The sun., 1916-09-26
THREE GOLFERS IN.
TIE FOR MEDAL ON
GREENWICH LINKS
Lewis. Grsham aud Kerr Fin
ish on Even Tctms in
Qualifying RoaiMd.
THIRTEENTH HOLE HAS
BIG PART IN DAYS PLAY

GREENWICH oH'' SEP ." 'P
,les for the medal seem to be the fashion
N sep,embeD golf Journeys this year.
lk.ss than =; fortnight & Gardiner W.
~ .,hi,e. Thillp Carte AMI i. Mortimer
xYfk anish.d In a deadlock u P'p!ns
Rock, and n the qualifying round OF the
Greenwich Country Clubs third annua'
tournament to-day another trio. Reginald
" Lewis, Samuel !. Graham and Hamii-
"A, X. Kerr shared the homo OF leading
N. field. Each OF tire three turned In a
.core Of i5S fo.'thc two rounds OF the
,r.,n. which constituted the qualifying
test.
There we're only nfty-two starters in
~. tourney to-day. bu. an inspection of
the list Of names showed that quantity is
nv no means everything. In point OF
,,.i,,y II was one OF tho best Acids OF
,he year in the Metropolitan district. n
when the qualifying round was over a
.plendidly balanced first sixteen Wa t.is
,.su,,. Four OF the Hrst s!xtsen are
uIrber Of the home club. and they
make m about rs good a quartet AS n
one club can put forth. The four Green
vich golfers are Graham. Kerr. Henry
I Toypine and Vincent Is. Hilton. and
me outsiders In the tourney. good as
they are. will save a hard task 10 take
the chief cup away from hcnhe.
Among the visitors who found secure
e,sces IN the first division We're Lewis.
Who holds both the Connect.cu'
we,tcheste. championships: Max il.
,tars,on Of Baltusroi. Gardiner ". White
~ rlushing, Frank ". Dyer % Mont
,ia,r Gran, Peacock Of Princeton. Louis
:. Bredin Of Detroit. Charles O. CON-
.,ock, Jr. Of Sleepy Hollow. and w.
parker Sc~lcy OF ~Brooliawn. All are
fre golfers and sl arc capable or max
ms the four "~homebreds' pay 'nc'r
best.
Kerr Leads In Morning..
A; the erd OF the first round This
morning Hamilton Kerr. who has been
playing sons, Of thc worst Hoh Of n,s
career t.!s season. proved ina ne ~
SIN 70 be rcckoned with By leading the
Al; with = ~ 80. II was a by
nlay,ns good steady COLT. IN which eS-
c.ll.r, putting was the outstanding
feature. Grant Peaccck. with a ~, was
s.cond. and Lewis and Graham. WIN
n apiece. &ere tied for third place on
the list.
Graham was the first to come IN at
ire end Of the second round. with q score
, stroke better than h a Of the morning.
making his total for the Day -. ,e--Ios.
Ne nad made few mistakes. his worst
,ole " the day being tho thirteenth IN
IN. afternoon. where ne sliced his second
n,o a .r,p. .ook one 10 ge; out. put ms
so,r,, on ,he green and was down In
.wo putts for a 9.
Ye-r who MAS tive next o! the TITO 70
,,,ch ne score board. produced a sore
a. 70, ;s--IS3 ss his snare OF the We,
He. TOO. had a tale o. woe 10 tell o. tne
thirteenth hole. for he had topped ~
%.cond, played his THIRD over the greer,
where u stuck IN the siGe OF II cop
bunker. chopped tho ball out OIL n next
shot. and then mad finished WIN '"Fec
butts for = I. -,
Wien Lewis arrived s.!ll later with his
p. ;s--lss and Completed ,ne t..ans
~, version Of .he thirteenth was OF q
A,Neren, Character. the noie ~ 80
-aris lorg. the s-lfsame n that water
Hagen rad. In . last year. n
a't-oIg, Ne IA :.ot do rs we'll as Hagen.
lid we'll enoug., hy getting down a pu't
for 4, .I-st IT ina. moment Levin was
Keeling of ,:e ''ol.s Ike = wizard. Tor nls
sore on TIE first Ave holes COMING IN
was 3, 80. Z. ). md par !s :. !. y. .. ~
re.. matter ~ better.ng par by three
strokes on i've ',oles was all that Lewis
did A, tina. stage Of the journey.
Levi. PLAYA Eighth In EiGht.
Unfortunately 20: hin. however. al OF
'Ne Young Cnrrec,icv. champions goif
vas no, So brilliant. and he had n large
ard dismal looking . to think about after
~ A n In N
afternoon. lie drove into a trap. had TO
MAY out backward. put his third in an
~'her trap. and after he was gu at last
tc:'; 'hres puts.
Tiers we're worse things than that 2.
howAvc-. In the drv's '"ecords. chief
-Tcu. ,rc atrocities ae,rg 'irrd:rc"
Writes 10 ~ tro fo,rtr hole Ia the
afternoon. Ths E,ua.i.n~ golfeg. who
neat psxa,d Kirkby ~ Merton. hoo"ed
IS th.rd down n steer hanl; into an un-
playable position. and had TO lift with
, penalty of two strokes. When he did
get close "a the cup with his eighth shot
NJ missed An easy putt and the unaccus-
toned double figures went down on his
oard. Whites putting failed him to-day
and ne had 70 work his hardest for his
score Of so. sA--16t.
Vincent X. Hilton. the Junior Metropoi-
''an champion. played fine golf this
norn'ng when he made a IS. but was not
ruitc so good this afternoon. Max Mars
'on made an 81 for each round. and
Frank Over. whose score was a stroke
''yhe-. 81. s0--iSi. also was a little of
rs gare. The scores:
FIRST SIXTEEN.
"srirald NJ Lwis. W>kAgvl ,... - ~
samuel ] Gresham, G-~~n~irh. - g -
hamilton X ko"r. Grcsrwich....f 'r
rant PesrHok. Princeton ....... 20
l'nrv I. Tonn,ng. Grcenv i"h -. g -
Maxwell p Ws-stor. Raitusro'... Ga - ny
Vincent V. Wilton. Gr"c,wich... - 90 ~
Frank ", bye. Mor'"lsi- .. - ~
rh,rlcs e, fmrstork. Jr.. Sleepy
Hollow a. N'
Gardner W. white. Flushing. 81 - ~'
l. E-ed'r. Detroit. go. .........r - so
" p S~t,er. Ernnkia- n....... q: - 'Hs
V { r"ra,er. National. .....,. C G
Drew Fletcher. Nassau. ........ ts-
Norton I. r"srsv. Richmond Co. " ~ %
y T l.. Hubbard Brookls vn.... n Ia
The d-aw~-Cpper half: Kerr ~. Fear'v.
Brst,n vs Topping. Fletcher We. Coms'oek.
M-shsm W. White, Lower haif; r~vir vs..