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VOL. XX, NO. 15
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1917
FIVE CENTS
MAXWELL'S POTTING
Wins the Medal from Hunter in the
Spring Tournament
Two Days' auallfylns: Hound Played
Under Ydeal Conditions on
Two Courses
WIS
TA
UNDER the most
perfect weather
conditions imagin
able two hundred
and fifty strong the
golfing world en
tered upon the
Spring Tournament last Monday
in a blaze of glory. Two courses
and two days were dedicated to
the 36 holes of medal play in the
qualifying round. Half the legion
were started on number two and
half on number three, changing
places the following day.
Strange to say, the expected
happened. Norman Maxwell,
the . Philadelphia meteoric, led
from start to finish. Golf, like
war, is becoming a youngster's
or experienced the old cham
pions, they can no longer feel
sure that some stripling will not
pop out of the horizon born with
the golfing aegis. Armstrong of
Yale appeared on the scene in the
Fall with a juvenille midiorn
that was too good for Phil Car
ter. And now nineteen year old
Maxwell totes a big bull's head
putter that is too fast for all
Pinehurst.
The first test came on number
three. Maxwell was paired with
Dr. George Gregg of Oakmont.
The beginning holes produced
no thrills, except of horror. His
f first drive, as reports truly said,
was intended for a three bagger
into right field, but went foul.
And behold, we were treated to
the astonishing spectacle of a re
nowned champion putting left
handed in the woods in vain en
deavor to circumnavigate a
neighboring pine. The ball went
home in 7. Not much of a start
for the medal in this tournament.
Dr. Gregg ruined himself on the
second. Maxwell made the turn
in 40, and then he began to play.
In spite of a five on the 372-yard
10th he came home in do, one
under par, for a total of 75. His
long game was the most striking.
The treacherous 12th he made in
4, and he repeated this on the
intremidable 16th, the longest
hole in Pinehurst.
The beauty about his play, and
what makes him so fomidable, is
his handling of the wood and
that devilish putter. The follow
ing day on number two he took
just twenty-four putts on the
eighteen greens, and made just
one poor drive. It is hard for
anyone to stand up against this.
If his approach work was as good
he would be invincible. From
anywhere within speaking dis
tance of the green he has not a
probable but a certain two- and
once on the green he is nearly
always safe for home with a sin
gle wiggle of the club. Twice
he sank his putt home from
twenty feet or more, once on the
390-yard 12th for a three, and
again on the 212-yard 15th for
(Concluded on page five)
THE RACES
William Gunter and. Miss Tufts Take
the Guest's Events
Ilotalie and Jlattie the Great Come
Ilrtck. Hurd fttulls Afaln
tit the Lead
Mattie the Great
of the flowing mane
came back. Miss
Sally of unknown
domicile and line
age and Miss Fran
cis Bicknell from
the Cottage Colony made a vig
orous and well nigh successful
attempt to break the monopoly
of victories held by the old trio
in the Ladies Cup event. Texas
youth upheld the best traditions
of his State in the Guests' Purse.
The Little Horn started a new
collection of bronzes ; Kedron
earned his first money, and the
snappy little bay mare Rosalie
led the colts home to supper in
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