New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-09
GOLF.
JOHN REID. JR.. DEFEATS A. L. NORRIS
FOR THE ST ANDREWS CUP
WINS THE MATCH BY A SINGLE PUT on THE
LAST GREEN-HANDTcAP CUP FOR q.


LAST GREEN-HANDrcAP CUP FOR G.
F. TIFFANY-sT ANDREWS CLUB
FIRST IN THE TEAM MATCH
The 81. Andrews Cup for which many able
golfers have been striving this week. was won yes
terday by John Reid jr. of Yale. after one OF the
most exciting matches that has ever been seen on
the ST. Andrews links. Reid met Alfred l.. MOTIFS
OF the Dyker Meadow Golf Club in the final round
and after a long thrty-sxhole struggle single
put on the home green decided the victory In MS
favor His success was greeted with enthusiastic
applause and many glad hands were extended IN
congra tulation when the last stroke had been MADE
II was one OF the few instances In go "neh q
final match between two such players mas oeen
by close margin. on the morning roun''
the score tied. and even when the TWO men
stood upon the home green for the decisive struggle
there was nothing predict the victory OF either
Both were on In two and there was little TO choose
In the positions OF the balls II resolved itset INTO
a question Of putting, and In this as IN so man!
important matches nerve was the quality that won
Norris had long put for the hole. but just ms he
made the stroke his anxiety led him to take his
eyes from the ball. and with his concentration re-
laxed the result was a failure. Instead of laying
the ball dead. he was ten feet away. and missing
the second put Reid had two for the hole. and won.
When the contest opened in the morning rain was
falling in torrents and the crowd OF sightseers
which was expected the special train from TINS
city did not appear. This was genuine dsap-
polnt ment to the members OF the club. for prepara
tons had been made for a gala day and special
provision had been made for the entertainment or
visitors. But no delay made In starting the
match, and Reid and Norris set out when tho rain
heaviest On the first hole Norris opened
rather inauspciously by putting into the WOODS
and would have lost but for n fooled masnie by
Reid. II of the rare occasions when the
a half in six. Facing the second hole Reid nearly
drove the green and he laid the ball dead on
his approach. he won the hole in capital three
Reid won the third also, and the next was
played in par figures by both half In four re-
suited. In going for the NTH hole Norris putted 10
the edge Of the woods and lost stroke In getting
out but well-aimed cleek shot laid the ball within
ten feet OF the hole In three Reid drove an excep
tionaly long ball. which landed near the bridge
crossing the brook but In wrerched lie, so that
his next short merely carried him over. He was
short on his approach. and the hole was nnally
halved in FIVE. At the ninth hole Norris was one
I'D but as Reid got the tenth. the advantage was
only momentary. The next two holes were haved
and then the Yale man got what golfers call
stolen hole by making long put and getting down
IN four Mediocre work marked the play for the
fourteenth. which Reid won at six 10 seven. Norris
took the 18s-yard fifteenth In threea capital per
Torrance The mex, two holes we're halved. ana on
the last Reid drove into an apple tree. missed
fve-foot put TO halve. and Norris won the hole AT
four to five making the score for the first hall or
the tourney n tie.
Starting on the second eighteen holes in the after
noon Norris won the first. and from that time until
the fifteenth he played with dash and effective
ness that he has not shown before this season
His putting especially strong. Al tne nlntn
the score was still Reid won the tenth
haved the next In g. and lost the twelfth. at to g.
The next three holes were halved Norris then
captured the sixteenth. and II looked as though ne
would surely win Reid. however. displayed spien-
did nerve and checked the lead by taking the sew
enteenth long put. The last hole gave him the
match. Curiously enough the total scores for ooth
rounds were precisely the same, l75, showing how
closely the contest was waged. The cards follow