The New York herald., 1922-01-10
ENGLEWOOD GOLFER
RETURNS LOW NET
James Barber Makes His Rec
ord Card in 'Ad' Mems
Tourney.
GROSS FOR BOSTON STAR
r. M. Purves Leads Large Field
i'm Qualifying With
Total of 70.

Special Dispatch to THE NEw YORK HERALD
PINEHURsr. N. C.. Jan. 9.-James
Barber of Englewood has played hun
dreds of rounds OF golf over the No. 2
course here. but he saved his best one
for to-day. when he participated in the
qualifying round of the Winter Golf
League Of Advertising Interests. and
81. This is the lowest score he has
made on the course.
r. Murray Purves OF the Woodland
Club. Boston. did as expected when he
won the low gross with a card OF
s7-4e, 70. He was the only player to
break so, and but two others broke 80.
Ernes. Manson OF Framingham,
Mass. had the second best gross. an IS.
and W. e. Conklin, Dunwoodie, was
third with SS. 1t required a score of
100 or better to make the first 80. and
those with 101 to Ill made the second
division.
Weather conditions were excellent to-
day. Last year the advertising men
played the qualifying round in a cold
blast of wind which chilled them so they
were unable to score well and they sub
mitted this as an excuse for not making
better collective showing on the score
board. They were about as bad to-day,
but have not yet published the associa-
tion alibi.
George w. Stearns of st. Adams ap-
peared to have to-day's net prize tucked
away when he returned with an even
100 gross. His handicap of 80 gave him
a 20 net. This surprise caused much
comment around the score sheet. and
Willie Wilson. who is in charge of the
handicaps. received many hard looks.
He was kept busy explaining that Mr..
Stearns had taken 11S gross on Satur-
day. which accounted for his large
handicap to-day.
There was tie for third net between
II. V. II. Proskey. North Hampstead.
eo-1s, 72. and Elliot Moore. North Fork.
91-19. 70. E. ]. Barber. Englewood.
was fifth with 92-18, "A.
Sons Have a Bad Time.
These results show that James Barber
beat his sons gross score by two shots
Another feature was furnish~ o. Mrs.
J. Ii Wright St Adams. whs playing
ia ito Qualifying round of tho women's
tournament teat the rd Of her son.
Il. III. Wright by two 81 oKes.
There wers sev6rtys six starters and
ever. man turned IN cart lone of
tho scores were high and the players
were nor eaysr 20 give the cgures pub
licity However. uhoy wished TO o tain
some classification f,r the matcf play
whi.i will start tomorrow.
Purves, one of the leading medal play
crs In Massachusetts. led the field by
six shots. He played his usual steady
golf save at the tenth, eleventh. twelfth
and thirteenth green's. where he took
three puts. His card:
Out Observation-Disclosures. 554 44S 543-3I
In OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 55J 5C4 435-42-I9
MeS>bers of the regular Pinehurst COL
ony obtained much amusement when It
was learned that one OF their number.
J. r. Bowker OF Woodland, could not
qualify for membership in the Advertis-
ing League. Mr.. Bowker played Satur-
day and won a prize and was all set
for to-day, but following a meeting of
the board of directors 1t was intimated
that his application for membership had
not been in long enough to allow him to
play this year.