The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-16
ESCAPED CONVICT
AND HEAT NO AID
TO LOW SCORING
Putting at sleepy Hollow with
sing Sing Sirens Blow
ing Hazardous.
BIRMINGHAM LEADS
WITH HIS CARD OF a

sclrRoRouGH. y. Y, July 15.-The
honor Of leading the field OF los golfers
Who played in the qualifying round OF
m. sleepy Hollow Country Clubs in
v,a,ion tournament to-day was earned
~ Theodore v. Birmingham, the tall
wysssyl golfer. who finds It possible
N play In just about n tournament
zach year. and sometimes has to omit
m, one. Despite the fact that he has
b,sn playing less golf than usual this
~s.on, even on his home course, Ber-
nInsham showed the way with "A II and
led his nearest competitor. Gardiner W.
white OF Flushing. by n margin OF two
strokes.
roillng up and down the hills OF
sleapy Hollow In the intense heat had a
lad effect on the scores ~ most Of the
rcl,ers in the big field. and Birmingham
and White were the only ones to do bet
ter than so. And the heat was not the
only factor In the production of the
MIN l'l ~ Nv
us whistle at Sing Sing prison began
10 publish the tldings that a convict had
,scaped, and for the next half hour the
golfers had to play their shots to the
uAistle's accompaniment n also keep
,hSlr eyes open for the fugitive. who
vas reported to be hiding somewhere on
Inc course. He wasn't found on the
Inks, but he created Just as much ex-
element as II he had been discovered
IN making his winning score BermNng-
ram began badly. for he took a 8 on the
an, and another on the third. Par "
, on both holes. the last stroke In each
Instance resulting from n second shot
ina, did not reach the green. The sam,
liability TO get home cost him a stroke
on the short nth. but he played the next
four well and was u in 81.
The tenth Is a AL yard hole uphill
4, the end. but Bermingham made d
me 4. which IA followed up with hV'
more Is I'm succession. The best OF then
su on the $40 yard sixteenth and tn
ror., on the ISL yard thirteenth. Wher'
h. tee shot was trapped.
The sixteenth he played poorly. top
ming his second into a bunker and tax
ing :, hut the last two were well played
as on each OF them he had n chance q
hea, mar and failed only because I'M
quits didn't go down. His card;
theodore v. Birmingham, wykagyl:
in".',,... tttta7. SOL
Whites 70 consisted of a 80 out ans
40 in. He made few bad shots. a q a
the seventh. where n good drive wa
punished by a bad lie. being the wors
score on his card. There were two TEE
a, so, Philip Carter. the junior metro
polltan champion, and w. Fellowes Nor
rSa, Jr., of Baltusrol, and at 81 "er'
s,uar. d. Connolly of Rockland, IN,
Hudson River champion; Charles I
lansing. Knickerbocker. and VI. H. star
rlng Sleepy Hollow. In addition 10 Car
,.r and Connolly two more Of The 1911
crop OF minor champions found place
n The first sixteen. They were bwigh
Partridge. holder OF the Westchcs'e
lille, and Hamilton *. Kerr. who becam
Connecticut champion only last week
Both made the round In ~, Thic
proved TO be just as high as they coul
have gone without being relegated I
the second sixteen.
Eve sixteens qualified for he n
play. which begins tomorrow mornint
and SO big was the field that lol wa
he top score In the NTH sixteen. sea-
tered through the second and third SIX
teens are a few golfers who ought I
be In the first. among them being Theo
dore Case of Owasco, +. II. McAdo'
Princeton. and C. Il. Van Week, Jr
Baltusrol.
The draw in the first sixteen dls
tributed the stars pretty well. Bermlns
ham, Reginald NJ. Lewis, Partridge an
Hamilton Kerr seem the best In the vi
per half. and I'm the lower the prominei
golfers are White, Connolly, Morgan an
c. II. Brown. The best of the mr.
round matches tomorrow morhih
should he those between Lewis an
Partridge. and Connolly and Brown.
Starting times Of the various sixteen
tomorrow have been arranged as 10
lows: Fourth sixteen, $50 to .; thlr
sixteen, $40 to 9:+5; first sixteen. ~.
to 10: rs; second sixteen. 1910 TO ll'o'
a'th sixteen. ll:i0 TO ll:45. the score
10 The qualifying round;