VOL. XVII, NO. 11
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1914
FIVE CENTS
DARK HORSE IS THE WINNER
Annual St. Valentine's Golf Tournament
Was an Off Week for Favorites
llecker of Woodland i Three and
One Victor Over Martin of
L Eknunok In Final Hound
OCCASIONALLY the
"dark horso" shows
a profitable investment,
and the tenth annual
St.Valentine's golf tour
nament was the excep
tion which proves the
rule. Very naturally the
"favorites," Henry ,T.
Topping, the United championship title
holder, F. A. Martin, former Vermont
champion, and II. K. Kerr, semi-finalist in
the 1912 National Amateur, had the call.
To be sure Kerr was outdistanced in the
first heat by Faust of Buffalo, but Top
ping showed his paces until he met
Becker of Woodland who ran away
from him. It was a bad day for the
"bookies" :but accidents will happen!
1 Martin was still in the running the
"dark horse" didn't count and the
" favorite " sold at odds. T Fact is, the
final race was generally regarded as a
matter of form. The betting was very
largely from force of habit. Neck and
neck at the half-mile post, the pair at
tracted little attention. A few levelled
their glasses, remarked the fact, and the
buzz of conversation was resumed.
The winner was saluting the judges
the race was over The grandstand
crowd rubbed its eyes and looked again.
1 " Becker ! Becker wins ! " rose the
cry. f "Three and one ! " read the sign.
If The dark horse had won. f It was
an off-week for favorites, but this partic
ular win pleases Pinehurst mightily, for
two up or two down, "Beck" is Pine
hurst's own.
The Woodland veteran swung into ac
tion in the first round of match play
with a twenty-hole win from S. O. Mil
ler of Englewood. Two down at the
turn, Becker halved the tenth in 5, lost
the eleventh, 56, but rallied on the
twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth for
45? 46, and 56 wins to tie. Gaining
the lead with a 3 on the fifteenth, he
halved the sixteenth and was all square
again on the seventeenth which he lost
to a 4. The holing of a twenty-five foot
putt on the home green for a halve saved
the match for Becker, and a similar putt
on the nineteenth came within an ace of
settling the struggle, but a halve re
sulted, and Becker won the twentieth,
4 6, and the match, fin the second
round, also, Becker found a pacemaker,
winning an uphill battle from W. V.
Swords of Oakland. One down at the
turn, Becker evened the match with a
fifteen-foot putt on the thirteenth and
halved the fourteenth in 5, winning the
fifteenth, 35. A stymie lost Becker a
win on the sixteenth which was halved,
and a poor drive cost him the seven
teenth where Swords tied the score, only
was a seven and six victim in the first
round and W. II. Faust of Buffalo did no
better than six down and live in the
second. Still going easy, Martin found it
necessary to lengthen out a bit in the
semi-final with Henry C. Fownes of Oak-
mont, for he made the turn, one down.
Bunkered, Martin lost the tenth and
eleventh, but he won the twelfth and
thirteenth, and halved the fourteenth
where Kownes, bunkered, made a fine
approach to record a halve in 4. The
fifteenth found Fownes in difficulties and
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CIIARTON L. BECKER OF THE "WOODLAND GOLF CLUB
to lose the match on the eighteenth
through a hooked tee shot which made
the tall timber and bounded far back,
f In the semi-final with Topping off" and
Becker on, it was all even at the ninth
where the Woodland golfer recorded a
2. Halving the tenth and eleventh, he
duplicated the trick on the twelfth by
holing an off the green putt for a 4,
taking the match, six up and five, with a
halve on the thirteenth.
Martin came down the line at exercise
pace. li. C. uhamoeriain or uoiumDia
Martin tied the score 4 5. The six
teenth was a comedy of errors with
Martin a 5 6 winner. On the seven
teenth the Oakmont player laid a niblick
approach dead, but he missed a putt for
a win in 3 and halved in 4, Martin mak
ing a fine approach from the edge of the
bunker to the green and going down in
two putts. " Both tee shots were poor on
the eighteenth and the result was a halve ;
Martin conceding a putt for a halve in
5 and a one-up win.
(Concluded on page three)
SEVENTY-SEVEN AND A TIE
Robert Hunter and W. E. Truesdell, J. C.
Nicholson and C. L. Becker Lead
Scores Hun Clone in Tin Wblatle
Handicap Medal Play Two
Hall Fourioniei
SEVENTY-SEVEN
was best in Monday's
two-ball Tin Whistle
foursomes for prizes
presented by Henry C.
Fownes and the Club for
the two best net scores.
Tied at the winning
score were 11 o b e r t
Hunter of Wee Burn and W. E. Trues
dell of Fox Hills, whose handicap was
seven, and J. G. Nicholson of New Bed
ford and C. L. Becker of Woodland, who
deducted ten strokes. There was also a
tie at seventy-eight and the balance of
the field was close up and well bunched,
f The scores :
Robert Hunter
W. PJ. Truesdell
C. L. Becker
J. G. Nicholson
J. I). C. Rumsey
R. S. Hawthorne
J. M. Robinson
F. C. Abbe
G. P. Brown
T, B. Boyd
II. A. Waldron
E. A. Johnston
G. T. Dunlap
C. II. Young
.T. T. Newton
R. C. Blancke
C. If. Lay
11. II. Hunt
M. W. Marr
C. T. Wilson
E. B. Pratt
John Barclay
II. W, Ormsbee
W. L. Milliken
C. B. Hudson
R. C. Shannon
C. B. Fownes
II. C. Fownes
I'.L. Lightbourn
J. II. Clapp
W. L. Uurd
E. M. Slayton
S. IT. M artel, Jr.
P. S.Pusey
I B. O'Brien
F.A.Sedgwick
C. Z. Eddy 1
P.S.Maclaughlin
T. A. Cheatham
T.L. Redfleld
Dr. J. S. Brown
C. C. Morse
II. R. Mackenzie
M. D. Fink
J. R. Towle
P. B. Pottle
G. P. Berry
R. A. Swigert
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