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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
DWIGHT ARMSTRONG LEADS THE FIELD
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YALE SENIOR FIVE STROKES AHEAD OF CARTER
AND WILLIAMS
Qualifying Round of Mid-Winter Golf Tournament , Hard Sled
ding for Many Old Champions
1 DWIGHT L. Arm
strong, a Senior at
Yale playing from
the Oakmont Club,
opened the Mid-
01 n?J Winter Golf Tour
It nament at the Coun
try Club by readily leading home
a field of veteran golfers and on
time champions for the qualify
ing gold medal. Even the inevita
ble Phil Carter, wto carried all
before him last year, was five
strokes behind this young cham
pion.
The day was perfect, but the
course was slow. And as every
one agrees that Number Three,
over which the matches were
played, is five or six strokes
stirrer than Number One. The
round had been postponed after
a number of cards had been
handed in yesterday, due to a
heavv shower that inundated the
greens.
The scores reflected the heavi
ness of the course and many first
string players were glad to break
under the 90 class at all. Carter
was among the first of the rank
ing players to return his score,
and his 84 stood best most of the
morning. Franklin Gates of
Broadacre, who won the Carolina
tournament, and is always a dan
gerous man, had made 83 in the
rain the day before. But the
day's hoodoo fell upon him, and
his 94 at present writing looks
like the second division. About
noon C. H. Williams of Ardnimink
caused a mild sensation by tieing
Carter, and as the day wore on it
looked as if these two would have
to play off for the medal. The
best bets (as was supposed) had
all come in. T. W. Watson, the
Merion player, with 85; Robert
Hunter, champion of the Autumn
tournament, with 86, tieing D. G.
Clayton, Springhaven ; and the
formidable Robeson brothers,
Fillmore K. and Irving, many a
time leaders of the lists, with 87
apiece. Becker, the field mar
shall of the host, recorded a 90,
and this excellent score for this
course was also given in by R. C.
Shannon, II, for the glory of the
Tin Whistles, and George Van
Keuren of Englewood.
So Carter and Williams went out
to play off, in case they were tied
for first place, as seemed almost
certain. Carter struck his stride,
the first time since he unpacked
his bags yesterday, and rolled into
the fifteenth hole all even fours,
even as we are accustomed to
seeing him do. This was too fast
for Williams. But the match had
an untimely end at this point, for
word had come from the club of
the arrival of a new challenger, a
danger to every old champion on
the course.
The first we knew of it a Moore
County pair driving from the
tenth tee inquired in awed tones
who that young fellow behind
them was. Someone said Arm
strong. Well, said they, we dunno
who he is, but our advice is to put
your accumulated savings on him
for the season. Told there were
others, they stuck to their opinion
like men who had seen a miracle,
and affirmed with conviction that
they didn't care who, Gardner or
Varden, or anyone else, they bet
on Armstrong, if that was his
name.
And sure enough. About the
last man in, he produced a card
of 79, five strokes to the good, and
all things considered, the best 79
we have ever heard of. The
course was undoubtedly difficult,
and this score must be compared
with the returns of Carter and
Hunter and Robeson, some of the
best men in the game.
Armstrong is a Senior at Yak
?. member of the Yale golf team
and is handicapped 2 in the Oak
mont Club. ,
The cards of the three lowest
scores and summary follow:
(Concluded on page sixteen)