The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-28

The team OF ali nations, known as
allied" won chief honors in the com
petition under auspices of the Profess
sional Golfers Association at the Inwood
Country Club yesterday.
The eight man aggregate total for
thirty-six holes returned by the allies
was 1879. or 16 strokes better than the
forces finished third. with 1925. and the
amateur team last. its total being l,345.
A year ago at match play the home
bred team proved the winner.
incidentally it was day OF records,
the professional association raising $751;
900 for the Red Cross. This more than
fulfilled the fondest hopes of Robert
White, president of the p. G. A.
HOnOrs for Tom Mcnamara.
So far as actual competitive records
go, honors went to Tom Mcnamara, one
Of the homebred leaders, who won a
special 800 purse for breaking the
course record He went round in IL
This also entitled Mcnamara to a medal
for having the best eighteen hole score
Gardiner White. with -, broke the
amateur record for the links and got a
medal, while Wilfrid Reid, with rounds
Of rs and "A, received an award for hav-
ing the best thirty-six hole total. Reid
rs in the afternoon was also the best
during that session. but as he could not
take two medals Cyril Walker, who had
a - after luncheon, received the after
noon prize.
The Scotch team. which had looked
good on paper, was weakened through
the failure of the Smiths. Alec and
George. TO appear. A better showing
had also been expected of tine amateurs,
but two of the stars, Jerome Travers
and Oswald Kirkby, were not In form.
News on a golf course travels fast,
consequently It didn't take long in the
morning for word to get round that Me
Namara was going great guns. Ordi-
narily Tommy Mack" is not regarded
as long driver, but this season he has
been getting more of punch to tee
shots, though at times his putting has
not been as deadly as In the old days.
McNamara's Great Game.
Tom kerrigan. the seaman from Pei
ham. and Mcnamara. played first and
second respectively on the hombred team,
the opposing pair on the allied Combina-
ton being Gil Nichols and Wilfrid Reid,
the well known Britons Mcnamara
began with par As at the first two holes
and followed with 5s at the third and
fourth The 4 at the fifth, AS yards,
was stroke under par and resulted
from sound golf HIS second shot was
Just short of the green, and he Clipped
up fairly close so that he had little
trouble in holing the putt. The sixth
and seventh holes are one shelters. and
the former Metropolitan champion got
both in 3. At No. he had to bring of
an eight foot putt
1t was on the shorter hcneward half
that Mcnamara flashed brilliantly. For
instance. at the pond hole. as the wee
tenth Is called. he had his Irashie stroke
to within fifteen feet of the cup and
ran down the putt for a 2. The next is
more than 400 yards, and Mcnamara
killed his chances OF a 4 with an indif-
ferent second. It's an even 900 yards
from tee TO cup at the thirteenth. and
there Mcnamara corralled a 3. thanks to
a fifteen foot putt.
Although bunkered on his second 60
ing TO No. "a, Tom managed to get a
8. and he saved a stroke at the l6C
yard fifteenth by rolling in twenty
foot putt for another 2. Not content
with that Tom got down a twenty fivs
footer on the sixteenth green for a 4
| That hole Is 425 yards. The at the
| seventeenth represented steady golf. bu
he had TO work hard at the home hole
When he stood on the eighteenth tie,
Mcnamara knew he needed 4 t
break the record and win the 800. Tn,
distance IL 430 yards, with water
hazard In front of the green. Failinl
to get hold OF his drive Tom decided
| to play short on his second. H,