VOL. XV, NO. 5
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY G, 1912
FIVE CENTS
CLIMAX IN FINAL ROUND
Brilliant Play Concludes Annual Holiday
Week Golf Tournament
llacli and Ilunter in first .Division
Play Iloltvion and JBecker Both
Win IVinetec n-hole Matches
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SATURDAY'S final
was a brilliant climax to
the keen play of the
eighth annual Holiday
week golf tournament,
nineteen-hole matches
deciding it in the contest
for the President's Cup
and Consolation, play
followed by galleries of several hundred
people and interest keyed to the highest
pitch. For premier honors Chisholm
Beach of Fox Hills and Robert Hunter of
Wee Burn met and a battle royal it was,
stroke for stroke throughout. With
scores of forty-one each the pair started
homeward all even,with no change in the
situation on the tenth. Hunter, however,
won the short eleventh, 3-4, only to lose
the twelfth, 4-5. Sixes and five3 halved
the next two holes, Hunter gaining the
lead again on the long sixteenth, 5-6 ; the
short seventeenth halved in four and
Beach winning the eighteenth to square
the match, by brilliant recovery from
over approach. The pair started rather
badly on the nineteenth, Beach topping
and pulling his drive and Hunter slicing.
The Fox Hills player was short on his
second, and the Wee Burn golfer made
the bunker, taking two strokes to ex
tricate himself only to land in the un
playable rough at the left of the course,
giving the hole to Beach who lay com
fortably close to the green. The cards :
BEACH 54363554 641
Hunter 5 5 3 5 3 5 7 4 441
BEACH 44465564 4424183
HUNTER 4 3 5 6 6 5 5 4 5434184
Equally keen was the Consolation final,
young "Phil" Robeson, the fourteen-year-old
Oak Hill player, defeating C. L.
Becker of Woodland on the extra hole.
At the turn with medal scores of forty
each, honors were even, the Woodland
golfer winning the tenth hole, 4-5, only
to lose the short eleventh, 2-4. The
tricky twelfth was halved in five and
young Bobeson gained the lead on the
thirteenth with four ; a five, four and five
halving the next three holes. Becker
squared the match on the short seven
teenth with a par 3, halved the eighteenth
in 4, and lost the nineteenth, 6-5 ; a spec
tacular approach from the pit at the left
of the green winning for young Robeson.
Mr. Beach came down through to the
final without much difficulty, his first
round won from Mr. Becker by three and
two, his second from I. S. Robeson of
Oak Hill by five and four, and his semi
final from J. M. Thompson of Spring
haven by two up. This latter match was
a close one, the Pensylvanian with a
score three down and four to go, winning
the sixteenth and seventeenth only to
lose the match on the eighteenth.
the tenth and eleventh. The Garden
City player, however captured the twelfth
and thirteenth, each in 4-5, and gained
the lead on the fourteenth where Mr.
Ilunter was out of it through a lost ball.
Fives, sixes and threes halved the next
three holes, both players making the
eighteenth green with their second shots,
the advantage decidedly on Mr. Robbins'
side. Mr. Hunter made a hard try for a
long putt, missed and over-ran, Mr. Rob
bins laying the ball "dead," butitrefued
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"THE "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN"
Mr. Hunter was more or less in the
background on his first and second
rounds, a three and two win from young
Robeson, and an eight and seven victory
from F. T. Keating of Lenox, but he step
ped into the lime-light in his semi-final
twenty-three hole match with Arden M.
Robbins of Garden City. Three up on
the eighth, Mr. Hunter lost the ninth and
started home two up, holding his own on
to go down although the distance was
scarcely more than a foot. All even the
pair stepped to the first tee with the Club
House crowd in the rear. Fours, fives
and fours halved the next three holes,
two screaming putts deciding it on the
twenty-second. Mr. Hunter made the
green on the twenty-third, with Mr. Rob
bins short, his approach putt zig-zagging
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HOLIDAY MERRYMAKERS
New Year Cotillion Speeds the Old and
Welcomes New Year
Leap Year Offers Opportunities
Which are Made Much of In First
of More Formal Dances
ALTHOUGH planned
entirely on informal
lines Monday evening's
New Year Cotillion pro
vided an evening of rare
enjoyment for the entire
Village; several " leap
year" novelties adding
incident and varietv.
The program was mainly one of Holiday
merrymaking, and the figures old favor
ites, opening with the "Prince Charming"
and "My Affinity," no other than a mad
rush by the young men for slippers be
longing to the young women, and the
selection of partners by the young
women, through trifles contributed by
the young men and ranging all the way
from a postage stamp to a seal riDg. The
"Derby" in which the young men raced for
partners upon unsteady steeds, no other
than chairs, was full of thrills and spiced
with numerous "croppers." The old
time potato race, in which playing cards
which clung most affectionately to the
polished floor were used, reminded one of
a slippery New England sidewalk before
sanding, and the "Puss in the Corner,"
and "Paul Jones" figures were all entered
into with a zest which gave the affair snap
and go throughout.
The favors included boutonnieres and
pompoms, pipes and fans, cigarettes and
confections, with the climax when tin
horns and other musical (?) instruments
were distributed for the purpose of wel
coming the New and speeding the part
ing year. Details of arrangements were
in the hands of Miss Gwendolyn Cum
mings of Brookline, who led with Mr.
Justus Kendall of Worcester. As a special
concession in recognition of the one year
in four, the favor booths were in charge of
Messrs. W. C. Johnson of New York,
Allan Lard of Washington and Dr. Myron
W. Marr of Dorchester, radiant in mon
strous hair ribbons of red, yellow and
blue, set off with feather aigrettes and re
lieved by Dutch collars of Irish lace.
Directly opposite them was an older and
more sedate group in the conventional
evening dress, Messrs. W. E. Truesdell
of Brooklyn, Charles R. Gillett of New
York, and H. W. Ormsbee of Fitchburg.
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