New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-07
BOY PRODIGY IS BEATEN
Youth and Age Battle on the
Shinnecock Golf Links.
WARD WINS BY BIG MARGIN
Former Baseball Player Too
Much for Fourteen-Year-
Old Phenomenon.


Southampton Long Island. Aug G-Azs
and experience proved too much for pre-
cocious youth when John MONTGOMERY
Ward. OF Garden city defeated Philip c.
Carter. Of Bridgehampton. By up and
70 play. in the tlirty-six hole final round
Of the invitation tournament. on the links
of the Shinnecock Hills Goff Club to-day
The result was not surprising. AL things
considered
Carter is a fourteen-year-oid lad with
practically no tournament experience. ard
10 look et him IL is hard TO conceive now
ne gets the distance he does of the tee,
Tor re weighs only one hundred pounds
Although usually outdriven by his more
powerful opponent. Carter frequently made
ward play the odd after the tee shot
Onquestions5ly it wasn't Carters day,
TOT ne played his poorest golf OF the week
In this match Usually a deadly putter,
Carter failed frequently in this department.
OF the game to-day. and when he did pull
a drive To the rough the mistake almost
invariably cost him the hole
On the other hand Ward played steady
golf from start TO finish and az no time
looked like a loser. Even when he did
slice or pull to the rough the veteran
proved equal to the occasion. a majority
OF MS recOVerIeS out OF trouble refng
brought of with az much accuracy as L
the bail had been lying well on the green
Sometimes an uncertain purter. Ward had
few Iapses in this respect. rarely giving tas
boy an opening
The match was virtually won IN ths-
morning when Ward gained the comfort
able advantage Of up. getting round n
81 TO the others 60
-y-E~ -
too young to have nerves out for all thai
he seemed Overanxious on numerous &C.
casiors during the early hours This COM
mendabIe eagerness 10 be up on his ap-
proaches caused Carter to everyday the
first green starting out. Combined with
this he had the hard luck 10 find MS
ball in an almost unplayable lie Ths
stroke wasted there cost the hole and
Ward who had been ii trouble himself
won @S 4 useful ten-foot PUT. one OF
the best he brought of during the day.
enabled Carter 70 get a halve IN four at
the second After Ward topped his drive
short OF the railroad from the third tee
Carter had his chance 70. draw level DuE
the youngster threw away his opportunity
BIZ badly overplaying his approach and
then taking three more from the edge OF
the green. In the mean time. Ward thanhs
TO a fine recovery. almost got home from
the rough. ard then won the hole IN 10 o.
That made the veteran Up He would
have lost the next two holes had II not 0ee@
for weak putting on Carriers part AS u
was the holes were haIved- Carter then
won the sixth and seventh in par IS, Warb
driving into trouble at both holes
With the match all square interest n tns
gallery increased. and a few moments later
il looked as If the boy was actually gong
70 become l I'd. for he laid his third shot
- the eighth hole practically dead He
missed the two foot put. however, thereby
enabling Ward 10 get a halve IN D
Although Carter got IN the rough going
10 the bard ninth hole. nearly third OF 3
mile. he might have got a halvs had lr
not been for weak putting II was Nsrds
hole in 20 :, so that the former baseball
player turned for home 1 Up, the strokes
reading % 70 45 in his favor
Coming home the boy nads a hash OF
things generally. and as Ward then began
TO reel of the holes IN par figures, carer
never had a chance The tenth hole -
two hundred yards. and the Br1dgesanpeon
Youth had the misfortune 10 overdrtve ne
green. not a bad mistake 70 be safe ou9
enough 70 enable Ward TO win the hole in s.
4
on the eleventh green enabled the FORMER
~ get a halve in ; there. Carter reppeo
t,iz first Drive OF the match from the rveIt1
tee. the ball finding an almost unpiayao-e
lie among the huckleberry bushes Tras
made il plain sailing for Ward VINO wors
with something 10 spare in I 70 s. Now s.
II, Ward proceeded 70 add TO the others
5ieron,fort by LAYING a brilliant approach
stone dead TO the thirteenth. the ball STOP
ming within six inches of the pin. and ~
had ONLY to tap il into the cup for a -
II was a hard hole for Carter 10 lose, as -
got a par a
Ward increased his advantage BY WIN
ming the fourteenth in 5 70 Z. Carter once
more getting IN the rough Three halved
holes follow ed, but Ward raised his lead 10
6 I'D by winning the eighteenth IN 20 70
DESPITE the fact that the boy laid him q na-r
styuie-
When the pair started QUE IN the a1ter~
noon II was a foregore conclusion thao
Ward would win The pace improved con-
siderably both principals doing better tnan
In the previous round. Carter got bunkeret
az the second and lost that, but won tbs
third in a fine 8 They halved the fcurtE
in and then Ward ran down g good p1c
for a . az the f60-yard fifth. thereby be-
coming I'D again -Four consecutive halves
thereafter left Ward still up at the t-rns
the card reading IS TO 20 in his favor They
naIved in the tenth in 5. but Ward sette6
matters by winning the eleventh Ia - -