VOL. VI., NO. 19.
PINEHURST, MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1903.
PRICE THREE CENTS
THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT FOR 1903!
Event Marks Epocb in the History of
Golf in the South.
Ileck with-Ward Match In the Chum
pioiiNhip Final a Fitting Climax
to a Great Event.
The United North and South amateur
championship tournament for 1903, un
questionably takes its place as one of the
important tournaments of the year;
marking a new epoch not only in the
history of golf at Pinehurst; but in the
South, as well.
In the list of nearly sixty entries,
many of the principal clubs and promi
nent amateurs of the country were rep
resented, and interest in the event was
not confined to the Village and the South,
but extended throughout the country.
The weather of Saturday and Tuesday
was absolute perfection, and Monday
was not especially disagreeable because
it might have been much worse.
Throughout the course was in superb
condition, the absorbant sand taking up
every partical of moisture almost as soon
as it fell, and the arrangements were
carried out with the precision of clock
work. An immense crowd manifested what
might well be termed a personal interest
in the tournament from first to last, and
close and hard fought matches were fea
tures of the event ; the Beckwith-Ward
match in the championship finals, com
ing as a fitting climax to a great event.
The tournament in every important
particular was a brilliant success which
will spread the fair name of Pinehurst
far and wide, and one does not need to
be much of a prophet to foretell what
the tournaments of 1904, 1905 and 1906
will be !
The Trophy Winners.
The trophy winners were :
T, Sterling Beckwith, Cleveland
Golf Club, Cleveland, Ohio : Cham
pionship, AND THE BEST GROSS SCORE
IN THE QUALIFICATION ROUNDS.
John M. Ward, Fox Hills Golf
Club, St aten Island : Runner-up in
the Championship.
Roy S. Durstine, Lawrence ville
Golf Clur, LawRenceville, N. J :
Consolation and best net score in
the qualification rounds.
I. C. Bates Dana, HillandaleGolf
Club, Stamford, Connecticut: Runner-up
IN THE CONSOLATION.
Mrs. M. D. Paterson, Englewood
Golf Club, Englewood, New Jer
sey: Women's championship and
best gross score in the qualifica
tion round.
Miss Frances Powers, Allston
Golf Club, Allston, Mass : Runner
up in the Women's Championship and
best net score in the qualification
ROUND.
Special events Putting contest,
George ('. Dutton, Oakley Country Club,
Watertown, Mass.; Approaching con
test, G. II. French, North Attleboro
Country Club, North Attleboro, Mass. ;
Driving contest, F, J, Bailey, Chicago,
111.
llechwith-Ward Match in one of the
Great Content of the Year.
Interest in the tournament increased
as the event progressed, culminating in
the final match between Beckwith and
Ward, Tuesday afternoon. Fully five
hundred people in which young and old,
men and women, golfers and non-golfers
were conspicuous, followed the match
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Close and Interesting Matches.
Twenty-hole Content Iletween MIm
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of the Feature of the Tournament.
.?!.". PATER809T,
Of the Eng-lewood Golf Club, Iew Jersey; Winner of the
Woman' Chaniionhlp,
The Women's Championship event was
not unlike the men's in the number and
importance of its entries, and from the
qualification round down through to the
finals, it was replete with close and in
teresting matches.
In the qualification round, Mrs. M. D.
Paterson won the gross score cup with
101, and Miss Powers the net score cup,
with 9G, finishing only a single stroke
behind the gross.score of Mrs. Paterson.
Miss Powers' match with Miss Brad
bury was not only the event of the
women's championship, but one of the
features of the tournament as well. At
the turn Miss Powers was four down,
but coming in she rallied and gradually
cut this score down hole by hole, until
at the seventeenth she was even up.
The eighteenth and nineteenth holes
were halved and the twentieth hole was
won by a single stroke. The interest of
the immense gallery was intense, and
with the final victory came tremendous
applause.
The detailed score tells the story of the
battle.
GOING OUT.
6 6 5 6 10 5
5 5 9 5 7 9 4
COMING IN
Miss P. 5 5 6 G 10 G 10 3 8 5 5G9 58 127
Miss B.6G6510 711G85 G 76 56 132
In the final round Mrs. Paterson de
feated Miss Powers by a score of 5 up,
4 to play.
The .Participant.
The participants in the women's
championship were:
Mrs. M. D. Paterson, Englewood Golf
Clul), New Jersey; Miss Elisa M, Wirth,
Pine Banks Golf Club, Maiden, Mass. ;
Miss M. Eleanor Freeman, Montclair
Golf Club, New Jersey; Miss Frances
Powers, Allston Golf Club, Allston,
Mass. ; Miss Mary F. Page, Blue Bidge
Golf Club, Millwood, Va.; Mrs. Arthur
C. Ketcham, Ardsley Golf Club, New
York city ; Miss Joan Browne, Wyante
nuck Golf Club, Great Barrington,
ALhs. ; Miss Ethel Check, East Orange,
N. J. ; Miss Florence Bradbury, Provi
dence, R. I. ; Mrs. Charles P. Fay, Chic
opee Falls, Mass, ; Miss Caroline Check,
East Orange, N. J. ; Mrs. I. C. Bates
Dana, Hillandale Golf Club, Stamford,
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