The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-14

treat course or plain something else.
But for this and that not one but
several dozen players would have
been leading the field at the end Of
The round. There were several who
had the field beaten to the wide world
until they played the last hole or two.
/, For a hole or two makes a terrible
difference sometimes in the play over
the Long Beach sand dunes
There was Jim Maiden OF Nassau. for
instance, who was out I'm IS and who
fhen finished at 80. due to an and s
Keeping into his card toward the finish.
Marty OLaughlin of Plainfield was
calling himself regular Jess Sweetser
| for the first thirteen or fourteen holes
and then hard names the balance Of the
} way in.
Arthur Reid did not know whether he
was himself or his brother wilfrid I'm
til he started to come home. and Jack
Bowling of the Engineers declares he
Is going out again to-day as far as the
ninth more by way of seeing what the
going is like on the fairway side Of the
bewhiskered dunes than any desire he
has to keep some deserving young fell
low from winning a championship.
jack Mackie Sets Record.
Any number had score In the thir-
ties going out and something nearer the
fifties coming back. and occasionally the
reverse was the case. AS Jack Mackie
remarked to Joe Mitchell when the
former beat by two the latters high
total of ten strokes for the fourth hole
there is only one thing to do at Lido
when old man Hard Luck Is sending In
his singing jabs and hooks. That Is to
or even a double figure hole may
pounce out upon the best of them at any
stage Of the journey.
And speaking Of adversely overcome
there was one hardy explorer, M.
Colombo OF Pelham Bay. setting sail
from the first tee yesterday. who almost
turned back with the goal OF success
just across the horizon. This entrant
set record for composite score of en-
durance, perseverance and brilliance.
nine 1t Is safe to assume that GER
tain caddie boy had lost his taste for
adventure. However, with a fortitude
worthy of higher cause than the dis
covery OF the faIrway the player kept
bravely on his way and later on had
the satisfaction of coming into port
with a magnificent 50 to his credit for
the second nine holes.
Gene SarnEen Takes "a.
Even Gene Sarazen. the national and
professional champion, could sey no
more than that he had had a beautiful
day among the seagrass. Gene took
three puts on seven green's. and with
a few more odds and ends Of adven-
ture to complete the catalogue finished
up the round with n card of "a. Sarazen
had played the course only once be-
fore yesterday, and because Of his re-
missness he will have 20 start ten
strokes behind the leader. Jimmy Cros-
son of Wheatley Hills, this morning
and will have to give whole host OF
others all the way from few shots
to eight.
Among those who are eight ahead of
the double crowned champion are
George Kerrigan OF White Beeches, the
Massachusetts State open title holder :
Willie Ogg. last years Shawnee WIN
ner: Johnny Farrell. who annexed chief
money at Shawnee this year. and Marty
O'Loughlin Of Plainficld. New Jersey
title holder.
Jim Barnes OF Pelham is one OF five
in the rs column, and Tom Kerrigan
Of Siwanoy and Willie Macfarlane OF
Oak Ridge Turk amid mass OF 7ss.
Pat O'Hara, the North and South title
holder. finished at 80 and had to do
81 homeward to achieve that distinction.
Crossan played remarkable round.
Not once during the eighteen holes was
he over 5. He may have had slight
advantage in that he played before the
wind had attained much force. but even
on a calm day "a is quite an achieve
ment at Lido. His card was compiled
as follows:
4a'. Ss So
Farrell Ia Well Up.
Johnny Farrell had pair of 2s--at
the third and at the fourteenth--to aid
him, while a string of seven consecutive
As beginning at the tenth. was feature
of the card OF George Kerrigan
AS for Marty O'Loughlin, he simply
ate UP the course for the first eight
holes and would have been out In an
amazing 33 had he not misjudged the
speed OF the green with his approach
for the ninth. His ball overran into
bunker and he marked up s for the hole
Starting with 3 and then pair OF
par 4s the Plainfield man seemed to be
headed for the leading card. but he lost
a stroke at each of the thirteenth. four
teenth. fifteenth and sixteenth. Then.
due to a bunkered drive. he ran up
on the seventeenth.
Jim Barnes had 7 on the fourth
but otherwise suffered no hardships. He
was out in 40 and back In 3S. His part
ner. Fred Canausa OF West Point. had
two Is and two 2s.
Another feature was the string OF four
consecutive 3s scored from the thirteenth
TO the sixteenth by Capt. Tippstt Of
Meadow Brook