The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-31
KenOsha Golfer Defeats Stephen Bull,
Of Racine, in the Final Match For
State Golf Championship.
HIS VICTORY is A POPULAR ONE.
Followers of the Great Match Applauded
the Victor and Hail Him as the Fastest
Player of the Ancient Game.

Fred Petit, or this city ana MEM
Der Of the Kenosha Country club, is
the golf champion of the STATE of Wis
cousin, having won the nnnor IN me
final match With Stephen Bull, Of Ra
cine, in the tournament of the Wiscon
sin Golf Association, which ended in
Milwaukee last Saturday afternoon.
Petit took the Championship cup from
Bull after one of the finest exhibitions
of golf ever seen in the State.
His work is so far above the work of
all other competitors in the tourna-
ment that even his former opponents
praised his game and declare him, in
fact, as we'll as name, the golf cham
pion of the State. This is Pettit's
third year as golfer and his success
has been due largely to hard work. In
the past six months he has been close
student of golf and has won high
honor on the links for the Kenosha
club and for the State University club
at Madison, of which he is member.
The victory of Petit was a most
popular one aud when he won the de-
Gliding hole he was hailed with shouts
of applause from the great gallery of
players and spectators that had fol-
lowed the match for thirty-three holes.
Petit won his advantage over the Ra-
cine player in the first two rounds of
the final match and at the end of these
two rounds he was four up. He was
not able to increase this lead in the
last two rounds and the match ended
with the Kenosha boy four up with
three to play. The last round was the
most spectacular play Of the State
tournament and the Kenosha man
started into it with lead Of three and
certain of victory.
The crowd had hardly dispersed for
the lunch hour when a heavy rain
blew up and deluged the grounds, and
it was nearly o'clock before the after
noon play was started. Even at that
time it was raining considerably, but
despite the moisture quite number of
women were in the gallery which
braved the wet to see the State cham
pionship decided. The drives raised a
circle of water as the balls rolled over
the sod and Bulbs approaching was far
over, as he made mistake in estimat
ing that the greens would be very slow
after the rain. The grass was cropped
so closely and the ground was rolled So
perfectly that the balls made almost
their accustomed distance, and it took
both players some time to discover this
fact. Petit won the nineteenth hole
by superior putting and Bull took the
twentieth after Petit had sclaffed his
second stroke. Both drove magniti-
cent balls to the next, and after Petit
had laid his ball we'll on in 2, Bull
sclaffcd and Petit holed out in 8, /
under DOGGY, and the gallery cheered
him enthusiastically. Bull captured
the next two holes in DOGGY, and it was
on the twenty-third thu Petit topped
his first ball of the DAY. It cost him
the hole and the mattel was up.
After the twenty. tourth had been
halved in DOGGY both made grand
drives, but Bulls next was sliced into
the long grass. His mashie sent the
ball skimming out of the tangled turf
and it fell dead on the green and the
crowd showed its delight. Petit
brought out a second round of applause
by laying his ball within FIVE feet of
the hole. Bull used poor judgment in
trying to win in 8, and went over the
cup, and Petit holed out in 4, stroke
under the DOGGY score, Bull requiring
5, Petit was playing a marvellous
game on the soggy greens and Bull
was not far behind him. Pettit's irons
were giving him more distance than
most players could make with the
wooden clubs. The twenty-six was
ha1ved in DOGGY and the home hole
was poorly played by both, and they
halved 1t in 4, leaving the match up
at the turn.
The rain had ceased by this time and
the final round was PLAYED under really
good conditions. There was no casual
water on the course and both boys
played the holes as if the green's had
not drop Of moisture for days. Bull
made miserable drive from the first
tee and Petit had 40 difficulty III
winning the hole in 3 making it again
S up. Bulls approach was shorl on the
next and he lost the hole by stroke,
making the game 6 up, the highest
during the entire play But seven
holes remained 70 play and il was a
case of do-or-die with Built and from
this time on he put up grand tight.
Goiug to the thirtieth hole both
drove long ones aud then Petit laid
an iron shot on the green. Bull was
there with ffe brassy which rolled
very near to the cup and both were APP
plapded Bull missed a putt for 8 and
Petite tailed to. get ia on long putt