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VOL. XII, No. 7.
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
C. L, BECKER R. E. SPRODLE
Tbey Divide Honors in Sixth Annual
Midwinter Golf Tournament.
One Hundred and Tortjone Partici
pate and Keen Play and the Un
expected Hale Throughout.
tHARTON L. Becker of
the Woodland Golf Club,
;,Auburndalc, and R. E.
Sproule of the Wollaston
Golf Club, also of the
old Bay State, divided
honors in the sixth Annual Midwinter
Golf Tournament; the former winning
the President's or Championship cup,
and the bitter the qualification gold
medal. From start to finish the. contest
was replete with keen play and the un
expected ; the entry list of one hundred
and forty-one participants being a new
record for this tournament, nine in ad
vance of last season, and as for interest
and enthusiasm, it was unlimited.
Qualification after the Pinehurst Sys
tem, inaugurated in connection with this
tournament in 1907, was also given
another test with results of increasing
satisfaction, and the perfect weather of
Monday and Tuesday, to a large extent,
made up for the rain and mist of
Wednesday. Various social features
planned in honor of the visitors, were
also much enjoyed.
Mr. Becker started in at the bottom of
the bracket and worked up, alternating
his wins "five and four" and "two and
one" to the finish, with steady, consist
ent play. His first round was with young
Charles Presbrey of Fox Hills, the second
with E. H. Silliman of the Detroit Coun
try Club, the third with E. J. Spaulding
of the Waubannakee Club, and the fourth
and final, with L. A. Hamilton, one of
Englewood's fastest, men, a long putt
which halved the seventeenth hole, win
ning the coveted cup.
The match was stroke for stroke to the
turn, where the Massachusetts player
gained a lead which he increased on the
tenth. Winning the twelfth and thir
teenth and halving the fourteenth, Mr.
Becker had Mr.: Hamilton dormie four;
wins on the fifteenth and sixteenth for
Mr. Hamilton, giving a glow to the
finish.
Mr. Hamilton went down to the finals
through C. B. Hudson of the Rochester
Country Club, J. P. Knapp of Garden
City, and his brother, R. M. Hamilton of
Wykagyl, winning four and two, two
and one, and one up, in the order given ;
the latter a close match.
The consolation went to J. P. Gardner
of Midlothian, who defeated Frederick
Snare of Englewood, J. J. Hazen of Fox
Hills, and F. C. Jennings of Nassau.
S. L. Brumbaugh of the Philadelphia
Country Club, won the Governor's cup
from R. M. Purves of Woodland, and W.
L. Colt of Scarsdale, the consolation.
J. H. Hawley of Hackensack, won the
Secretary's cup, J. V. Hurd of Pittsburg,
and J. D. Plummer of the Springfield
Country Club, the consolation.
field Country Club, winning the conso
lation!
In all divisions there were cups for the
winners and runners-up, and the conso
lation division winners. Qualification
scores by rounds, and the full match
play summary, are printed upon pages
two and three of this issue.
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The Treasurer's cup was captured by
W. G. Clark of Woodland, from G. W.
Watts of the Baltimore Country Club ;
D. J. Coffey of Franklin Park, winning
the consolation. Dr. A. Senseman of
Atlantic City, took the Captain's cup
from F. L. Stuart of Montclair, and L.
A. Agnew of Wykagyl, the consolation ;
the Club cup going to R. A. Sasseen of
Fox Hills, who defeated W. F. Smith of
Brae Burn ; O. H. Fleming of the Plain-
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goes to press, one hundred players par
ticipating in six match play divisions.
A wealth of fascinating trophies are
offered and "the goose honks high."
Full details will be printed in next
week's issue.
Guest of Sir Ilorton.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Tufts were the
guests of Mrs. C. S. Horton at dinner
at The Carolina during the week.
FOR BEST SELECTED SCORE
Novel Golf Competition Provided by
Gift of Mr. Presbrey.
Three Months' Contest with Ptiil
bllltles of Winning for Varied
Classes of Players.
PECIAL interest centres
in the announcement of
the gift of a handsome
sterling silver Gorham
pup. to be known as
tbe "Frank Presbrey
Trophy," and to be awarded to the
golfer who makes the best selected
score on the new eighteen hole golf
course between January 10th and April .
10th, inclusive, the competition open to
all, the only conditions being that at
least twenty complete and attested
cards be turned in, that each score card
used in this competition be secured for
the purpose from the Caddy Master,
stamped by him with date, etc., and
turned in fully attested by the player's
partner. Where two players appear on
one card and only one is competing for
the trophy, the score of the non-competitor
shall be marked off.
Messrs. H. W. Ormsbee, W. L, Hurd
and Donald Ross have been named by
Mr. Presbrey as a committee in charge
of the competition and their decision on
all matters will be final. In case of ties
the next best selected score will win.
All cards are to be dropped in the locked
box at the Club House provided for this
purpose, from which they will be taken
at stated intervals and entered in ink in
a book prepared for the purpose, a page
to be devoted to each competitor's
scores.
The number of scores that may be
turned in is only limited by the . length
of the competitor's stay and the number
of rounds he plays, and undoubtedly
many will turn in more than double the
required number. At the close of the
competition each player's record will be
gone over and the best score made on
each of the eighteen holes taken to make
up the selected score, and it will thus
be seen that the possibilities offered for
putting grim Col. Bogey to rout are
limitless.
For instance, the best score on the
first hole will be taken, possibly a three
and surely a four, and so on down
through the entire eighteen holes, the
total of these selected eighteen holes
representing the competitive score which
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