Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-21
GOLF FAVORiTES
BEATEN AT LAKEWOOD

Closely contested matches marked the sec
ond days play in the open golf tourna-
ment en- the links of the Country CIut
of Lakewood yesterday. Several favortes
in the struggle fer the chief cup were
forced to retire, and the two women, whose
presence caused quite stir among the
male contingent. were also compelled &c
taste the bitterness of defeat
The uncertainties of the game were
shown In the first round when Pierre A
Proal of Seabright put out W. w. Carhart,
the Detroit player. who led the field home
In the qualifying round Proal was as
steady as rock. making the long out jour
ney in ~ and coming home in 20 Tor a
cTeditable 70.
W. T. West OF Princeton, a semi fnalist
in the amateur championship at Baltusrel
two years ago, defeated Fred Herreshofi
of Yale in the first round by 1 up and
Herreshon. who was runnerup in the
same championship mentioned drove has
usual long ball. but he could not withstand
the others deadly short game.
The total surprise of the day came in the
defeat of West at the hands Of Charles L.
Toppin in the afternoon. The Garden City
veteran never played in Better form, and.
after being l down at the turn. played
so well that he stood l up at the fifteenth
hole. despite the fact that West had been
playing close to par golf. Toppin won
holed at the seventeenth hole He
came home In 81. and returned an even ~
for the round.
Two Hard Matches
A. l.. White. the Harvard player, en-
tered from the Wollaston Golf Club, sur
vived two hard matches. In the first round
he was kept busy with A. D. s. Johnston
of st. Paul, and the former intercollegiate
champion only managed to win on the nine
teenth green. In the next round he met
Proal. This match carried the gallery, and
interest never tagged until the pair had
holed out on the home green.
WHITE proved the better off the tee some
OF his drives being good for $50 yards A
deadly short game enabled Proal to turn
Tor home up, and he increased his ad-
vantage to up by winning the eleventh
In 8. Proal then got bit wild In driving.
his next two tee shots being penalized
He lost both the thirteenth and fourteenth
holes, as well as the fifteenth, when White
laid HIM stymte. This made the Harvard
player 1 up. an advantage he maintained
to the end
In their matches with the women the men
tried to look sorry over their success, al
though. as a matter of fact, they cast gal
lantry to the winds and tried their hardest
TO win Miss Mabel Thomson of the ST
John IN. b. Golf Club won most decisively
In the morning from F. F. Read of the
North Jersey Country Club, by up and 7
10 play. LII was new experience for Read
and going off his game he never had a
chance. Miss Thomson played good golf
going out in AZ. She lost In the afternoon
to A. r. Gaussler of Camden after making
good fight. Mrs. T. H. Polhemus of the
eastern Parkway Golf Club lost In the first
round to III. A. James of the home club
after being 4 down at one stage of the
match, Mrs. Polhemus pulled up, and only
lost by put on the home green.
The Summary.
First sixteen (arst round)-Alan Lard Washing.
ton, beat Jasper Lynch Lakewood, 8 up and 2 10
play; A. W. Mitchell. Rock Island beat F. r.
hiihoaH, Lakewood, up and to play: W. T.
west. Princeton, beat Fred HerreshoH Yale 1 up;
Charles l.. Tappin, Garden City beat S. X de For
est, Lakewood. up and TO play; Pierre A. Proal.
Seabright beat w. w. Carhart Detroit. ] up; A.
raol up t1s holes) A. j. Mcclure, Albany, beat
Howard j. Gee, Princeton 8 up and 10 play; D.
u Clark. jr., Princeton. beat L. w. Mitchell Rock
Island. up (21 holesl
Second round-Mftchel beat Lard & IN and 4 IN
play; Tappin beat West 2 up and to play: White
peat Proal up; Clark beat Mcclure. 3 up aud
Second sixteen FIRST round-B Stockton IT.,
princeton: beat W. R. Miller, Oakley 1 up; I.
Lesgett, jr., Princeton, heat f. Il. Giles Pittsburg
! up ~ holesl; l.. A. Hamilton Englewood, bea
H. ,. Gaines. wykagyi. beat F. W. Ashe. Royal
Montreal, up and to play; F. c. Jennings, Gar
den city. beat Alexander Morton. westchester
COUNTRY up and to play; DIR. A. T. Hafght
70 play; A. j. Mackay, Atlantic City beat A. r.
Sutherland. Fox Hills. / up: H. b. Lewis Oakley
beat b. w Snitheman Albany. up and to play.
to play; Hamilton Beat Gaines. up and 10 play;
Jennings beat Haight, up; Lewis beat Mackay. Z
up and to play.