The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-19
PLATT AND BUCKBEE
FAIL TO LAST LONG
Two Former Winners Meet
Early Defeat in Tourney
on Public Links.
WHITED GETS THE MEDAL

The only two golfers entered who had
won the tournament In former years
were eliminated yesterday afternoon In
the first match round OF the New York
Golf Clubs tourney at Van Cortlandt
Park. 40 the Herald cup. which goes
to the golfer who wins 1t twice, will re-
main In competition for another year ut
least. Percy Plat, who won several sea-
sons ago, was beaten by w. F. Purcell
by Q up and / to play. and J. ii. Buck
bee. Jr., the holder Of the trophy, was
put out OF the running by IL. A. Linton
also by 2 up and l to play.
Sixty-six golfers played In the quarry
ing round this morning and the leader
proved to be w. J. W7hited. an unat-
tached golfer, who went out In IS and
came home i'm 81 for "A total OF 10. For
a time yesterday his eligibility was ques-
toned, as he was said to BE- a resident
of onkers He admitted that he was
living there now. but claimed that IN
the winter he lived with an uncle I'm
New York. He had to go twenty holes
I'm the afternoon, however, TO beat j.
n Billlngs, who had made an SO in the
medal round. Buckbee and Roger Is.
Taft. the champion of tho North jersey
COUNTRY Club, tied for second place ut
II. -Four golfers tied nj SO Tor the las.
three places In the first thirty-two ana
indulged In a playoff which went four
holes. on the fourth hole DIR. Allen Car
penter was high man and was eihni-
mated.
In the afternoon play was pretty SLOW
due to the presence OF a eooa .nany
women golfers sandwiched IN pe.wee"
the matches and the presence OF the
painstaklng Percy Plat In one or them'
Even though II moved slowly. the match
that attracted the most attention was
that between Purcell n Plat.
Purcell. who is n left handed goifer,
took advantage OF Platts poor play
on the early holes OF the match
and at the tenth hole was up.
Platt then began to play better
golf and at the fifteenth was only 1
down His win on the fifteenth was the
result of n drive that reached the green.
On the sixteenth a fine second shot left
Purcell less than a yard from the cup.
and he made his 3. becoming dormie z.
Plat tried hard TO win the seventeenth
and all but holed out his third from Just
off the green. but Purcell halved the hole
in 4 and won the match.
The L!nton-B uckbee match was an
even struggle for the first twelve holes
/ am tleN began lnt hl hoiN' 49,
square. Linton won the fifteenth and
sixteenth and halred the seventeenth
ending the match.
The best golf OF the day was played
by Taft. who defeated T. Il. Bresnan by
I up, and had TO play the round In ~
to do IL. Taft was . up at the turn,
but Bresnan came home In thirty-nNe
and made the North Jersey golfer show
the hes, that was in him.
Among the golfers who played In me
qualifying round was Christy Mathew
son OF the Giants. He made a 46 going
ont and n ~ coming in for "A total OF
90. Just four strokes too high To quail
fly. and thereby saved the New York
Golf Tubs tournament committee a
good deal OF trouble, as the tournament
IL conducted under VI. O.. A. auspices,
which IL affiliated with the L. S. q. A.
The rules of the latter organization do
not recognize professional ball players
as amateur golfers. The summaries:
FRS, Thirty-two-w } whited. Jr. un-
attached. -: J ". Ruckb"e. Jr, New York
COLI. =. Roger n. Taft. North Jersey, II;
W r. Purcell. New York Golf, IS. Percy
Plat. Sew York Golf. 70; r X. Flaugh.
New York Newsrapcr ~ james Lang
New York Golf. SO. II II Dunn, Scottish
american, 40; u A Linton, New York
Colt, 81. L Mcmillan, scottish American,
o. y u bAAAlItRof Ah@ ~ v y . -
Rohdenburg. unattached, So; A. I Roth.
New York Newspaper 80 II -, Martin.
New York Newspaper. 80; j i Mcdonald.
mat ~; T. l.. Bresnsn, unattached,
50 T L. widmeyer. unattached, 81. A. c.
Murray. New York Newspaper, " W, r,
Tracey, unattached. Sc + 7. Pope, New
Newspaper. So 6 W Pickhard, un.
attached. 81; l.. J, Dumahaut. New York
Golf, 81; W. T. Chamberlain. New York
colt, SIS" II. J. Walters. Jr, unattached. SIS;
= IL ya,,,n DranE1Np Inr.as D.rL n
Davidson. New York Golf. So; G. l.. BIZ
ungs. unattached. So; Paul Haber. Scottish
American, ~; n, Peters, Scottish Ameri-
can, So; Il H. Peck. unattached, SC.
other scores-Dr Allen Carpenter. New
York Golf, Sc, J. II Fraser. New York Golf.
81; q. NJ. Ivory, unar tachcd, 81: Or. f.. NJ
Mendel. New York Golf 81; A. u. Kight,
Scottish American, 81; Fred Pertsch. un-
attached, 81; r. II Keener, New York Golf.
81; a. Gillian, Scottish American. IS;
u II LouX, unattached, SIS; ". S. Chap
man, Scottish American, SO; 7. l.. Thomp-
son. New York, SO; r &. Gephart. un-
attached, -. Christy Mathcwson. I'M
attached, 90, John Fraser, unattached, 30;
A. J OXFORD, New York Newspaper, %,
David shannon, unattached. %: q. +. TIT.
fanny. unattached. %; Dr NJ. A. Bonnefond
New York Golf 90; NJ w. Atkinson, New
York COLI %: u q. pumahaut. New York
Golf, 90; c. d. shvcrnail, unattached, gs:
w. e. Wood. unattached. &c; j Allan un.
attached, 80: W Il. Francis. Scottish
American, 81 A. r, Feuchsel, unattached
81; T T. Reagan. unattached, lOl Thomas
Boone. Sew York Colt, 100.
First Round, Match Plsy-Hedley beat
II u. Dunn, , and /; Chamberlain beat
Davidson, 4 ana 2; Tart beat Bresnan I
up; Lang beat Murray I ana 3 Mcconnell
beat Mcmillan. 3 and Walters beat VIA
meyer, 3 and ?, Rohdenburg beat Martin
. and Flaugh beat q. /. Billings. 6 and
3; Purcell beat Plat 2 and ! Peck bes
J. =, Dunn. ? and !, whited beat J, n
Billings. up go holcs); Linton bea,
Buckbce, ? and ! Tracy beat Dumahaut
3 and ?, Pickard beat Peters, 8 and a
Habcr beat Pope, $ and T.