The sun., 1919-08-07
NJ INNS BROWN.

~ INNS BROWN.
Lester Coniey Of siwanoy. whose glory
in winning the recent westchester coun-
ty championship IL Just beginning to
grow dim with age, added another sprig
Of laurel to his goinns chapiet by re-
turning the low score in a field Of more
than 40 starters in the qualifying
round Of the Victory cup tournament
at the Siwanoy Country Club yester-
| day. Conley captured the honors Of the
day with a round OF rs. Three strokes
back came young Jess Sweetser Of Aris-
ley. C. e. Van Week of Greenwich was
third with 70.
| Whether the full significance OF the
title selected for this affair settled down
with full and due effect on the big Geld
or not at least one very realistic and
/ iifelike touch mindful Of days on the
western front In La Belle France pre-
vailed Mist and murk famed In stories
| CT doings "over there" abounded In gobs
Wonder what's the trouble between the
| golfers and the weather man anyway.
4! They appear to have been at logger
| I eads all season on tournament duahty-
ing dates
Reverting to the matter Of play, Con.
ley's performance reflects no little creoI.
l
away to q fine start he wapbleo d.
\ on the second and counted six TO get
down. This jumped him up two strokes
over par. and he cast away announcer
extra stroke on the eighth, when ne
took Ave strokes to hole out there. On
the tenth he took three to reach tne
green and lost another stroke to par.
ConIey Hits stride.
1 Rut from that point on there was no
slack In his play A i've at the four
teenth was atoned for with a bird three
ON the sixteenth He ran down fifteen
foot mutt here He had previously
missed even a more ambitious effort on
the twelfth. when his ball trimmed the
cup and stopped four inches away AT
the sixteenth he recovered ninety from
a rather poor tee shot. 1t hookeo IaI
over near some trees, but his second was
dronned hole high Just Off the green.
He chipped up and ran down q single
mutt. par 6 on the 545 yard eiEn-
teenth brought him home In So. his
card follows:
Out o. ~ :.:;s: I S"-rs
Jesse sweetser snapped a tough kink
, IN his aspirations for fret honors with =
, large looming on the hfth hole. ne
: hooked his drive into some bushes. wnere
, the ball landed In an almost unpiay s anu
! lie. The youngster chopped away ON.
: rentlv and finally brought II out. ou'
needed TO reach the edge Of the green.
| DoubtIess upset by his experiences ne
took puts to get down.
Even with this discouraging incident
ho rounded out a 40 for the hrst nine
: : holes. A fne Q on the short sixth neipee
to remove a part Of the sting OF uihe :. o
= and he ran down a Is footer on the ninu
I l al
n ,ng the FIRST half back OF Conley. M
vent mace with the Siwanoy entry roi
:. the frst seven holes of the second nine
In snite Of the fact that he put MS sec
ond ont of bounds on the fifteenth. bu
p he skidded a bit on the last two takins
. a and n 6, stroke above Coniey IL
u 60 CHI case. Here Is his card:
: o. Out ::::: IS. ! |: : t;:-1'
r Kirkbx Finds Trouble.
u Oswald Kirkby, Metropolitan cham
. MON. did not qualify. and thereby hang
a rather Interesting tale. situation
= at the ninth hole requiring the comoine'
n qualifications Of 4 porch climber car
nenter and maybe tinsmith so ois
rusted the Engiewood star that n
picked up his ball and declared himse'
\ out of the going. ,,,-,
Paired with John @. Anderson. hirku
y had come along In creditaole sly
p ,hrough the eighth. After a bad driv
;, On the ninth, which caught trap. h
= made a mighty swipe with a niolick 10
~ his second effort and skied the ball "a
- over the green and onto the snshti
:, sloping roof covering the cluDnous
~ yeranda. This roof Is surrounded Py
railing some two feet high, which mao
- the resulting shot rather difficult nnles
i. a player carried sugar scoop OF SUN
"a similar implement In his Dag.
'e Irirkbv took one swing without ma
"a terial results. His second effort didn
~ clear the rail, but the ball trickie
70 through and dropped down into a 10
~ hedge that borders the building. Twa
~ enough. The lank Jerseyman picked
I'm and declared himself through SO "a
=, as competitive play was concerned.
vs played out the second nine hoies an
AZ was going strong enough to ZIP OH
ar 81 for the second nine, and that TOO WIZ
Ut tvo shots out OF bounds. His drive G
the thirteenth left him q three foot pu
% for a bird 2, and he had one but MT
sa tlonEer for a bird on the sixteent
r. He holed both.
IN Sawyer Returns in 30.
Terry Travers, who made his ent,
Il, and was expected right up until star
~ ing time did not put In an appearance
sv However. Ned Sawyer. who had been
- doubt about playing. showed up ar
~ brought In an so for his round. Pair'
with Henry ]. Topping OF Greenwic
both Sawyer and his running mate d
81 the first nine in ~. Sawyer shove
az Improvement on the second nine. whit
7o' he turned in as, whereas Topping mat
a change for the worse, taking IS.
The Greenwich player came near r
re- peating on Kirkby's clubhouse poke
ne the eighteenth. His second left hi
a about a full mashie for the green.
he put all Of his considerable bulk behir
the shot, and the ball headed strais
d" for a flock congregated near the scor
Of board to the left Of the green. AIT
ng much shouting and scurrying. 1t W
H. left a free course, carromed on 4
m toard and green's. roller. and left
his good chip shot for the nag.
AN Only Thfee Break so.
None of the stars except Conle
Sweetser and Van Week were able
break an 80. In addition to Sawye