VOL. XXI, NO. 8
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1918
FIVE CENTS.
ADVERTISERS' CHAMPION
Follett Beats Dutton In the Final
Round of Golf Tourney
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Their Winning-
STAYING with Ms
game beginning, and
rendering obsolete the
old superstition that a
medal man has no chance
for the trophy, W. H.
Follett of Scarboro 'held
steadily to the exalted
position he gained in the
qualifying round, and made good his
claim to the supreme title in the Tour
nament of the Winter League of Adver
tising interests, played last week on the
courses of the Pinehurst Country Club.
This annual classic was played in four
divisions, and so scheduled that not only
the beaten eight in each division con
tinued in mortal combat for as substan
tial a mede of honor as awarded to the
greatest champion, but the beaten four
of the beaten eight still lingered in tour
nament assembled for final honors among
themselves. It was an occasion when all
men played golf, losers continuing up
on a career of diminishing returns until
there was left no one to lose to. And
to make it the more even and interesting,
all except the first, the championship
division, was played upon a superior and
infallible system of handicaps, which
placed each and every one of the great
array upon an exact and even footing.
It was in this first division that a
noteworthy week of play, and the cun
ning efforts of a famous line of golfing
heroes failed to shake Follett from his
hold upon the championship. In the end
it fell to the lot of the veteran Geo. T.
Button, the grand old man of all Pine
hurst golfing, leader in the lists since
the mind of man runs not to the con
trary, to undertake to stay the victorious
progress.
Follett had opened his drive by run
ning away from W. H. Hamilton of
New Haven in the first round five and
four. A. R. Gardner took up the task
of stemming the victorious progress on
the next round, and fared better. Just
one hole better. That is, he got as far
a3 the 15th green before he succombed.
This left the old medalists, and the sec
ond best man in the medal round hold
ing the fort in the semi-final round. This
was E. M. Purves, the Woodland Driver,
the man who had pushed the leaders
every year, and who had put H. B. Ken
nedy of Eacebrook hors de combat five
and four, and send S. H. Patterson from
Plainfield into the beaten four in the
same fashion.
This match proved the hardest the
champion had. The Plainfield player
hung on tenaciously as far as the short
and deadly seventeen, where he was
Dormie two. But there his drive in the
pit left the road clear for Scarboro.
Follett entered the final round with a
score of three and one.
ARNHEIM LANDS THE SECOND :
Now while the world watched this pro
gress of Follett 's, W. H. Arnheim was
carrying the Norwood banner in trium
phant progress through lists of the Sec
ond Division. Not E. J. Barber, hailing
from Englewood, nor yet Mallison of
Ardsley could stay his progress. And so
he waded into the semi-final to meet and
conquer C. E. Beane of the Vesper Club,
by a margin of two to spare. The final
turned out to be an even thing. Here he
met H. F. Harrison, hailing from Areola,
a fourteen handicap man. And they
played each other to a standstill to the
eighteenth green, where fortune favored
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And in spite of a uhain of sweeping
victories over the flower of the adver
tising line, including Manson, erstwhile
champion, and Lewis and Hamilton,
Dutton was unequal to the task. This
final contest called' for thirty-six holes.
Pushing par, and sinking everything in
sight, the Scarboro entry left no openings
afternoon or evening, took the turns of
luck all to himself, and approached his
greens like a mad man. With such good
purpose that he finished 13 up with 11
still to go.
Arnheim and gave him the trophy, one
up.
THIRD DIVISION PLAY
The Eed Cross money and the glory in
the third division was handsomely won
by B. D. Covert of Buffalo, who wrought
havoc down the line, and took Dr. G. C.
Fahy into camp on the last round five
up and four to go.
And meantime every member in this
happy pilgrimage was busy all day with
spoon and niblic and shining putter, har
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HEW CO MB COMES BACK
Famous Shot Leads Field in Mid
winter Trap Contest
Fiih, Power. Morgan, Richards
and Yule Hold llljfti Gnu
for the First Two Day
ONE HUNDEED and
seventeen strong, the
crack shots of the
Country took their places
on the firing line at the
Pinehurst Gun Club last
Tuesday, and the f usi
lade began at all five
sets of traps at once
the fusilade which opens the shooting
Season for 1918 in the United States,. and
will determine by Saturday night the
championship of both the Midwinter and
Preliminary Handicaps, and make and
mar some records already established in
the shooting world.
As we go to press the steady bom
bardment tells that the battle for the
supremacy in the Preliminary Handicap
is at its height, and that Bill Yule is
busy trying to defend his title from a
corps of the fastest shooting men on the
planet.
He has his work cut out from him.
Not only could anyone tell this from a
glance at the line up, but also from the
record of these last two days two days
of scratch shooting, of five twenty target
events a day. When C. li. Newcomb and
Geo. N. Fish, Danny McMahan and F.
S. Wright, are face to face with such
deadly workers as C. M. Powers, credited
high gun in the United States, and
heralded as the greatest handler of the
shot-gun alive, C. B. Piatt, double bird
champion at the Grand American, and
Joe Jt.mings, the premier shot of Cana
da, not to mention a long list of cham
pions known wherever powder is burned,
and men always in the money, no matter
who they are up against, such as C. W.
Billings of the New York Athletic Club
and C. D. Coburn of Columbus, it is hard
going for any challenger.
NEWCOMB S RETURN
These two days have demonstrated
that Newcomb has come back. He was
out . of the game last year, and it was
questioned whether he could ever again
display that static and mathematical ac
curacy which has so long made him the
peer of any man with the double bar
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