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VOL. XII, No. 17.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
JOHN E. PORTER WINNER
Captures Final Round of Spring Tour
ney from B. P. Merriman.
.Entry of One Hundred and Seventy
three Contestant Ilreak
All Oolf Ilecord.
HE FIFTH annual Spring
golf tournament drew
together one of the fast
est first divisions ever
assembled here and rep
resentative of a wide
range of territory, no less than six state
champions and ten club champions being
represented, and during the entire pro
irresa of the tournament the fate of the
favorites was as uncertain an the direc
tion of a weathervane in a sauall. The
entry list of one hundred and seventy
three contestants breaks all existing
records and is unquestionably the largest
in the history of American golf, a sig
niilcant prophecy as Mr. Lard states in
an interview printed elsewhere a signifi
cant indication not only of the popular
ity of the game here but the place it is to
occupy for all time as a factor in Ameri
can sports.
The culmination of interest came with
Saturday's thirty-six hole final rounds
which prevailed in all divisions,the atten
tion of the gallery fixed on the battle for
the President's or first division trophy.
between John "E. Porter of the Alle
ghany Country club, runner-up in last
year's United North and South Amateur
Championship, and 13. P. Merriman, of
the Waterbury Golf club. Connecticut
Champion, four up and two to play in a
match which was much more interesting
than the score indicates.
The Alleghany player started the af
ternoon round six up, adding an extra
tally to the score on the nineteenth, but
from that point it was stroke for stroke
to the thirtieth green from which point
the Waterbury golfer made a brilliant
rally, taking the next three holes in par
golf, but losing the match on the thirty
fourth green. In the semi-final Mr.
Porter won a close match from Walter
Fairbanks of the Denver Country Club,
the Colorado champion and former South
Florida champion, two up Jand one to
play ; his first round with C. S. Smith of
the Midlothian Golf Club, the Michigan
champion, which resulted three upland
two to play.
Mr. Merriman's journey down to the
finals was by no means strewn with
roses, his semi-final roundj with .C. L.
Decker of the Woodland Golf club, local
Club champion and winner of the recent
St. Valentine's tournament, which was
won on the home green by two up. At
the turn the Massachusetts player was
one up, but the Connecticut man squared
the match shortly after and the chances
were even to the sixteenth tee. from
which Mr. Becker drove in the pond and
lost the hole. The seventeenth was a
halve, a fast three for Mr. Merriman on
the eighteenth a drive an approach and
North and South Champion, which was
decided on the last hole,andJthe match be
tween Dr. W. S.Harban'of the Columbia
Golf club and J. D. Foot, the Apawamis
veteran, which was decided on the nine
teenth green.
E. S. Parmelee ofA' the New Haven
Country club, was the winner of the
consolation, defeating W. C. Fownes of
the Oakmont Golf club, in the final
round, three up and one to play.
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a putt to a five for his opponent, decid
ing the contest. In the second round
Mr. Merriman defeated Dr. W. S. Har-
ban, one of the Columbia Golf club's
best men, three up and two to play, and
in the first round E. S. Parmelee of the
New Haven Country club, runner-up in
the recent St. Valentine's tournament
was the victim by three and two.
Other close contests in this division in
cluded Mr. Becker's defeat of Allan Lard
of the Chevy Chase Golf club, United
Standish, Jr., of the Detroit Golf club,
who defeated it. E. Armstrong of the
Fox HiUs Golf club,four and three in the
second division ; Col. J. E. Smith of the
Wilmington Country club, who defeated
F. L. Hinckley of the Oxford Country
club, six and five, in the third; L. D.
Pierce of the Woodland Golf club, who
defeated 11. S. Emmett of the Mohawk
Golf club, five and four, in the fourth;
Harold Wyatt of the Fairview Golf club,
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PISTOL SCORES RON HIGH
State and Club Championship Events
Are Features of Week.
J. JB. Partridgre, r. C. Klng-tley Field
and Mr. II. V. Wurtlcmaii
Divide Honor.
HE WEEK has been a
notable one for pistol
shooters combining as it
has the annual United
States Pevolver Associa
tion State Championship
and the annual Club Championship tour
nament held in connection wiih a special
handicap event for a trophy contributed
by Mr. Tyler L. Pedfield of New York.
While the field was, necessiarilj', limited
to the experts the competition was none
the less keen and the scores indicate very
clearly the rapid growth in popularity
the sport is making here, work in the
State Championship event being of a
character which will class high up with
the best records made throughout the
country.
U. S. R. A. CHAMPIONSHIP.
E. E. Partridge of Mingo Springs,
Maine, long recognized as one of the
countries fastest amateurs, was the win
ner of the Stale Championship event
with a total of four hundred and thirty-
nine. Dr. K). ivingsiey jeid or J-ondon,
England, was second with four hundred
and three, L. C. Hopkins of Brooklyn,
third in three hundred and seventy-three,
and Mrs. II. V. Wurdeman of Milwau
kee, fourth in three hundred and fifty-
nine, rne tropnies were association
medals for first, second and third. The
scores :
MR. PARTKIUGK.
47-439
45 42 45 48
1R. FIELD.
38 42 35 41 37
MR. HOPKINS.
30 41 35 37 39
MRS. WURDKMAN.
42 34 36 33 30 34 38359
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43 49403
43 37-373
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38 39 41
37 35 39
38 41 33
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP.
Dr. Field was the winner of the Club
Championship with a score of four hund
red and twelve, Mr. Hopkins finishing
second in three hundred and eightyrsix.
Mrs. Wurdeman led the women with a
fast three hundred and eighty-three,
Mrs. Stucki of Bullalo, the title holder,
second in three hundred and thirty-four.
The scores :
DR. FIELD
36 46 44 45 40 39 43 39 37 43412
MR. HOPKINS.
37 38 34 39 39 36 40 46 45 82386
MRS. WURDEMAN.
39 43 38 37 34 41 35 39 42 35 38S
MRS. STUCKI.
24 36 27 35 36 35 29 37 33 42334