The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-27
MarstOn Again Leads in
Qualifying Golf Round
Baltusrol Star Best of Big Field in Apawams Invita-
ton Tournament-Card of 70 Equals
Par for the Course.
ny INNS BROWN.

A practice fast growing into a habit
was repeated at the Apawamis invita-
ton golf tournament yesterday when
Max r Marston OF Baitusroi finished
ahead Of a field OF nearly 100 golfers
In the qualifying round. The Baltusrol
star romped In with 70 for the
eighteen holes, four strokes better than
A. b. Ashforth, OF Garden City and
Grant A. Peacock OF Princeton. who
tied for second place at a..
This is the third local invitation af-
fair OF the season in which Marston
has topped the field In the qualifying
round. to say nothing Of a similar per-
formance at Lakewood and In a Balti-
moro event which drew a good field.
Following the Baltimore contest Mars
ton led all entries at Garden City and
followed this UP with another best per-
formance in the qualifying round at
Sleepy Hollow.
In the parlance OF racing gentry
Marston appears to be good mud rum
ner. Conditions were very bad when
he led the Sleepy Hollow field and were
but slightly better yesterday. Intermit-
tent showers interfered with play al
most all day. However. II didn't appear
to hamper Marston's play.
MarBton Ties Par.
Marston's card equalled par for the
course and Is but one stroke back of
the amateur recordzhsid by Walter J.
Travis Withal II includes a penalty
stroke on the 54s yard fourteenth, where
his second shot landed in a brook He
was one over par at the fourth, but
atoned for this with bird on the 612
yard ninth. He tutned the other seven
ha frrs
He ran one over again on the eleventh
and two more on fourteenth. where he
took Z. But he had Topped of one
on the thirteenth. And he clipped one
each on the sixteenth and seventeenth.
A. b. Ashforth OF Garden City was
paired with Marston in the round. He
gave the winner plenty of incentive for
the FIRST five holes of play by rounding
up three So and a pair OF As. being 2
under par for the distance. But he
skidded on the next two holes, losing
three strokes to par. and finished with
81 for the nine holes. He took 40
coming In for a II. Their cards were
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Ashforth-
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The round of w. r. Ladd and z. A.
Lynch. both OF Rockaway. produced a
rather peculiar coincidence on the long
fourteenth. Ladd cleared the brook
with his second. but his mates second
landed In the ditch. Playing his fourth
he was still short, but he holed out a
chip shot for a par 5. Meantime Laid
had pitched onto the green from some
seventy yards away and holed the shot
for very rare on the hole, two
strokes better than par.
In spite of the fact that the college
team is engaged in battling for honors
In the intercollegiate tournament at
Philadelphia. Princeton furnished no less
than six entries for this tournament.
These are D. II. Sulzberger. Grant A.
Peacock. Leon Abbott, Pardee Erdman,
Eddie briggs OF football fame, and Dom
aid J. Herring. Sulzberger and Pea
cock landed In the first sixteen, while
the other four are scattered through
the lower flights.
Fem and Fearey Fail.
That many OF the big field had their
troubles is attested by the fact that
several good players OF the district failed
to get In the first sixteen. II. B. Fem,
Ridgewood Country Club champion,
dropped four strokes short OF the first
flight with an 81. Morton l.. Fearey of