New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-14
WHITE HOLDS THE PACE
Brilliant Golfer Wins the Chief
Trophy on Fox Hills Links.
DEFEATS HAMMER EASILY
Oakland Youth Has Hard Tussle
with Kendall in Morning,
However.


White Of Oakland. won the chief cup in
the final round OF the open tournament on
the links OF the Fox Hills Golf Club yes
. ,erdsy White defeated A. +. Hammer,
of the home club by up and 5 TO play.
on Thursday, in the qualifying round
Whits won the low score prize, while q
week ago he downed the redoubtaole
Water Travis at Garden City, so alto
ge,her the former interscholastic cham
pion has gathered in three trophies in two
weeks.
Coincident with yesterdays matches was
ali eighteen-hole medal play handicap
which resulted in a tie for first net prize
between E. G. B. Riley. OF Crawford. with
a card of s3-l3-70 and ]. Il. Wooten' OF
the home club. with $50 The gross
score trophy went 10 Hammer, who made
a capital "a in his morning match against
B. T. Allen, the Staten Island title holder.
As the score indicates. Hammer was in
rare form before luncheon, but he acted
like a different man against White The
last named, by the way, had his hands
full in disposing Of ?. W. Kendall. the far
driver from Deal, in the semi-fnal In
ability 10 get going. chiefly because OF
ragged short game, left Kendall down at
the twelfth hole. and had he been able 20
pull the match out Of the fire then II would
, have been little short OF a miracle. He did,
however, succeed in winning the next four
holes right off the reel, getting three SIS
IN a row.
Kendall also had the better drive TO the
seventeenth. but In attempting to COB
Bile" three ne overran, and, missing the
next put coming back lost the hole, leav-
ing White a winner by and l margin.
In the decisive match there never was a
moment from the time that Hammer pulled
his opening drive into a trap that White
looked like anything but a winner. Play
ing in his easy style with little or no
effort. White won the first hole in to the
others Z. The second was also Whites
after Hammer sliced his second shot 10 the
clubhouse. Thereafter, Hammer played
raggedly until the ninth, where he came 10
life for a brief instant, winning the hole
f. to 4. II awaited little. as the youngster
who went out in 81. turned for home up.
The only thing Hammer did coming back
was TO win the'rand hole in g. but the
match termina. ca on the next green, where
White won in 5-to 7. The bye holes were
not played. Aside from playing sound
golf at all times. Whites driving came in
for especial comment on the part OF the
gallery. He drove so far at the 475-yard
fourth hole as TO only need a mashie shot
for his second. Again. at the eleventh, he
drove fully 800 yards, and reaching the
green with mashie on his next, Tipped the
cup for g. This hole is $50 yards
The summary follows:
First sixteen Csemi-fnal round)-Gardiner
". White, Oakland. beat P. W. Kendall. Deal.
up ana 10 play; a. F. Hammer, Fox Hills.
play.
Final round-white beat Hammer. up
and to play.
Beaten eight (frst sixteen: semi-nnal round)
M l. Feary. Fox Hills. beat G. q. Baxter
Breoklyn-Forest Park up and 10 play
mond County 3 up and ? TO play
Final round-Feary beat Morse. up go
Second sixteen (semi-fnai round)-Chisholm
Beach, Fox Hills. beat B. H. Ridder. Fox
Hills. by default; ". w. Taylor Ardsley, beat
Dr. A. T. Haight. wykagyl. up and 70
Final round-Taylor beat Beach. up and
Beaten eight Second sixteen; semi-fnal
ro1nd)-B S. Bottome. Fox Hills. beat ]. 3.
f SsIhn; Fox HIS up; J. Tobin. Fox
Final round-Bcttome beat Tobin. up and
Third sixteen (semi-hnal round)-winiam
VIII, Midland. beat DR.. NJ. Carpenter. Oak
land, up and 10 play: II. r. Mcclellan
Fox HIS. beat j. B. Eddleman, Fox Hills
/ up go holesl.
Final round-vitt beat Mcclellan. 1 up
go holes).
Beaten eight third sixteen Cnnai round)-A s.
Andrews Flushing, beat E. G. Potter, Fox
HIS. I up.
Fourth sixteen Csehi-1nal round)-C G. B.
Riley, Crawford, beat p 5. Mclaughlin. Wyks-
gyl. up: d. A. II. Jones. Fox Hills. beat W. p
Sears. Fox Hills. up and 10 play.
Final round-Riley beat Jones, UP and to
play.
Beaten eight. fourth sixteen (hnal round)-H
ID Kaysyer. Scarsdale. beat w. S. Leeds, Fox
HIS. UP and 10 play
Fifth sixteen semi round)-R NJ Tarle-
ION. Oakland, beat F. p. Barrett Fox Hills. by
default; John u. Newman Fox Hills beat p
". Pcscy Fox Hills. up and 10 play.
~ Final round-Tarleton beat Newman. / up Q9
hplesl
Sixth sixteen (semi-hnal round)-I. S. Conk-
lin. Fox MINIS. heat ]. y. LHommedieu. Fox
HIS. Up and 20 play; l.. p. Wallace, Fox
HIS, beat p. W. Pogson. Fox Hills. UP and
70 play.
Finsl round-wslace beat Conklin. up and
TO play.
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