New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-02
.UNDY LEADS
THE WAY OVER
ARDSLEY LINKS
Partridge and Anderson
One Stroke Behind in
Westminster Tourney.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.


Ardsley Club, came home ahead of a
field numbering more than a hundred
golfers in the eighteen-hole qualifying
round of the second annual tourna-
ment for the championship Of West
chester County yesterday. His card
going out read al, and coming home ne
clipped two strokes off this, giving
him 80, for total OF so strokes.
Just behind Mundy trailed Dwight
Partridge, of Bedford, the present
champion, and John G.. Anderson, Of
Siwanoy, twice runner-up for the ma
tional title, both with cards of 81.
T. V. Birmingham, the Wykagyl cham
pon, who consistently does the difficult
course under so, had to be satisfied
with an sc yesterday. Reginald NJ
Lewis, the sensational young schoolboy
from the New Rochelle Club, could not
get in the low scoring vein either, and
il took him So strokes for the round
All those with SO or better qualified
for the first sixteen and the champion
ship.
Rarely has the uncertainty Of golf
been demonstrated more convincingly
than at Wykagyl yesterday. Men who
consider them selves away off form #
they fail TO do better than 81 or SO
were dazed when it was all over 70
find that their scores flirted coyly with
figures in the high COS. and even
worse. Four sixteens qualified and
an even 100 was good enough to get in
the money.
Mundy got away to good start. get
ting par on the first hole, but on
the next he took a B, and then followed
two 6s, one at the 528-yard third
and another at the fourth, $40 yards,
mostly uphill The Ardsley made
partial amends by getting ? on the
tricky short mashie pitch fifth, sink
ing a pretty putt over the rolling
| green. Extra puts on the short sixth
and seventh, however, sent his score
up again, but the last two of the out
ward journey he gobbled in par IS,
giving him al up to that point.
( Coming home, Mundy went along at
a smooth pace, his only mistakes being
at the fifteenth and sixteenth, where
| he required extra puts in each case,
giving him the last nine in thirty-nine
strokes for his total OF so.
Greens Fool Anderson.
Anderson dropped strokes on the
first and fifth holes going out, the
speed of the greens apparently fooling
him, but those were his only mistakes
worthy of note, and he turned for
home with a score of 80. On the long
eleventh the Siwanoy star got into trou-
bic at the brook and required for the
hole. An extra stroke at the four
teenth, another at the short sixteenth
and a bad at the seventeenth, where
his drive took course down the steep
side Of the hill on the fairway, added
to his total
But on the long and tortuous home
| hole. a matter OF 544 yards, with a
precipitous hill intervening about 27o
Yards from the tee, the Scotchman al
most entirely wiped out his sins OF
commission and omission in the prev
ious stages OF the journey by sinking
a forty-foot putt from the edge of the
green for a brilliant 4, one stroke under
par.
John G.'s tee shot was beauty, land
ing near the base of the hill. and his
second carried the beetling heights and
came to rest we'll up toward the green.
His third had just enough legs to
achieve the topmost edge or the un-
dulating green, and then came the long
putt that found the hole. IL was the
only of the day at that hole. and
must have been some satisfaction to
Anderson. even if it left him single
stroke behind the low score. ,
Partridge's game was distinguished
by it's steadiness, and it was rarely that
the Bedford champion was in trouble
Taking 40 TO reach the turn, he came
blithely home in 40, also one stroke be-
hind the gold medallist
The cards of the three leaders fol-
low:
out ......4 So Sl