The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-16
BARNES HICKS TEAM
LEADSGOLF FIELD
Score of 20 Best in Four Ball
Professional Amateur Match
at Engineers.
HOBENS RETURNS A &c
Is Tied With Barnes for Low
Individual ScOre-Players
Find Course Difficult.
HoBENs RETURNS A &c
BY INNS DROWN.

Long jim BrOWn' SUNSET f1iitS pioiVS-
sionai, sat in on the warnup round for
the Professional Golfers Association
tournament at the Engineers Country
Club yesterday afternoon and figured to
the extent Of tying the low individual
score and collaborating with w. L. Hicks
of Nassau in bringing in the best ball
record for eighteen holes. Barnes tied
Jack Hobens Of Englewood in individual
scoring at rs, and assisted in a 73 on
the other count.
The record OF rs in Individual scoring
fell two strokes short of eQualling the
course record held by Herbert Strong,
the home professional Also 1t goes to
show that the bunch was quite a few
jumps from 'eating up" the course.
There will undoubtedly be better cards
than rs put together before the end of
the week, as the professional field battles
for the association championship. But
there is little likelihood that any OF the
field will go away marveling at the ease
with which low scores can be complied
on the Roslyn course.
Naturally enough Barnes shouldered
a bulk Of the burden, as he and his part
ner totalled their T3. However. the
Nassau veteran was good enough to win
three holes for the team, to say nothing
of halving several others. He won the
seventh, eighth and sixteenth. halving
the three with par In each case. Their
best ball was as follows:
out ..,.........s SIS :,
In .............3 5 44s 4 3-s5-7S
Barnes Gets sS5.
Az winner of the best ball contest
Barnes hooked in the purse of $50 Of
fered by the club. In view of this fact
lie defaulted his claim to a split with
Jack Hobens for the low individual
prize.
When Barnes and Hicks reported their
20 they tore up a four cornered tie for
first place which involved the following
Teams: George Fotheringham, Glen
Cove, and George A. Dixon. Jr., Ma
tional: Carl Anderson. Bronxville, and
Jess W. Sweetser, Ar5sley Jock Hutch
inson. Glen View and Dan Healey
Dwight Rockwell And George Mclean.
Great Neck. Each of these four entries
'totalled rs for the round.
Disaster at the long ninth hole pre-
vented Jack Hobens fiom making a
clean getaway at leading the field in
individual play. The Englewood pro
encountered trouble aplenty on this dog
leg test and could do no better than Z.
This ran his total for the first nine
holes to Al. He cut six strokes from
that mark on his inward trip to score
his 7s. Here is his card:
out .........5 8 50 a. I'll
In .............s s A 4 4-S5-7t
Harness Gets Series OF Elves.
Barnes was seized by an attack OF
fves on the first half of his journey
He counted no less than a quintet of
these on the first nine. They were due
in practically every case to being a bit
short of the greens on his second He
made up for his three fives on the second
rine with an equal number of threes to
finish the nine In even fours. Here is
his card:
out ............5 IS 40
Jess Sweetser got something more
than half of the credit for the composite
70 scored by himself and Carl Anderson
The latter was somewhat off his stride
and won but three holes for the pair
All of this trio were scored on the sec
ond nine. He took the eleventh, four
teenth and eighteenth. registering a
on the fourteenth. Sweetser scored rs
for his individual round.
Several other prominent teams found
difficulty in matching up their play ir
such a manner as TO round out low
composite scores. Frank Hoyt and Her
bert Strong of the home club brought
home a n. Hoyt pointed with some
pride to his on the $40 yard seven.
teenth. As he observed this was mile.
stone for him. He had never turned
the trick before.
White and Maiden Fail.