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would eventually take off the prize,
and because it played off the tie for the
medal .
FANCY PUTTING.
After a little amateur work on the
first two the champions hit their exhi
bition pace. From there on to the turn
Becker's score ran even with par. He
came to the seventh two up, got away
with a half on that only by virtue of a
stymie, and then faced a ruinous propo
sition on the eighth. It Avas there the
putting furore set in. Gates missed his
approach' in this short hole, and so was
away with a good 25 feet to go on his
third. In that methodical and careful
way he has he just rolled it in as if it
was ordained to sink. This left Becker
in a pickle, in spite of a drive onto the
green. But the Goddess of the day was
impartial. His ball rolled the 20 feet
without a flicker, and won him the hole
in two.
This was only the beginning. Before
the last fateful shot went home both of
the embattled golfers had burried at
least four putts apiece of over 20 feet.
There was no missing them that is,
until the fateful 18th. As is quite cus
temporary with Gates, he came into the
stretch in situation that would delight
the movie man. He halved the match
on the 12th, lost the 14th, but halved
it again on the 15th with a 3, and lost
the 17th, an easy 4 by a distinct error.
I suppose that everyone will agree that
a journey in the trenches and a fulsome
6 was an error at that point. This left
Becker 1 up. All right. Gates comes
sailing up and drops dead three feet
from the pin on his third shot. Even
as it was done in the olden days. Becker
falls for a five. All that is needed
to even the match is a putt that was
child's play beside those we had been
looking at. Did he do it? He did not.
Becker went home with the match and
the medal. To such an extent is the
putter a fickle fiction.
Meantime Armstrong was polishing
off McCabe to the tune of 5 and 3 .
Howard Phillips sailed into Wiswell and
finished the match at the 14th. Waring
and Shannon had it even and interest
ing c itil Waring turned sour on the
tun. and was left excavating.
We quite agree with Grant Rice that
the medal scores on a match round are
pure nonsense and delusions. Neverthe
less, to satisfy the cravings of a foolish
public we will state that the best done in
this round was a 39 made by Becker on
his way out.
At this stage of 'the game Shannon
slipped back into his pristine midseason
form, and bethinking himself of past
glories took such advantage of Arm
strong's preliminary canter that he sim
ply left him at the turn. Left him cold.
The same cannot be said of Phillips.
He worked like a Trojan over Becker,
in a match that was principally char
acterized by both parties scoring 2 on
the 6th. The astonished multitude be
gan to herald a new champion when he
came in with the veteran's scalp three up
and two to go. The pace was getting
hotter. The medal was an 82.
A SPECTACULAR FINISH
The final round between Shannon and
Phillips was played on what was prob
ably the finest day and under the purest
sky that ever fascinated a driver. It
was good golf., with the putting still
predominating. It began again on the
8th. Shannon drove into a pit. He
scrambled out in two just in time to
get a distant view of Phillips holing out
in 3. Nothing daunted he shot over
the intervening country for a half. Mir
able dictu! This put Shannon two up
at the turn.
He lost one of these in a burial party
on the tenth, and as was the order of
the day, was euchered out of an appa
rently certain win on the 11th by an
other 20 foot putt by Phillips. From
here on I fear for my reputation if I
tell the story. It beggars all belief.
For on the 13th Brockport staved off
defeat with nothing less than a forty
foot sinker from the top of the hill. I
have no heart to tell of the rest of the
strokes. My eyes Avere glued on the so
called putting. On the 15th Phillips
made the long drop; on the 16th Shan
non makes his four after coming to the
green by way of the dairy, by virtue of
12 feet negotiated with his cunning lit
tle putter. This left Phillips one up.
Now for the climax.
Both champions drive according to
Hoyle. They both go over the green on
this short hole, as is wise to do if you
can. Very well, they are 60 feet from
the cup. Shannon shoots first. He
comes within easy putting distance say
20 feet in this match. We will concede
him a three. Everybody . moves off to
see the next drive. But Phillips smiles
a sardonic smile, and calling upon the
fickle Goddess of the fitful putt he lets
drive with a mashie. Of course, the
ball went directly to the hole, and settled
down. A very proper and spectacular
finish to any championship, not equalled
in our memory since Phil Carter did
Skeins out of the United by the same
trick on the same hole, a long time ago.
The incubus of Early Season rusti-
ness Avas laid even more heavily upon the
Second Division than the first. Here
were found old experts who in the past
have consistently been found in the front
rank, no matter how many or skilful the
entries. C. B. Hudson, once striking
Lis gait, Avill be discovered well down in
the eighties, and T. A. Cheatham in the
height of the season will not be asking
cads of any 90 man.
J. D. C. Rumsey and Col. Ormsbee
played the most interesting and the
closest match in the fiyst round. Kumsey
was working up to very good form, and
eased the Colonel out on the last hole.
Cheatham, Hudson and P. B. O'Brien
came through.
This left Kumsey matched against
Cheatham and Hudson against O'Brien.
Rumsey here hit out for fair, although
he ran into a cross current of baleful
stymies that in the end contributed sub
stantially to his downfall. His contest
against Cheatham was markd by a re
markable two he landed on the ninth,
doing Cheatham out of a perfect three
on the same hole. At that Rumsey drove
the tenth one down, and only by the
most sustained and creditable , play eked
out a victory on the 18th.
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