Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-07
GOLF HONORS
MAY CD AGAIN
TO WHITNEY
By w. R. Tichenor.

ONTGOMERY ALA, June g.
MI Unless Nelson Whitney can
keep up his best golfing gait,
the Southern Golf Association is like
ly 10 have a brand-new champion
before long For Whitney is the only
former champ left in the running. OF
the other three only one. r. G. Bush,
has ever created a furry in a South
ern championship. Whitney and Bush
meet to-day In the other frame are
a pair Of unknowns, as far as cham
pionship experience goes-E. NJ. Tut
wiler. Of Birmingham, and A. J. Ell
bridge. Of Texas.
Ellis Knowles. who looked like a
very dangerous contender this year,
threw away his chances to beat Mel
son Whitney in the third round Of the
championship. After very Indifferent
work on the greens, he managed 10
pull himself together and squared the
match on the eighteenth green. At
the nineteenth Knowles pulled mis-
tee shot badly and then played his
second out OF bounds. His third
reached the green some 20 feet from
cent drive, was short with his second
and just reached the edge Of the
green with his third. Both OF them
took two puts and the hole was
halved in FIVE. At the twentieth hole
Knowles again hooked his tee shot
far of the fair green and was stymled
by a bunch Of trees. Whitney sliced
his tee shot out Of bounds, but his
second split the middle Of the course.
4 n
trees, but half topped his mashie shot
and hit a limb which DETECTED his
ball so that II lay just flag high. but
about 80 yards from the hole Whit
ney's third was wide, but stopped IN
the right edge Of the green. Knowles
played his third too strong and
passed the hole by rs feet. Whitney
laid his approach putt dead for a five.
Knowles tried TO hole his four. but
overran the hole by a yard and
missed the putt coming back. Whit
ney hoied his five and won the match.
Whitney Beats Jaooby.
In the afternoon Whitney met and
defeated l.. Jacoby, Of Texas, on the
seventeenth green In the first part
OF the match Jacoby was very erratic
and was four down at the eighth tee.
Here he took a brace and won the
next three holes The eleventh was
halved, as was the thirteenth, but
Whitney won the twelfth and four
teenth and so was three up with only
four 20 play. on the next hole, after
making a mess Of his tee shot. JaCoby
laced a mashie shot stone dead, and
won the hole with a three TO Whit
ney's four Jacoby won the sixteenth
and so was only one down, Whitney
won the seventeenth with three and
the match was over.
Reuben Bush won both Of his
matches handily. He and Whitney
meet Friday in the semi final The
other semi finalists are T. NJ Tut
wiler, Of Birmingham, and a. J. Al
bridge, OF Texas.
Rowan, Of Atlanta, Stars.
W. II Rowan. OF Atlanta, did the
best round made in the tournament
In his match with r H. Brooke. OF
New Orleans. when he turned In a ~.
BY winning this match he reached the
semi final Of the second flight and
will play Fooshe. Of Memphis. The
other semi hnalists In this flight are
Hardy, Of New Orleans, and Stein
mehl. Of Birmingham
The players in the semi final Of the
third flight are Probasco and Stahl-
man and Sayre and Daley In the
fourth flight there are left Post and
Hargeth and Weaver and England.
The Atlanta players in the other
flights s-e Root in the sixth flight,
DowdCn Brown in the consolation di-
vision Of the second flight, Hamilton
Block in the consolation division OF
the third flight and W, r. Hazelwood
in the consolation division OF the sixth
flight