Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-24
HARVARD MAN IN
LEAD OVER YALE
IN GOLF TOURNEY
Hunter, of Yale, Great "Pill
Juggler," but Not as Used
to Course as Davidson.

MANCHESTER, Mass. Sept, 24.-
The initials in intercollegiate individual
golf championship today found Yale
and Harvard in a 36-hole contest, the
Blue represented by Robert E.. Hunter,
of Chicago, and the Crimson by F. q.
Davidson, of Boston. Both players have
had several years experience OF the
links, but Hunter is not so used to the
rugged course of New England as
Davidson.
The match started shortly after 10 a.
m, with a fairly good gallery trailing
after the college pair.
The first hole was not over brilliant
ly played and was halved in 5. There
is a ledge of rocks to be carried IN
the drive to the second green which is
ninety yards from the tee and seven
teen yards high. Davidson drove a
high ball which remained on the top
of the hill, while Hunters drive barely
scaled the brow of the ledge by o
an inch or two and he cleared the
hill to the low ground beyond. David
son reached the edge of the green, but
Hunters approach was short and the
hole was finally halved in five.
Hunter had the best of the drive for
the third hole by twenty yards and ne
landed his second on the green dead
| toSthe hole. Davidson was on the edge
of the green in two, and after taking
three pitts, gave the hole to Hunter.
but the latter tried his ten-inch putt
and missed It, winning the hole in 1
to 5.
Al the Fourth Hole.
Playing the fourth they were both
up within a mashie shot of the green
in two, and Davidson won the hole in
4 to 8. Hunter was hole high to the
right of the green, playing the fifth
hole, while Davidson took three 70
reach the green, but the hole was
halved in five. They both got fine
drives up the hill for the sixth hole,
and Hunter reached the green on mis-
second, while Davidson sliced his sec
ond and took three for the green, Hun
ter winning the hole in 4 to 8. Both
drove to the slope of the second hill,
playing the seventh, and Davidson
brassied to the edge of the green,
which Hunter was short. Davidson
won the hole in 4 to 5, he also won
the eighth in 4 to s, his playing being
perfect. They both used mid-lrons
playing the ninth. and were on the
green within twelve and fifteen feet of
the hole, and Davidson ran down a
twelve-foot putt for two. Hunter hang
ing on the rim Of the cap. Davidson
went out In 80 to Hunters Al, and led
by 2 up at the turn.
Drives Into n Well.
By perfect play on the home journey
Hunter won the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth holes. Davidson, playing the
twelfth, drove into a well to the left
of the green. Hunters lead of l up
was squared by Davidson winning the
long thirteenth hole in 5 to 6. He also
won the fourteenth through superior
putting, which gave him the lead by
1 up. The fifteenth was halved in four,
after Davidson's putt for a three hung
on the rim of the cup.
The sixteenth was ably played and
halved in three. Hunter making a grand
recovery from the rough on his second
and laying the blame dead to the hole.
Playing the long seventeenth they both
had fine drives out n beautiful
brassie shots and were on the green in
three, Davidson trimming down a long
putt and winning the hole in 4 TO 5.
Hunters second shot playing the eigh-
tenth went behind the tennis wires
and he lost a stroke playing out and
took five for the green, which Davidson
was on in three.
Hunter was away and holed a fifty
spare to win, and he won the hole in
B to 6. This left Davidson 3 up on the
morning round.