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JANUARY 9, 1926
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Annual Mid-winter Tournament
SOUTH had its inning in the
annual Midwinter tourna
ment, played here last
week, when two seventeen-year
old lads, George T. Dunlap, Jr.,
and Walter Swoope, mowed their
way through a field of more than
100 seasoned golfers and came
through victoriously with the
winner and runner-up trophies,
respectively.
Both of these youthful golfers
qualified close to the top, Swoope
being in second place with a 79,
while T. Russell Brown, of the
Lake Champlain Club, headed the
field and won the medal with a
card of 35-40-75. Brown contin
ued on his winning way through
the first match-round but went
down to defeat at the hands of
Donald Parson, Youngst own,
Ohio, in the second round, which
was thought to be the deciding
factor for the finals, but Parson
succumbed to Dunlap in the semi
finals who advanced to meet
Swoope, who, in the meantime,
Colonel W. E. Truesdell, himself a veteran of many linlcs battles at
Pinehurst and elsewhere, finds a great deal of pleasure in
presenting the trophies to Dunlap and Swoope and ih
commending them for their splendid achievement.
(Photo by John G. Hemmer)
on the home green ended the
match, 1 up, in favor of Dunlap.
The playing of these youths
completely upset all predictions
of the more experienced golfing
colony. They played close to par
golf all week, and in the ^finals,
pitted against each other, they
fought a steady battle through
out. Dunlap took the tenth by
pitching his second shot close to
the green and sinking his fourth
for an easy putt. His steadiness
accounted for five fours in a row,
one of them being a birdie on the
fourteenth after Swoope missed
an easy chance to halve the hole.
He~ played his approach shots
with accuracy and always gave
himself comfortable margins in
which to hole his putts.
Swoope, however, was not to
be shaken off easily. Three
down on the fifteenth he knocked
the ball over a slight ridge to
the left of the green and sank
the only two that was made in
the match on a 5-foot putt. Fur
had been sailing along in great style and disposed of John D.
Chapman, Greenwich, Conn., 3 and 1. The match between
Chapman and Swoope was an unusual one. The Greenwich
veteran was 3 up at the tenth, but Swoope clung to him tenac
iously and by taking the next two holes and halving the thir
teenth he squared the match on the next hole and then pro
ceeded to take three in a row for victory and his right to meet ,
Dunlap in the finals.
Dunlap’s semi-final victory over Parson might have been a
surprise but it was certainly well earned. The Youngstown
golfer played one of his best games and had a medal round
of 41-35-76, but his younger opponent also was at the top of
his form and managed to cut a stroke from the score and
turned in a round of 38-37-75. Dunlap was off to a good start
and made the turn 3 up, but here Parson staged a good rally
and after halving the next five holes he won the next two and
barely missed having to play extra holes when another halve
their hope of cutting down Dunlap's lead disappeared when his
second shot on the sixteenth dropped into a trap a hundred
yards short of the green and Swoope got out only on the
fourth shot. Dunlap then won the match by taking the hole
on his.
Swoope started off with the lead by winning the first and
second holes but then got into one of the traps which event
ually brought about his defeat. He lost two shots recovering
and by this time Dunlap had settled down, winning the hole
and also taking the next. The New Yorker, losing the eighth,
won the ninth after Swoope’s beautiful drive headed for the
green out of the woods, struck a tree and glanced off into a
trap, and started on the home stretch all even.
Austin Sands, of New York, downed Francis Keating, of
Pinehurst, for second division honors by winning 4 and 2. In
(Continued on Pago Fourteen)