The New York herald., 1922-07-21
F.S. DOUGLAS HAS
LOW MEDAL RETURN
Leads Qualifying Round of
Rockaway Hunting Club Golf
Meet With ~.
ny KERR N. PETRIE.
Several golfers who thought they X

Several golfers who thought they knew
all the honest to goodness courses
around the metropolitan district were
forced to admit their mistake yesterday
after tourneying over to Cedarhurst,
L. l., and participating in the qualify
ing round of the first invitation tourna-
ment staged by the Rockaway Hunting
Club. Until about three years ago the
Rockaway Hunting Club members were
more interested in polo and tennis than
in golf. Then they called IN D-vereux
Emmett. the we'll known links arcAi,ect,
who added nine holes more to their cir
cult and gave them a circuit OF which
they can be proud.
There were more than eighty players
in the field yesterday and In the entry
list were many stars Despite this only
one score of better than so was returned
Findlay S. Douglas. president of the
Metropolitan Golf Association and for
mer national champion, playing around
In a and winning the prize by a margin
of three strokes, Leon Albeit. Jr.. of
Nassau. A. +. Thompson. Garden City
Country Club, and L. C. Knapp OF West
brook were the players next in line for
a three cornered tie at so.
The Rockaway Hunting Club course
measures 6.306 yards and calls for golf
all-the way. 1t has at least two won
derful water holes, where the player has
to wallop the ball over a channel more
than one hundred yards wide. This
water shot confronts the player at the
thirteenth and again at the fifteenth.
At the former the fairway runs of at
slant and SO the golfer sometimes
finds himself nipping Off about $50 yards
of water shot. The sixteenth Is a
straightaway shot of 1913 yards Need
less to say the bottom OF the channel at
this point is carpeted with rubber cores.
Course IL Hard One.
Save at Lido. It is doubtful II there IS
any other course around where a 7 Is so
liable to pounce out at the player. The
water holes have lot to do with this.
and then ther, are tall reeds into which
contestant may suddenly plunge with
a hook or a slice.
Douglas went out In 80 and came
homo In 3S, and he did not have a In
his card In the afternoon he played
around with Archie NJ. Reid Of st. An
drew's, and this time the former cham
pion carded rs. Reid, however, had to
be satisfied with an 81 as his qualifying
score and this Notwithstanding the fact
that he went out in 39 Coming home
the st. Andrews representative began
with a 4, but he ran into at the
ele zenith and finished with a 6.
The difficulty of finding birdie on
ths Rockaway Hunting Club links was
disclosed by close scrutiny Of the card
Of Douglas. Outgoing the Apawamis
star was only three strokes over par
and he vas but one shot above the par
mark coming back. Nevertheless. II
was not until the last hole of the round
that he actually got under par. His
card:
Out ...........5 6 4 5 3 4 4 $50.
In .............. 4-3s-II
Howard w. Maxwell. Jr.. the Long
Island champion. found so much trouble
that he decided to tear up his card
Gardiner w. White. the former metro
politan champion, went out In Al ant
then took AZ more to come back. finish
ing In tie for the last places In tho
first sixteen. White had for each Of
the third and eighteenth. He also hat
6s at the fifth, twelfth and sixteenth.
Freak scores there were innumerable
r. N. l.. Church OF Nassau showed one
OF these by going out in IS and ther
taking AZ to come back. He failed x
make the first sixteen by one stroke. al
though at the turn he had even been II
line for the medal. The Nassau maj
had two Is and pair OF IS cominl
home.