The New York herald., 1922-07-07
J.T. ADAMS TAKES
ENGINEERS MEDAL
Leads Qualifying Round Over
Difficult Golf Course With
Card Of ~.
ny KERR N. PErRIB.

From away back in those early days
when casual molten lava still lay in
the bottoms of the first natural bunlsers
and Nature was starting to hoard her
treasures Of ore against the day that
would see midirons and mashie niblicks
invented man harbored good deal of
respect for any one by tho name of
Adam. There was something OF a re-
vivaI of interest in the old family
moniker when one OF the clan who has
tackled an "s'' to his name yesterday
came flying through the field In the
qualifying round Of the annual invita-
ton golf tournament of the Engineers
Country Club at Roslyn. L. l.. with a
card of II.
The man In the picture was J. T.
Adams Of Cherry Valley which has
7othing to do with the old apple orchard.
Icing quiet corner Of the Garden City
plain. where actually stymies are more
plentiful than cherries Adams has
played lot of golf the last few years,
but evidently had weighed the matter
long and carefully before deciding to
break out as a tournament leader.
Once. a year or two ago. when the
housing crisis was acute, j. T. did seem
to be in a fair way to make a splurge.
but that incipient golfing riot. was
nipped in the bud when some one ran
out and notified him that his house had
beeIf> sold over his head. He spent the
balance OF that day playing balls into
the Garden City pond.
G. w. White Takes 81.
But there were no troubles on the
head of the Cherry Valley man this
time. so he embraced the opportunity
to demonstrate what sort of golf is in
his system. Adams went out In 3S and
came back in 80, and the card was just
so good that 1t took the breath away.
Some idea of what Is meant Is had by
the fact that Gardiner White carded al,
"a, while Howard W. MAXWELL .Ir., the
Long Island champion ran his total up
to S5 and Donald Mcclellan Long Island
runner-up. got as high as SS.
An SO, then an 50 and finally an 81
did come in. but 1t was left for Frank
n. Hoyt of the home club to make
the only real challenge to Adams.
Driving for the home hole Hoyt wanted
ia to tie. He sliced his drive and fin
lShed with a D ZOE 10. sui II WAS "
great effort. Hoyt had come back
in 36
Those. who trailed Adams could see
that he was playing a mighty pretty
game Of golf. He had just one slip
as matter OF fact. that being at the
sixteenth. where he pulled his drive,
took to reach the edge Of the green
and more to hole out. Like Hoyt he
required for the home hole. His card:
Out ....5 a 3 3 , 5-3S
In .........3 4i4 . ) 5-39--t7
Next in line to Hoyt was w. l..
Richard OF the Engineers with an 81.
After Richard came Il. M. Barnes OF
Piping Rock at 81 and then Capt. Ii. II.
c. Tippet OF Meadow Brook at So. Car
diner White was next with his 81.
There was one score of 80 in the first
sixteen, which goes to prove that the
Engineers course is not getting any
easier than 1t used to be.
Contestants were surprised TO find
that two of the green's, the sixteenth
and eighteenth. had been sanded. This
was because Of the fact that the season
has retarded the growth Of the grass
in these two bosky dells. The greens
were so slippery that 1t was decided
to slow them up bit All the rest
Of the course was picture.