jj VOL. XVII, NO. 8 SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1914 FIVE CENTS PORYES AND SLATER LEAD They Divide Matcb In Advertising and Hedal Honors Golf Tourney Ctoorg-e C. Dutton Advance to final on 30-IIol Consolation Win from E. M. Alexander HAROLD Slater of Fox Hills and R. M. Purves of Woodland divided premiere honors in the Advertising Golf Tournament. Winning the qualification medal, Purves advanced to the match play final with but one hard round, while Slater found his path strewn with roses throughout, winning the Championship trophy in -the thirty-six hole test with an eight and seven victory. Slater's semi-final was a three and two win from T. A. Ashley of Woodland; his second round, six and five, from Z. T. Miller of Dunwoodie, and his first, four and three from T. B. Boyd of Bellerieve. 1 Purves won by six and five from R. R. Mamlok of Fox Hills in the semi-final; but in the second round, he found Josiah J. Hazen of Oak land a tenacious opponent. AH even at the turn, the score was the same on the fourteenth, Purves winning the next two holes for the lead, losing the seventeenth and halving the eighteenth in four for the match. In the first round, the Woodland golfer scored six and five in play with J. A. Moore of Scarsdale. The. real test of first division play came in the second round where Ashley's match with W. J. Macdonald of Calumet was uncertain in its outcome until the last putt was holed. All even at the turn, Ashley ran down a three for a win on the tenth, but he lost the eleventh, and the pair zig-zagged back and forth on the way to the six teenth where Ashley gained the lead and maintained it with halves in the two re maining holes, f Mamlok was four up on L. A. Hamilton of Englewood at the turn, but "Louie" braced, coming in by halving the tenth and winning the eleventh and twelfth. Mamlok pulled the thirteenth out of the fire, and he won the fourteenth and fifteenth. Hamilton was after him again on the sixteenth, but a halve on the seventeenth settled it, two up and one to play. In the consolation, George C. Dutton of Belmont started out with a 36-hole win from E. M. Alexander of Fox Hills. Tieing at eighteen holes', the committee ruled an eighteen-hole play-ofl in view of the fact that Dutton conceded seven strokes. Losing the first three holes on the afternoon round, Dutton gained the lead again by winning the next four, and it was anybody's match to the thirty-fourth which Alexander's stroke won for him to tie. Halving the thirty-fifth, Dutton won the thirty-sixth in four for the ties; W. R. Hotchkin of Montclair win ning the second from W. W. Manning of Upper Montclair on the nineteenth. C. A. Speakman of Siwanoy took the consolation on the home green from S. K. Evans of Knollwood. f Willi R. Roberts of Bala won the third division from II. F. Johnson of Racine, and in the consolation II. D. Cashman of Forest Hill fought it out to a finish with F. A. it I u v Si'"'" '''tmj,.mmlmmifii.m-- nth- NATIONAL OPEN GOLF CHAMPION FRANCIS OUIMET match. In the second round Dutton was three up and one to play over T. B. Boyd of Bellerieve, and he took the final and the trophy, by three and two from J. D. Plummer of Springfield. Plummer advanced to the final in a red hot match with T. T. Rushmore of Garden City which the home green de cided. The second and third divisions were characterized by hard-fought bat- Sperry of Westward-IIo ! a halve on the eighteenth settling it. C- W. Yates of Glen Ridge was two up in play with C. W. Harmon of Wyka gyl in the fourth division, and E. C. Kavanaugh of New York won the con solation from Samuel L. Allen of Moores town, the veteran of the tournament, whose age is seventy. I II. B. Kennedy Concluded on page two) ROYAL WELCOME FOR OUIMET Keen for Golf, He Comes for Glimpse at America's St. Andrews International In It Character, is Visit of Most Conspicuous Figure in the Coifing: World NOT SINCE the visit of Harry Vardon has a welcome equalled that accorded National Ope a Champion Francis Ouimet who arrived yesterday morning for a glimpse at " America's St. Andrews." f Ouimet has been out of the game for some time but the desire to get back hag finally taken possession of him, and be is an ticipating his stay here with the keen ness of a school-boy on the way to the old swimming pool on a hot summer afternoon. Accompanying Ouimet is his friend, Paul Tewksbury, also of the Woodland Club. 1As the most con spicuous figure in the golfing world to day, Ouimet's visit here will be Interna tional in its character, and while he plans only to "whack the ball 'round a bit," doubtless during the process of whack ing course records will be broken, and rare entertainment provided for hundreds to whom golf play is a recreation here. England has some time since expressed its approval of the young amateur's com ing invasion, which is now definitely set tled by the announcement of Secretary French of the Woodland Club. "The directors and members of the Woodland Club," said Secretary French in a recent interview, "authorized the raising of funds to pay Ouimet's actual traveling expenses during the trip, and the directors have estimated that $800 will be sufficient. They also have decided that this fund shall be known as the Woodland Ouimet fund, and shall be in the custody of the treasurer, and shall be paid out only by vote of the directors. " This plan follows the regulations laid down by the U. S. G. A., and forestalls any criticism of Ouimet's amateur stand-j ing. If there is any surplus left over it will be used for purchasing prizes to be played for by members of the club. " Letters have been received from va rious clubs in England, expressing their5 satisfaction over Ouimet's entry to their; amateur championship and assuring him a royal welcome upon his arrival. He (Concluded on page three

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