Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-12
CLOSING ROUND
N FOURSOM[S
Alex. Ross and w. K. Wood
Distanced All Opponents by
Full Ten Strokes.

many Of the attending players some good
golfing. The work of Alex Ross, profess
sio1al Of Pinehurst. n. c., attached to the
Brae Burn Golf Club of Massachusetts,.
and W. K. Wood of the same club In their
match with Donald Ball. professional Of
the Philadelphia Country Club. and r. NJ.
Sherman of the Sadaquada Golf Club of
Utica, N. Y. attracted much attention.
They made the morning round In the rec
ord work OF 6S and the afternoon In 60.
which started the golfers gathered upon the
greens to doing some thinking. In the
matter of dlstancing their opponents Ross
and Wood simply cleared up the platter and
distaneed all of their opponents by a full
ten strokes and better.
Their score in the morning round was
nye under par and in the afternoon round
they were four under par which gave them
the hrst prize of $50 The work of the two
winners was simply supurb. AS to which
one did the better work 1t can only be said
that each alternated in playing the best
game of golf. The work of Ross in driving
was simply as near faultless as one ever
sees. HIS drives from the different tees to
the green's next in order seemed to go nearly
as straight to the mark as the driver in
tended. Wood followed Ross through both
rounds and gave him at all times the best
or support. In fact he played number of
the holes in par and better. Particularly
was this so in the morning round when
Wood made the tenth hole in two strokes
when par is three strokes. At the tistr-
teenth mole as well as the eighteenth Ross
accomplished the score under par In work
that showed a mastery control of the ball
through the greens. Each putt was fine
game and the golfer in each instance made
each stroke count for all it was worth.
In the afternoon round they made a score
Of GO. They duplicated their going out in
the morning round but In the home ward
round they made one more stroke, which
ho boo
total of 90, and total of the two rounds
or LIT. In the second round in the after
noon Ross and Wood both made the first
tour holes in a stroke and one-half under
par. The work of both in the drives from
tie first tee to the first green was excel
lent, particularly the drive of Ross that
seemed to sail through the air with the
most remarkable accuracy toward the first
green Wood placed his ball we'll on the
hrst green with his drive from the first tee
and on his second stroke holed his ball with
mastery skill that had the distance
judged to nicely. The next three holes
Ross ran In fours and then both of the golf
ers holed the fifth in the par of three Wood
did the sixth and seventh holes in four
and three. and each man holed the eighth
hole in four and the ninth hole in five which
gave them the finish of the outward jour-
ney in thirty-four. On the homeward trip
the tenth hole was played In one over par,
but the eleventh was reached in three one
less than par. When the next five holes
had all been accomplished ii was found they
had been done in par golf. and Ross did the
seventeenth hole in five. He made a
markable drive when approaching this hole,
which in three strokes put him on the green
and with two easy puts the ball was made
to enter the hole. The work toward the
ekhteenth and last hole was good, and each
was on the last green in two drives. On
his third putt the accomplishing Of the hole
looked easy for Wood, but he missed and
took another putt. but Ross was down again
in two easy puts which gave them thirty
five.
Tied for Second Place.
In the matter of second place Thomas M.
Sherman of the Sadaqua Golf Club of
Utica, N Y. and Donald Ball, professional
of the Philadelphia Country Club, and Ber-
nard Nichols. professional. HoIingwood
Golf Club. and L. A. Hamilton of the
Englewood Golf Club of Englewood, n. j..
We're tied for second place. They had totals
of 147. which entitled them to divide the re-
naming two prizes offered, amounting to
SO In exceptionally long puts and fine
plays Sherman led for his side, and IL
Ball had given him the support that he
should have had the finish would undoubt
eddy have been second. In the afternoon
made fine putt of nearly twenty-five feet
from the edge of the green. On the tenth
hole Ball did good work, hitting the cup
from near the edge of the green, but the
two.
Alex. Smith professional of the Nassau
Golf Club of Staten Island, and DIR. Lee L.
Harlan. captain of the Columbia Golf Club,
finished the morning round In 70, but in the
afternoon round they failed to go the dis
lance in less than seventy-seven which
brought the whole number of strokes up to
$50. Isaac Mackie, professionalism the Fox
Hills Golf Club of New York, and Fred
Herreshoh of Rhode Island played good
golf and finished one stroke behind DR.. Lee
L. Harlan and Alex. Smith.
The visitors as well as the visiting golfers
were well satisfied with the handling of the
tournament, and every was pleased
with 1T as beginning. Much of the pleas
ure accorded those who attended and those
who engaged In the contests came from the
members of the tournament committee,
Pliny Moran and Thomas Francis being es-
pecially vigilant to see that all who came
received the welcome of the club, and these
two members of the Columbia Club deserve
a great measure of the credit for the sue
cess Of the tournament
The summary of the cards in both rounds
Is as follows:
Alex Ross pro- and Y: Z WOOD;
afs r nd ss44s4sss4sS 4 ls
Donald Ball, pro-. and T. II. Sherman:
a Afs md nd
Bernard Nichols, pro-. and L. A, Hamilton
Aft r'nd szssSs45SSss s495S 47s147
a Me- md nd
Isaac Mackie, pro-, and Fred Herreshon:
Morn. I'd. 4 5B 4 4 SO 81 50 BIS
Aft rnd.. 44544345 8s4 5486-76-151
Donald Ross, pro-. and c. l.. Becker:
Morn. r'd.. 4444344 343565-77
Afr. r'nd.. 56 3444 34534346 5-7S-155
Arthur Fem, pro-, and DIR. w S. Harlan:
Morn r'd.. 455 3 4 1856 3425B4E77
Aft. r'nd.. b IS 534 424544557 4so-I5T
,a David AlvIe. Pre- and Allan ! Lard:
Aft. r'nd.. a455344568553 $3.50
Henry Waters pro-. and ]. C. Davidson
Morn. I'd 44b334456255 $50
Aft. r'nd.. 4555444663453 4S0-I6O
James Douglass, pro-, and o. MeCammon: -
Norm I'd. 4455a445 534635447Eso
Aft. r'nd 8 49, 663354445S 4ESI-I61
William Braid pro-, and Tyson Enicott:
Morn I'd. 444524 456546354 5T5-S2
Aft. r'nd. 4 5534x55345353 6S5-S0-Ie2
Jack Jolly, pro-. and L. p. Pierce:
Morn I'd. 3555344 5346444575-S1
Aft. r'nd 4555S45 58346353 86-s2-163
r. NJ Thompson pro. :, and L. E. wardweIl:
Morn I'd. 445544 58S4736a665-S4
ATT. r'nd. 45553445833645 5-s2-lee
W. Shelly. pro-. and A. s. Mattngly:
Morn r'd.. 546434 6345653466-s2
Aft. r'nd. 55534545734 65-s5-1s7
Cleve Harrison and G. +. Morse:
Morn I'd. 5546544 5634536357565
Aft. r'nd 5445445688454434 5-S3-l6S
j. D. De Moss and G.. A. Weaver:
Morn I'd. 4555s4466a46s6s