VOL. XVII, NO. 19
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1914
FIVE CENTS
THE UNITED CHAMPIONSHIP
Opportunity Smiles and Beckons, But
Passes by Unrecognized
II. 8. Wortbing-ton U Title Winner in
the AIOMt Kotable Tournament
of Cldaaic Series
OPPORTUNITY surely
smiled on Paul E.
Gardner of OnweDtsia
in the thirty-six hole
final for the fourteenth
annual United North
1 O 1L
0 I r 4H.tr I auu oouui Vyiiampiun-
S ship trophy, but the fair
h( l-ffi Goddess passed unrecog
nized. As a natural result she bestowed
her favor upon R. S. Worthington of
Shawnee, who first stepped into the
golfing limelight as victor over Cham
pion Ouimet after he won the Open. As
the anti-climax of the most notable week
in the history of Pinehurst's classic came
the contest, a tournament of thrills and
sensations which backgrounded all else.
The morning round was as pretty an
exhibition as has been seen here in many
a day with the pair all even in seventy
seven each, but a tendency to see just
where the ball was going before it started
and an inability to make distance on short
work developed in the Onwentsia play
er which proved his Waterloo, f
Gardner's long game was little short of
perfection and the recoveries of both
superb ; the most interesting feature of
the battle the personal contrast of the
contenders; Worthington keen, deliber
ate, cautious; Gardner eager, daring,
brilliant. Six up on the thirteenth, the
Shawnee player studied his last putt as
if the universe depended on it ; six down
the Onwentsia golfer played apparently
as he would have done in a friendly
match. 1 Nervous? Doubtful! UNo,
rather a failure to fully grasp just
what concentration means when fate
hangs in the balance, the lesson which
comes only through experience to many,
but which is intuitive with few. f Briefly,
Gardner " threw away " a morning lead
which would have tided him over after
noon difficulties and given him a surplus
to draw upon when the "run" came.
Admitting this for the basis of argument,
one can easily trace the struggle, stroke
by stroke, to the home green or beyond !
1 The cards :
WORTIIINGTON MORNING
Out 5 4 5 5 5 3 5 3 439
IN 54545343 5-3S 77
GARDNER MORNING
Out 44455353 3 3G
IN 45556444 44177
wortiiington afternoon
Out 44446454 338
In 4 4 4 5
gardner afternoon
Out 44546464 441
In 5 5 5 5
opportunity smiles and beckons
Worthington's first win was from F. M.
Laxton of Mecklenberg, his second from
sixteenth, f Early in play the finalists
were picked as favorites and they had
the gallery; friendly and enthusiastic,
but tense and eager.
In the morning round both players
found that the numerous hazards on
number two course had been placed with
a purpose! On the first, a drive to the
rough and a short second lost Worthing
ton the hole, 5 4, and on the second a
long putt saved it for a halve in 4 for
Gardner. On the third Worthington was
out played, 5 1, and a topped drive on
"4
"V.
PAUL E. GARDNER
C. L. Becker of Woodland and his semi
final from VV. 31. Paul of Mecklenberg ;
the scores four and two, five arid three,
six and five. If Gardner came down the
bracket seven and five, four and three,
four and three, with victories over E. M.
Barnes of Englewood, Iiobert Hunter of
Wee Burn and Dr. C. II. Gardner of
Agawam. lEisy going? No, not as
easy as it might appear, for it took cards
well below the eighties throughout the
week to conclude matches short of the
R. S. WORTIIINGTON
the fourth gave Gardner a chance to win
which he lost by "peeking" on his sec
ond. Likevvisc, he failed to win the fifth
for the same reason and halved in 5. The
sixth was a perfect 3 for each. Both
were in the rough on the seventh and
halved in 5. A superb approach from
the whisker bunkers saved the eighth
with a halve in 3 for Gardner and he won
the ninth on a perfect 3, m iking the turn
all even. IT The tenth was Gardner's in
Concluded on page two)
SOUTHWARD -HO! IN SPRING
Henry MacNair Gives Routes and Itin
erary for Middle South Tour
Find Plnehurst Hot Only Hub ot
9Ioore County but of Southern
Good Itoada
T II E comparatively
small amount of motor
travel to the South has
been due to the poor
condition of certain
stretches of road, partic
ularly in Virginia,
which, with its impass
able highways, made a
most effective barrier to motor migra
tions, whether to the South or to the
North. This condition is rapidly chang
ing, however, and announcement has
been recently made of the completion of
the new state highway from Richmond
to the North Carolina line. While this
news has been received with pleasure by
both tourists and resort proprietors in the
South, northern car owners have been
puzzled as to how the really good road3
of the middle South might be reached
without damage or discomfort.
A suggestion to those' contemplating a
winter tour to Pinehurst and other Mid
dle South resorts comes from Henry
MacNair, a touring authority, who has
just returned from an extended motor
trip of investigation through the South
on behalf of Leonard.Tufts, president of
of the Capital High way-A ssociation . M r.
MacNair says there are very few roads in
the entire South which are really tour
able, and the practice of showing the
southern states on maps as a network of
good roads has been very misleading, and
is anything but a kindness to that sec
tion, since returning tourists who have
attempted to follow the heavy black lines
shown have had stories to tell which have
kept others fromTessaying any trip at all
in that really delightful land, where
holly and mistletoe overhang the roads
and the beautiful waving plumes of the
long-leaf pinecent the atmosphere with
their invigorating aroma.
Pending the completion of the road
from Richmond to Washington, now well
under way, there are several methods of
reaching Norfolk at present, the most;
satisfactory, starting point for southern
tours. If desiring to get in as much land
travel as possible, one should diive from
Boston through to Springfield and Hart
ford, then to Philadelphia and Wilming
l Concluded on page twelve)