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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Aug 1931, p. 20

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N OR~TH Shore golfers bit the higli J~spots during the past week and the palm for playing the best round of golf goes, to, William Hartsho rne, professional at the Illinois Golf club. To say that Bill's record breaking 62, made over the difficpIlt Illinois co urse,1 is the best golf ever shot. might be ,uperlative praise for, so many different tbings' enter into such a statement, but bis round is unquestonably one* of the. best. Hart- shorne started wîth a birdie 3 on the 441-yard frst bole and be followed this with an, eagle 3 on the 480-yard second. Playing .with the- larger- and-lighter, ball it was sometbing of a feat to reaàch a green '480 .yards waintwo strokes and to finish the. hebyrunning down a good putt is sometb. Y to dream of, The third bole meastires '550 :Yards andBill holed. out. in .4.for another birdie,. The next two hâles be played ini par and then came a beautiful drive followed by a cbip and a putt. on the 283 yard sixtb. 'Witb -another birdie ini his bag, Bill just breezed through the ast tbree hohes in par and bis card sbowed 31 strokes at the turn. Coming. in Hartsborpe scored a birdie 4 on the 475-yard tentb and shot par on the next two boles. Then came a birdie 3 on the 287-yard tbir- teentb and a par 4 on the fourteentb. A beautifjil pitch and.one putt gave Bill a birdie 2 on the 155-yard fif- tienh and he Lyot 2fither hfrdieonu established a new record for the Illi- nois course. Here is -a round of' golfý with every hohe played in par or bet- ter and he scored seven birdies and one cagle. Try and match. it. sonie- time. The' card fohilows: Hartshorfle out ..........33 4 4 3-4 43-31. Par--out .....4 5 54 34 443---76 Hartshon- In l..........4 34 34 2 344-31-62 Par-in,.......5 3 4443 34 4-36-71. ioveriook the play of the above 1golfers in writing of the eighteeni- 1 hole events. Jord. Win Bill Jordan shotý a fine 81 -to win the first low gross prz- o h rnorning round and lhe. fiiished offly a, stroke ahead of W. D. FoWler of Winnetka., Robert L. [asater Won ithe third low gr oss trophy with, an 86. i.ow net for the morning 'round event 'went to A. S. Graven of- Win- netka, who scored 91-19-72. 1. L. Wise also had., a net of 72 but bis higher 1h andicap gàve him second p)lace. Jack Gates finished third ýwith 88-13-75. "Hi" Fargo, of Edgewater, shot an 85 ini the afternooni and tbis won the first low gross prize. 'Harry WVolf, o6f Wilmiette, and J. P. Norling, of the homie.club), tied for second place with a card of 87. Hary won the (lraw. Three players tied for the îow niet prizes inI the aftèrnoon anid the trol)hies were awarde d accordiing to the player's handicaps. F. 'M. -reen, 89-14-75; Raleigh, Warner, 92-17-75, and Poster Harion, 93-18-75. The winning Iow niet foursorne was composed of fH. Applegrin, C. E1. Jenkins. ll Ir*. Dleiiig anid B. Wat- soni, net total of 609. Tlhe second foursonie l)rize weflt to W.1-H. W'ard. \V. H. Bergeii. H. Andersdin and Clyde Warnier, total 626. And third place ivas. won hby Fraiik Snow; M. (G. Henderson. 1, L. Wise and ing 20() or an average of 133 for bis. first tournamnent. No fluer day for golf ivas ever experienced and this vear's Silver% Tassel was unanimously voted the b)est 2tourinment ever heldý at Nortb hoe TEE TATTLE Heard back. of the first tee at North Shore during the Silver Tas- sel tournament: "They call this bal a "Crowflight," but -ain y crow is. nuts tliat flues like afew strokes behind Miss Armn- strong in these events and at KnolIm- wood the clever, Scotch Lassie shot a beautifu1 81 to lead the field on the miost difficult .oursetheimatches. have been played over.. There was a big turnout for the final match and the contestants found. the. Knollwood course 1a: real test, of