The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-13
Late Starters Fail to
Improve CLark'S Score
Misquamicut Entry Wins Seniors Golf Championship
With 169 for Thirty-six Holes Play-Dr
Jarvie's lat Is Low Net.
ny INNS BROWN.


The second wave of senior golfers
who Jumped off Thursday morning at
the Apawamis Country Club in their
quest of honors among the veteran en-
thusiasts. reached their detectives yes
to-day afternoon. However, this section
of the field failed to lower the marks
established by the leaders of the first
two days. Consequently William Clark
OF Misquamicut succeeds to the title of
senior champion, displacing W. E. Trues-
dell of Garden City.
BY the same token Dr. William Jar
vic. the venerable entry from Bass Rocks,
Gloucester, Mass, takes rank as the low
net scorer for thirty-six holes of play.
His total of1s9-52-147 is eleven strokes
better than the low man for the second
section of the field contributed,
George II. Barnes of Apawamis APP
peared the most likely entry in the last
two days to overhaul Clark at the close
of play Thursday. He scored an 50 and
needed an so yesterday for a tie. How.
ever, he was badly off his game in the
second round, scoring 96. This rounded
out total of 1876, which left him far
behind the leader.
Nellie Has Best Gross.
Sidmon Nellie of Englewood proved
, the winner of the prize for the best gross
score of the last two days play. On
Thursday he registered 30 and yesterday
he turned in a card of 92 for a grand
total of 1872. This was four strokes bet
ter than Frank NJ. Clute. Garden City
I Country Club, who took second place.
w. A Hammond OF Ithaca brought In a
card or 81, which was the best gross of
the day for eighteen holes. However. he
I AL up 96 on Thursday. which boosted
his total several strokes above the
| leader
Frank NJ. Clute. Garden City Country
| Club, landed the low net score for thirty
six holes in this field. With his gross of
1S6 he had a handicap of 2S, giving him
net 15S. This was the low net of the
| entire second section of the field. Clute
! is a Glass A player. G. II. Fates of Es-
sex county captured the low net in Glass
| b. He scored 206 for the thirty-six
holes of play with an allowance of 40.
| G. W. Doane of Baltusrol captured the
/ low net for the two days in Glass C. He
counted 1913 on the two rounds with a
handloap OF so. netting 1853. T. E.
Kirby of Apawamis won the low net in
Class D with 1854. His gross score was
22O with Sc handicap. The low net
! score in the entire field for the day went
, to w. G. Cooper, Garden City, who
brought in 81 with an allowance of 16
J and net 81.
barnes on His Game.
George H Barnes, who scored a clean
sweep against his opponent In the Ca
madam matches, was never able to &c,
going at his best in yesterdays effort tC
overhaul Clark for the senior champion
ship. He got away badly with or
the first hole and was unable to count
less than 5 on more than one of the frs
nine. He counted par on the short
fifth, but the eighth, another short one
cost him 8. He also took Z on the lonf
ninth. His card for the first nine hole:
was AZ.
Turning for home he ran up "A trio Of
IS in order. But he played the thirteenth
we'll for a bird 3. But the fourteenth
another long one, shattered his hopes Of
lettering his record for the first nint
holes. He landed In the creek on hi,
second. and finally took s. When HI
followed this with a series of errati'
shots on the fifteenth and counted
there. his chance was entirely wipeC
out He took 49 for the second nine
Nellie found practically the sam,
trouble that Barnes did on the first min,
holes. He took on the second. and an
other half dozen for the seventh. Thei
at the ninth he found trouble galore
When he had finally holed out. his coun
had run to nine strokes. He was AZ I,
the turn. A on the fifteenth and an
at the seventeenth were his most dis
tressing experiences for the second nine
The return trip cost him As.
An on the very first hole gave Ham
mond bad start, and he was almost a
bad with 6 on the second. Another
on the seventh combined with 7 on tn