VOL. XI, No. 19.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL FOURTH, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LARD TWICE CHAMPION
Columbia Golfer Wins Coveted Title in
Final Round With J. E. Porter.
Xlgrhth Annual Inited North and South
Golf Tournament Provides Bril
liant Play Throughout.
W1CE champion was the
coveted title which Allan
Lard of the Columbia
Golf Club, Washington,
won in the final round of
the eighth annual United
North and South Amateur Championship
Golf Tournament, Thursday; a title
which now exists for the first time in
the history of these tournaments. All vp I
'Twas a hard fought battle from first
to last, and no trophy ever won here is
significant of keener golf or a more even
ly matched field. Throughout the entire
week eight scores and lower were the
rule in the Championship division, with
the seventeenth and home greens wit
nessing the finish of the majority of the
contests. Jn other divisions play was
equally close, with enough grim-visaged
couples on the first tee starting on the
play-oil', to keep the Country Club gal
lery on edge.
Here's to "Goi.k and Pinkiiukst," the
toast that's heard 'round the world!
T1IK FJNAL KOUND.
Mr. Lard's thirty-six-hole final round
was with .John E. Porter of the Alle
gheny Country Club, whose brilliant
rounds were the feature of the week,
whom he ' defeated live up and four to
play in a match much closer than the
score indicates. The Champion had the
best of the morning round, finishing
three up at noon; but Mr. Porter rallied
in the afternoon, reducing the score to
one down on the twenty-fourth green ;
Mr. Lard taking the next four holes and
making the turn four up. Coming in Mr.
Porter could do no better than a win on
the twenty-eighth, and halves on the
twenty-ninth and thirtieth; the Cham
pion taking the thirty-first and thirty
second holes for the match.
The feature of the round was Mr.
Lard's deadly approaching and the long
game of both players, but Mr. Porter
was not in form on the greens.
LARD FOOT.
The match of the week was the Cham
pion's twenty-three hole battle with J.
1). Foot, the Apawamis veteran, which,
for spectacular play, brilliant recoveries,
and uncertainty of the final outcome,
ranks with the keenest "matches ever
played here. Both were playing at the
eighty pace and during the entire match
there was not a time when a poor stroke
did not mean the loss of the hole.
Mr. Lard had the best of it up to the
fifteenth green at which point he had
the Apawamis player dormie three, but
Mr. Foot took the last three holes to
even the match on the home green. The
nineteenth green was halved in par
his ball dead and the. Columbia player
running down a twelve foot putt for a
halve.
Mr. Foot's drive on the twenty-first
made the trap at the right of the green
and Mr. Lard's, the railroad cut, from
which the latter made a brilliant recovery
of what seemed an almost impossible
shot. Mr. Foot got well out, but over
the green on his second, and the hole
was halved with two putts for each.
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figures, stroke for stroke, a brilliant re
covery of a slice by Mr. Foot being the
feature.
Both players got drives well down the
center on the twentieth, Mr. Foot mak
ing the trap at the right of the green on
his second, and Mr. Lard, the pit in front
of it, a pretty cleeck shot failing to reach
the green by the narrowest kind of a
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margin. JVir. root got wen out, jjji.
Lard over-tipproaching; Mr. Foot laying
long and straight down the course, Mr.
Lard having a bit the best of it on the
approach, his putt for a win hanging on
the lip of the cup, a halve resulting.
The trap at the right of the green
caught both drives on the twenty-third,
the balls lying barely six feet apart, but
Mr. Lard made the green on his fine re
covery, Mr. Foot losing a stroke which
cost him the hole and the match.
(Concluded on page 2)
Defeats Miss Adams and Mrs. Chase in
Exciting Extra Hole Matches.
Plaj in Women' Championship Tour
nament U Keenest in IlUtory
of Theae Annual Events.
HE women's event in the
Championship tourna
ment developed the keen
est matches in the history
of these contests, Miss
Julia E. Mix of Engle-
wood, runner-up in last year's Metropoli
tan Championship, carrying off the
Championship trophy after a series of
interesting matches, two of which re
quired extra holes.
Miss Mix' first opponent was Miss
Mary B. Adams of the Oakley Country
Club, winner of the championship last
year, and an uphill battle was the result,
which the nineteenth green decided.
Miss Adams won the first hole, Miss Mix
evening the score on the third green,
gaining a lead on the sixth, but losing it
on the seventh, halving the eighth, losing
the ninth and starting home one down.
The first three holes were halved, Miss
Adams making her lead two up on the
thirteenth, 3Iiss Mix taking the four
teenth hole, halving the fifteenth and
sixteenth, and winning the short seven
teenth with a par three to tie the score,
failing to make the last hole with two
putts for a win, the end coming on the
nineteenth, which Miss Mix won with a
twenty-foot putt.
The cards :
MISS MIX.
Out 6 4 4 5 5 5 6 4 544
In 5 4556503 645-89
Bye 5
MISS ADAMS.
Out 5 4 5 5 5 6 5 4 443
In 5 4 5 4 7 6 6 4 64689
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In the semi-final round Miss Mix de
feated Mrs. William West of Camden,
two and one, the climax coming in the
final round with Mrs. Allan Perley
Chase of the Oakley Country Club, who,
as Mary C. Dutton, won the champion
ship two years ago. From start to finish
the match was nip and tuck, with the
outcome uncertain until the last putt
had been holed.
Miss Mix took the first two holes, the
third hole being halved, Mrs. Chase win
ning the fourth, fifth and sixth, halving
the seventh, losing the eighth and win
( Concluded on page 12)