New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
WHITE WINS ON LINKS
Oakland Golfer Captures Fourth
Cup for Season. a
BEATS KERR. OF EKWAN0K
Gillett Leads Big Field IN
Eighteenth Handi.
cap Match.


as the pride Of the Oakland Golf Club, won
his fourth chief cup of the season by d..
feating II. X. Kerr. Of Ekwanok, 2 I'D. IN
the thirty -six-hole final round OF the Powell.
ton Club invitation tournament YESTERDAY
Except for brief period during the morn.
ing White always showed TO advantaxs
His brilliant long game was generally sim.
plemented by good iron shots and deadly
putting.
There were times, however, when Wits
failed TO keep the rubber core under Der.
feet control, but whenever he did make a
slip he nNally atoned for II a little later
Kerr hung on tenaciously, but was not
equal to taking the measure OF his o.
ponent. who has proved himself to be ons
OF the best amateur golfers ever developed
I'm the metropolitan district.
Quite a field turned out for the eighteen.
hole handicap which resulted in c. r. ca
lett. OF Wykagyl. winning, with a card o.
s0-s-72 Despite his duties as head OF N.
tournament committee. Gilman p. Tiffany
managed TO carry off the gross prize with
a. Included among the starters was Mrs
y. d. Belknap, who, playing with joseph
Chadwick, jr., returned a card Of lN-
$50
The end Of the morning round saw Whit.
with the slim advantage of I up, a none
too satisfactory state OF affairs from his
point of view, considering that at ona
stage he had been 3 up. A deadly chin
shot from the edge Of the green enabled
the Oakland golfer to win the first hole in
four, his opponent missing an opportunity
for halve by taking three puts.
The next hole went to Kerr in a par 4
White making hash of his wee msshls
shot. after driving wide of the green An.
other ragged chip shot cost White the third
hole. so that Kerr became 1 up. His al.
vantage was short lived, for pulled drive
10 the rough proved dana ging. Even So
White had to get his four 10 win.
In this way the tickle goddess first smiled
on one and then the other. for II Is mat.
ter OF record that not a single hole was
halved during the outward journey.
Kerr brought off flfteen-foot put 10 win
the 43j-yard fifth hole in four. and becan.
l up again. AT the next the Ekwsnok
golfer pulled a drive to the rough, and from
there landed into the old cross bunker. Th,,
made the pair Level. and White assumed
the lead when he negotiated A halt stynr.
on the seventh green. II did no, seem as Il
he had room to get by. but he did, and won
the hole i'm three as a result
A topped drive TO the brook from N.
eighth tee caused White TO give I'D that
hole. so that 1t was case OF all even again
going TO No Q. Here Kerr took three PUTS
and lost, White laying a chip shot dead
and getting a four. He went out in g 10
the others 90
In the matter OF conceding puts. both
were generous to a fault, but tho refusal
Of Kerr To try 10 negotiate a stymie on
the tenth green was almost uuheard q
Their seconds had left the balls at tho
green's edge, and White. beir. away.
Clipped up with a mashie. The ball Tipped
the cup. but remained above earth between
the hole and Kerr's ball. The Ekwanok
mans game, of course, was 70 be- up Oh
his approach put so as TO get clear OF thu
stymie. Instead, he fell about a clubs
length short, which left his ball s.ll In A
direct line with the other. There was 4
Udif fIbutt VI NfIT UflflS dUit 70 JUMP
the stymie and getting a halve but IN.
stead OF trying he picked up his ball ami
walked to the next tee. White declared
II was the first time he had ever seen this
happen in a match.
Immediately following this White gave
an exhibition OF nervy putting. bringing
of tricky one down hill for haye IN
three at the eleventh and a ~ enty tooter
TO win in three at the next An instsn,
Ekwanok mans bail lay less than yard
from the cup. He missed the little one,
however, and became three down.
They halved four Of the next six holes.
Kerr winning the fourteenth and seven
teenth in par tours. Both came home IN
81. so that the cards OF y and Is repre-.
scented good golf
BY the way White began his afternoon
round Il looked az II he would settle mat.
tiers in a hurry, for he won the iirst tVo
holes in par figures, making him three Up
on the day. The Oakland golfer missed
put on the next green, but even AZ that got
halve in four. A short approach cost
him the next hole, and he lost the hhh
when his second shot hit the fence. White
became three up again by winning The
seventh and eighth holes. but losing the
ninth. due TO A slice out OF bounds. ne
turned for home two up. Both made the
outward half in 80.
White won the eleventh hole, but oS
the next, taking four strokes from JUST
of the edge OF the green. lie also over
ran on the thirteenth. LOSING that he
became dormie two with a three at me
sixteenth. He lost the seventeenth by tax
ing three puts, but won the home hole n
four when his opponent drove to tho rousa'
The card follows: