New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-23
Pawling School Player
Wins Another Medal
at Apawamis.
BEATS CLUB BOOZE
WITH CARD OF so
Hunter, of Lawrenceville, Is Sec
ond with Good Score of
81 for the Course.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.

Fillmore X Robson, OF Pawling
School, the present champion, won the
low score gold medal in the qualifying
round OF the eighth annual Eastern in
terscholastic golf championship tourna-
me on the links OF the Apawamis
Club, at Rye, yesterday morning. The
schoolboy went around the stif course
in so strokes, Al going out and brill
liant 80 for the homeward journey
good enough golf TO take the measure
Of most full grown men.
Thomas Worden Hunter, OF Law
renceville School, who played with
Robson in the qualifying round,
tui ed in the second best score Of the
testing round, 39-45-84.
In the first round of match play
Robson defeated S. p. Ker, a school
mate, by 4 up and 3 to go; K. Hamill,
Lawrenceville, defeated r. A. Halght,
Pawling, and /; Simpson Dean, Law
rencevlle, defeated J. G. Hunter, Law
renceville, 3 and 3, and 7. W. Hunter
defeated S. b. Robson, Pawling, 8
and 2.
Only eight boys reported at the first
tee when the first pair was sent away,
4 our OF THESE NtAt AAOlAA 9"AtAAS $50
four from Lawrenceville. II was agreed
before the start to decide the team
championship by the total number OF
strokes made by each team in the
qualifying round. Pawling won with a
total Of 34S. as Lswrenceyille had 5oZ
Fillmore Robson, a former North
and South champion, won the title al
Wykagvl last year by defeating Dean
in the thirty-six- final by a margin
of ) up and 3 to play. Others who won
the title before him were Gardiner W
White, Maxwell X. Marston and Phillp
V. G.. Carter. and all have since won
more important championships in fast
or company. In fact, these schoolboy
tournaments have done much for the
advancement of American amateur golf
The work of the boys yesterday, al
Though only two schools were repre-
sented seems 70 augur well for the
future.
Expected More Entries.
Il was announced some weeks ago
that the tournament this year would be
open to pupils of high schools as wei
as private institutions, and II was eX-
pected that the entry would be lar
larger. Whether the boys became al.
fiicted with stage fright at the idea OF
playing over such a difficult and srdu-
Gus course as Apawamis affords or
their studies kept them from entering
the lists, the field that teed up yester-
dav was small, but unusually good.
James d Foote, one of the veterans
of the Apawamis Club and a man VINO
has made his mark in scores OF tourna'
ments throughout the East, was deeply
impressed by the work OF the meda
winner. Mr. Foote knows the trial'
and tribulations attendant upon eir'
cult of the 6,l70-yard course, and the
pupils of his eyes expanded seVeraI
degrees when he was told that young
Robson had turned in a card OF 90
Bogey is 81 and par calls for -. Extra
putts at several holes might have been
saved by young Robson without any
great luck figuring in the round.
As an illustration OF the brand OF
golf played by the interschoiastlS
champion, it may be noted that on the
long ninth hole, matter OF OIL ysrGs
he was within striking distance OF lht
green on his second and sank his pa.
for a grand 5, as against the par OF 0
The seventeenth, 537 yards, was
fine par 5 for the Pawling boy; and, OF
the 548-yard fourteenth, well nameS
"Waterloo," he succeeded in gettint
a bogie 6. These three holes, the long
est on the course. indicate that koDe
son was getting tremendous distance
with driver and brassie.
Big Gallery Followed.
Robson and Hunter were among th'
first TO get away from the first tee ano
they carried the larger part Of the gal
lery with them, the memory OF th'
champions brilliant play last year be
ing the lure that kept older golfers
trailing over the hills after the Pawi
ing crack.
The cards Of Robson and Hunter IN
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