The sun., 1919-07-10
BY INNS BROWN.

The limberins up heat for the Metro
politan open golf championship at the
North Shore Country Club yesterday
proved quite day for the Harmon fam
lily, represented by the two sinewy lads.
Tommy and Peter. II was a mixed four
Dali affair. featuring amateurs and pro-
iessionals In equal proportions. But
Harmon freres. amateurs, came real
close TO cornering honors for the day.
at least team honors. Their respective
teams furnished two points of a three
cornered tie for first place at 10 all
Nothing other than the best efforts
or Mike Brady and young H. s. Lake
oi Hartford kept the Harmons from re-
strlcting first place to a cosey little kink
between themselves and their respective
Partners. For time II appeared that
they had II all to themselves. but late
In the day Lake and Brady brought In
another 20 to split the issue three ways
Peter Harmon. the younger Of the two
brothers, was playing with Willie Nc
Far'ane, the man from whom he learned
his game. He Is the youngster who cap
tured the Metropolitan Junior title at
Siwanoy short time since. Peter
found his instructor setting a very ex-
cellent example, and he managed to
make his play ut In very nicely wher-
ever McFarlane slipped. Their best ball
totalled - to the turn. in the making
Of which Harmon beat his running
mates count on just one hole. Coming
in he was under McFarlane twice to
get best ball of 36.
Their card follows:
3f1;'....''..... t.ts3!s; t--.t -
This mark stood the test through sew
Val noia
Tommy Harmon paired with George
Bowden. the Commonwealth Country
Club professional from Boston. Tom
has spent the last two years In the army
and was mustered out less than two
weeks ago. He speared 76 for the
round, while Bowden negotiated "A.
They had a best ball of 36 to the turn
and came back In "a. On each half
Harmon won two holes from his partner.
Their card follows:
out,........... t!5ts.! "a; .,
Lake-Brady start strong.
The Lake-Brady combination clicked
eff tho best nine holes OF the DAY when
Il completed the first half Of It's
task with a total of SO. Lake. who
played second on the Harvard team. IL a
husky. robust young man. and is a terrific
! walloper. He didn't find an awful lot OF
room for Improvement on Brady's game.
but lend aid on three holes. Brady HIM
self had a round OF 80.
Their card follows:
| Out. .....,..... $50 5 l-Ss
In....,....... 34A4 I 4--a7-7o
Sumner r. Ho,lander and Tom McNa-
mara missed cutting into the three cor
| rcred iiink by a margin of one stroke
! They were out In IL. So steady and
| consistent was McNamaras play that
Hollander found but one place to brace
| the team card. In spite o: the fact that
he was playing very good golf. On the
eighteenth hole Mcnamara could do no
better than a 5. while Hollander slipped
through with a 4 to hold their total for
| the second half to IS. McNamara's In
dividual card totalled ~.
Hagen scores n ~.
Walter Hagen and J. Narelle OF 81.
wanoy were teamed UP and came home
with 72. It vas just what Hagen
| counted on his individual tab. There
we're few opportunities here and there
| for his partner to slip In with a LITTLE
bracer. but 1t so happened that they
| were not splicing their good and bad
holes properly.
| Gardiner White and Jimmy Nader
/ from Nassau were regarded as likely
| possibilities to work around with a win
ring combination. but their best effort:
netted IS Neither succeeded In hit
ting Il of briskly on the first half, anC
by the time they had reached the turr
| for home they had piled up IS strokes