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VOL. XII, No. 18.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1909.
STANDISH IS THE CHAMPION
Wins Final Round in Championship
Golf from C. L. Becker.
Throughout Tournament Is Iteplete
With Keen Matched and Bril
liant PU7.
TAN DISH, James D.
Standish, Jr., is the
name which Thursday's
thirty-six hole final
round in the ninth An
nual United North and
South Amateur Golf Championship, em
blazons on the bronze tablet which
stands for the highest golf honor Pine
hurst can bestow, an honor for nine
years past sought by the country's best
known golfers, and which ranks first
among American golfing titles.
The climax of a week of brilliant golf,
the round between Mr. Standish and Mr.
Becker was a fitting end of a great
tournament, several hundred people fol
lowing the afternoon's play from start
to finish, with the interest of the crowd
about evenly divided between the vet
eran who has figured prominently in
leading events here for years past, and
whom all would have liked to see win,
and the lad of seventeen who for the
first time has stepped forward from the
ranks of the many into the company of
the few.
At the end of the morning round,
young Standish finished three up with a
medal score of seventy-five, and the gal
lery was. quick to forsee an exciting fin
ish. The news spread like wildfire
through the Village and the crowd be
gan to assemble long before the time
of play. Mr. Becker started strong, re
ducing his lead on the twentieth hole,
losing it again on the twenty-first with a
fast three for young Standish, only to
win again on the twenty-second and
twenty-third. Losing the twenty-fourth
and twenty-fifth, 3-4 and 0-7, the Wood
land player halved the twenty-sixth in
three, took the twenty-seventh, 3-4, and
made the turn two down. The next
hole was a win for the Detroit golfer
and from that point to the sixteenth
green, were alternate wins and loses,
young Standish winning the hole, 4-5,
and the match, three up and two to play ;
the bye holes being played for scores
which were approximated at seventy
nine and eighty.
The cards :
MR. STANDISH.
Out-5 4545363 4 39
In -4 4 4 5 5 3 4 3 4-36-75
Out-6 5 3 5 6 3 6 3 441
In 4 4 5 4 5 4 4 x x
MR. BECKER.
Out 4 4 4 5 4 4 8 2 3-38
In 3 7556444 54381
Out 5 5 4 4 5 4 7 3 340
In 5 6 4 5 4 3 5 x x
ABOUT YOUNG STANDISH.
The 1909 Champion is a lad of but
seventeen years and this is his first im
portant American victory, although for
two years past he has won the Austrian
Championship held at Carlsbad annually
in July. Throughout the week he has
been playing par golf, with scores rang
ing from seventy-eight to eighty. In
the semi-final round he defeated G.E.
Morse of Rutland, three up and two to
play ; in the second, J. D. Foot of Apa
wamis, three up and one to play; and in
the first, Henry C. Fownes of Oakmont.
home green. The semi-final round with
Harold Weber, the Ohio champion, was
four up and three to play, in Mr. Beck
er's favor ; the story of the final struggle
is told in the introduction.
OTHER KEEN MATCHES.
W. C. Fownes, Jr., of Oakmont, Will
iam T. West of the Philadelphia Country
club, and G.E.Morse of Rutland, figured
in keen play, Mr. Fownes defeating Mr.
West in the first round after an uphill
battle, the cards just below the eighties.
The Pittsburgher made the turn three
down, with a fast two on the ninth, win
ning the tenth to further reduce his lead,
halving the eleventh, and taking the
twelfth. Mr. West won the thirteenth,
fast threes on the next two holes mak
ing the score all even, the sixteenth
halved, Mr. Fownes gaining the lead on
the short seventeenth and winning the
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two up and one to play,
MR. BECKER THE STAR.
In the. face of defeat the bright and
particular star of the week was Mr.
Becker. With the defeat of Allan Lard
of Chevy Chase, former champion, in
the first round, he sprang into the lime
light and from that point on was the
center of interest during the entire week.
The match with Mr. Lard was an easy
victory which ended on the fifteenth
green, but the second round with Walter
Fairbanks, the Colorado champion, was
one of the week's most brilliant contests.
The score was all even at the turn, but
Mr. Becker lost the tenth, evening the
score on the eleventh, the next five holes
being halved in par golf, Mr. Becker
winning the short seventeenth on a long
putt ; and the match with a halve on the
match with a halved hole on the eigh
teenth. In the second round with Mr. Morse,
Mr. Fownes' again played a fast uphill
game, starting home, two down, evening
the score on the fourteenth and losing
the lead on the fifteenth ; Mr. Morse win
ning the sixteenth and seventeenth and
the match with a halved hole on the
eighteenth ; the medal scores eighty-one
and eighty-two.
The match between Mr. Fairbanks and
L. A. Hamilton of the Englewood club,
was also very close, the score all even at
the turn and the next three holes halved.
Mr. Fairbanks took the thirteenth,halved
the fourteenth and fifteenth ; Mr. Hamil
ton Winning the ,long sixteenth, 4 5,
halving the seventeenth in four: a
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
MISS FOWNES IS CHAMPION
Defeats Miss Check in Final Round,
Six Up and Five to Play.
field Evenlj Matched and Keen
JPlay Utile Throughout An
nual Women' Tourney.
ELDOM has the field in
the Women's Champion
ship been more evenly
matched, keen play rul
ing throughout, the
second and semi-final
rounds notable in that three of the
matches in the former were decided on
the home green and one required an
extra hole,and both matches in the
latter were won on the short seven
teenth. . .
In the final, Miss Mary Fownes of Oak
mont, met Miss Ethel Check of Engle
wood, Miss Fownes winning six up and
five to play. In the semi-final, Miss
Fownes won a close match from Mrs. E,
W. Alexander of Detroit, two up and
one to play ; her second round with Miss
Julia Mix of Englewood, the title
holder, decided on the . nineteenth
green. The contest was stroke for stroke
throughout, with the medal play scores
under ninety ; the pair all even at the
turn. Not until the sixteenth did Miss
Fownes gain the lead, Miss Mix halving
the seventeenth with a long putt, and
winning the eighteenth to tie the score,
Miss Fownes winning the bye hole and
the match, G-5. In the first round Miss
Fownes won from Miss Marguerite
Yuile of Westmont, five up and four to
play.
In the semi-final Miss Check won from
Miss Louise Elkins of the Pittsburg
Country club, two up and one to play ;
her second round with Mrs. Henry St.
John Smith of the Portland Country
club, which the home green decided, and
her first, with Miss Jessie Thayer of
Blue Mound, Wis., which she won five
up and three to play. Mrs. Alexander
McGregor of the Oakley Country club,
won a close match with Mrs. A.' S. Eos
sin of the Century Country club, losing
to Mrs. Alexander in the second round,
Mrs. McGregor was one down at the
turn, but evened the score on the tenth,
Mrs. Alexander winning the long six
teenth, the last two holes being halved
in tlnee and six.
Mrs. J. Raymond Price of Oakmont,
was the winner of the consolation, de
feating Mrs. llossin in the final round,
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