The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06
GOLFER BEHR BREAKS HOODOO
Ar LAST GETS PAST A CHAM
PJONSHIP SEMI-FTNAL.
He Defeats Morgan smith In the New
jersey State Tourney-whitiatch stu
Breaking Records NJ Dyker Meadow
Tie In Handicap at Canoe Brook.

Max Behr won the New Jersey golf cham
pionship yesterday at the MontcIair Coll
Club by beating Morgan l.. X. Smith, a
fellow member of the Morris County Coli
Club, by = up and 1 TO play. In the
FINAL for tho past two years Behr was rum
nerup for the title to jerome d. Travers,
the same positions they had in the final
OF the last amateur championship. but
now he has a clear title to the New Jersey
honor.
II was 4 drizzly and damp day, but Atty
odd appeared for the handicap and seemed
to enjoy the sport as much as the many
nnaltsts. In every detail the tournament
has heen 4 70 and President Keep OF the
New Jersey association spoke In high terms
OF the Montclalr Coli Clubs course and ar
rangements. IT Is said hat the next cham
pionship will be at the Essex County Country
Club at Orange.
F. Murray olyphant. New Jersey title
holder OF 1904. won the championship beaten
eight medal from DR.. Callan. also OF the
Englewood club, after being 4 up for the
morning. Including the championship
the medals for the match play divisions
were widely distributed. 'rhe tally is
Morris County. 2; Baltusrol, ,. and l each
Tor Englewood. Yountakah, Essex County.
Upper Moutclalr and Mo ,tclair.
A stimy Behr laid Smith on the twelfth
hole was the most nom entous happening
oil, the morning round for the championship.
Otherwise a, It turne out they would have
hslved II. Smith blamed his own bad play
for the shots missed. but TO be stimied he
thought hard luck. Behr was = UP al the
nth and three halved holes succeeded. the
sixth in :, due to Behr being bunkered
from the tee and Smith in the rough on his
second, but the seventh aud eighth holes
were In par strokes. A 3 on the. ninth left
Smith I down as they started homeward.
Neither gave away an advantage on the
tenth or eleventh stepping stones on the
route. each hole bpfns a half in I. As TO
play 1t was the same story on the twelfth.
but Behr became . up by giving a stimy
70 Smith. The thirteenth hole was well
RIn,ssS ssS SIT s I down n,Hh Ths 7 to IN t snd a in ! for Hsf
beAr And the Hfteenth in 5 Tor smith was not
brilliant. the strokes on, each hcing one over
par, The remaining holes were halved.
TO begin the second round Behr gained
two Of the first three holes and was three
X. fo i ais Sc sSS Saidl p, snd up h Riii' cost IS,tU fhsa
Ths'n Smith Won the afth in and was
smith hit. the fir trees on his second. throw.
ing sway his chances for the hole. for Behr.
Who was short on his approach, gained an
almost . repetition. .Behr topped his drive,
was IN the rough OF. his second, and rubbed
his third. yet, he had q half in Q as
Smith hit a big tree on bis second, The
ball, which otherwise would have made the
green, ~rebounded q full mashle shot. 4 par
=! op the eishth LEFT. Smith but ! down
A clever 8 on the eleventh placed
Behr again 2 ~, but by a sequence OF
three good holes, each a I and TWO of
fourteenth green. Behr for the first time
put ginger IN his game and proved that he
nddle Of a anal. He a' reeied on a T.
and s, the par OF the three holes, and
winning W. OF them he had the match won
CD the. seventeenth hole. The card for
fhi1tY-6Ye hole.