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FEBRUARY 16, 1924
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Annual St.
Valentine’s Tournament
(By Larry Paton)
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iHIEF honors in the 20th
tournament for men,
played on the championship
course from February 4 to 8,
were won by Larry B. Paton,
of the Bellevue Golf Club, Mel
rose, Mass., who qualfiied with
an 82 and then eliminated, in
turn, John D. Chapman, of
Greenwich; Donald G. Herring,
of Pine Valley; Malcolm Mc
Burney;, of The National Links,
and T. Russell Brown, of Mont
clair, N. J. and Mallets Bay,
Lake Champlain. Paton is a
member of the Massachusetts
state team and a 4 handicap
player in the Bay State Associa -
tion. He played in the event
in 1921 and was beaten by
Chapman in the semi - final
round.
Parker W. Whittemore, of
The Country Club, Brookline,
Mass., took the qualification
gold medal with a round of 75,
so that golfers here are wonderr
ing whether there isn’t some
thing more than spoofing about
the reputed value of the beari
and the cod as training table
food for golfers. Chapman and
Brown were the only others to
annual St. Valentine’s
get below 80 in the card-and-pencil test round. They were 77 each.
Brown underestimated the distance against the wind at the short
17th, got into a bad spot in the bunker and took a 5, else there
would have been a tie for the medal. At any rate/ Brown got
satisfaction on that score later, for he put Whittemore out in the
semi-final round right when about everybody was agreed that it
looked very much like a Whittemore tournament.
The field was somewhat smaller than a year ago, 110 taking a
flier, of whom 92 returned cards. Four players were tied at 88
for the last two places in the first division. W. H. Rupp and
R. T. Houk, Jr., were the successful men in the playoff, W. T.
Barr dropping into the second flight, along with H. C. Fownes,
who voluntarily took that step. Five divisions of 16 and one
flight of eight engaged in the match play stages.
The feature of the first round was the battle between the eventual
tournament winner and Chapman. It went 20 holes before Paton
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John H. Bartlett, First Assistant Postmaster General and former Governor
of New Hampshire, is among the visitors at Pinehurst this week.
Mr. Bartlett came with his son, Calvin P., and is here
for an outing of golf and rest.
could shake off the Greenwich
man, who had taken the first
three holes
But, despite starting with
three; 5’s, Paton was out in 38
and stood a hole to the good at
the turn. Twice thereafter he
was hauled back to evens and
they headed for the home hole
all square. Here a peculiar thing
happened and undoubtedly it
had a direct bearing on the
match. ' Both were well shy of
the green with their second
shots, into a rather strong wind,
and Paton ran up to within
seven or eight feet of the green.
Chapman’s running approach
looked to be headed for a spot
close to the hole but it collided
with Paton’s ball and knocked
it onto the putting surface, so
that, as things turned out, Paton
had a putt for a 4 and victory,
though he failed to hole it.
They halved the first extra
hole in 4 and Paton. won the
second with a 4 when Chapman
needed three to get down from
off to the right of the green*
Paton was practically on the
sand with his second shot at
both the extras.
Somewhat in the nature of an
upset was the defeat of James D. Standish, Jr., in the first round
at the hands of Malcolm McBurney. Brown had a close shave,
having to go to the last green to beat Philip Stevenson, who really
beat himself by taking three putts. He had stood 2 down' with"
three to go and squared by "getting a pair of birdies—a 4 at the
16th and a 2 at the 17th. Whittemore put out P. S. P. Randolph,
Jr., winner of the Mid-Winter event, by 3 and 2, coming from
behind to turn the trick. /
Three of the four second-round matches went out quickly in
the Wednesday wind, Paton winning by 6 and 5 from Donald
Herring, the old Princeton football player, and Whittemore and
Brown riding in by 7 and 6 at the expense of Francis T. Keating
and N. E. Sprague, respectively. McBurney was a 2 and 1 winner
over Earle Alexander, neither playing up to snuff.
Paton’s task in the semi-final round was made a deal easier
by McBurney’s wildness from the tee, a department in which he ' i