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THE MNEHUB
VOL. XX, NO. 11
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SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1917
FIVE CENTS
MAXWELL SUPERCEDES RICE
Beats Old Champion in Final of
Advertisers' Tonrnament
Mri. Bird, IHn. INoorc and UIr. Snp
pard; O'Brien, Walts and irate Win
In Diversified Week of Golf
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WHEN it comes to
starting a golf frol
ic, and a' tourna
ment that provides
competition and
play for everyone
concerned at its
highest pitch, for a solid week,
nobody has ever been able to im
prove on the system inaugurated
this last week on the Pinehurst
links by the Winter Golf League
of Advertising Interests. Con
sider this. After the qualifying
round was over, and 128 players
among the men, and a large field
among the women had been
divided into classes of 32 each,
every Irving person in the eager
company was provided a compe
tition that counted in the pro
gress towards the trophies, for
every day in the tournament.
As soon as the first round of
match play was finished, the
beaten sixteen proceeded to con
duct a new and exclusive tourna
ment of their own. And when
the second round was done, why
everyone losing that day mobil
ized for another division, and so
the losers were organized every
day until the end in bran new
competition. And thus not only
does the game go on, but a man
gets a crack at more than one of
his ancient rivals, and has a
chance to redeem in the sunshine
the casualties of the storm.
THE PASSING OF LOU HAMILTON
Honor and reward there were
in greatest abundance, and golf
merry and sad, but the chief
honor fell to Lee Maxwell, mas
ter of the mid-iron, of the Sleepy
Hollow club, the only man of the
entire brigade that suffered no
defeat. Lou Hamilton had won'
the medal for the best score in
the qualifying round from him
by three fatal strokes. But He
met Hamilton in the semi-finals
in even and exciting combat, and
vindicated his career on the 20th
hole. This left him face to face
with Grantland Rice, the Kipling
of the links, and the holder of the
Title. Rice had wrorked his way
into the wedge of the program
by a route involving the elimina-
36 hole match with C. A. Speak
man of Siwanoy, one up. O'Brien
negotiated the victory 2 and 1, at
the 17th green.
Meantime George Watts, lead
er in the game of golf in the city
of Durham, bore the banner of
the South to the en;;: of the hill
in the Third Division, finishing
off with a hard earned watch
against W. S. Bird. C. W. Yates
retired to Glen Ridge with the
other major trophy, completing
the unbeaten winner of Division
D, by virtue of a superiority over
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SEGGERMAN'S MEDAL
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L. W. MAXWELL AND GRANTLAND RICE, "WINNER AND. RUNNER-UP OF THE ADVERTISERS
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Leads Hunter by Two Strokes In
St. Valentine's Tonrney
lllffli Standard of Plaj Established
In the Annual
Claialc
inn
tion of a strong string, including
A. R. Gardner of Dunwoodie,
George H. Martin of Glen Ridge,
T. C. Martin of Huntingdon Val
ley, and Don Parker the treas
urer of the host. The ultimate
trial was staged over 36 holes,
and ended in a decisive victory
for the Sleepy Hollow veteran
on the 29th.
O'BRIEN TO THE FORE
W. V. O'Brien of Exmopr met
Elmer F. Meyer of Wheatley Hills
to settle the supremacy of the
Second Division, after Meyer
had fought his way through in a
Louis Dempsey mathematically
expressed at 3 and 2. Actually
told in a slight advantage evident
in the wrist sense which places
putts into holes from unreason
able distances.
LADIES' DAY
The ladies all this while were
making scores and establishing
precedents, both while the sun
shone, and when, we regret to
say, it didn't. Venice day upon
the links was celebrated by the
Stirling victory of Mrs. Smith,
whose 51 for the nine holes was
(Concluded on page five)
LESS conspicuous
single individual
play and a great
deal higher general
excellence of play
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the qualifying round
of the Thirteenth Annual St. Val
entines Golf Tournament at the
Country Club last Tuesday. The
first sixteen qualified with 87 or
better over number two course,
and a perfectly good 91 could not
avail to make any better than the
third division.
Victor Seggcrman "came back"
with a vengence, and led a very
strong field and some favorites
home with a medal score of 78.
Robert Hunter as usual was in
the immediate neighborhood, his
80 being three strokes better than
the cards turned in by a galaxy of
stars. J. D. Chapman of Green
wich, Edward C. Beall of Union-
j:own, who is regarded as one of
the most formidable of all play
ers on the Pinehurst links, win
ner of the Spring Tournament
last year and a hard match for
Carter in the midwinter ; Gardner
White of Flushing, famous in the
Metropolitan district, and per
haps favorite for the tournament,
and W. E. Truesdell of Fox Hills,
that has been advancing upon the
first string for some time.
The battle for first honors will
be fought out between these and
a field including the winner of
the Advertisers tournament, L.
W. Maxwell of Sleepy Hollow ;
Grantland Rice, the prince of all
writers in the field of sport and
winner of the Advertising event
(Concluded on pag thirteen)