Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
WH|TLATCH winner
Defeats Purvis in Finals of Ad-
vertisers' Golf Tourney.
THIRTY TROPHIES HUNG UP
Pinehurst's Program Included Four
somes and Handicaps in
Three Glasses.
THIRTY TROPHIES HUNG UP
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
PINEHURST, n. c., January 1S-To-
days play in the advertising golf tourn-
ament rounded out a remarkable week Of
perfect weather. interesting competition
and congenial companiOnship. the pro-
gram including not only the mems final
match play round, but mixed foursomes,
mems foursomes handicaps in three
classes and women's handicap, the pos
session of no less than thirty trophies
being decided.
Interest of the day naturally centered
in the final for the championship trophy
between Marshall Whitlatch of Oakland
and r. Murray Purvs of Woodland
which the Oakland player won. 2 up
and 1 to play. in a keen match, which
a halve in three on the seventeenth green
decided. Going out in 80. Mr.. Whitlatch
turned home up. winning the second.
third, fourth and ninth holes and losing
the first and sixth. the remainder being
halved. A topped drive which made the
rough at the left halved the tenth in 6
for Whitlatch and lost him an Opportuni
with a bad second. Purvis captured the
eleventh with a brilliant third, which lay
dead, and the twelfth was halved in a
perfect 4. Purvis' tee shot cost him
the thirteenth. 90 for Whitlatch went
straight down the alley. A pair of IS
halved the fourteenth and 3s the fif-
teenth where Purvis made the green
with Whitlatch adjoining 1t. both going
down in g.
The fourteenth was a half in T. with
the advantage in favor of Whitlatch on
the tee shot. On the critical seventeenth
Whitlatch's drive landed just between the
trap and the green. while Purvis was
hole high on the other side OF a whisker
bunker. Purvis approached well. but was
a bit short. overran on his putt and lost
chance to halve In 4. Wh1tlatch
overran on the stab for >. missed his
third and went down in 4. The medal
Mr.. Whitlatch and IS for Mr. Purvis.
In the consolation two Massachusetts
golfers, T. A. Ashley of Woodland and
George Wright of Wollaston. overran to
the twentieth. where the Woodland player
won by putt
The special event of the day was a
medal-play handicap. with trophies for the
best net and the best gross scores in
three classes. In A class Harold Slater
of Fox Hills won the gross with so, while
+ D. Plummer of Springfield and r. W.
Potter of Erie Cloth 15) tied for net at r.
In B class B. D. Butler Of Exmoor was
gross, with 81. while D. S. White Of At
lantic City and Clarence Vernan of Hunt
ington, whose allowances were -. each
tied for net at H.
In c class Joseph II. Appel of Wykagyl
was low gross, with %. and Stephen c.
Lowe of Braeburn (20 was low net
Win t.
Mems foursomes. with prizes for the
two best net scores, were won by j. A.
Moore of Scarsdale and G. H. Oliver OF
Allegheny, who made 81. playing with a
handicap OF IL.
For second prize a triple tie punched w.
J. Macdonald of Calumet and J. M. Thor
sen of Evanston u9. Marshall Whit
latch of Oakland and w. w. Manning of
Upper Montclair go and Josiah j. Hazen
of ST Andrews and William II. Bliss OF
Colonia 90. at 60.
Mrs w. F. Smith of Braeburn and w.
j. Macdonald of Calumet. were first In
mixed foursomes. Playing with handi-
cap of 5, they scored a net. and their
gross of 50 tied with Miss NJ. Eleanor
Freeman of Englewood and l. s. Robe
son of Oak Hill, whose handicap of ,
strokes gave them a net second OF 81.
In a special handicap for the women
Miss Lucy X. Priest of Portsmouth.
whose handicap was is. was first. with
90, and Miss Louise Patterson of Plain
field (3O), second. in 81. Miss M. Eleanor
Freeman of Englewood co., made 100, and
Mrs J. A. Moore of Scarsdale t6), and
Mrs W. F. Smith of Braeburn 90. tied
for fourth at 103.
Thus early many of the participants
in the sixth annual midwnter trap shoot
ing handicap which starts next Wednes-
day and continues through the week, are
on hand, and over 100 cases of special
shells have reached the gun club secre-
tary.