VOL. XXI, NO. 10
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1918
FIVE CENTS
A SURPRISE PARTY
The Bush Leaguers Cut into Favorites
in St. Valentine's Golf Tournament
gtandliib Finally Win Trophy, bat
Wilbar fal Maxwell. Ilrrn
man and Schrocdcr tcore
WHAT APPEARED by
all the signs and .pre
cedents to be a two
some between Norman
H. Maxwell, the lead
ing golfer in the Phila
delphia circuit and
James D. Standish, Jr.,
the Michigan champion,
and medalist in the qualifying round of
the annual St. Valentine's Tournament
held on number two course of the Pine
hurst Country Club last week, proved to
be a smashing drive by the field, which
put Maxwell into the pen and pushed
Standish to the nineteenth hole.
The Dark Horse that appeared thus
suddenly to upset the augurs and astonish
the Niblic World was E. E. Wilbar of
Fitchburg. His record, though good,
gave no premonition of the outcome. He
has a fast card over the Alpine Course,
and is listed in the Massachusetts handi
cap sufficiently high up to give notice
that he can travel the bunkers in good
speed on occasion. Still his familiar
opponents in the local contests watched
him take the first three holes from
Maxwell without imagining that he could
ever hold them. Apparently nobody had
sensed the arrival of a streak of play
on Wilbur's part which had sailed away
from R. C. Shannon II in the first round
by a margin of 5 holes. A canny audi
ence would have been wary of any man
that can polish Shannon in this fashion.
The affair began to appear interesting
by the time Wilbar reached the eighth
four up. The young Philadelphian is
famous for a whirlwind finish, and of
course it was presumed that he would
pull out. But four is a precarious lead.
Maxwell took the ninth with three per
fect strokes, and turned into the uphill
battle going home three to the bad. .
The burst of speed and the brilliant
rally was forthcoming as expected. But
a fraction too late. Dormie three Max
ell came out of his trance, and set out
8 gainst these heavy odds to maintain his
title. He cleared the pond and the moun
tain, the. chasm and the brake "with his
drive on the 16th, . smashed his ball to
the green with his iron and sunk a par
four for a win. So Dormie Two. He
dropped into the cup on the seventeenth
in the exact three shots intended by
Donald Ross when he laid out the treach
erous thing, and started for the last
green one down.
Wilbar was good for a five on this final
hole. So the matter was reduced to the
question whether Maxwell could maintain
his par running, and make a four. It
came down to a last fatal and difficult
putt. He had ten or twelve feet to go to
make his four and square the match. The
try was worthy of the occasion. The ball
trotted straight up to the cup, sent by a
master hand. It ran around the edge,
took one despairing look in and then
came to a stop outside. The first of the
ish was now travelling at the top of his
game, had no use for more than a ar
four, and won his match.
In the semi-final round the champion
defeated L. D. Pierce of Brae Burn.
And the Sandhill defence against the in
vading Yankees began to, develop. How
ard G. Phillips of the Waring Plantation
hit his stride and did the same for
Wilbar the meteor.
This left theMoore County Champion
to face the medalist in the 1st stage.
The day was raw and not favorable to
the best golf. And so from the stand
point of record play there developed noth
ing notable in the match. Standish
reached the tenth two up, by virtue of
two perfect 3s on the last two short
holes on the outward round. As in the
MRS. HURD TAKES L1EDAL
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great pair was out of the game.
Meantime J. D. Chapman had been
taking in hand in the excitement. He
ran P. S. MacLaughlin out of the tourna
ment in the first round 5 and 4. And
then took on the champion, whom he gave
the fright and the battle of his life.
Stroke for stroke and hole for hole he
held Standish in the second flight. Par
or better was called for to win every
hole. Chapman planted a two for a lead
of one on the ninth, and took the turn
one up. Standish evened things, up on
the tenth and again on the fifteenth. The
last three holes were covered neck and
neck 4, 3, 5, and they started off again
just as they began. And here it was
that .the remaining favorite saved his
bacon. Chapman dropped a shot at the
critical moment and scored a five. Stand-
previous performance it took par or bet
ter to win any hole on this journey.
Phillips recovered on the 10th, the next
two were halved, and Standish resumed
his lead of two on the 13th, by virtue of
too much putting on Phillips ' part.
The fourteenth was the deciding hole.
And the decision lay with a bottomless
bunker. Into its cavernous folds Phillip 's
glided on his second shot, and he is not
out of it yet. This left him three down.
And it was only a matter of halving two
more holes before he was hors de combat,
and Standish champion three up and two
to go. "
- C. L. Becker, probably the most con
sistent and tenacious first division man in
the annals of golf at Pinehurst turned up
again among the silver pieces by winning
(Continued on page two)
Qualifying Round of St.Yalenline's Tour
nament Won by Famous Player
Mis Thurston IHri Cbapman and
.nr., Starrett In Tb Field Con
tltutlBff The First Division
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AS IN HER RIGHT
and custom Mrs. Dorothy
Campbell Hurd took the
gold medal and recorded
the lowest medal score
in the qualifying round
of the Twelfth Annual
St. Valentine's Golf
Tournament for Women,
which took place this week at the Pine
hurst Country Club. Without any pre
liminaries she cracked put a 94 over the
number one course, showing that she is
still traveling in her old style. This is
the best done by any woman at Pinehurst
this year by a large margin, and is one
better than her own winning score last
year.
Second place was held by Miss Ger
trude Thurston of West Hampton who
also happens to have held the same posi
tion last year in this tournament with
101. She finished three strokes ahead of
Mrs. J. D. Chapman, the Greenwich play
er who lost last year to Mrs. Hurd in
the semi-final round. Mrs. Paul Starrett
finished in the same class with 106.
These four by all the portents should be
found fighting out the final honors.
The Summary. Played on Number one
course.
MRS. HURD'S CARD
Out 5 5 5 4 6 5 5 6 546
In 53656566 64894
Mrs. J. V. Hurd
Miss Gertrude Thurston
Mrs. J. D. Chapman
Miss Pauline Starrett
Mrs.' J. D. Armstrong
Mrs. G. W. Statzell, Jr.
Mrs. David Carel
Mrs. M. B. Brynes
Mrs. Donald Parsons
Mrs. G. M. Howard
Miss Gyn. Cummings
Mrs. W. E. Truesdell
Miss Katherine Lamb
Miss Caroline Bogart
Mrs. A. S. Higgins
Mrs. J. G. Bausher
Mrs. R. C. Blanche
Miss Helen Child
Mrs. G. W. Statzell, Sr.
46 48 94
50 52102
54 50104
54 52106
56 60116
55 61116
62 59121
60 63123
57 68125
65 62127
60 71131
65 68133
67 65135
64 71135
65 71136
71 74145
72 75147
72 86158
83 80163