New-York tribune., 1916-07-19
Records for Almost Every
Hole Made in Big
Tourney.
BARNES AND DOYLE
TIE FOR LOW SCORE
lock Hutchinson Turns In Caro-
of 80 for the Last Nine
Holes.
Bv FRED HAWTHORNE

Van Cortlandt ParK was 'He
paradise yesterday.
On almost every single hole OF .ne
eighteen, at some time during .
morning or afternoon, record seoies
were being made by one or more % oI
the professionals entered IN tne
tournament fathered by the New YORK
Vewspaper Golf Club. Those aban-
doned ones of the links-the duhers-
couId hardly believe their eyes wneh
thew saw big Bob Macdonald, for IN
stance, sink his putt for on the
2s7.yard fourth, and then get brace
of 3s on the sixth and seventh, 40
and 2e6 yards, respectively.
They let loose gasps OF astonish-
ment. TOO, when Long Jim Barnes, the
tall Briton from the Whitemarsh VAL
ley Country Club, kept driving green
after green with terrific sweeps OF
more than 2s0 yards and finished the
thirty-six holes Of medal play with
cards of 67-69-136, which tied with
Pat J. Doyle, of South Shore, 6S-6S-
1856, for the low total Of the day.
Macdonald, with 66-72-l3s, was
third, and then came Walter Hagen,
the new Metropolitan champion, who
went around in the morning in brill
liant 50 and added II in the after
noon for a total of 140. Others close
up TO the leaders were Joe Sylvester,
st. Adams, who began his golfng
career as a Van Cortlandt Park caddie;
Bert Battel, the Flushing sensation;
Jack Bowling, Scarsdale's star, and
Emmett French, of York, Penn, all Of
whom made the double round in 14l
strokes.
Record for Hutchinson.
Jock Hutchinson. the popular Scot
fror. the Allegheny Country Club of
Pittsburgh, contributed his share TO
the sensational by coming home in his
morning round in 80 strokes for the
last nine holes, record never before
equalled at Van Cortlandt. Unfort-
unately Jock was deprived Of a new
record for the full circuit by taking
80 to 60 out, giving him total of so.
He had a total Of 142 for the day, as
did Gil Nichols, former metropolitan
champion; Wilfrid Reid. of Whining
ton; Martin OLoughlin, Plainheld;
Elmer w Loving, Quaker Ridge, and
Willie MacFarlane. Hudson River.
But perhaps the thing that aroused
was the feat accomplished by Louis
Club, who went around in the after
noon in 6S, only two strokes higher
than the best score ever made at Van
Cortlandt.
What would you say, you good two
armed golfers who pride yourself in
getting around in the seventies, If
dark, soft-spoken young man were to
approach you nonchalantly and offer to
play around with you, and, TO make 1t
more interesting, would beat you with
one arm tied behind his back?
Loui' Martucci did more than that
yesterday, for he has only one arm, his
right. The one-armed wonder finished
the day we'll up, with a total of 146. In
the morning round he did not seem
able TO sink the puts, taking IS.
Then he went to luncheon, and when he
started his second round began TO find
the cup with almost unfailing regular
ity.
Makes a 8 on the Sixth.
At the 425 sixth Martucci reached the
green with a driver and an iron, the
ball coming to rest less than ten feet
from the flag, and Louis sank the putt
for 8, a stroke under par, and got 3s
on the seventeenth and eighteenth, the
gallery at the latter green giving him
great hand as he holed out. Louis ex-
poets to do even better to-day in the
final thirty-six holes.
Martucci's afternoon card follows:
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Van Cortlandt Park must have look
ed like a country town when the three
circuses held the boards yesterday.
The score board, in the shelter of
huge striped tent on the lawn, be-
tween the clubhouse and the eigh-
teenth green, was surrounded all day
by an eager crowd of men and women
and even small boys, who edged their
way through to get look at the cham
pions' scores.
Tom Mcmahon, champion golf score
keeper of the world, presided at the
board which meant that everybody
could find out at a moments notice
just who was low, what the best single
and double rounds were and what each
man had done on each hole.
The Newspaper Golf Club officials
enlisted the services Of the fair sex
yesterday. and these. led by Mrs. VI.
A. DaCosta. went around among the
crowds, selling the souvenir pro-
grammes, on which many Of the lead
ing professionals had written their
names. The signatures of Hagen,
Barnes, Macdonald, Hutchinson,
Nichols, Teller and Reid on a book
were sufficient 70 boost its price 10
scandalous proportions. The balls used
by Barnes and Nichols in their af-
ternoon round were raffled off, and
brought $3.50. rather fancy price for
the rubber cores, as Hagen remarked.
Gallery Follows Hagen.
Bearing the charmed title of cham
pion, Hagen, and Nichols, the man
from whom the Rochester pro won
the title last week at Garden City, car
ried the bulk of the gallery. Both
Hagen and Gil were driving great
distances, particularly the former, and
upon several occasions persons stand
ing near the green had to scatter
quickly to avoid being hit.
IL was on the greens that most of
the professionals yesterday had their
troubles. Accustomed to the lightning