The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-07
CLOSE MATCH At COLI.
Last Hole Decides Game Betweer
Moffat and Murdock.

Last Hole Decides Game Between
Moffat and Murdoch.
The best regular match game Of golf
ever played on the golf links here in
Wichita took place yesterday afternoon.
It was between Howard Moffat and Roll
Murdoch. Jr It was nip and tuck all
the way through ard the winning was
determined within two hundred feet OF
the last hole, almost on the last stroke
of the game. Both players made some
wonderful drives. AIoffat won the match
by sixty-fve strokes to his opponents
sixty-seven.
The score was, by holes. the handicap
being equal:
Murdoch ..........5 612 s-s7
Aoffat ...-.......-S 5 z12 10 7 6-65
On the first drive both men went
within a few feet Of the green, Moffat
getting into q bad and little known haz-
ard TO the right OF the green which
caused him trouble, and not holding out
until ne reached his eight stroke. Muir
dock went in in 6ve. On the second
drive both men went 10 the -oad, six
hundred feet, and approached the hole
side by side. each holing in five. The
score stood Murdock 10; Moffat 13 On
the third drive, that is up the gully,
Murdock made the longest drive but
both went nearly to the road. Moffat had
a splendid tee and used his driver in
place of a brassie, and went up to the
green with the shot, hOling out in four,
the best that has ever been done on this
hole. Murdock went up well. but shot
over the green and lad trouble getting
back, and taking eight strokes. The
score now stood MurdOck, IS; NsSffa-, Il.
There was woe for both on the fourth
hole, which lies straight north, and over
a bumpy course Botn scratched up con-
siderable meadow and Noffat took
twelve to hole in and Murdock nine,
making the score stand Murdock q; Mof-
fat. q. on the next hole, the fifth, Muir
dock increased his lead over Moffat one
by doing it in six while Moffat did If
in seven. Neither did anything extra on
the long hole, Murdock doing it in
twelve and MOuat IN ten, reducing Muir
docks lead to one, and making the game
anybody's. On the seventh drive both
men sent their golf balls far down the
field and it was nip and tuck to the hole,
AIurdock reaching it in a total Of fifty
strokes, DIoffat in ffty-two. On the
eighth drive both men went 70 the road,
a distance OF 200 yards. 1IurdOck on lis
third shot got up against hazard ana
Moffat beat him two to the hole Tying
the score. The ninth shots were the
exciting ones. BIoffat hit the ball an aw-
ful welt and sent it across the road to
the path. Murdock whaled in and put
the gutta percha sphere within two feet
OF it. There was no advantage but Moi
cat beat in approaching and came out
two ahead.
The match between Mr.. A. l. Mussel-
man and Mr. Charles Tanner has also
been played off. In starting out Aussel-
man made two exceptional drives on the
first two holes, driving six hundred feet
in each instance. The game was good
one. but neither playe, did as well as
he expected The result was as follows:
Afusselrnan. scratch &c strokes. Tanner
"A strokes. Handicap, g. Total. IS
strokes.
The greens have been much improved,
although the grass is getting a little
high. Several match games will be play
ed of today.
Miss Mamie Smith, BIiddlesboro, KY,
writes: My little sister had the Group
very bad. I gave her several doses Of
FOLEYS HONEY AND TAR and she
was instantly relieved. It saved her
life" C. Gehring, 200 E. Douglas; Geo.
Van Werden, S2S y. Main; Wichita Drug
Co., 10 Z. Douglas.