New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-13
LUCK SMILES ON WHITE
sensational Shot Out of Bunker
Helps Defeat Bowers.
FINISH STIRS SPECTATORS
no,fer Falls Into a Trap, Only to
Recover Well, Making Hole
in Two Strokes.

sensational niblick shot out OF a bunker
= O match for Gardiner W. White, OF
oakland. al the expense of "Spotty BOW
= 20 prooklayvr, i'm the second round or
a., o,er golf tournament at Fox Hilis
'e..~Iav afternoon. The end came at
.o,,,or, when il looked as II Bowers had
eeht,re chance 90 win the match'
- nat, stood on the sixteenth tee
,,-,.,,o nd an advantage Of up, but his
90 shot trine sliced. got him into trap
IN the right OF the green whereas bowers
,uiIed his ball 10 the rough IN inc hoilo".
peing away. the bridgeport veteran playeo
tbe odd and laid up a good shot apout zen
foot from the fag. White then played out
Of the sand with his niblick, and the bail,
Using Quickly. dropped on the green some
twenty feet short Of the PIN and then
,rickled on straight into the cup for 2
thereby making him a winner by up and
TO play.
Old followers OF golf who had been taking
,n tournaments Tor the last fifteen years
declared they had never seen match ter
inmate in such a remarkable manner The
. success of White earned him place in the
semi-dnal bracket. where he Will meet
T. ". Kendall the far driver from Deal.
this morning In the other half of the
round A. F. Hammer and L. T. Allen.
home pair, will settle their differences.
Allen is the present staten Island cham
pon.
Taking il all in all, it was day Of re-
narkable scoring. and so consistently low
we're the cards that nearly every one was
free TO admit that this popular Staten ISL
and course can still stand considerably
more stifrenins up. in the carly hours
White had Ralph Carroll of Greenwich, for
a competitor. and although the first named
always looked like winner, he never sue
eeeded in getting far away from his OPP
, ponent who carried the match TO the home
green. where White finished up. Had IT
not been for bit OF hard luck at the
eighth hole White might have won that in
stead OF losing st. lie attempted 10 pass
lis opponents ball. which half stymied
him. with the result that Whites ball
knocked CAROLS into the cup. Again, at
the thirteenth, Carroll saved himself by
bringing OF a long put for halve in 8,
and he duplicated this on the seventeenth
green by running down a &-fOoter for
g. White returned the compliment, when
he almost drove home green, and got 3
himself. That the pace was fast was
shown by the card, which read 10 TO IS in
Whites favor.
Hammer. the man VINO got second place
70 White in the qualifying round. continued
IN play at the top of his game in both Of
his matches yesterday. Early in the day
Hammer smothered II. V. Gaines, OF
WyEagyl. 10 the tune Of up and TO play
They finished out the bye hole, Hammer
getting &c. Later on the winner tackled w.
j. NcMenamy, and this time Hammer won
hy Il and ! margin. He got another 49,
which included for the fourteenth hole
Allen always had the upper hand over
T. A. Janin in the morning, and he also
proved too steady for T. IL Sturgis, OF
.Wykagyl IN the second round. the Staten
Island title holder winning by up and 2
10 play. Kendall who has come on his
game earlier than usual this season, had
little trouble in defeating both of his men.
In the morning he won over VI. l. Feary,
Of the home club. up and TO play and
later on downed J. b. Wooten, another
Fox Eills man, up and TO play.
Apropos OF low scores, the feet Of Z. S.
Bottome in the irst round Of the beaten
eight of the second sixteen capped the
climax. The Fox Hills man. playing with
7. g. Russell, Of DyXer Meadow, went
around like wild horse. winning by up
and to play. and finishing out for 70.
The summary follows:
First sixteen first rounD-Gardiner w.
White Oakland. beat Ralph &. Carroll. Green
witch . mp; s. y. B0worsf Brookawn. beat O.
o. Eaxter BroOklyn-FOrest Park. 8 up and =
10 play; J. B. Wooten, Fox Hills beat H.
Cosscns-Hardy. Fox HIS . up and / 10 play;
r. ". Kendall Deal. beat 81. L. Teary Fox
= fr, nd L.
Hills beat H. V. Gaines. Wykagyl. up and
t. play: ". J. MeMsnemy. Fox his. bent
u sfurgls Wykagyl. beat G. a. Dunning. Mas
,au b % ana TO play; b. r. Allen. Fox Hills.