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VOL X, No. J 9.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL SIXTH, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ALLAN E. LARD THE WINNER
Seventh Annual Championship Tourna
ment a Record Breaker.
for Brilliant olf and Keen Matches
Event Grant Second to no
Contest in History.
HUKSDAY'S thirty-six
hole final rounds in the
seventh annual United
North and South Ama
teur Championship golf
tournament, brought to
a close a record breaking contest in every
important particular. Not only was the
field the most important and representa
tive ever assembled here, but for brilliant
golf and keen matches the event ranks
second to no tournament in history ;
Wednesday's phenomenal play standing
out sharp and clear among all records of
amateur golfing achievements.
In the finals for the championship
trophy, Allan Lard of the Columbia Club,
Washington, going very fast, caught
Nathaniel F. Moore of the Onwentsia
Club, Chicago, badly off his game, win
ning by twelve up and eleven to play.
On the morning round Lard scored a fast
seventy-eight, with a 5 on the short
eleventh, bogey 3 ; and a 6 on the twelfth,
bogey 4; finishing the round eight up.
Starting the afternoon round in record
form, and Moore failing to rally, Lard
won the match on the twenty-fifth (sev
enth) green.
The champion's final victory came as
the result of steady play and close
matches, both his first match with J. D.
Foot of Apawamis, and his second with
W. P. Schatz of Wheaton, being decided
on the home green; the crisis being safely
passed in the semi-final round with David
Fleming, Jr., of Mt. Airy, which was
carried to the nineteenth hole.
At the turn the score was all even and
it was neck and neck to the finish, Lard
failing to make a putt for a win on the
eighteenth ; Fleming running down one
for a halve. A poor drive cost Fleming the
nineteenth and the match, Lard making
a perfect 4.
Fleming's closest previous 'match was
with C. -West Taintor of Fox Hills, the
home green and a halved hole, deciding
it. The players were all even at. the
turn, and it was stroke for stroke to the
seventeenth, which Fleming won, 34,
giving him the lead which he maintained.
' On the eighth green a screaming putt
saved a lost hole for the Philadelphian,
snatching from the Fox Hills man what
seemed like a sure win.
OTHER TROPHY WINNERS.
The championship consolation went to
Spotswood D. Bowers of the Brooklawn
Club, Massachusetts, who defeated T. S.
Lippy of Seattle, by three and two, in
hotly contested finals; the medal play
scores being one hundred and fifty-seven
and one hundred and sixty.
I. M. Jackson of Plymouth, won the
fourth division from II. B. Miller of
Shinnecossett, on the thirty-seventh
green; W. L. Murphy of Pittsburg, win
ning the consolation.
THE TOURNAMENT'S SURPRISES.
The climax of the week came Wednes
day and young Moore was the bright and
particular star, his defeat of both Inter-
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In the second division L. D. Pierce of
Woodland, finish strong, his final vic
tory being over George Robeson of Oak
Hill; J. P. Gardiner of Midlothian, win
ning the consolation.
Frank B. Barrett of Fox Hills and T.
II. Baldwin of Kenilworth, fought it
out. to the thirty-ninth green in the third .
division, Barrett winning; J. E. Kellogg
of Alpine, winning the consolation.
scholastic Champion, Fred Herreshoff,
and the Championship title holder, War
ren K. Wood, being the most brilliant
matches of the season and the spectacular
features and suprises of the tournament ;
a big day's work for one player ! Moore,
however, was in the pink of form, round
ing out two duplicate seventy-fcixes,
which will hold their own for many a
Concluded on page 7.)
MISS MOLLY B. ADAMS WINS
Her Matcb with Miss Dutton Feature
of Women's Championship.
Stroke for Stroke from Dili Careen to
Otn, Tourney Hank lllg-h in
Golfing- Annul.
HE women's event of the
Championship tourna
ment ranks as the most
successful contest of its
character in local golf
history, Miss Molly B.
Adams of the Oakley Country Club, run
ner-up in the national championship,win
ning the final round from Miss Gertrude
Gilbert of Philadelphia, by default.
Interest in the event, however, centred
upon the first round match between Miss
Adams and Miss Mary C. Dutton, winner
of the championship in 1905, and which
stands out preeminently not alone as the
most brilliant women's golf ever seen
here, but conspicuous in golfing annals
of the country as well. Not only were
the cards a tournament record here, but
the fact that Miss Dutton evened the
match when six down at tie turn and
with Miss Adams playing her game,
never once giving her the honor from the
ninth green to the twentieth, is generally
conceded to be an exhibition of nerve and
skill combined which is seldom equalled
either among men or women. In addi
tion to this a stymie onthetwelvth green
cost Miss Dutton a stroke, the hole, and,
undoubtedly, the match.
Going out Miss Adams struck a record
gait, making the turn in thirty-nine, with
three threes, four fives, a four and a six
on her card, Miss Dutton starting home
six down; but then the" mettle of the
little woman, inbred from a race which
has fought battles in business and in
sport, triumphed, and the tables were
turned, Miss Dutton winning the eight
eenth hole to tie the score.
Just then and here the gallery, already
keyed to concert pitch, began to walk on
tiptoe, and from that time until the last
putt was holed, no one breathed fre
quently enough to be conscious of the
fact. There was stillness in the air, and
never once from ofi' the ball in play did
two hundred pairs of eyes wander.
On the nineteenth tee Miss Dutton,
with the honor, sent a beauty straight
down the course, Miss Adams making
the pit at the right. Miss Dutton played
short of the pit on her second, a carry be
(Concluded on page 6.)