play thar
NJ au, although curiously enough the