New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-16
GOLF.
HARTMAN THE WINNER OF THE METRO
POLITAN CHAMPIONSHIP.
REGINAL BROOKS DEFEATED IN THE GARDEN
CITY TOURNEY AFTER A BRILLIANT MATCH
-rAYIOR WINS THE HANDICAP.

CITY TOURNEY AFTER A BRILLIANT MATCH
TAYLOR WINS THE HANDICAP.
The championship OF the metropolitan district
for which so many able golfers have been playing
this week. was won yesterday at Garden City by
Herbert NJ Hartman. Of the Meadow Brook Hunt
Club Reginai Brooks his opponent. beaten
by up and TO play After his defeat OF Douglas
on the previous day Brooks naturally an I'M
known quantity. for. though he earned his victory
over the champion. the shrewdest judges were in
cned to think that II had been merely sky rocket
squirt and that Hartman would dispose OF him
rather easily But instead Of the anti-cmax that
was looked for the contest developed into of the
finest exhibitions of the entire week The two men
evenly matched that even at the last few
holes II was a toss-up which would win. In thir-
ty-six-hole contest. where the men are al 1t most
OF the day, this the best kind OF golf, and
the trainloads OF people who went from this city
we'll repaid for the journey.
AN IDEAL DAY
The day was ideal for the game-clear. cool and
with little wind In fact, every condition favored
low scoring When the started out there was
not much Of a gathering, for the fashonabes who
make up the Hampstead colony not given TO
early rising: but the match went on the crowd
increased, and the roads intersecting the course
filled with carriages while In the wake OF the
players were hundreds OF people who had come
from this CITY ana the surrounding tOWNs 10 the
casual visitor the lack OF applause may have
seemed strange but the tendency in big golf tour
naments Is evidently toward less vigorous display
Of enthusiasm than that which used 10 be con-
sidered proper when the game not so well
understood
The pretty girls who used TO think II was the
thing TO go into ecstacies over little popping
fy have themselves taken 10 short skirts and
pink" jackets, and know all about stymes and
foozes and other techpicaties and appreciate the
fine points enough TO know that the true etiquette
Is silence when an important match is under way.
SIN both men were roundly applauded at times,
and the applause was always we'll deserved.
THE MORNING ROUND.
Starting on the morning round Hartman had
the honor a nd opened by driving a Swimming ball
we'll the bunker Brooks also got over but
was some twenty yards short OF his opponent. On
the green Hartman failed to bring off a short put
for a half and Brooks the hole at TO ..
Facing the second Hartman half-topped his drive
and trimmed the cup on his next shot, but as BROOKS
overran his approach Hartman took the hole
at to T. Going TO the third Brooks hooked his
drive into the rough ground short Of the bunker,
and Hartman had little difficulty in taking IT in
4 10 his opponents g. The next hole was halved IN
g. and then Brooks made a screaming tee shot
from the fifth tee following il up by capital ap-
proach and going down on his third, winning the
hole by to 4 He got the next also In a perfect
4 but after tndt MS puluus Ndo tlldNiSs anu
riman took the seventh and eighth In each. The
ninth was won by Brooks in (. and matters see
sawed back and forth in this way throughout the
morning. the first eighteen holes ending with the
score "all even.
THE AFTERNOON ROUND.
Starting on the afternoon round Brooks again
opened by taking the first hole in 4. but as Harri-
man laid his drive from the second tee dead Tor
the hole and went down on his put. the score was
.ba bfrdh ol n a
halved the fourth and fifth in each. Then Harri-
man won the sixth and the next three were
halved the two turned for home with neither
in the lead. and with apparent advantage On
either side Going for the tenth BROOKS lalu MS
second on the ridge OF the bunker, and from PAD
lie sent a beautiful brassey TO the green harIi-
man overran the hole in the like and as BLOCKS
was down on his next put the hole was his at :
TO J. This made Brooks up
ON the eleventh Hartman hole high on MS
second while Brooks, who had laid MS seoohu ."
the far edge OF the road. took 10 reach '"e
green Hartman finally winning the NOE al ~ :
ard again ,ieing the score. Facing the tweith
Rrooks oyerpitched his approach, while Hartman
was dead in and was out IN = W,lslnft lost on
and making him up inns hs brsssey from
cIppy lie and landing in the rough al the sue u
the course losing by to :, ,srs On the green in p
but as Brooks short in his apprqdien Rn won
the hole The next hole. measuring, $40 y atVus
Brooks halved in on long put a. bis sec
ionded under the side bank of the road on MS SET
ond and taking TO reach the green. IL was 90, y"
the sixteenth that Brooks began 70 81, snow Sscond
dences of going to pieces for he played ms secor
a brassey into the rough at the lelt any w, On
1o,.ched bfs mashie to the green. he was shoIt o
bis annroaeh put while Hartman who had ian ice
in the bunker on his second. was deau IN Ssa,dnc
~ was virtualv at this point that the usciuIns
stroke Of the match PLAYED II B bSfSed the
~ nd s,ili had a good chance OF victory. bu'
he missed put and Hartman o GeK was q the last
Rrooks Apparently had lost all control anu Ai re-
driving into the road he . .sTSgse 10 the left and
eoo,,ae ,n the road 20 the right and tnousn ns
rmed the cup On fS ss put 70 tsEs s adv
poS,thh ~ ananine given by Hsrrmans failure 20 A.
down in S and the hole was ultima.ey, n ma ana
g. This gave Hartman the ms'e" "
70 play The cards: