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FEBRUARY 6, 1926
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Hotchkiss Leads the Qualifiers
By E. Ellsworth Giles
mHE twenty-second annual St. Valentine’s tournament,
which started on Monday last, brought out a field
of one hundred and fourteen players, all but nine of
whom returned cards in the qualifying round, which was an
increase of thirty over the entry of a year ago.
With old Sol back on the job and Boreas calm and subdued,
the day was quite ideal for scoring, and J. P. Hotchkiss, of
New Haven, and T. Russell Brown, of Mallets Bay, Vermont,
showed their appreciation of the conditions by going around
the No. 2 course in close to par figures.
Hotchkiss took the low score medal with a capital 74,
while Brown trailed the Medalist by three strokes, handing
in a card of 77.
Hotchkiss started like a house afire, reaching the turn in
34, two strokes under the difficult par, but then he dropped
four strokes to the arbitrary Colonel, coming in for a 40
total, and an aggregate of 74* good enough to distance the
field.
Hotchkiss and Brown were the only players in the big
field to break 80, although Donald Parson, the winner of the
recent Mid-January event, and Gardiner White, the Nassau
Country Club star, just down from New York, each had four
score strokes.
Only one stroke back of White and Parson came that bril
liant senior, Col. W. E. Truesdell, of Garden City, which gave
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him fifth place in the tournament, and proving afresh that
he can give away many, many years and still score with the
young men and boys.
SEVEN MEN REPEAT
Seven men who made the first division were also first
flighters in the Mid-January, viz: Hotchkiss, Brown, Parson,
Truesdell, Austin L. Sands, H. J. Blue and John D. Chap
man.
The top score to get a place in the first set was a tie at
90, the same as in the previous tournament.
Almost a stroke a hole separated the medalist from the
two last place men, H. J. Blue and the veteran Louis A. Ham
i Ion, Garden City, and yet Blue was in the final of the Mid
January against Parson.
Six qualifying strokes separated the sixteen players in the
second division, while there was only a difference of three
strokes between the high and the low man in the third flight.
As this is written the tournament has passed through the
first match rounds in all divisions.
Here is the medalist’s card:
J. P. Hotchkiss:
Out—4 4 3 4 4 4 2 5 4-34
In—5 5 4 5 4 4 4 4 5-40—70