Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
WHITNEY BEATS
ALDREDGE FOR
SOUTHERN TITLE
New Orleans Golfer Captures the
Championship Easily, q Up
and 8 to Play.
THREE TIMES A WINNER
Champion Plays Corking Long
Game, Sometimes 0utdriving
Opponent so Yards.
THREE TIMES A WINNER
Bv W. r. Tichenor.

bon Golf Club of New Orleans
won the Southern Golf Championship
here to-day by defeating c. L Al
dredge, Of Dallas. Texas. in the final
round, four up and three to play, In
Se-hole match.
This is the third time that Whitney
has annexed the highest honors In
Southern golf. In this tournament It
was Whitneys luck to have the hard
part of the draw, as he had to play
Ellis Knowles of Pensacola; Louis
Jacoby, of Dallas, and his own club
mate, Reuben Bush, to get into the
finals.
In his match to-day Whitney was
in fine form on his long game pqt
very unsteady on the green. he
missed many of his two and three
foot puts.
Aldredge played fine short game
and time after time saved himself by
his deadly run-up shots. He was out
driven by Whitney on practically
every hole from 10 to so yards, when
forced him to play his second shot
before Whitney on all of the two ana
three-shot holes.
Course Very Heavy.
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the morning round and during the
lunch hour. making the course slow.
This was an advantage to whitney
as his shots had more carry TO them
than Aldredge's.
In the morning round Whitney won
the second. but lost the third. The
fourth was halved in fOurs. Aldredge
holed an approach shot for a three
after putting his second to the Tar
edge of the fifth green. Whitney had
n ten-foot put for a three, but could
not get II down. Whitney squared
the match at the sixth and by taking
the seventh was one up.
Aldredge came back and took the
eighth with a four and the ninth with
a three, and so was one up at the
turn. Aldredge was out in 81 ana
Whitney in 40.
Whitney holed long put for a
three at the tenth for a win, AID
redge barely missing holing one OF
almost the same leugth. Aldredge
drove out of bounds at the eleventh,
but won the hole as Whitney sliced
his second against a post and was al
most unplayable, taking three to get
ont. Whitney got a five at the lone
twelfth AND won the hole. The thir-
teenth and fourteenth were halved
IN fours. 49,,
Whitney rays iron WClls
Whitney played a fine iron shot TO
the green at the fifteenth and holed
a two. with Aldredge dead for a
three. Both messed up the sixteenth,
hut Whitney got a five by taking one
put to the green and won the hole.
Both reached the green and got threes
at the seventeenth.
kidredgs missed his second at the
eighteenth and ran into the ditch. He
got out well but ran into the road TO
the left Of the green and took a six
tot be hole. Whitney was on the green
with hts second and having three for
the hole played it safe. This put him
IN at the end of the morning round.
The nineteenth was halved in fives
as Aidredge laid Whitney a dead
stymie when he was within foot OF
the cup for a four. Aldredge took
three puts at the twentieth and lost
the hole to Whitney's four. At the
tyentv-first Aldredge again took
three puts and Whitney annexed an
other hole, which put him 8 up. Whit
new hooked his drive into the mounds
al the twenty second and hardly got
ont on his second. He took a five to
the hole and lost to Aldredge's four.
whitney was bunkered on his second
at the twenty-third, but got out well
and got a half in five.
GIdredae Wins Twenty fourth Hole.
Whitney drove out of bounds at the
twenty fourth. but put his next one
10 feet from the cup. Aldredge got
+be green and was down in two puts,
winning the hole. At the twenty NTH
AIdredge holed a fine down-hill slant
ing nut for a five. but Whitney holed
one nearly as long for his four and
won. .,
bunker TO the right of the green at
the tventy-sixth. while Aldredge was
too strong on his second and overran
the green. Both took three TO get
down and the hole was halved In fve.
The short ninth was halved IN three.
whitney turned for home up. Whit
~ T,-as ont in SO and Aldredge in 40.
The twenty eighth was won by Al
dredge IN a four, Whitney taking three
nuts after q Door second which just
reached the edge OF the green Al
dra5Va puIled his second into pine
tree near the green and was short with
his third At the twenty ninth WHIT
new was short Of the green with his
second He hit his run-up too easy,
then ran past with his put and missed
his Eve coming back. allowing Al
dredge 70 win with a five. Whitney
dubbed his second at the thirdeth, but
got a half in five by playing a fine iron
to the green
Aldredge Misses Put.
At the thirty-first hole Aldredge
topped his second into the bunker. but
got out well on his third and made
grand iry for his four. but missed IL
by a hair Whitney got his four and
was three up Whitney overran the
flag on the thirty second hole with his
second. and Aldredge just did reach
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