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Annual North And South Championship
(By Sandy McNiblick)
THE past week at Pinehurst
was a notable one for golf as
it brought to a close for this
season three of the greatest golfing
events on the Country Club's annual
schedule the North and South
amateur championship ; the Open and
the North and South for women.
In the course of the three tourna
ments, two new champions were
crowned, and Miss Glenna Collett,
national champion and present title
holder of the North and South, suc
cessfully defended her title in that
event.
Walter Hagen, British open cham
pion and former American open
champion, who has been on a ram
page of winning tournaments from
coast to coast for the past several
months, took the lead in the first eigh
teen holes of the 72-hole open event
and was never headed, winning first
money with a total score of 289.
Then came the North and South
amateur event in which Frank C.
Newton, of Brookline, won the cham
pionship title by virtue of a 6 and 5
victory over Charles T. Lansing, of
the Knickerbocker Country Club, in
the 36-hole final round.
T. Russell Brown, of Lake Cham
plain, topped the field in the qualifying round and won the medal
with cards of 76 and 78 for the 36 holes, but was put out of the
running by W. C. Hunt, of Worcester, in the first round of match
play. Hunt's victory over Brown made him one of the choices to
win the title but he was defeated by Lansing, the runner-up, in
the semi-finals. Newton defeated J. M. Wells in this round and
then the struggle for championship honors between Newton and
Lansing began.
Lansing was the favorite at the start of the match, and he was
still the favorite at the end of the first eighteen holes of play. New
ton was leading at the tirqe by 1 up, but Lansing had played each
of the last six holes of the round in the par figures and was appar
ently getting better and better as he went along. In the afternoon
round he met disaster. He played constantly into trouble, and
although he saved himself on several occasions by recoveries of a
brilliant nature, it was soon evident that Newton's steadiness would
prove too much for the Jersey golfer.
Newton, who had taken 40 for his first nine holes in the morning
round, went out in 37 in the afternoon, and had the match practically
v.: .- f - u t " 'n
Frank C. Newton, Winner of the Twenty-Third Renewal of the
Annual North and South Championship this week.
in his possession when he reached the
turn.
On the tenth hole, in the afternoon,
Lansing played his second shot clear
across an adjoining fairway, into a
trap, and then saved himself with a
wonderful recovery to the distant
green. Playing for the eleventh, his
second shot drifted deep into the
woods and he again managed to reach
the green on his next shot.
Brilliant Golf in Morning
Most of the brilliant playing was
confined to the morning round, how
ever, Newton got a par five on the
first hole after driving into the rough
and trapping his second shot, but lost
the hole to Lansing's finely played
birdie four.
Going to the second Newton struck
the pin with his third shot, played
from the bottom of a distant trap,
and won the hole with his four.
The Brookline golfer ran down a
twenty-footer for a birdie four on the
fifth and Lansing went him one better
by sinking his approach for the
seventh and winning this 37-yard hole
in a stroke under par.
Newton was continually missing
short putts and sinking long ones all
through the morning round.
All even on the way to the seventeenth Newton ran down a long
one for a winning 2 on this short but difficult hole and he main
tained his one hole lead at the end of the round by sinking a twenty
footer for a half after Lansing had laid his third shot dead to
the pin.
The full summary of the championship division and winners of
other divisions follow:
CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION
First Round
M. B. Johnson, Jr., defeated C. Warren Rainear 3 and 2
W. C. Hunt defeated T. Russell Brown 5 and 4
Jack Neville defeated Fred W. Knight 5 and 4
C. T. Lansing defeated L. E. Wood 6 and 5
J. M. Wells defeated Warren K. Wood 1 up
Daniel Jarvis defeated L. H. Splane 2 and 1
Guy Standifer defeated W. S. Dillon .. 2 up
F. C. Newton defeated H. V. Garrity 3 and 2