New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-15
GOLF.
CHAMPION DOUGLAS BEATEN IN ihh
GARDEN CITY TOURNEY.
sUccrMps TO REGINALD BROOKS IN THE Sr'"'
r,,.,, porrND - HARTMAN WINS FROM

succt,Mps TO REGINALD BROOKS IN THE SEMI
F1rAL ROUND 49, HARTMAN WINS f"o"
ryyo-A BIG HANDICAP TO-DAY.
.,or,e,res rolang skill was In the ascendency a'
Garden City yesterday f1ndlay . Do'e
Young Scotch player. who Won the America "-"
tour championship at Morris County 'aS' s'
WAS beaten in the semi-hnal round OF inc 49,,
N,,.., .har,n,onship contest by Reginald Brooks,
Of the Meadow Brook Hunt Club py soo'e
I'D and to play. Brooks was little known ~ - 70,
golf circles before his appearance TINS wen" =,
has never before played in an open tourha'ne" -
this section and his entry was mace from '"e
Msodow BROOK Hunt Club for the reason that
b,s home club In Newport Is not MEMBER Oh
tho METROPOLITAN Association. Last winter ne played
on several OF the Southern courses ana was inc
winner of the Southern Cross championship at
Aiken a few weeks ago. He has always played
good game and year ago he visited Scotland TOT
the purpose Of taking lessons from Auchterlonie
and Kirkaidy. the noted professionals. but there
had been nothing In his previous career on the INKS
to give the slightest intimaton OF yesterdays re-
suit.
In golf It is not easy to say why one man loses
and the other wins. especially II they both play the
sort of game displayed by Douglas and Brooks yes
terday, but II any explanation may be given 1t Is
that Brooks did more kinds OF things better than
Douglas Neither was faultless, but. while BROOKS
was probably playing beyond himself Douglas uiu
not show all of which he is capable. ana. without
detracting from the credit Of the formers victory
II is at least fair that he did not dispose OF
the champion after the latter had done the best
that Is In him. though, for all that, 1t was a con-
spicuous triumph for homebred SIKH.
The crowd was bigger than on any of the pre-
yous days and II is interesting to note mere the
difference In the attitude OF people now from that
OF two years ago, when golf was little UNDERSTOOD
ty the general public. There was no heltor-skelter
scramble to surround the players on the putting
green's and no skurrying from one side or the
course to the other directly I'm the line OF pay put
the crowd kept orderly alignment at proper
distance in the rear. and the committee iouhu us
task in this respect an easy one
There was one amusing incident In the matcn'
however that proved that some people at least
are as much IN the fog about the proper etiquette
as ever Going for the fifteenth hoe Douglas
made & screaming drive that carried the puhhers
and rolled well down the course. One OF the spec
tators who happened to be near the spo'' promptly
seized the missile ard was making OF with II
when he was stopped by a shout from thousand
throats The crowd fairly gasped. The thought
that any one should dare to interfere with the
champion in this way was more than 1t could
stand and there were shouts of Put him on!
Throw him off the grounds! The incident was
quietly settled, however and the ball replaced,
The interference counting technical run OF
the green"
BROOKS AND DOUGLAS PLAY
Both the se,nl-hnal round matches were DECIDED
IN tho forenoon Douglas and Brooks starting hrst'
followed after a brief interval by the other palr'
Hartman and Tying. Brooks opened by taxing the
frs, hole in 4 and the second in a pnenomenal z
On the latter he laid the ball within putting ais
lance OF the cup, and his next stroke carried him
down This was not suspicious beginning Tor
Douglas but on the third hole the champion made
a beautiful drive and as Brooks failed to get hold
OF the ball from the and made feeble approach
put Douglas won 1t at I TO 8. The next hole was
halved In G. Tremendous drives marked the play
for the ffth and with the wind behind them. both
made a carry and OF more than 2lO yards On
the green Douglas missed a three-foot put for
were halved in each Then in going to the ninth
Brooks within few feet OF the cup in the
leke the latter took the hole at 10 5. Brooks
now up
The tenth Brooks also a twelve-foot put
his opponent foozling two-foot put for half. and
Brooks up-a lead that looked omnous for
the champion. The eleventh was halved in ) on
faultless play from both sides, and then Brooks
made another g. This the twelfth where
he laid the ball dead from the tee distance OF
1s4 yards. The thirteenth haved in 6. and
Brooks dormie 8. Then came rather remark
able recovery on Douglass part. for he took the
next three holes straight amid intense excitement.
The seventeenth, with Brooks dorme 2 was played
in n deep silence. Douglas pulled long drive into
the rough ground the side of the course and al
though he was we'll out his second he failed TO
lay a good approach. and the hole was halved in
G. This gave Brooks the match. The scores by
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