The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-29
ONE CLUB CONTEST
At Golf Is Won by Mr. I. H.
Griffith.
BATTLE OF BRAEBURNS
Continues With Mr.. Robertson
and Mr.. Deal Winners.

T. H. Griffith won the one-club contest
on the College Hill golf links yesterday
afternoon. He used a cleek and played ii
n ffty-fve. AS a rule, players selected
one of three clubs for their work, either
the cleek, the brassie or the mid-iron.
The c:eeks did the best work in putting
Mr.. Tanner. who came out third in the
contest, used brassie.
The driving contest was won by Mr..
Howard AIoffat. Each contestant drove
est drive. Moffat's shortest drive was
est drive. Moffta's shortest drive was
about 125 yards. and it won.
The players in the one-club contest made
the following scores for the nine holes:
T. II. Griffith, So; Al Musselman, So;
Charles Tanner, 81; Dean Gordon, 81; Bion
Hull, So; Gordon Oldham, SO; Howard
Moffat, 80; hester Moore, 60; DR.. Jones,
81; Thornton Sargent, g.; J. z. Richey. 6S;
F. E. Evans, "a; Frank Oliver CT; Victor
Murdoch, 6S; Professor Clark. GO; W. Z.
Bailey, So; c. I. HARDER, 20; Walter Vim
cent, 20; T. II. Brooks, Il; Mr.. Baker,
"A; II. E. Hess, 70; R. P. Murdoch, IS; H.
A Dockum, so, and Marcus Cossitt, so.
In the evening the cup presentation
took place. Mr.. Richey, who introduced
golf in Wichita, told of its beginning
here and dwelt on the features of the
game, concluding with passing the cup to
the latest winner, Mr.. Musselman, who
responded with talk. Mr.. r. P. Muir
dock was also given prize. a big golf
ball, and accepted it in a speech.
The ties in the afternoon match between
Griffith and Musselman, and Gordon and
Tanner, were decided by lot with the re-
suit that Mr.. Griffith got first, Mr.. Mus
selman second and Mr.. Tanner third, and
the awards of golf balls We're made, as
was also the prize for the best drive.
More members of the club turned out
last evening than have attended any other
evening reception. This was entirely in
formal. There was dancing, and vocal
music, rendered by Messrs. McClung,
Griffith, Richey, Cushman and Hull, with
Bruce Priddy as accompanist. The night
was moon-lit and the evening air de-
Iightfully refreshing and the entertain
ment progressed far into the night.
CONTEST OF BRAEBURNS.
yesterday the nrSt series OF the Brae-
burn golf tournament was to have been
completed. but owing to the absence from
the city of some of the contestants, not
all the matches have been finished. Two
interesting games reported are as fol-
lows:
First Round
Fred Robertson..s 8 10 6 $50
Mr.. Heimple. 6 8 So
Second Round
Robertson .........5 Z 8 II 81
Heimple ...........s 6 9 Z 12-69
Totals-Robertson 121; Heimple 1885,
Mr.. Robertson having two the better in
the handicap and winning by seven.
A remarkably close match was played
by Mr.. Holmes and Mr.. Deal. They play
ed an equal number of strokes for the
eighteen holes, but as Mr.. Deal had
handicap of ten and Mr.. Holmes but eight
Mr.. Deal won. The score was as follows:
First Round
Holmes ............S SO 10 12-7S
Deal ................7 9 s 512 4 8 9-6S
Second Round
Holmes ........... z Z Al 11-67
Deal ...............1O TO 4 Q 71O1O-72
The second series OF the Braeburn
tournament viii be completed this week