New-York tribune., 1906-10-17

Yalo and Princeton will fight IL or,. ,,- A..
team championship OF the Intercou.v,a,. 81.
Association at Garden City to-day. In the -
ing matches yesterday Yale defeated cornsI, -.
score OF 20 20 0. and Princeton deceatsa r,.
ward 1914 70 2A
The decisive defeat received BY Harva-s -..
the surprise OF the day. With the exceptton =,
Templeton Briggs. all OF the Crimson representa-
tives were defeated Briggs outplayed W. r
West. the Princeton captain, who failed 70 show
his best game. Howard J. Gee who played No I
for "old Nassau" proved too steady for II. q
Wilder. There was little 70 choose between them
on the tee. but on the green's the Richmond
County open tournament winner was always
master OF the situation
Although badly beaten as a team. two OF th,
Cornell players had the satisfaction OF at least
halving their matches C. r stuI. captain Of
the ithaca forces. held ". z. Glow. IT.. who led
off for Yale and t. H Adler. Cornell. finished al
square with ". ". Rowland.
Robert Abbott. Of Yale. holder OF the individual
title. barely managed to defeat c. ". Cornell
Abbott's slashing long game was in evidence as
usual, but Indifferent putting prevented him
from winning by a much wider margin. Going
TO the twelfth hole Abbott drove into the trap
with a cleek The hazard is about 23O yards
from the tee. and the shot extremely lengthy
even with the following wind. Abbott lost
Dali going 10 the long SeNeQJQ QOle, ana an s.
was the best his card could show for the round.
The best individual effort was an 50 by Dwight
Partridge. the former interscholastic champion
This good scoring in the wind His card
read follows:
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The most decisive victory OF the day was that
of G. v. Rotan. Yale. over z. S. 1ngersol. Cor
nell The former, who only made last place on
his team after play-ofI, went entirely too fast
for the Ithaca student. who finished 10 down.
On the college system OF scoring the Yale
player added S1a points TO his teams total
Much interest was taken in the efforts OF the
players to negotiate the undulating greens,
which are now in commission The twelfth
green probably had the players guessing more
than any OF the others Here the artificial,
bilowy undulations are almost high as a
mans head The hole yesterday was placed
within about ten feet of one Of these upheavals,
so that an over-approach invariably lett the
back over the hillock nearly all used rashes,
and even then they found 1t impossible TO lay the
ball dead
The students have different views regarding
the unduIatiOns. Some declare they make ths
putting more interesting, while others say ths
element Of luck figures too much. AS exam
pie. Ellis Knowles and R. S. Owens both made
their approaches to the twelfth green trihs
too strong. KnowleS's ball just had forcs
enough to reach the top and then roll down on
the far side. Owens'S ball also reached the
top. struck something. stopped for instant
and then tricked back dead 10 the hole
The general condition OF the course was excel
lent, and the greens appeared TO be on better
turf than earlier IN the season. In the hnaI
team match to-day between Yale and Princeton
the will play thiFty-siX holes. The sum-
mary Of yesterdays play follows: