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JANUARY 30, 1926
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Number 5
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Parson Defeats Blue
T
HE winner of the second annual Mid-January tourn
ament played last week, proved to be Donald Parson, of
_ Youngstown, Ohio, who met and defeated H. J. Blue, of
Southern Pines, in the 18 holes final, the margin of victory
being 2 up and 1 to go. The strong wind which swept across
the course was not conducive to low scoring, but as a match
the contest carried plenty of gallery thrills. Blue carried the
attack to his more seasoned opponent and looked all over the
winner as the pair drove down the 416-yard twelfth hole,
where Blue led by the comforting margin of two holes. Blue,
however, put his second shot here into a deep bunker, played
five shots to the green, conceded the hole and from that point
on worked on the defensive, as Parson had been doing more
or less before. Blue half missed his second into the cross
wind on thirteen and left an opening, but Parson, from a
corking fine drive on this 340-yard hole, failed to get hold of
the ball, and they halved it in indifferent 5’s. Both had fine
drives at the 452-yard fourteenth, but Blue was short with
his iron second, and Parson with a fine iron, past the pin,
got down in two putts for a win in 4 to square the match.
A FINE TEE SHOT
With spoon, Parson played a masterly shot into the
strong crosswind at the 212-yard fifteenth, and he had a five
yard putt awaiting his coming for a 2. He neither got the
2 nor a 3, but took three putts, and let Blue in on a half in 4.
Still square with the difficult dog-leg 457-yard sixteenth, and
the tantalizing little 171-yard seventeenth just ahead, they
braced for the decision. Blue made it easy for Parson when
his safety iron second on sixteen stopped on the very brink
of a bunker where he could get no comfortable stance, tak
ing seven for the hole and a loss. Blue had the edge on
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seventeen when Parson pulled his iron tee shot to the bunk
er hole high, with Blue straight past the cup marker, but
a bit too strong. When Parson played a really fine niblic
shot from a hanging lie in the sand, and then followed with
a nervy putt of four yards, the match was over, for Blue
missed his putt for a 3.
The score card for the finalists tells the story:
Parson—
Out—7 5 5 6 4 4 4 5 4-44
In—5 455445 3 x
Blue—
Out—6 5 5 5 5 4 3 5 4--42
In—5 4 6 5 5 4 7 4 x
Next in order of merit after the chief winner and runner-up
came the consolation winner and runner-up in the first flight.
1. Russell Brown, Mallets Bay, Vt., defeated Allison R. Max
well, Oakmont, 3 and 2, for this honor. The second flight
winner and runner-up, respectively, were Fred Howe, Hamil
ton, Ontario, who defeated Charles S. Strout, Biddeford, Me.,
5 up and 4 to play. The consolation prize in this division
went to R. W. Smith of the Hannastown Country Club,
Greensburg,, Pa., with a final margin of 8 and 6 over J. L.
Weller, of Hamilton, Canada. A. S. Higgins, St. Andrews
Country Club, Yonkers, New York, won the third division
trophy by defeating H. Suydam, of Lakewood Country Club,
N. J., 4 and 2.
The third flight consolation prize was won by L. F. Her
rick, Worcester, from E. P. Merwin, Stockbridge, 2 up and.
1 to go.