New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Old Guard Rallies
On Apawarnis Links
For 'Steenthl Time

They have said that the Old Guard
dies but it never surrenders. This
doesn't apply to the game of golf, as
any one would have noted who visited
the Apawamis Club at Rye, N. Y, yes
terday and watched some two hundred
lads who have been jeering at Father
Time tee off in the annual seniors golf
championship. 1t is the sixteenth time
that the old lads have pursued the pill
over the hills and dales at Rye.
If one happened to be mathemati-
clan and attempted to total up the for
tunes that were represented by the willy
wielders Of the brassie yesterday he
would need & high speed adding ma
chine. Financiers, captains of industry,
politicians and just plain citizens, who
had qualified by reaching at least fifty
five years of age, were eligible.
There was a goodly sprinkling OF
legal lights in the field, including JUS
tice Henry A. Gildersleeve and Justice
Morgan j. O'Bricn. There were sew
eral army officers present, including
Colonel Trcadwell, but among the alb
sentees was Colonel Bogey. The min
istry was we'll represented by Mon
signor Sheedy, who is one of the few
golfers who can play the game without
cussing. There was a fair sprinkling
of generals, but General Par was Off
on q furlough. Justice Gildersleeve
was the dean with his eighty years.
Charles D. Cooke, Of the Arcola
Country Club, was the sassiest golfer
of the lot up to the last returns from
the most remote precincts. He had
swatted the ball around the course IL
just SO strokes, which, with his handl-
cap Of 10, left him q net of 76. This
was not low enough, though, to carry
off the prize for the afternoons outing,
for Anderson G.'Colvin, of Glens Falls,
N. Y. came right along nipping at his
heels and hung up tally OF ~. 10
be sure this was not gross, but 1t was
a sufficient thing with handicap OF
% to make the upstate golfer furnish
the others lot Of food for thought.
AS the shadows fell he was the one
best bet.
Like many another, the members of
the judiciary gave poor old Colonel
Borey and General Par long SEN
tences. Wesley NJ. Oler, the "ice
king" played very cool game, but
his score was just about as high as
the price of ice. He had 1O3, but
handicap of "a melted this down to
70. He was in the Class A sectlon,
which was devoted to you: gstels, who
were between tfty-hve and sixty
years of age.
In Class B, the sixty and up. sec
ton, Joseph A. Flynn, head of the
Maryland Fidelity and Casualty Com
pany, knocked over 95, and with his
handicap Of 18 he h;.l an easy margin
on the rest of the field in his division.
If you wanted to be facetious you
might say that Mr. Flynn won by a
whisker, because his net was just
stroke better than Charles Hansell,
Of Baltimore, who had handicap Of
%
There weren't many obi: I:,' and not
even one "caglc" scored, but there
were g whole lot Of 'cuckoos' regis
tered. Reginald Foster, the whist au-
thority, had one of the leading scores
Of the day on the eleventh hole, where
he drove the ball out Of bounds no less
than four times. He said he was a
good theorist and knew how every shot
should be made, but he was just ".gol-
tarned" if he could make the pill be-
have. S. Ward Doubleday had a bird
9 on the eighth.