New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-17
GOLFERS BRAVE
HEAT ON LINKS
AT PIPING ROCK
Seeley Leads Field of
More than a Hundred
and Wins Medal.

When some OF the members Of the
Piping Rock Club nieknamed this pop
ular Long Island organization Piping
Hot" they spoke better than they knew,
for lis golfers. perplexed and perSpir-
ing, took part in the qualifying round
of the clubs annual invitation golf
tournament yesterday. Probably be-
cause of the heat only one man was
able TO get less than so. He was the
medal winner, ". Parker Seeley. Of
Brooklswn, who returned a score of 70.
Frank II. Hoyt, who may become use
full to the metropolitan Lesley Cup
team IL he can tear away from pleas
ant former sffilistion with Massachu-
sets, returned an so. while h. Morti-
mer Barnes. secretary Of the Metropoli-
tan Golf Association, was only one
stroke behind.
Francis R. Blossom. OF Yale. the new
intercollegiate champion. had a peeu-
liar round. In fact, he might have been
the medal winner but for trouble on
the tenth and fifteenth holes. His Ss
out was the best Of the day. but he
required "A strokes before he could
finish.
Seeley got away TO poor start,
slicing his drive into the race course.
classified as out Of bounds. He took
S for the hole. Through getting bunk
cred near the green on the seventh. :
was recorded. so that he went out in
-. On the last nine. however. Seeley
got into his stride and reeled off seven
Of the holes in par figures or better.
The 80 was the best of the day for
the homeward trip. The medal win
ming card follows:
out 2"t .......... III ! H-,,
In a measure the entry was unex-
pected, for the committee had provided
originally for only three sixteeens, but
! announced a day or so ago that two
additional divisions would take the
field for match play. Accordingly,
eighty players will tee up this morn
ing. There was triple tie for the
last place in the first division. and on
the play-off G. A. McCook. of the Hsr-
ward golf team, had the better of Thorn
as Potter, of Westchester. and J. Cor.
don Douglas, of the home club, one OF
the longest drivers in the game.
AS may be imagined, a tournament
at the Piping Rock Club Is 70 golfers
what the Fiery Cross was 10 the an
cient clans of Bonnie Scotland-s sum
mons ITO arms" In addition 10 the
well known golfers mentioned in the
| foregoing, there was Percy K. Pyne, I'd,
OF Princeton, interc )llegiate champion
| in 1900, at present the treasurer OF the
| United States Golf Association.
Then there were W. T. West, OF the
| Philadelphia Country Club. once
member of the Princeton golf team
and competitor in the semi-hnal
round OF the national amateur cham
pionship in 1901; James r. Hyde, win
ner of the medal in this tournament
a year ago, and an automobile enthusi-
asst: Lawrence Waterbury, famous polo
player and former national champion
at racquet5; Devereux Milburn, an
other we'll known devotee OF polo; Ray
mond ID. Little, once ranked as one or
the best of American lawn tennis
players John Montgomery Ward. old
| time ball player, whose shoulder has
| been troubling him for the last two
years, and last but not least, Herbert
N. Hartman, who was a national cham
pion at golf as far back as 1899. Apro-
DOS of polo. il would not have been
difficult TO select a team out of the
field which would hold its own against
the majority Of combinations that could
be arranged.
The draw for the first match round
in the principal division is as follows:
McCook VS.. Ward; Holmes VS.. White;
Waterbury vs.. Blossom; Shiland VS..
Seeley; George Brokaw vs.. Hoyt; Pyne
rs. West; Hyde vs.. Perry, and Barnes
VS.. Stearns.
The various sixteens will be started
on the following schedule: Fourth, $3.50
e:O5: third, 9:l0-9:45; first $3.50
1925; second, 10:30-ll:05; fifth, ll:lo'
HAS.
Following were the scores: