VOL. XVII, NO. 5
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1914
FIVE CENTS
B. P. MERMAN THE WINNER
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INTEREST in the tenth
annual Holiday week
golf tournament cul
minated in Wednesday
afternoon's final for the
President's trophy and
brilliant play between
by B. P. Meniman of
Waterbury and II. V.
Seggerman of Englewood which the home
green decided in favor of the former Con
necticut champion. Going out in fast
thirty-nines, Men iman winning the third
and fourth holes and Seggerman the fifth
and eighth, Lhe pair turned home all
even, the tenth and eleventh halved in
fives. Merriman, however, broke the ice
with a winning five on the twelfth where
Seggerman missed a two-foot putt for a
halve. A drive to the trap cost the Con
necticut golfer the thirteenth, and the
Englewood player returned the compli
ment with a similar shot on the pond
hole ; the fifteenth halved in four. Both
players found the going hard on the way
down the long sixteenth which was
halved in an indifferent seven, Segger
man's long approach from off the green
rimming the cup. A halve in five on the
seventeenth maintained Merriman's lead,
and a topped drive on the eighteenth
cost Seggerman the hole, the trophy and
the match by two down. A big gallery
followed play. The cards :
Merriman 5 5434445 539
Seggerman 5 5 5 4 3 4 4 4 539
Merriman 5 5 5 6 4 4 7 5 44584
Seggerman 5 5 G 5 6 4 7 5 G 49 88
Merriman's semi-final was a six and five
win from W. E. Truesdell of Fox Hills,
tin the second round the Connecticut
player found W. A. Barber, Jr., of
Princeton, a tenacious opponent who
was in the game until the last putt was
holed. All square at the turn, it was
even honors to the fifteenth, with the
crisis on the sixteenth where Merriman
played his third from the cross bunker,
twenty yards from the green, dead to the
hole, and went down in five to six for
Barber, gaining a lead of one up which he
maintained with halves on the seven
teenth and eighteenth ; Barber missing a
putt to tie the score on the home green j
by the narrowest kind of a margin,
f In the first round Coach A. A. Stagg
of Chicago University was a victim by
five down and four to play.
Seggerman opened match play with a
five and four win from Robert Hunter of
Wee Burn, and advanced to meet C. B.
Hudson of North Fork who carried him
to the nineteenth. Holding his own up
to the fourteenth, Hudson gained a lead
of two up on the long sixteenth, but
he lost the seventeenth and went to
pieces on the eighteenth, where two
putts would have given him the match and
the twelfth in five, he halved the thir
teenth and fourteenth in five and four,
tying the score with wins in four and
six, on the fifteenth and sixteenth.
Johnson was in the lead again with a five
on the seventeenth, but Thompson took
the eighteenth in four to tie, losing the
extra hole, 5 G. 1 S. O. Miller of Engle
wood won the consolation by three and
two from J. A. Luman of Bala.
The Secretary's trophy went to Edward
Martin of Englewood, with a three up
and one win from Macauley Bright of
the Huntingdon Valley Club, f Martin's
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morning round with E. W. Fay of Fram
ingham required an extra hole, and in the
the hole in a halve. Seggerman won
the extra hole 45. 1 In the semi-final
the Englewood player had the best of it
throughout his match with C. L. Becker,
and won by three and two. fl. B.
Boyd won the Consolation final by four
and two from Robert Hunter.
G. W. Johnson of Hackensack and J.
M. Thompson of Springnaven overran
the home green in the battle for the
Governors' trophy, the Hackensack play
er winninar. Three down ac me ium,
Thompson rallied for wins in four and
five, on the tenth and eieventn
Losing:
second round C. W. Harmon of Wykagyl
carried him twenty holes. 1 J. E. Haines
of Springhaven won the consolation four
up and two to play, from C. II. Wheeler
of the Philadelphia Cricket Club.
Last but not least, was a nineteen-hole
struggle for the Treasurer's trophy be
tween F. I. Amory, Jr., of tha Essex
County Country Club and J. D. Gal
lagher, the Glen Ridge veteran. All
even at the turn, Gallagher gained a lead
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HOLIDAY MERRYMAKING
Hew Year's Dance Rounds Out Festiv
ities in Which Entire Colony Joins
Annual Carolina Christ ma Tree
.Provide an Evening: of Many
lelig-htful Suriirlnen
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THURSDAY night's
New Year's dance at
The Carolina rounded
out a week of Holiday
merrymaking in which
the entire colony joined,
and from the standpoint
of delightful novelty,
the annual Carolina
Christmas tree proved the most enjoy
able affair in the history of these an
nuals which are now anticipated from
year to year, f Following dinner at seven
and an orchestral concert from eight
to nine, came the unexpected arrival
of four red-capped and ermine-coated
Kris Kringles (Masters Jack Morse,
David Gregg, Donald McVickar and
Stanley McCaddon), and never a dull
moment after that was there until the
midnight hour. From a mysterious no
where Santa's advance guard burst sud
denly upon the company, but with
shriek of fife and clatter of drum, it was
at once apparent that they were "goin
somewhere," and the company followed
eagerly to the music-hall where subdued
lights and soft music were in striking
contrast to noisy approach.
A dainty picture indeed, it was which
greeted the eye through the transforma
tion of the rear alcove of the hall into an
old-fashioned farm-house sitting-room,
with its huge fire-place hung with stock
ings and lighted with candles. Sewing
by candle-light at a table was Grandma
(Mrs. II. W. Priest) while in the fire
light's ruddy glow the grandchildren
(Katherine Jones, Elizabeth Baker, Har
old Jones, George Dunlap and James
Rhyndress), were busy with Christmas
gifts, happily oblivious to all save
the present. Vaguely conscious of
soft music, fascinated with the picture
which in the darkness, filled the room,
memory wandered fondly in recollection.
Then a button clicked, the hall
was flooded with light, the music rose to
a crash, and tne dieam-picture faded
into pleasant memory.
Grandma discarded her cap, removed
her specks, and became Mrs. Priest, the
hostess. An assistant came forward at
her summons and expressed regret at
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