The sun., 1919-07-31
MCNAMARA BEST IN
PRO GOLF TOURNEY
Leads Qualifying Round at
Shackamaxon With 154 for
SO Holes-Scores High.
BY INNS BROWN.


Tom Mcnamara Of Siwanoy led the
field Of forty-four starters who teed
of for the qualifying round OF the
Metropolitan district In the Professional
Golfers Association tournament at
Shackamaxon yesterday. He did so
with a total Of 154 strokes for the
thirty-six holes OF play. In compiling
this total he had rounds of 80 and "a.
Tom Boyd of Fox Hills finished second
with rounds Of rs and II for 15s total
score.
1t was a rather tough day all around
for the boys. Nobody has arisen to
proclaim Shackamaxon the toughest
course in the district. but 1t is doubtful
whether there are any others save Lido
and the National which would have seen
such high scores There is plenty OF
distance over the westfeld course. 1t
Is $500 yards long, but there are rev
, artificial hazards. A lasy kind Of brook
meanders aimlessly through the course
offering pitfalls 70 the unwary. But
somehow or other low scoring was en-
tirely without the order of the day.
Several rather surprising results were
brought in during the course OF the
day More than one well-known player
failed to get within the limit OF twelve
players to qualify. This means that
they failed to do 1872 or better. since
that figure qualified. Willie Macfar-
lane of Port Washington. who went into
the sem-flnals of the tournament In
match play last season, did not quality.
Neither did George Mclean OF Great
Neck, another who survived two ROUNDS
| of match play last year. Mclean missed
| by a margin of one stroke, pulling up
at 1853.
O,Hara Fails to Qualify.
Another surprise was the failure OF
Peter O'Hara, the home professional TO
negotiate his own back lot in qualifying
| figures. After morning round OF 81
| Peter withdrew. before he had finished
the afternoon round. Archie Sanderson
| Of Sleepy Hollow and Isaac Mackie OF
Canoe Brook were two other good ones
who failed to land among the first twelve.
While such performers as are isteo
above were battling futilely for low hg-
ures, Louis Martucci, the one-armed pro-
fesslonal from White Beeches, did his
two rounds with total of 159, only five
| strokes back of the leader. He landed
| in n tie for third place with Jimmy West
| of Rockaway hunt and George Fother-
| ingham of Glen Cove. Martucci put to-
| gether rounds of so and 70 for his total.
Joe Sylvester of St Adams. who was
| paired with Martucci. looked Ike very
good bet to tie Mcnamara for first place
and ali but sure OF second as the pair
came up to the seventeenth tee. out In
| 80, he had finished the first seven holes
of his inward journey in even fours and
had 3 and a 4. par figures on the last
\ two to tie Mcnamara. But woe befell
| Joseph on the short seventeenth across
! the creek.
| His tee shot hooked into a clump OF
thick bushes to the left OF the green.
| He found 1t all right. also an almost
! impenetrable screen of leaves shutting
him off from the green. Two efforts got
him just to the edge OF the bush and
| into a deep pocket in the thick heavy
| grass. 1t took him three more laborious
digs to get from there onto the green,
and with three puts he finally got down
! in 9. Upset here. he took 6 on the
eighteenth. needing three puts again.
He just qualified with 1872.
McNamara's Game steady.
| There was but little sensational golf
in McNamara's two rounds. He landed
a bird on the eighth In the morning
round, which Is a very nice achievement,
The hole is 42S yards long. He made a finI
second shot TO the green and dropped a
nice putt. He was out IN 81 But his
return was spotty in places. He ran to
! SIS on both the long holes, the tenth and
Thirteenth. Furthermore he gummed up
the short eleventh. This is q one shot
test, 100 yards in length. His tee shot
was wide of the green. After chipping
on, he took three puts for 5.
! In his afternoon round he settled down
Is steady golf throughout His card for
both halves showed 81. one stroke above
par. On the first half he had bird
but the eighth and ninth par Is cost
him each He ran into a again al
the tenth. but from there out halved the
card with par.
Here Is his card: