New-York tribune., 1916-05-24
BaltusrOl Star Shines in
Mud at Essex County
Course.
WINNER is HOME
IN SPARKLING 33
ID. q. Scott Feels Confident That
His 273 Will Assure Him of
Place In Tourney.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.

More real estate was ploughed up
by niblick and mashie yesterday on the
links OF the Essex Couny Country Club,
when tho Real Estate Board OF New
York held it's annual spring golf tour
nament on the New Jersey course, than
the average farmer with team Of
horses can turn over In a day. Divots
and clods of sod few right and left, and
at the end of the day it was discov-
cred that Maxwell r. Marston, of Bal
tusrol, had won the low gross score
cup. with 70 in the morning round
and a sparkling "a in the afternoon.
The wretched conditions prevailing at
Essex County yesterday made low scor-
Ing difficult, so the nature Of Marston's
game in the afternoon round may be
seen. After taking I'll TO the turn, the
Baltusrol star found himself and came
home in 80, and at that trimmed the cup
half dozen times, else his total might
have been around So or 10.
Alex. Eakin and w. P. Belknap, the
latter Of Richmond County, tied for
low net in Class A, with 10. Both made
the circuit in %, and both had IS
handicap. II. C. Richard, Of Baltusrol,
had the best selected score for the
morning and afternoon total, with 73.
Marston's selected card read 72 gross,
but half his handicap raises this TO
1914. ". c. Lester, Of Apawamis, re-
turned the best gross in Class B. with
an SO. and the high gross for the day
was claimed by D. G. Scott, according
TO last reports. although all the play
ers had not completed their afternoon
rounds when night began to fall over
the landscape. These outlying districts
may be heard from within the next
few days. Mr.. Scott, however. ap-
peared confident his record of 13s-135-
273 would not be surpassed.
Half a Hundred Out.
About half hundred real estate men
waded through the red New Jersey mud
and the drenched grass in pursuit Of
the golf balls. Some Of them were not
sure whether they had fully enjoyed
the experience as they holed out on the
home green, but after supper in the
clubhouse, with music and general
Qualification. they were each and every
one ready to admit the day had been
we'll spent.
The fog was hanging thickly over
the course when Marston began his first
round, and the ground was so soft and
heavy that the ball had little or no
roll, no matter how hard it was hit.
In spite of this, the tall Baltusrol youth
went out N an even 40 strokes and
came back in SO. Most of his mistakes
were made In approaching and on the
sodden greens.
In the afternoon round he continued
10 miss on easy puts at almost every
one Of the outward holes, after being
green high in two shots, and his card
! cad IL for the first half of the journey.
Beginning with the long uphill tenth
505 ysrds--Max reached the green with
n drive, brassie and a beautifully
pitched mashie shot, and trimmed the
cup for 1, two under boyle.
On the eleventh tee, fully two feet
above the green in the valley below,
Marston and his partners were literally
above the clouds, for the fog shut out
all sight Of the fairways and the
greens. But Marston sent his drive
spinning through the clouds, reached
the green with a mashie on his second
snd then took two puts, again falling
to sink the ball OIL the first attempt by