Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-18
M'DERMOTT TAKES !
OPEN GOLF Title
Atlantic City Pro Captures
Western Championship TrO-
ply from Large Field.
.OUIMET TO PLAY H0YT

J.. J. McDermott, the youthful At
iantic City professional, added
another golf trophy TO his long list
when he won the fifteenth annual
open Western championship yester-
Gay over the links of the Memphis
Country Club. Memphis. Tenn. with
. low score Of go for the seventy
holes. His score is also new course
record for seventy-two holes.
McDermott relieves Mcdonald
Smith. Of New Rochelle, Of the title,
Smith finishing third with a score Of
3f5 NJ. J. Brady, of Boston, finished
second with q score Of 302, and Otto
Hackbarth, Of Chicago. won fourth
money with a score Of 307. Another
Boston player. Tom Mcnamara, edged
nto the money with a score Of 300.
1osing out Bob Simpson. formerly of
Ienosha- now playing unattached.
McDermott won by playing a strong
nd steady game. His lowest score
in the four eighteen-hole rounds OF
LAY was y and his highest WAS rs,
made yesterday afternoon.
NJ. J. Condor, of Memphis. won the
sOld medal for low amateur score
@ith a card of 332. Condor finished
lietter than number of professionals.
+ II TdnGiS OulU1eIs the 0d10nai GnaIue
pion, had no difficulty in surviving
match play in the first and second
rounds for the Country Club cup yes-
+ terday. Consequently he will meet
rank II. Hoyt. his golfng COM
panion,, in the seni-finals this morn
ing. Quimet gave Hoyt a severe
trouncing when he played him in the
finals for the State championship re-
Gently. Quimet won in the morning
+ TFOr0 n II GfF1lrIar7 n ~t<s
strong player. The pair We're all even
at the turn, but the champion took
the next three holes in order. halyed
the following two and won the if
teenth with a par 4, which gave him
the match. In the afternoon Ouimet
Won easily from V. S. Lawrence, q
clubmate. whose putting cost him
many holes going out Hoyt defeated
Paul Tewksbury and J. H. Sullivan,
jr-, in the second round.
Boston followers of golf will be
able TO see the British women who
| have been competing in the national
Championship at Wilmington. Miss
Dodd. Miss Ravenscroft and Miss
Harrison have accepted an invitation
TO take part in the women's open
tournament at the Brookline Coun-
try Club on Monday.
F. c. Newton had a rather unusual
experience yesterday of winning the
medal In the qualifying round of the
Staten Island golf Championship at
the Richmond County Country Club,
and then finding it necessary to de-
feat Jacob A Janin in the first round
at match play in the afternoon. New
ton had a card of 43-41-S4 and the
default permitted Janin, a capable
performer at match play. to advance
undisputed. Newton was suddenly
called back TO New York.
Harry Vardon and Edward Raw.
British professional golfers, defeated
George Rotan, of Daco. Tex, cham
pion, and Charles Dexter. jr., of Dali
las, amateurs, up and l to play. in
best ball foursome over the 1S-hole'
course of the Dallas Country. Club
at Dallas yesterday afternoon
/ Weather conditions were unfavorablo
: but Rays score of Y equaled the
. course record.
A number of well-known golfers.
. most OF whom were graduates Of
Princeton, recently visited the coll
lege course as guests of Percy Pyne-
I'd, the Morris county golfer A medaf|
play competition was run Off, handf-
caps being allowed, and Gilman P.
Tiffany, the scratch man. won ti1e|
gross award with II. Later in the|
day team match between. s'the|
graduates" and undergraduates waa|
run off. the first named Combination
winning by two matches to one. ThosaI
who took part were Gardiner WI
White, Max r. Marston. Ralph
Peters, jr., John NJ. Ward, John ~
Stearns, Sd, James A. Stillman, q.
Peacock, L. NJ. Washburn, ]. Z. Fay.|
w. Roberts and D. B. Douglas