VOL. XV, NO. 15
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1912
FIVE CENTS
I, S. ROBESON THE
Eighth Annual Spring Golf Tournament
Ranks First and Foremost
CTAD jteenth tee. Both players got good drives
the ball dead, winning for Mr. Robeson
for the trap at the left of the green cost
Mr. Travis the hole and the match. The
cards tell the story :
Thirty-Nix. Hole Qualification Tie,
Itecord Entrance, and 10-Hole
Defeat of Travi Its Features
FROM THE standpoint
of the unique, the eighth
Annual Spring golf tour
nament ranks first and
foremost in the history
of the Village. Opening
with a record entrance
of two hundred and thirty-one
players divided
upon two of the three eighteen hole
courses, and a spectacular qualification
tie between Walter J. Travis, former Am
erican and British champion, and Dr. C.
II. Gardner of the Agawam Hunt Club,
Providence, who stepped into the lime
light as winner of the St. Valentine's
tournament, the contest at once claimed
international attention. Throughout
match play also, the event was sensation
al, interest aroused through the defeat
of Mr. Travis by Irving S. Robeson of
the Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester,
and culminating in Mr. Robeson's win in
the final round, from C. N. Phillips of
the Greenwich Country Club. Naturally,
Mr. Robeson was decidedly the bright and
particular star of the week, especially in
view of the fact that he made the first div
ision on a quadruple tie play-oft in qualifi
cation. In the first and second round his
wins of 2 up from A. A. Stagg, of Chi
cago University, and 5 and 4 from C. M.
Fink of Dunwoodie, attracted little at
tention, but when he turned back to the
Club house victorious in his semi-final
match with Mr. Travis, Pinehurst and
the golfing world at large a few hours
later, realized that a new star had risen
and one the Village claims as its own.
As to the match itself it was one of the
fastest of the winter, from start to finish
uncertain in its outcome, with exciting
moments when Mr. Robeson won the
sixth, 2 3, and Mr. Travis saved the
ninth with a halved 3, by negotiating
an apparently impossible stymie with
an "English" putt. Advancing to the
eighteenth green, 1 up, Mr. Robeson
needed only a halve to win the match,
but he lost a stroke with a poor approach
and the Garden City player tied the score
with a 45 win. And not since golf
poked its nose above the sand here has a
tenser gallery lined up back of the nine-
Rooeson 5 5 5 5 6 2 6 4 3 41
Travis 4 3654374 339
Robeson 5 5 4 5 4 3 4 4 539- 80
Travis 5 5454453 43978
Robeson 4 ,
Travis 5
Mr. Robesons final with Mr. Phillips
was very fast, sa 3 on the eighteenth
green giving him the match by 2 up, the
within twelve feet of the pinand running
down his putt, while Mr. Phillips lost an
opportunity to tie by making the pit
guarding th green. The cards :
Robe3on 5
Phillips --5
Robeson 4
Phillips 4
3- 42
4 41
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Mr. Phillips advanced to the final on a
2 and 1 win from E. L. Scofield, Jr., of
Wee Burn whose defeat of Dr. Gardner
in the second round, was the surprise of
the tournament. In his second round he
won a brilliant nineteer-hole match from
B. T. Allen of Fox Hills after being 1
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medal score seventy-eight to eighty, with
ten of the holes halved. At the turn Mr.
Robeson was one down, winning the
ninth, 3 4, to reduce a lead which Mr.
Phillips had gained on the second and
eighth holes. Fours and fives halved the
tenth and eleventh, Mr. Robeson squar
ing the match, 56, on the twelfth, halv
ing the thirteenth in 4. Gaining
the lead on the fourteenth with a 4, he
lost it on the fifteenth to a 3, won the
sixteenth in a 4, halved the seven
teenth in 3, and the eighteenth in 3,which
is two under bogy, laying his approach
down at the turn. In his first round he
made it possible for Chisholm Beach, a
club mate of Mr. Allen's, to win the con
solation to the tune of 4 and 3.
Mr. Beach met C. L. Becker of Wood
land in the final of the consolation, his
3 and 2 win by no means as easy as the
score indicates. Going out in forty to
forty-five for his opponent, the Fox Hills
player was 3 up at the turn, losing the
ninth, 4 3. The tenth was halved in 5,
Mr. Becker won the eleventh in 4,
but lost the twelfth in the same figure ;
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SECOND ANNUAL DINNER
Tin Whistle Club Members Eat, Drink
and Are Merry at The Carolina
"
Mudlc, Song-a and Toast Hound Out
Program at Annual It union
of Go fern
THE SECOND annual
Tin Whistle dinner at
The Carolina passes into
history as an evening
happily spent and a
pleasant prophesy for
the future, characterized
as it was by mirth, good
fellowship and good
cheer. Once again friendships were re
newed, once again new acquaintances
formed ; recollections which will linger
throughout the year.
Elaborately planned and carried out on
the same general scale as previously, the
affair was in the nature of a reunion, its
jolliest feature songs under the direction
of Mr. James D. Foot assisted by a quar
tet including Messrs. N. S. Hurd, J. V.
Hurd, W. S. Dillon and C. M. Fink.
There were also the usual souvenirs in
the form of a Club pin, carnation bouton
niere, a booklet containing the verse read
by Mr. William L. Hurd last season, and
a cardboard menu in whistle form with
the good things as dainty as the menu
itself :
Blue Points
Clear Green Turtle
Celery
Olives
Planked Shad, Potato Straws
Iced Cucumbers
Fillet of Beef, Fresh Mushrooms
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Green Peas
Roman Punch
Virginia Ham, Champagne Sauce
Tomato Mayonnaise
Chocolate Parfalt Fancy Cakes
Strawberries
Toasted Crackers Cheese
Coffee
La Marquise Cigarettes
Compliments Butler-Butler Co.
Arranged in the form of a U, the tables
extended down either side of the dining
hall, the guests at the head, the mem
bers upon either side, and the music at
the foot. Presiding was Vice-President
Henry C. Fownes with Mr. Leonard
Tufts at his right. Others at the board
Included :
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