New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-08
More than One Hundred
Play in Title Qualify
ing Round.
JOHN ANDERSON
FAILS TO GET PLACE
Kirkbv's 100 One Stroke More
than Carter-Gardiner White
Third on List.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.


Through a steady downpour Of rain
and under conditions that made low
scoring almost am impossib.l'ty, Philip
Y. G.. Carter. the young North and South
champion, led home field Of more
than a hundred Of the best golfers in
the Metropolitan district yesterday in
the S6-hole qualifying round Of the
eighteenth annual Metropolitan Golf
Association championship tournament
on the links Of the Nassau Country
Club. The brilliant youngster went
around in 81 in the morning, and bet
tered this in the afternoon with q ster-
Ing rs, for a total Of 159 strokes
one stroke behind came Oswald
Kirkbv. Of Englewood, New Jersey
state champion, with cards Of s1-79 -
100. and Gardiner W. White, of Flush
ing. was in third place, with rounds Of
so and s., for total Of 1872. Maxwell
r. Marston, Of Baltusrol, after
round Of So in the morning, went
along in the Afternoon at something like
his real speed and turned in 7S, for
total of 1G3.
All those with scores Of 175 or better
qualified among the first thirty-two for
the championship and will take up
their task again today at match play.
Twelve Hours of Golf.
7. was after r o'clock in the evening
before the last Of the field Of lO2 golf
ere that started twelve hours before
had completed the double grind, and
general sigh Of relief was heaved AFTER
: was all over. Probably not even the
,oos+ rabid Of golfers yesterday en-
,oved the experience or Wadlng through
,nud and water. with a stiff wind whip
ming the rain into their faces Every
man. ms he finished his last hole and
slammed over 20 the clubhouse, eX-
messed 10Y that the thing was done,
and ir most cases expressed himself
as porfcctlv satisfied that his score had
not been worse.
Under such conditions and with such
. bir field there were bound 10 be sur
rriscs and revcrsals of form. Foremost
AMONG these was the failure Of John q.
Anderson. of SIwanoy, who twice was
iuuner-uu for the national title, to get
into the championship division. An
derson had q total of II, which failed
tv several strokes TO find place among
those who win fight it out for the rest
OF tho week for the title now held by
Walter j. Travis.
John o.. who withdrew from the
third sixteenth. in which he had quail
fed. was the victim of hard luck
throughout most Of the long day. Moth
ing would break right for the Siwanoy
star. and as consequence he found
himself with the appalling total Of 80
for the morning round. I'm spite OF
this. and with the almost certain
knowledge that he would finish far
down in the ruck. Anderson buckled
down 10 work in the afternoon and
turned in an So, for total Of 1T
strokes. two TOO many TO give him a
place In the charmed circle.
Carriers Work Sensational.
Carter's work in the last stages Of
his afternoon round was sensational in
the extreme. Playing with Gardiner
White. the slender youth INDUCED i'm a
series Of wIzard-lke shots, the equal
Of which has probably never been seen
on the Nassau links Mashie shots
lolcd from forty yards of the green,
puts of thirty and twenty feet that
rolled along straight and unwavering
20 the cup. kicking up little cascades
~ water as they went, were only a few
of the things Carter accomplished.
Tie began this super-work as he
stood on the fourteenth tee. and White,
his partner was dumfounded as he
saw these shots coming off success
fully time after time. More than once
The Flushing golfer seemed sure Of get
ting half ON hole. only 10 have
Carter. playing the odd, score a win
by shot that would have been called
lucky Z done by anybody of less known
proves than the Nassau STRIPPING.
ON the fifteenth hole. 515 yards,
Carter landed in q trap so deep that
fhc top OF his head was at least four
feet below the level of the fairway as
he stood 90 make his shot. With a nib
lick hc laid the ball up 20 the lip Of
she cup. enabling him TO get par ..
when % moment before "a = would have
seemed the best he could hope for.
Tho sixteenth, q par b, was only Z
for Phil who holed out from off the
Green. and on the seventeenth and
eighteenth pc performed in the same
unbeatable manner, getting par on
each.
White Praises Wizard.
White was stunned for several min
rtcs after reaching the shelter Of the
clubhouse. but when he could regain
the power Of speech he was outspoken
iu his praise Of Carter.
"Ihat boy ls the greatest amateur
golfer iu this country said White.
"f don't care who 10 ;s. there is not
tu amateur to-day who could have
brought off the shots that Phil did on
chose five holes. You wouldn't believe
Them pos bile unless you saw them
yourself Take chat last putt. for i'm