New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-17
Condor, Last
oFinisll, ins
Senior Tourney
Memphis Veteran, With
Fine Gard of l6l, Takes
First Prize by Stroke
By Raw Mccarthy

O. Henry or De Maupassant couldn't
have made better job than Fate did
in the seniors golf championship tour
nament at the Apawamis Club yester-
day. Talk about shooting surprises in
the last line-the finish of this years
meeting topped them ALL Martin ].
Condor, of Memphis, Tenn, the last
competitor in a field of more than
three hundred to hole out, won the
championship with gross score OF 161
Charles d. Cooke, Of Arcola, who
won the first part of the tournament
with score of 162. looked for all the
world like the new champion up to the
time Condor turned in his score. His
two rounds of SO and 70 represented
sound golf, and everybody knew that
that total would take some beating.
II. S. Redtield, Of Hartford, turned
in 10 on Thursday in the first round
of the second half. He was the one
everybody was watching yesterday
But Redfield reported for the second
round with an injured hand, and after
playing twelve holes had to give up.
The majority then departed, figuring
Cooke bad won the title. One lone
contestant remained at the eighteenth
hole for Condor to return. That was
W. W. Pratt, of Hartford, Conn.
Veteran Furnishes Surprise
wonder how Condor is going re-
marked a scribe who was figuring on
the next train, due in ten minutes.
That's what I'd like to know" in
terjected Pratt. II had an 81 to-day
and I'm anxious to know if I'm going
to win that low gross prize to-day
Condor is the only player now who
can beat me-"
ooh, you're all right" replied the
scribe. ITS not likely Cpndon will
better 81"
But Condor surprised them all. He
finished with 70, and as he came of
the eighteenth green he seemed rather
crestfallen because his score wasn't
several strokes better.
Il missed several easy puts coming
back" he said, otherwise l would
have had good score"
To our way of thinking 10 is nothing
to be ashamed of. Condor may have
passed up several chances on his way
back when he took AZ, but certainly
he couldn't have missed many shots
going out. He travelled the first nine
holes In 36, one over par, and anybody
WIZ tSll YOU tNal pretty gOod scoring
Betters Par for Hole
Not only did Condor get a SO going
out, but at the ninth hole, which meas
ures an even 800 yards and which is
as tough par hole as thera is in this
section, he got a bird A. Quite some
golf for one who has passed the sixtieth
milestone in years. Condor, by the
way, is registered in Glass B. These
were his cards:
First day. ...s.4 6 3 3 7-42
Second day....s 8 8 8 8 1 ia
) 5 5-4s-7s
Out of that mass of figures Condor
had a selected score of SO, 81 for the
first nine holes and SO for the second
Another we take our hat off to is
Robert Collier, seventy three. No, that
wasn't his score, but his card figured
very close to that figure. This veteran
of Glass D, also big healthy Hooking
youth, had gross score of SO yester-
day And to think that the majority
of fellows from thirty three down can't
even approach that tally. Golfers
card Is worth printing:
Out ......-.....6 s 3 4 q 40
In .....,.,..,....4 6 A-4s-ss
Collier had 81 on the first dsy and
total of 49,
C. W. Hunt, of st. Andrews. was the
winner of the low net prize for thirty
SIN holes, with card of 193-50-143
". W. Pratt, F. Z. Church, f. A.
Wright. J. j. Smith, Colonel J. Smith
and ii. +. Smith were some Of the other
prize winners yesterday.