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VOL. XX, No. 7
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1917
FIVE CENTS
ARMSTRONG SUPREME
Yan Keuren, Gates, Hunter and Gillett
Star in Midwinter Golf Tournament
Carter Put up a Game Fight. Final
In All Divisions Marked itj Cloe
Extra Ilole JVfatchea
DWIGHT L. Arm
strong, the Yale
champion, playing
from the Oakmont
Club, medalist in
the qualification
round, proved his
fighting qualities . and his golf
ing ability by righting his way
through a strong and determined
field to victory in the Fourteenth
Annual Midwinter Golf Tourna
ment. There a hundred and thir
ty entries, including the stars of
many famous courses. The whole
contest was characterized by the
most stubborn sort of competi
tion, nineteen, twenty and even
twenty-one holes becoming the
rule rather than the exception for
the deciding of the final matches.
The standard of play which had
been ragged in the medal round
stiffened as the occasion required,
and in spite of his increasing
speed, the Yale boy had to work
all the way down the line. I. S.
Robeson of Oak Hill in the first
round was not beaten until they
reached the seventeenth. R. C.
Shannon, II, of Brockport gave
him a surprising run. Shannon
plays a good game. But more
than that he. makes an athletic
contest of it, pushing his man to
the very last stroke. Witness his
game finish against C. L. Becker
of Woodland. In the first round
Becker, who is an old and steady
hand, had him six down at the
eighth, but he still stayed with
the game and won his match on
the nineteenth. Frederick Snare,
president of the Havana Golf
Club, battled manfully for the
honor of Cuba, and gave the
champion the closest match he
had. Armstrong won one up.
Snare is another Tartar that has
the heart for a .hard finish. In the
first round he found himself up
against a 42 going out, negotiated
by D. G. Clayton of Springhaven,
and Clayton refused to relinquish
his lead until they reached the
twenty-first hole.
As expected the show down
came in the final. It takes more
than even a fighting spirit and the
will to win to beat Philip Carter.
It takes well nigh perfect golf.
And this was delivered. It was a
wonderful exhibition. Not a
wasted putt. One wasted ap
proach a slip on the fourth, cost
ing a hole, and no let down at the
end, when the old Carter magic
started to work, and the Nassau
champion started to pull it out, as
he has done so many memorable
days before. It took a three to
win the critical sixteenth and
clinch the trophy, and he took it.
The first two holes were halved
in four. The Yale boy took the
third also in par, and then evened
the score by a misplaced approach
on the fourth. The next five
holes he made one under par,
leaving Carter three down at the
turn. And men will be telling
(Concluded on page twelve)
McCADDON'S DAY
Both Brothers Feature In the New
Year's Races
iTlvt of Hi Jockey Club a Spec
tacle and a Coinmunltr
Celebration
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AND now on New
Year's Day came all
and sundry the
countryside and the
village elders, and
the parson and the
squires and the col
onel and the judge, rich man, poor
man, beggar' man, thief came
twosing in buggies and trumpet
ing four-in-hand ; horseback,
bareback, piggie back, and in car
and carriage and cabriolet, and
settled down upon the broad field
in a joyous buzzing. And small
wonder, for the old horse was due
to lose the bet and the maidens
to ride for the silver cup and
thoroughbreds to prance, and
(Continued on page eight)
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MIDWINTER MEDAL ROUND. ARMSTRONG ON THE SEVENTH GREEN