New-York tribune., 1916-06-24
HAMMER EQUALS
RECORD ON LINKS
AT FOX HILLS
Staten Island Champion
Makes Round of Course
in Seventy.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.

almost all the thrills in the annual
invitation tournament of the Fox Hills
Golf Club. at Clifton, Staten Island,
yesterday, by making a round Of the
course in 70, a new record for the ANA
teurs and equalled only by Tom Boyd,
the professional.
Hammer made his remarkable score
in the second round of match play. and
simply ran away from Frank Barton,
of Forest Park, his opponent. winning
by up and to play. Barton himself
was going well enough to win a ma
jority Of matches, his card reading rs,
but he never stood a chance against
the brand of golf shown by the club
champion, who reached the turn { up
and ended matters on the long thlr-
teenth. The bye holes were played out,
but it is doubtful if Hammer will get
credit for his mark, as he failed to
hole out on the seventh green, when
Barton had no chance to win the hole.
Glancing over Hammers card, II is
possible TO see where he might easily
have saved three strokes on the round.
An extra putt gave him a for the
first hole, where ordinarily a par is
recorded by golfers in his class Again
at the tenth he went one stroke over
the comparatively easy par of 4.
On the home hole Hammer laid the
ball some twelve feet from the pin on
his second and then just scraped the
edge of the cup for n on his putt, the
ball turning out and stopping three
inches away.
The Staten Island champion played
his most brilliant golf on the first
nine holes, reaching the turn in "a,
three strokes below par. Coming
home he had Sc, which is Just par.
His card follows:
2q' IS ............55 .................5 t3ti $50
In the other feature match Of the day
A. L. Walker, jr., the seventeen-year-
old youth from Richmond County, who
won the gold medal in the qualifying
round on Thursday, was defeated in
the second round by c. T. Sweeny, of
North Jersey, by up and TO play.
In the morning young Walker had put
out j. w. McMenamy. of Fox Hills, by
8 up and to play, while Sweeny had
Charles W. Brocker, Garden
City, after match that only ended
after an extra hole.
The others to come through 10 the
semi-fnal round in the first sixteen
were VI. b. Kaesche, Of Ridgewood, who
defeated DR.. Allen T. Haight by up
and to play. and J. d. A Sullivan by
2 up and 1 to play, and A. c. Perry, OF
Fox Hills, who triumphed over A. W.
Dole and DR.. A. Elliott Ranney.
Walker played we'll against Nc
Menany in the morning, settling into
his stride after a poor at the first
hole. A well laid stymie on the second
gave him a half in 6 there, and then
he began to reel off the holes in par
figures, taking the fourth, fifth and
sixth and reaching the turn IN Al,
where he stood up. After winning the
tenth Walker put his second shot with
in putting distance of the pin on the
eleventh, a matter of 449 yards. lie
missed by inches, however, and got his
4, one under par.
Losing the twelfth, the Richmond
County boy was dormie on the thir-
teenth, and a half in A on the next
gave him the match.
In the afternoon, against Sweeny,
Walker began well, being up at the
fifth, but then the North Jersey man
began TO fight back, and they reached
the turn all square. Walker began TO
fall down on his putting after that, and
Sweeny ended the battle on the seven
teenth. winning by 2 up and / TO play
Walker was just as cheerful in defeat
as in victory, and has the makings OF a
fine young golfer. -,
The semi-fnal and final rounds will
be played to-day.
The summaries follow:
First sixteen (nrst roundl-A J. Walker. r..
Richmond County. defeated j W hcMell any; roy 70.
I.-ir, deirsfcl & " Brocker Garden City. ~
no boles): NJ B Kacschc. Rdgc"ood. defeated lr.