golf. Most of th e field, played wel but the out- standing feature was Miss MacMor- ran's. 81 and two fine cards- of 85 by Miss Rena Nelson of. Exmoor, and Miss Virginia. Ingram of- Sunset Ridge. Miss Nelson wras hitting the bail beautifully1 and ber* 40 on- the first nine hloles was a stroke better than Miss-MacMorran's 41, but the, Scotcb Lassie was tte steadier and br81 was.Wonderful golf. The final standing of tbe various teams bas, not been figured, out, but Indian Hilli leads by a comfô)rtable çaargin with1' the Evanston team ini second place.j COUCH LUCKY "Off again, On again, Goixe again,' Finnigan" applies te, Ira L,.-Cou ch, of Glen Viem-. Ira's car and a car driven by, soldiers crasl.ed iwhen Ira> was,re- turning f rom the .Knoýllwcod tourna- inent. Botb cars were wrecked an& the occupants were treated for minor injuries at a local hospital. In the meantime Ira's expensive set of golf clubs myvsteriously vanished. Later they were just as hiysteriously re- turned. This proves that soine of' our ligbt fingeýred gentry are reai -sportsmen and we hope that Ira wilI repeat bis par breaking 146 in theL :oming National Amateur Zh~ampion-' Ship. WILLITSHAS:CLASS J. McGreagor Willits, of Higbland Park, bas a real golf game and the *writer' is convinced that "Mac" golfs for business and selîs cars for fun. He'd have to be a money shooter to MRS. McKAY WINS TITLE Mrs. Robert G. McKay, of Wil- mette. is t 'he new women's champion of the* Westmoreland Country club. ýMrs. McKay Played nic golf in the tbree medal play rounds wbich com- prised the .cbampioniship. route ý and her total of 2.97 for the fifty-fu holes, led' ber niear est ýcompetitor by: .nineteen strokes., Mrs..Harry 1. Allen, of Evanston,, won the Ciass B cbampionsbip witb, à, total of 317.and -Mrs. A. J. Lind- stromn, of the samne city, is the Class D champion. Tbe Westmoreland women -are good golfers and they thoroughly enjoy their club, events. MIXED GOLF Twenity teams entered for tbe: Huslhand and WýNife tourniament at Sunset Ridge and Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Goodman, of H-ubbard Woods,. proved as congenial a teèam on the golf course as they are off. They returned a card of 182-8-1,74. Tbeyý really. won both the low gross and îow net tropbies but chose, the low net prize and, lo'w gros's went to Mr.' and MVrs.' Fred D., Combs, of Win- ne'tka. Mr. and Mrs. A. D; Hermfa-n,. of the samne City, won thesecond Iow gross prize with 192 and the second Iow net :prize was won by Mr.,, and Mrs. W. E. Saverly. KAVANAGH lIAS A 73 NET B. J. Kavanagh, of Wilniette, finished among the prize wiixners at the Illinois Countty club witb a card wbhicb read 99-264'3 and be was " 011Y three, strokes be4ind the winner of first place. ]KENILWORTH TQURNEY .The 'Keni lworth club will ý holà its fifth annual golf tournament Friday,. September 11, at Sunset Ridge. Trhe tournament is open to ail Kenilworth golfers', whether members of the club or flot._Herbert W. Bartling is chair- BOYS low net prize for thirty -six boles new woman's recQrd for the course vent .to C. il. jenkins, of the home, and we give ber a good chance to ýclub, with. 179-32-147. . Under the, win the: Women's Western. titie at1 rotes of the tournaSent: no player Exinoor. 0111d vin. two prizes *11w wl Miss HelenMacMorran *as only, ,t Shor ..7................. 116 >O'Link ................... 112 ri View..................... 111 ista.....................0m% niette ........................... 9 tmoreland .........1........... 94%, .atn8s- . *. . . .1w o ...... 8 ... . . .. . .1 5.. . . .. North shore boys made a fine showing in the recent Western Junior championship at Midhothian. Alfred Favehhi, of Lake Shore, quahi- lie wih a76-. Jimmày Harrison, of Exmoor, shot a 77. Eddie Blonsten, of Mission* Hills, scored a78M Johp (Contiuued on Page 29). 'I

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