New-York tribune., 1916-06-20
SCRIBE GOLFERS
In TIE FOR LOW
SCORE HONORS
Campbell and Benzinger
Handicap Match Winners
on HaCkensaCk Links.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.


T. Lawrence Campbell and Frederick
Benzinger swan through eighteen holes
Of golf yesterday on the links OF the
Hackensack Golf Club in 81 strokes,
which, with their handicap Of "a, was
good enough to bring them the low net
prize in the June best ball foursome
tournament OF the New York News
paper Golf Club.
Frederick Flaugh and John Munro
had the best actual card Of the day,
with a total of 50, and carried Off the
low gross prize. The winning pairs
confined themselves almost exclusive
ly to the use of the trudgeon and nib
lick strokes.
More than once il has been insinuat-
ed that members of the Fourth Estate
entertain no particular passion for
water. outside of the daily matutinal
tub. That base canard was blown sky
high yesterday, for the score or more
Of newspaper golfers who came out to
test the water hazards seemed to revel
in the wet.
Several of the players held an indig-
nation meeting after all the scores
were turned in, and some of the more
hot-headed among the crowd seriously
considered protesting the winners Of
the low net prize because of techni-
cal advantage alleged to have taken by
Campbell. The latter himself denied
having done what he stood accused of,
but reliable witnesses were found who
testified as follows, TO wit: that one
F. Lawrence Campbell did, while play
ing the tenth hole and during a par
ticularly violent downpour of rain,
seek refuge in an uncovered six-inch
water main lying on roadway near the
fair green.
Must Have Been Campbell
When friends Of Campbell pointed
out that il might have been any one
of the other newspaper golfers who had
hit the pipe his accusers refuted the
argument by stating that only Campbell
could have worn siX-inch, 1916 model,
water main.
The latest and apparently most au-
thentic reports were to the effect that
a passing automobilist had been
startled while driving past the row Of
water mains TO see a pair Of feet pro-
truding from one end Of the pipe and a
mans head from the other.
whats the matter, fellow? Are you
in trouble?" asked the sympathetic au-
toist
"Nope; I'm in the pipe. Have you an
umbrella?' replied the inhabitant of
the water main, flicking a drop of water
out Of his left eye. and there he re-
mained until the worst of the storm
was over.
Getting back TO the tragic side Of the
picture, however the newspaper sling
ers of jigger and niblick found most
of the traps on the course. Flaugh and
Munro, and II. Birdie Martin, presi-
dent of the club, and Charles Leonard
Fletcher, together with Al Hedley and
Archie Clifford, swallowed the least
amount of water and took the least
number of strokes.
Tell Stories TO Hosts.
When everybody had been put
through the clothes wringer in the lock
er room, they sat down to luncheon and
entertained the members of the Hack
ensack club with stories of their eXpe-
riences The club was in doubt last
night as to just what condition the
course had been left in after the divot-
diggers had wreaked their vengeance
on the turf, but, nevertheless, the one
day invitation tournament scheduled to
begin this morning and finish in the
afternoon will take place, at eighteen
holes. medal play, handicap.
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