T. sS.6 B's, Ses York COZ Club defeatel b r.
Allen Fox Hills. up and 10 play FRANK bar
Ton. Forest PARK. defeated G.. Hale. Mdgewccd .
yl,d Up and to Dii RiciaAd For H-HHs His VI up aad
play; A. Z. Ranney. Greenwich aeieATn - s'Aitiey ~
Gnfin. Deal W and ! TO pay nj; a. i dS'S' 'o'
second round-Sweeney defeated W1Aer z up
and 70 PLAY. Ksesche defeated sulhy-a. " - y,
] 10 play: Hammer defeated Barton. 1p Hd
nssisn slgbt Of nrst sixteen lnrst round
defeated McMen amy. up and 70 pay A,gI 90 AZ,
feated Hale. 4 UP and 10 play Dole aeiea'eu
Grimm 3 up and 20 PLAY -. T.,
Second sixteen iNfel luliAl-ds n
hl.N; ind to p1sy. l. G. spindier For Hins defeated
Q. G. worhsy Fox , lli' os,aa2ed w All & % Gss s
Baltusfo fi dcfes'ei < 5 Tnppe Crsesai uP and
= 40 pisy. q Van Chef. Ricnrond County. de,eaisq G
Dr n Carp,fter Oakland. uD tlg holee f. W.
baldwin Glen Ridge. defeated j. D. sI@teI, hoa =,
eefested N l. Wyatt Fox Hils. up; W d. John Slil
son Garden City. defeated {. W. Hch"uih' "4e1
Ridge up an4 20 20 "SSs,..,,d sp,nder. UP
Bsiferoa defeated Allen. / up ls hoiesl }: BAldyli
defesiel van Chef up and TO play feHey ae
''1'Sh TSlri s,.eca thfst roundF c. Dqnns Cres-
cent defcaied G. NJ Ivory. unaitaehedt 2 ana
I Neuiez unattached. defeated \ W femefoy
Fox Hils and Q. Lewis Wyk~fSi'H II p'4fs;dl foTi
Isrk club. defeated II. y Martin. SfeN NSsA' - !
and 4. : G cIs Garden ViV' dHfs,sl 6sS,lo L. Fo,
nrtss nits defeated V. r. Bsrrows. Fox Hils. ; and
4. g. " Lembeck Fot Lus. de'e,sH'e9r ,H 49, p, ~
pianoue. Richmond County W. 7. W IsnhocHj
Fox nils defeated II. strobndge' foA hlS'
ana s.:,,d Z, rmnd-Mendoz defeated D,nnins. 2 Up
Lewis defeated Ford; up Denico deieelsl
up no holesl Lernbeck defeated IannocA'
an fourth sixteen tnrst roundl-H. b. McClsusln.
rrx Wiis defeated :. T. Hayward. Glen Ridge. ~
default. A T. Roth. Manh1i,~h us,stu sc-.., -
ps,E defeated NJ Bran. FoI HIS. Sl1 C. l.
riietrier. Newspaper. defeated J. T. Beck. Thorn,
iTrg and g.. W H. BlAndy. unattached defeated
/" syooIIey. Fox HIS. and : q. A Namey;
\ YSOI5N'S z. defeated 4 r. Right SCOT Amer. !
up: samuel Allison. Midland deiesied NJ Hfo~n'
sykes For Hills. defeated W. NJ Gray Great
Neck 4 and g. ~ ,,-cr.,,-- ,,-
t-f,,1h.- defeated curtis and I BEndy defeated
vsrn,g ana Allison defeated sykes cirs,, and d. s
Firh sirtsen (rrsl round g "ile't Wy
ta.,ti d.iearci z : Wheeler. PlAnreld upi J. j.
f-s,' KSr Fox Hnls. defeated T. X. McCa11iyy. LoN
inns. hy default. /. n Graham, fcI bI!s, us
w ~ vsn CHE Richmond County. defeated G. 2
Rsrncs. Tng.cwood. 3 Gnd =. Davies SCUM
So defestsd = T Reilly Fox ms, I and
1"IT' Tism.nF Fo1 HIS. defeated W. ]. Pierre.
Tor Hiils and 8: J. D. Bamhill For NM, de-
ieaicd H. Cornelius Forest fark up W; y.
JocNn Fox HIS dGeaiea \ '~penSi' "o" '"'
90. ssroaI o.-' rouad-Gnou de,ssed Ker By default
,-.rt,.' f.festsi Van CHEF and 2. Davies de.
,'.t.S Flcralng J W l9 holes Barnhil defeated
Jocklu. 2 andSl