VOL. XXI, NO. 6
WINTER GOLF NUMBER1 1918
FIVE CENTS
ON THE HOME GREEN
Wins Close Matches from
Phillips and Shannon
Victor Sg-M maw. Page, JFrost and
St agfoon Score In Midwinter
CJolf
I 'ONCE AGAIN Norman
Maxwell of Aronimink
has fulfilled expecta
tions. This time he
lifted the President 's
Trophy in the Fifteenth
Annual Midwinter Golf
Tournament. But he
ran into at least two sur
prises, and did not get across without a
fight, and some fancy uphill wqrk.
Victor Seggerman of Englewood first
crossed his path. He was unable to stay
the champion's victorious progress but
later on made it hot for the consolation,
and cleaned up the beaten eight in good
style. The field began to show fight with
a vengeance however on the second round.
After losing the first two holes getting
under way, Howard Phillips of the War
ing Plantation struck a championship
pace, sailed down to the turn at a par
gait, caught Maxwell unaware, and drove
oif from the tenth tee two up. Not only
that; he halved the 10th in four, slipped
in a long putt for a win on the eleventh,
and had the championship three down
with only seven to go.
Now it is just exactly this kind of a
situation that proves the calibre of your
player. It was his ability to get out of
just this sort of fix that made Carter
invincible down here two years ago.
Maxwell came to, realized the critical as
pect of the affair, and called on his
trusty driver to pull him out. And from
there on he gave an exhibition that ac
counts for his reputation. The drive on
the 12th was close to the three hundred
mark.
The second shot was placed with a mas
terly precision on the sand, and the as
sembly treated to a perfect four. By the
time the pair reached the 15th cup he- had
halved the match. And he proceeded to
take the sixteenth in manner seldom if
ever seen on these lind before. It is 424
yards long, that hole, over a pond and a
chasm and a mountain, "f his he made in
three, breaking Phillip's spirit. The
match was won then and there. The
seventeenth was halved, and when Phil
lips' second shot on the last stretch hit
a tree the game was up.
shannon's stand
This left B C. Shannon II holding the
last line of defence against the medalist.
Shannon had not only led the whole field
except Maxwell in the medal round, but
had just finished a brilliant game against
W. E. Truesdell of Apawamis, whom he
defeated five and four to go.
Here again Maxwell came into the turn
behind. The outward journey revealed
no startling features of any kind, except
a comedy of errors played by Maxwell on
the 7th. This is the longest hole on the
course 537 yards, the very place his
prodigious drive might be expected to
pull in his favor. And it did. He more
than halved the distance from the tee.
Thence however he proceeded by the
bunker route, and only came home in 9.
The . tenth found Shannon still one up,
a lead which Maxwell overcame this time
on the 14th, where he gave another ex
hibition of how a long hole should be
negotiated. Drive 274 yards. Then toss
an easy mashie niblic beside the green.
Then take two putts. It is very simple.
So all even they drove for the 15th
cup, 212 yards away. It proved to be
the deciding hole. Both drives were a
bit off. Maxwell's landed him on the side
of a bunker. Shannon's behind a hill of
whiszkers. The game was too old for
any chances then. The man who had the
faciest approach out of difficulties stored
away in his locker was the man, as it
turned . out, that was to have he cham
pionship. Aronimink selected him a
weapon with great care, took one casual
glance at the desired goal, made a neat
little motion, and, biff I the ball dropped
over and rolled so lovingly close to the
cup that the whole audience gasped.
Here lay an easy three. Shannon shot
for it manfully negotiated the mound
and the- bunker, .recorded a four well
played under the circumstances, but not
well enough.
Thence home they came, stroke for
stroke five apiece on cavernous 16th,
two perfect threes on the 17th, and two
imperfect sixes under the tension of the
last.
PIERCE'S PROGRESS
While this was going on, and Segger
man was putting Tom Kelley and J. D.
Armstrong into the Consolation discard,
L. D. Pierce of Brae Burn showed his
mettle and speed by taking the final
round of the second division play from
J; W. Baker from Plainfield to the tune
of four and three. Previously he had
disposed of C. F. Lancaster two and one.
Lancaster has a habit of turning up with
a cup in most tournaments and kept up
the tradition even after this set-back.
He did Geo. W. Statzell out of the con
solation prize on the sixteenth green,
shortly thereafter.
A TARHEEL TROPHY
The natives were truly astonished to
discover one of their numbers hammering
THE NEW HURDLE KING
Fort Johnson Wins Exciting Steeple
Chase
Lee's Stable Take the Thorough
bred Pane. Vaughan and Silas
Tufts Outride the Uoests
WHAT LOOKED to bo
a disagreeable day in the
morning turned out to
be a glorious afternoon
for the regular Wednes
day meet of - the Pine
hurst Jockey Club. Com
bined with the brisk
snap in the air and the
rivalry rampart among the riders there
was witnessed the hardest racing yet seen
on the Pinehurst track. The challengers
had their innings, the old favorites took a
fall, but not without some furious and
heartbreaking finishes. Mr. Tufts again
occupied his high position as starter of
the trotting and pacing races, while Col.
Swigert upheld his honors as grand mas
ter of the Flat events.
Rivals of old, Miss Esther Tufts and
Miss Mabel Bliss again took the track in
an effort to dislodge each other from the
pedestral of fame. Miss Bliss started
off in the van, but as they came around
Miss Tufts gradually crept up until she
captured the lead by a length, which she
never relinguished.
Mr. W. Vaughn, a newcomer on the
Pinehurst track, hailing from Boston,
captured the mile dash, overtaking J.
M. Moore, up on Captain, who had led to
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