The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-17
PIPING ROCK COURSE
PUZZLES Big FIELD
Over Hundred Golfers Play in
Qualifying Round, With
70 Best Score.
PARKER SEELEY LEADER

Locusr VALLEY, L. l., Sept. l6.-one
OF the biggest fields OF the season-there
were 1l5 starters and more than enough
to All six sixteens turned In cards
played to-day In the qualifying round
OF the Piping Rock Clubs annual In
v~itatlon golf tournament OF all the
throng who played there was just one
who was able to make the eighteen
hoe round In less thar so. lie was w.
Parker Seeley of ~Brooklawn, former
Connecticut champion. and the score
which made him the medallist was 20.
Perhaps the high scores were due TO
the intense heat. but II seems more
probable that the difficulties OF the
course were responsible. That Piping
Rock is one OF the hardest courses in the
metropolitan district surely was proved
to-day beyond the shadow Of a doubt.
Next on the list to See.ry was Frank
H.. Hoyt, the former Boston golfer. now
OF Siwanoy. who made an so, n back
of him was l.. Mortimer Barnes. Engle-
wood. secretary of the Metropolitan
bOll ShNsVNlulhOus WIN "h o. '''-'ss
Hoyt and Barnes were the triumvirate
OF the day, though +. H. Blossom. the
new intercollegiate champion. and Percy
r. Pyne I'd. who once held the college
title. tied for fourth place at 50. Scat
tered through the first sixteen, which
included scores under SO, were John y.
Stearns Sd. Gardiner W. White, John VI.
Ward. George T. Brokaw. Lawrence
Wat, rbury and james X. Hyde, Water
bury really was the surprise OF the day.
for before he started few suspected has
the great polo player was capable OF
the Sc, which he succeeded In making.
Devereux Milburn. another intcrnationa.
poloist. who also played. was not So
lucky. His 81 tied him with four others
for last place In the third sixteen. On"
man had to be dropp d into the fourth,
and VIXEN the draw was mad Milburn
proved to be the one.
on the face Of the official returns
Il appears as though no one who he-
longed there failed TO get into the first
sixteen. but there were several golfers.
including A. G. Timer OF Jacksonville.
Fla. and Howard r. Whitney OF Nassau.
who decided to withdraw when they
added up their cards.
Seeley did not begin as though he in
tended to lead the field, for ne sliced
his first drive ovsr the fence into the
polo field and took 6 for the hole. He
didn't do much better until after he
reached the turn. for ON the fourth and
NTH holes he was trapped and on the
seventh he SLICED his second into a pit,
took two more TO get out and wound up
With three puts, "a Z going down beside
the No. 7 or his card, At the ninth he
VvaQ in Annthsr hnnElr hue nlaNg1
out dead to the hole, and then missed
an easy putt. His total for the first
nine was 80. which bore little resem-
blance 10 a medal winning score.
Coming In. he resolved to do better
and succeeded. lie lost a shot AT the
tenth by getting into "A road, and on
the short eleventh vas lucky to get his
3, for his tee shot found a bunker. lie
pitched out on the green, however. and
holed a nine foot putt The next four
holes he played perfectly. but took three
puts on the sixteenth green and lost a
stroke there. The seventeenth l. only
l43 yards long. and he rimmed the cup
for "A ., u got his 3. and ON the home
hole ran down "a twenty foot pun for
a 4, a stroke under par. u was a glori-
Gus ending and came just when il was
needed most. The card
W. Parker seeley, RrooklaHn:
Out. .'-,...'.., ~ =,
n-.t.''''''s' ' = ' . 8 5b-1'
Match play in all six siNteens viii he
gin tomorrow morning In the first
sixteen. the leading golfers are pretty
well distributed by the draw, the best
OF the morning matches being between
Barnes and Stearns. The sixth sixteen
was not provided for on the programme,
but was added this afternoon, when Il
was found that there Were more a
enough golfers to MI II. The scores:
FIRST SIXTEEN.