New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-08
Defeats Harvard in Decisive
Round on BaItusroI Links.
GARDNER IN TOP FORM
Reels Off Hole After Hole in Par
Figures, While Mcneil
Falters.

Yale retained the intercollegiate Golf
Association team championship by defeat
ing Harvard 9 matches 70 In the decisive
round at Baltusrol yesterday. From the
moment the Blues first pair, Robert A.
Gardner and j. D. Dunlap. jr.. scored over
B. W. Estabrook and j. G. Mcneil in tho
four-ban Yale always looked like a winner.
II was not without a struggle. however,
that Gardner and partner won their match,
Tor going out Estabrook played so well
that his side stood up at the turn. Gard
ner then dropped irto one Of his happy
veins reeling OF hole after hole in par
figures. so that every time the opposition
made a mistake it meant hole gone
Had Mcneil been able to come to the
rescue at all he might have saved the day,
as his partner did not begin 70 slip until
the eleventh hole. where he took three
puts. II was a case Of slip all the time,
however. for Mcneil. who had neither
length from the tee nor certainty on the
green. Dunlap also fell by the wayside,
although he did clinch victory for Yale
with a three at the nome hole They had
a best-ball of r. Gardner practically hav-
ing a IS himself.
The only extra hole match Of the day re-
suited from the meeting Of Holden Wilson
and George Stanley. Of Yale and r. +.
Clarke and e. NJ Amory. Three holes from
home the Yale pair stood up but Har-
ward won the sixteenth in and the seven
teenth IN (. That squared the match. and
as the home hole was halved in q the
rivals proceeded to the nineteenth hole.
Here both Amory and the Harvard cap
tain drove wildly. and neither succeeded In
getting better than .. not good enough,
as the Yale pair had no trouble In get
ting g.
When the teams were lined up for sin
giles. Harvard placed Estabrook 40. 1
against Gardner The far driving Yale
captain always had the upper hand over
the Brae Burn player, going ont in 80 and
coming back in 30 for 70. The match
ended on the fourteenth green, however.
where Gardner stood up. He played out
the bye holes. as did all the others, for
the scores had To count I'm the qualifying
round Of the individual championship.
which began yesterday afternoon. With
the exception of the meeting between H.
3. Lee and ". Y. Booth. all the matches
in the singles were one-sided. Lee, now
team. is the Michigan state champion.
having won the title for the second time
recently. Gardners 70 against Estabrook
led the field in the qualifying round.
His card was as follows:
out............ ? : . : - -
Next In line came Albert Seckel, OF
Princeton. holder of the Western Golf As
sociation title. Sockei had no luck on the
greens, cases in point being at the third
hole where he missed a short put for "a
.. and again AT the ninth and eleventh
holes. where he took three puts from
distance Of less than - feet.
The summary follows
FOUR BALL.
YALE HARVARD.
81 Gardner and W b Estabrook and
b. DuuIap fr.. i. -. Mcneil ...-...
Holden Wilson ana TN. r. CLARK ana G..
George STANLEY ...- ]. VI. Amor}, JI-..-.- "
T. b. Jennings ami W n Bo'th ana j.
n. r. Lee ......-- sargent ....... .-'-' y
Total ........... 3 Total ..............
,fef,b plav summary Gardner and Dunlap
beat Estabrook and Mcneil, up. wilson ana ana