VOL. XY, NO. 11
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1912
FIVE CENTS
A PUTT ON THE EIGHTEENTH
Gardner Defeats Phillips in Keen Play
for the President's Trophy
Three Matches Require Nineteen
Holes and One Twenty In St.
Valentine's Tourney Finals
WHAT the preliminary
match rounds of the
eighth Annual St. Val
entine's Golf tourna
ment lacked in interest
they made up in Satur
day's finals. From first
to seventh division it
was a battle royal, one
match requiring twenty holes, three nine
teen, and only two ending short of the
fifteenth green. Naturally interest cen
tered in play for the President's cup be
tween Dr. C. II. Gardner of the Agawam
Hunt club and C. N. Phillips of the
Greenwich Country club, and there was
no disappointment from first drive to
last putt which Mr. Phillips should have
won to tie the score. The Rhode Islander
had a bit the best of it going out, turn
ing home two up and also winning the
tenth. A long putt halved the eleventh
in four for Dr. Gardner and the twelfth
was a halve in five. The thirteenth was
a win for Mr. Phillips while a long putt
halved the fourteenth for him and a four
the fifteenth. On the sixteenth with a
par four, Mr. Phillips again reduced the
lead, but he lost an opportunity in a
halved four on the seventeenth and made
a brilliant try on the decisive hole. Lying
on the green in two with his opponent
some distance beyond, it looked like an
easy win, but error in putting lost the
match in a halved five.
C. M. Fink of Dunwoodie and F. K.
Robeson of Oak Hill were going very
fast in the consolation, Mr. Robeson lead
ing one up at the turn only to lose the
tenth, 56. From that point it was a
zig-zag exchange to the eighteenth. Mr.
Robeson won the eleventh, 64, and Mr.
Fink the twelfth, 5 6. The thirteenth
was halved in four. Mr. Fink won the
fourteenth, 56, halved rho fifteenth in
four and gained a lead of two up on the
sixteenth, 56, losing the short seven
teenth, 2 3, and winning the eighteenth.
In his semi-final Dr. Gardner defeated,
C. L. Becker of Woodland, five and four ;
and in the second round, Herman Wen
dell of St. Davids, one up. In his first
round he made it possible for Mr. Fink
to win the consolation to the tune of six
and four. Mr. Phillips' seven and six
victory from Robert Hunter of Wee Burn
in the semi-final, and his three and two
win from B. T. Allen of Fox Hills in the
second round, were the surprises of the
week. In the first round he defeated
Joseph Curtiss of the Rochester Country
Club, three and two.
W. E. Truesdell of the Huntington
Country club won the second division
easily from Paul Starrett of Baltusrol,
six and five. In the consolation Prestley
S. Maclaughlin of Wykagyl won on the
nineteenth green from II. B. Davidson of
Columbia. In the third Harry C. Kayser
of Scarsdale defeated W. M. Weaver of
the Huntingdon Valley Country club,
three and one ; and F. A. Moore of Apa
wamis disposed of T. T. Rushmore of
Garden City, three and two.
S. O. Miller of Englevvood was victor
ious over E. B. Fay of Bellerieve in the
fourth division, two and one, and W. A.
upper half and Robert Lewis of the
Frankford Country club, C. T. Bloomer
of Oak Hill in the lower.
Full qualification scores and match
play summaries are printed upon pages
four and five of this issue.
YOUTI1FUJL GOIF EDITOR
Master W. W. C. thrift in Visits fine
burnt in Interest of Ills Mag-azine
Among the interesting visitors at The
Carolina is Master W. W. C. Griffin, ed
itor and proprietor of The Young Ameri
can Golfer, and about the brightest thing
in the youthful editorial line that has
come under our personal observation in
many a day.
Master Griffin is making a tour of
southern resorts in the interest of his
magazine and naturally he has included
Pinehurst in his itinerary, and will re-
THE PINEHURST HUNT
Engeman of Nassau disposed of J. A.
Gammons of Wannamoisett, three and one
in the consolation. Twenty holes were
necessary before J. H. Lippincott of At
lantic City got clear of George E. Truett
of the Washington Country club in the
fifth division, while in the consolation E.
M. Jones of the Philadelphia Cricket
club was four and three in his match
with G. E. Sykes of Hartford.
R. J. Clapp of the Highland club, Mer
iden, was three holes to the good in his
match with Willis R. Roberts of the Bala
Club, Philadelphia in the sixth division,
while in the consolation the home green
decided it in favor of W. Lane Verlenden
of Lansdowne in play with Dr. Robert
Strowbridge of Dunwoodie. And last
but by no means least, was the seventh
division with two nineteen-hole matches ;
H. II. Buckley of St. Andrews defeating
George M. Snow of Providence in the
main two weeks as the guest of Mr.
Leonard Tufts. Master Griffin who may
possibly be fourteen years old, with the
assistance of his two brothers, is the
whole magazine, from editorial staff to
working departments.
The little publication is five and a half
by seven and a half inches in size, the
January number containing twelve pages.
The subscription price is fifty cents and
it is with the aim of increasing this list
and the advertising representation that
the editor is "on the road."
In
Coif Club Team Wins
a bowling match on Tuesday,
teams consisting of Golf Club and Caro
lina employees, defeated a similar aggre
gation from The Carolina by a margin of
ten pins. The medal for the best three
strings went to Char!es H. Hymers.
VARIETY FOR FOX HUNTERS
Pursuit of Bunny Cottontail Adds to
Interest of Week's Sport
Ilejnard JLeads Merrj- Chase, Fools
the Pack, Ilut is Overtaken in
Thrilling- Slg-ht llace
SIR Reynard and Bi e'er
Rabbit were both given
a busy week by the fox
hunters, the pursuit of
bunny cottontail being
keenly enjoyed as a
novelty and most suc
cessful in results, four
teen being bagged on
the first hunt. As souvenirs, the hunters
are proudly displaying left hind feet,
satisfied that they are protected from
"hants" if from nothing else. In the
group were Mr. and Mrs. James T.
T witty, the Misses Reed, Miss Mundy
and Messrs. Putnam, Stevick, Mundy,
Telfer and Dr. Blackley. Rounding out
the day much the same group eojoyed
a rarebit supper at the Gun Club.
From start to finish the week's best
foxhunt was a merry chase, the day ideal
and the field a large one. Half a mile
from the Village a fresh trail was struck
which led by tortuous route, through
swamp and along the bank of a creek, to
distant cover where reynard was jumped
from warm bed near a sheltering log.
That his lead was not a long one was ap
parent in the straightaway trail and the
music of the pack, but presently he re
sorted to doubling, log hopping and fig
ure eights, taking advantage of the lead
gained to dash through swamp, double
back, lay a maze of tangles along its side
and swing free.
A furious pace it was for the hounds
had a card for every one reynard played,
gradually reducing the lead until the
race was almost a sight run, and the
music one mad medley. Again and again
the fox was seen as he darted from cover
to cover, muscles knotted and tongue out,
and the kill seemed imminent when the
music suddenly ended at the foot of a
tree. Uncle Nat was getting ready to
climb when Master Twitty suggested
it might be just as well to first locate the
fox which revealed the fact that the
clever chap had, without doubt, gone up
the tree, jumped and made off.
A good lead was thus gained,but swarm
ing like bees, the hounds soon picked up
the trail and with renewed vigor, van
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