VOL. XIII, No. 8.
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1910.
FIVE CENTS
SPECTACULAR FINAL ROUND
J. P. Gardner of Midlothian Wins
Advertising Golf tfonrnament.
SPECTACULAR nine
teen hole match between
J. P. Gardner of Mid
lothian, and J. P. Knapp
of Garden City, winner
of last year's contest,
concluded the annual Advertising Golf
Tournament Saturday, the Midlothian
player winning the last hole with a long
Kuapp won the eleventh, halved the
twelvth, won the thirteeith with a bogey
three, won the fourteenth with a par four,
and halved the next three holes, Mr.
Gardner saving the match with a win on
the eighteenth in a par five to six of his
opponent, tying the score. Mr. Knapp
had the honor on the extra hole and out
drove Mr. Gardner, placing his second
shot well up, but he missed his third, and
fell eighteen feet short on his approach.
Mr. Gardner was short on his second,
some hundred yards away from the
green, covering only half of this di&tance
on his third, but he laid his fourth with
in eight feet of the hole and ran down
the putt, Mr. Knapp losing his putt and
the match.
and in the first round, William C. Free
man of Montclair, one up.
G. II. Barnes of Garden City, won the
first division consolation final from Mr.
Freeman, three up and two to play. Mr.
Hamilton won the second consolation or
defeated four, from Mr. Hazen on the
ninteenth green; Mr. Purves the third
or defeated two, from Maj. Morrow, by
one up.
W. L. Crocker of Brae Burn, won the
second division from W. G. Thomas of
Glen Ridge, three up and two to play;
E. J. Ridge way the first consolation, Z.
T. Miller of Dunwoodie, 'second, and W.
T. Stern of St. Andrews, the third. W.
J. McDonald of Midlothian, won the
third division from Henry McSweeney
POP-POP POP-POP-POP!
Fast Work Characterizes Opening Day
of tie Midwinter Handicap.
OP-POP pop-pop-pop !"
it has been the week
through at the trap
shooting grounds where
hundreds have gathered
to watch, fascinated, the
flying targets vanish in clouds of purple
dust, for like the two events which have
preceded it, the third annual Midwinter
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A FEW OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE ADVERTISING GOLF TOURNAMENT MR. GARDNER, THE WINNER, IS HOLDING A NEWSPAPER.
putt for a five, which the Garden City
player failed to duplicate. The unusual
features were the running down of a
twenty-five foot putt for a three on the
third or bogey five hole and the laying
dead of'an approach for a three on the
fourth or bogey four hole by Mr. Gard
ner, and the holing of a one hundred yard
approach on the fifth by Mr. Knapp, lay
ing the ball dead to the hole from a
bunker seventy-five yards away on
the seventh, and the holing of a
thirty-five yard approach on the thir
teenth. Mr. Gardner had the best of it going
out being two up at the turn, after los
ing the seventh and eighth and halving
the ninth. The tenth was halved, Mr.
The cards :
MR. GARDNER
Out-6 5 3 3 4 4 8 5
In 5 6 5 4 7 4 6 4
MR. KNAPP
3-41
5-46-4187
Out 6 7 4 4 5 4 6 4 3-43
Iu 5 5 5 3 4 4 6 4 6-4243-85
In the semi-final Mr. Gardner defeated
Maj. J. J. Morrow of Columbia, seven up
and six to play, in the second round L.
A. Hamilton of Englewood, five up and
four to play, and in the first round
Charles Presbrey of Fox Hills, five up
and three to play. Mr. Knapp's semi
final was with R. M. Purves of Wood
land, whom he defeated three up and two
to play. In the second he defeated John
J. Hazen of Fox Hills, by the same score
of Oil City, on the nineteenth green ; II.
W. Ormsbee of Alpine, the first consola
tion, II. J. Allyn of Hartford, the second
and S. Keith Evans of Knollwood, the
third. S. L. Allen of Atlantic City, won
the fourth division from E. A. Johnston
of Columbia Country Club, three up and
two to play; J. L. Given of Baltusrol.
the first consolation, G. H. Williams of
Hackensacky the second, and C. M.
Briezse of Wykagyl, the third.
A. D. Chandler of Baltusrol, won the
fifth division from J.C. Piatt of Mont
clair, five up and four to play, W. P.
Finney of Moorestown, the first consola
tion, J. H. Eggers of Canoebrook, the
second, and H. L. Jones of Dunwoodie,
( Concluded on Page 7)
Tournament has started out a winner.
In' the big field the leading ama
teurs and experts of the country are
fighting it out on the firing line and
seldom has prettier work been seen here
than that which characterized the open
ing event in the program, Wednesday's
two hundred target race shot in twenty
target sweeptakes. Its special features
were a tie between P. II. Powel of New
port, and Charles Nuchols of Charlotte,
at one hundred and eighty-eight each,
and the brilliant work of Professional
George L. Lyon who scored one hundred
and ninety-eight missing only his eighty
second and eighty-ninth targets, and
rounding out an unfinished run of one
(Concluded on Page 6)