VOL. XII, No. 8.
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
J. P. KNAPP THE WINNER
Nineteen-hole Final Brilliant Close of
Advertising Men's Tourney.
Record Field of One Hundred and
Tbree Participate and Good Fel
lowship Itelerna Supreme.
TRAIGHT down through
from first rounds to
final", the annual Adver
tising Men's Golf Tour
naraent provided fast
play, with interest of
the gallery centred on the first division,
its special features daily nineteen-hole
contests, with the home and the short
seventeenth greens deciding it in the ma
jority of cases.
The field of one hundred and three
contestants was the largest in the history
of these tournaments, and as for interest
and good fellowship, no event has ever
provided moie to make dull days bright
until Northern links smile a welcome in
the spring; the week one of many social
pleasures, dinners and dances combining
happily with the "business" of the hour.
J. P. Knapp of New York, captured
the championship trophy from W. Smed
ley of Philadelphia, on the nineteenth
green, in a spectacular match ; by strange
coincidence reversing the order of Mr.
Smedley's semi-final play.
At the turn the New Yorker was two
down, the Philadelphian increasing his
lead to three up on the thirteenth, but
then the tide of victory turned, Mr.
Knapp with alternate wins and halves,
evening the score on the home green, and
takinsr the extra hole with a fast four to
five for his opponent.
Mr. Knapp came down through to the
finals rather easily, winning seven and
five, three and two, and four and three,
from W. L. Colt, Jason Rogers and L. A.
Hamilton, in the order given.
Just the reverse was Mr. Smedley's
progress, his preliminary rounds with
E. II. Silliman and II. V. Seggerman
both requiring extra holes, the latter be
ing won with the score three down at the
turn, by taking four holes beginning
with the fourteenth, Mr. Seggerman win
ning the eighteenth to tie the score. In
the second round Mr. Smedley defeated
F. C. Jennings, two and one.
Mr. Seggerman and Frank Presbrey
fought it out to the nineteenth in the
second round, Mr. Presbrey two up at
the turn; Mr. Seggerman tying the score
on the seventeenth, halving the eighteenth
and winning the extra hole, Mr. Pres-
brey's match with II. M. Adams was all
even at the turn, the last hole deciding
it.
In the consolation also the battle waged,
Charles Presbrey and L. A. Hamilton
fighting it out to the home green in the
first round, the score all even at the fif
teenth which Mr. Presbrey won, the next
two holes halved, Mr. Hamilton winning
on the eighteenth.
V. J. MacDonald of Chicago, and J. II
Eggers of Summit, won the second di
vision, and R. E. S. Carlisle of Buffalo,
and W. C. Kimball of New York, the
consolations.
W. M. Sanford of Glen Ridge, and
Maj. J. J. Morrow of Washington, took
the third division trophies, and S. Keith
Evans of New York, and Dr. E. Sense-
man of Atlantic City, the consolations
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In the second round Mr. Presbrey de
feated S. II. Patterson, five and four, the
semi-final and final both won on the sev
enteenth green from J. J. Hazen and
Frederick Snare.
The remaining divisions were played on
a new plan, the cups going to the win
ners of first and second four division and
consolation winners, instead of to the
usual winners and runners-up.
V. A. Seggerman and R. R. Mamlok,
both of New York, captured the fourth
division trophies, and T. T. Rushmore of
Garden City, and N. Wierman of Moores
town, the consolations.
Twenty and nineteen-hole matches de
cided it in the fifth division, A. S. Hig
gins and A. S. Brownell, both of Yonk
ers, winning; B. D. Butler of Minne
(Concluded on page 6.)
THE MIDWINTER HANDICAP
From All Points of. Compass Experts
Come for Second Annual.
JPIck of the Country's Amateur and
Professional Represented
on Firing' line.
CHOESTG and reechoing
through the Village is
the sharp crack of
smokeless powder,and for
the time being, "pull" not
"fore," is the war cry, the
interest of the entire colony centred in
the second annual Midwinter Handicap
Trap Shooting Tournament.
From north, south, east and west the
experts come, and hundreds gather daily
to watch the quick flying targets vanish
in clouds of purple dust, and to note the
scores as they rise and fall on the great
bulletin board. It's trap shooting from
early morning until dusk : makes the
bright sky leaden, and Pinehurst, man,
woman and child, is enjoying it.
Interest of the gallery is centred on
the shots of international reputation,
among them C. W. Billings of the New
York Athletic Club, winner of the Hand
icap last year, and third in the recent
Preliminary of the Championship of his
own club; a clean, steady marksman
whose call and whose shot are almost
simultaneous.
From Cleveland is D. A. Upson, win
ner of the Preliminary in the N. Y. A. C.
Amateur Championship last year, and
the same event in the Eastern Handicap
in lyu; witn mm K. s. Kosrers of
Cleveland, who figured prominently in
the Eastern Handicap last June, and who
is generally regarded as one of the com
ing men.
R. D. Stokley of Wilmington, N. C,
is also one of the Class A men,ruuner-up
in the Preliminary here last year, and
winner of the same event in the South
ern Handicap in 1U07 and the State
Championship; with him E. E. Boushee,
Dr. J. II. Dreher, E. E. Boylan, G. W.
Penny and J. E. Taylor of his home
club.
Dr. D. L. Culver of Jersey City, win
ner of the Atlantic Coast Championship
at Asbury Park last August and a fine
trophy at Port Jervis in July, is another
of the fast ones.
F. W. Moffett of the Crescent Club, and
champion for two years past, is here with
A. R. Allan of the same club, winner of
the high aggregate score in the inter-club
(Concluded on page 6)