New-York tribune., 1909-09-14
TIGERS WIN AT COLE
HARTARD> ALSO SCORES.
Pennsylvania and Dartmouth Beaten
for Team Cham piOnshp.

Harvard and Princeton scored in the opening
matches for the team championship OF the Inter
collegiate Golf Association over the links OF the
Apawarlis club yesterday The wearers Of the
Crimson defeated the University Of Pennsylvania
by a score OF 20 . while Princeton barely
scratched through al the expense OF Dartmouth.
the final score reading 10 {. Yale and Williams
drew byes. but the latter will meet Harvard while
Yale faces Princeton to-day.
Teams consisted OF six players and the morning
round Was devoted to singles. In the afternoon the
men paired UP and fought il out at the four ball
game. In the early hours Princeton secured no
advantage over Dartmouth each side scoring three
matches.
That brilliant Western golfer Alfred S.ckel. who
did so well in the national championship tourna-
Inent At Wheaton last week played No. / for
Princeton. and while no scored a point Il only
by the narrowest margin He was opposed 10 r.
A. Martin. Dartmouths foremost player. and It
looked several times as il Seckel would surely be
beaten. a case in point was At the long seven
teenth hole. where he got into the rough three
times only TO lay a mashe shot dead and halve
the hole. Seckel cinohed the match by bringing
of a long put for n on the home green. He went
cut in - and back in % for a a.
In the Harvard Pennsylvania match the Cam
bridge men had things pretty much their own
way from the start The only loser in the singles
for Harvard was n &. X. Hollins None too
strong at best. Pennsylvania still further
weakened through the absence OF y. A Petth.
Consequently his side not only lost "A match by
default in the singles. but II. g Legge. who was
TO nave been Pettit's partner in the four-bal al
fair had 10 play alone against > ". Sargent and
A Macarthur.
AS the 1.-THE limbed collegans with their dash
ing swings drove of from the first tee many
faces were seen, as Of the old favorites
missing. II. II. Wilder, OF Harvard. last years
champion, was graduated last June while W. Fel-
loves Morgan, jr. another OF Haryards
promising players absent because OF condi-
tions in his studies. c. A Dunning. one OF the
best OF the williams set. present. but feared
he would be unable TO play for similar reasons.
There is some uncertainty to the movements
of Robert l.. Gardner the national cham
pon who was copnted 70 help out the Yale
team He had not arrived from the West, and the
general opinion seemed 10 be that he would not
get here in time There is rule of the associa-
ton which shpulates that player must take part
in the team matches 20 make him eligible for the
individual championship later in the week
The annual nesting of the Intercollegiate Golf
day when officers will be elected for the ensuing
wear Yale, Harvard. Princeton and Williams are
the oIsy voting members.
In the tournament a year ago at Brae Burn the
Yale forces won 'ae team championship. and Judg-
ing by the confident air of the New Haven men
Yesterday they are not worrying the outcome.
but there are plenty willing to wager that Har-
ward win come pretty near winning this time
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