New-York tribune., 1916-07-25
Fourth Estate
Golfers Visit
Haw0rh Links
Fred K. Flaugh Covers Course
in 80, One Stroke More
Than Record.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.

Don't ever tell member or tne ne"
York Newspaper Golf Club that the
professional golfers who played their
tournament at Van Cortlandt Park last
week, under the auspices of the scribes'
club, didn't earn their money in that
contest. After seeing Long jim
Barnes make four circuits Of the course
with an average Of Just 60 for each 1S
holes, "The Fourth Estate" golfers were
certain they had discovered the secret
of how to get low scores. Yesterday
they went out 20 the Haworth Country
Club TO prove 1t.
Haworth used TO be only nine holes
and fairly easy, even for member OF
the N. Y. n. G. c. Not so yesterday.
The members competed in best-ball
foursomes After it was all over and
the last player had staggered to the
clubhouse porch and gasped out his tale
Of woe expert accountants got TO work
and figured out that of the 1000 and
odd strokes used by the forty members
OK
buffers friend, the niblick.
The eighteen holes at the New Jersey
club measures Just 6,15l yards, and the
course has been pientifully supplied
with traps, young Alec Findlay, the new
professional, experimenting the oper-
alton. In view of these things, the low
gross individual score of 4O-4O-o0,
made by Fred X. Flaugh yesterday, is
highly commendable.
J. B. Catlin, club member, holds the
record for the links, having turned in
a 70 only a few days ago. Flaugh, not
well acquainted with the battle-ground,
got around in only stroke less. On at
least six green's he failed to get down
short puts, or his total might nave
gone well under the record The news |
paper golfer was getting fine distance
with the wood and placing the ball
down the fairways with unusual ac-
curacy, so that he was rarely In
trouble.
But Flaugh's case was the exception. |
The low net prize was won by W. J.
McBeth and Charles Gebest, who had q
total Of % gross as their combined
effort. That didn't look very dangerous
20 the other players until McBeth and
his mate announced that their handicap
amounted 20 Just 26, which made their
net 60. Flaugh, paired with George
Ralston. had SO--S-72, and II. ID. Cash }
man and AL Hcdley tied this, with So
1l-72. !
Several of the heroic golfers required
twelve strokes on some of the holes, /
particularly the 604-yard eighteenth.
There was a momentary furry Of ex-
citement at the clubhouse when II was
reported that p. Lawrence Campbell, a
member of the Newspaper club, was
playing the last hole, with for
record breaking II. Scouts were sent
out to greet the par wrecker, but II
proved to be false alarm, as camp
bell had oversight and failed to get ;he
last train out However, he might have
got around in even better than II had
he been there.
Are women people? At the Shene-
cossett Country Club, Of New London,
they are. 10 judge from a notice just
arrived from Mrs. Maude l.. Ballard,
publicity artistic extraordinaire. Two
events for the fair sex are scheduled
al Shenccossett for next month. On
August "a there will be an invitation
tournament for women, with two silver
cups as prizes Already a number of
prominent players have sent in their
entries. including Mrs. c. +. Schell, Of
Cincinnati, who won several tourna-
ments at Belleaire, Fla, last winter;
Mrs. Peter Boyd and Miss Helen Bar
tholomew, her daughter. the Philadel--
phians; Mrs. John A. Philbrlck. OF
Montclair: Mrs. Julius Fleischmann,
Miss May Miller Mrs. Frank de {. Sui
livan. Mrs. b. c. Robbins. Mrs. P. G.
Walton, Mrs. G. s. Steward, Mrs H. D. |
Saxton. Miss Thirza Sptdone, Miss lss-
belle Moore. Miss Gene Terry, Mrs.
Louis Brown and Mrs. d. c. Arnold.
on August % and 30 the women
golfers will take part In the week
enders' tournament, and on each
Wednesday for the rest Of the season
there will be putting contest.
The members Of the 81. Nicholas
Club will hold a golf tournament to-
morrow afternoon at the Richmond
County Country Club, Dongan HIS
Staten Island, competing on handicap
basis. Dinner will follow in the even
ing. Ferrybosts leave South Ferry Tor
ST. George twenty minutes before ana
after the hour and are met by trolley
cars.