New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-18
Mccormack Follows the
Crowd in Eastern Inter
scholastic Tourney.
robson DISAPPOINTS
IN TESTING ROUND
Winner Of North and South Title
Shows Better Late; on the
Wykagyl Club Links.

Il has happened so often lately tnat
the man who wins the medal IN the
qualifying round Of golf tournament
has been beaten in the first round OF
match play that it has come to be taken
az an axiom. Certainly it was true
Yesterday, when George Mccormack or
Lawrenceville, led a small field in the
testing circuit of the Eastern inter
scholastic championship at the Wykagyl
Country Club. with So, and was ellml-
mated later in the day.
Great expectations were put 70 naught
when Fillmore X. Robson, the young
ster from Rochester who came through
a notable field at Pinehurst not so long
ago and captured the North and South
title, "funked" in the test. He had 70
be content with 90 The score might
have been improved on the inward Jour
ney, for he took 7 at the eleventh
through becoming involved with some
trees of the line OF play and again at
the home hole he needed I, for his APP
proach was far TOO strongly played and
the ball went wandering heller skelter
on the hard paved street beyond and
was not found.
Robson was hampered by the rain,
slow greens and with the strange sur
roundlngs. lie has, moreover, pc
cuIiar hitch with his knees which does
not make for any too much accuracy
Perhaps there is his fault. He seems
afraid that unless he dips ne might
not reach the ball.
Even so, Robson was able to win his
match late in the day from Homer Goit,
another Pawling lad, the margin being
81 n
proved. and if he had finished the bye
holes would have had about an so. He
will be seen in competition on several
occasions hereabouts this spring.
Mccormack was RObeson's partner in
the qualifying round. He is Il player
of good style and has considerable
promise His SIS might have been inn
proved but for : on the last hoe:
Evidently he caught the fever and
overapproached like his partner. Put
ting troubled him somewhat, for he
had not seen the course before.
His medal winning card follows:
2 % IN: ......i ii--iiss-s,
Wildness off the tee proved costly to
the medal winner later on. He was IN
clined to go wandering on more than
one occasion, which largely accounted
for his defeat at the hands of Simpson
Dean. of Lawrenceyille, 20 the tune oil
1 and >.
All doubt as to the status of the
high school boys Of this city was
cleared away yestci day by the. state.
mCnt of Robson, who is president OIL
the Eastern lnterscholastic Golf As
ISOLATION. 81 wish that point had been
settled before" said the North and
South champion. THE high school
BOYS are not only eligible but welcome
and nothing would have been more
pleasing than fifty of them in this
tournament. Let 1t be understood that
any boy in school preparing for col
lege is entitled TO compete, and that
certainly includes all high schools in
the East"
Two of these boys appeared yester-
dav- Herbert Oberndoerfer, Of the
High School Of Commerce, and Edward
Rohdenburg. Of De Witt Clinton. As
rhev said. they took a chance" Sew
oral Wykagyl members have become
interested in this tournament, and an
other year il would not be surprising
if half hundred or more youngsters
iced up for the qualifying round.
The summary follows: