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JANUARY 24, 1925
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A Week with the Advertisers
(By Burt Hoxie) .
PPJHE Winter Golf League of Advertisers tournament is
Jll now history. Their week of fun is over, and to various
1 «■» J parts of the United States the “good fellows” have de
parted. Each has carried with him pleasant memories of the
occasion, many of them souvenirs through their links prowess,
and all hands are looking forward to a year hence when Pine
hurst will be their gathering place again.
This year’s party was most successful from every standpoint.
The field was exceptionally pleasing to the committee; the
weather man gave the Boys and the fair sex a fine break; com
petition in the main was close in all divisions; there were two
score or more of prizes; and last, but not least, the “something
doing” sign was always posted. Something like 100 turned
out for the qualifying test, and with the ladies on deck con
stant activity was everywhere from morning till night fall.
The winner of the first flight proved to be George H. Hart
man, of Chicago. At the expense of Robert Finney, son of
the president of the Association, he triumphed. On the seven
teenth green congratulations were in order, the score being
2 and 1. Hartman’s victory may come as a surprise to many.
For the first, as well as all other flights were run on a handi
cap basis, the high man conceding three-fourths the difference
in handicaps. It was found after the qualifying test that the
Chicago golfer was the low man of the association. Two
strokes was his allotment, and as parties run in this manner
seldom prove successful for the scratch man, his victory carries
with it the more glory, especially when it is considered the
odds were against him from the first match through the final
show down.
And Finney's showing, considering he has played the game
but two years was quite remarkable. He is 22 years of age,
and Hartman 24. They were the real youths of the field.
The winner in years gone by it seems has compiled quite a rec
ord in the Chicago district, having been University of Chicago
and district • champion at one time. After qualifying with an
85, one stroke more than the medalist, R. M. Purves, he erased
in order, C. Maxwell, of New York; M. M. Lord, of Syracuse;
Pr. A. R. Gardner, of Westchester Biltmore; and last but not
least, Finney, from the Metropolitan district. In each match
he conceded several strokes to opponents, and was forced to
display consistent golf for victory throughout the tournament.
Finney in the meantime was having no lead pipe cinch to
carry on. A seven handicap aided considerably in his victories
over G. H. Williams, of Areola; Roy Maxwell, of Wykagyl;
and George C. Dutton, of Boston, the New England Senior
champion. His qualifying score of 88 was well up with the
leaders.
In the final match he was conceded four shots by Hartman,
but his game fell away slightly from his previous efforts, so
that on the outward half he failed to use either of the four
strokes alloted for that section, but registered a win and a
half with the other pair. When he stood four down at the
turn, out in 46 to his opponent’s 40, it looked to be all over but
the shouting. And more so when at the tenth he was another
to the bad. But from that point on he staged a spurt which
reduced the deficit to two on the wrong side of the ledger at
the fifteenth hole. . But right there Hartman plugged the
leakage, checked the rally with two wonderful shots, and re
ceived the interlocking grip on the seventeenth green.
In playing out the bye hole Hartman was 40 again, Finney
considerably better with a 41 for a total of 87, to the victor’s
80. A review of the match shows that Finney won but one
hole on the outgoing nine on an even basis, and two on the in
coming without handicap, and one with. Hartman proved
the leader from the start, and it was a wonderful wood shot
from the rough at the fifteenth which proved the downfall of
Finney, After driving to the woods and missing his second,
he brassied his way from the pines over 200 yards for a regu
lation par five and a halve where Finney had a stroke coming.
And on the finishing hole from behind a mound he laid one
up eighteen inches from the cup previous to which Finney had
run one up for what looked like a win to about the same dis
tance from the cpp.
The qualifying round, as stated, proved to be one wherein
R. M. Purves, of Boston, gave the party. In years gone by he
has proven the best card and pencil shooter, also the best at
match play. He was closely followed by Roy Barnhill with an
86, Hartman with an 85, *and C. Maxwell with an 86. Few in
the field shattered 90 and it was found that scores of 95 made
the first flight with two tied for one place. In the draw, W. T.
Hamilton, last year’s winner, dropped to the second division.
The field was so large that six flights were mustered together,
and all divisions proved full of red fire matches. And the
ladies who were kept as busily engaged as the men proved
evenly matched through the fine system of handicapping. Mrs.
B. L. Tyrell, of Brooklyn, proved the best in their match
play tournament. One of the high lights of the special events
was the score made by J. B. Windrum and T. A. Hendry in
the four ball. Their card of 30-34—64 was several strokes
better than the rest of the field. Handicaps figured promi
nently in the results, each contestant being allowed three
fourths of his rating. The best golf reported for nine holes
in match play was by Hartman who scored 34 for the outward
nine.
First Division
First round—M. M. Lord (12) beat W. E. Conklyn (9) 3
and 1; G. H. Hartman (2) beat C. Maxwell (9) 7 and 5; R. M.
Purves (4) beat W. O. Smith (15) 27 holes; Dr. A. R. Gardner