Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14
Nat Wheeler Captures lndivid-
uaI Title From John Marshall.
CONTEST HARD FOUGHT
Dark Blue Boys Make a Clean Sweep
of College Tourney This
Year.

PHILADELPHIA, September INA
thaniel Wheeler of Yale captured the in
tercollegiate individual golf champions hip
at the Huntington Valley Country Club
today By defeating John Marshall jr., of
Williams College, 2 up and . to play.
Yale having also won the team champion
ship earlier in the week. made a clean
sweep of the intercollegiate tournament
This year.
On the out journey in the first eighteen
noles Wheeler obtained a commanding
lead and one that would have broken the
spirit of the majority OF young golfers.
Marshall got into trouble on the very first
hole, taking seven strokes to his oppo-
nents five Both were on the green with
their drives on the second and taking two
puts the hole was halved in three. After
this Wheeler went To the front. Marshall
was quite off his game and got into trou-
BILE on the next five holes and with Wheel
playing very steadily the Yale man
was six up at the seventh.
The eighth and ninth We're halved in
lives. but on the tenth Marshall missed a
putt for a four and lost the hole and was
seven down. After this Marshall played
much better. He won the eleventh,
twelfth. thirteenth and fourteenth and re-
duced the lead TO three holes. \ missed
putt however, on the next hole by the
Williams man made Wheeler four up
again. Marshall Won the sixteenth six 10
seven and took the seventeenth four TO
i've.
Both got off good drives on the eight
eenth and were on the green with their
-cconds. Marshall. in putting, hit his
opponents ball and Knocked il within
al .xf th.s hnl lie
VAS decidedly hard luck for Marshall as
/ lost him the hole and he was three
down at the end OF the morning round.
The players We're much more evenly
matched In the afternoon. but Marshall
was never able to make up his lost
ground. The first two holes were halved
i fours, but as in the first round Mar
hall got into trouble on the third and
Iost IT, The fourth. fifth and sixth We're
b.4iveJ. The seventh hole should have
eeen halyed. also. but Wheeler missed
j comparatively short putt and took six
Is MaFshalls five. on the eighth Mar
hail drove his ball into a creek, and
attempting to play out. failed. He, there
Tore. picked up his ball and conceded the
nois 10 Wheeler Both got off good drives
aud fair seconds on the ninth and with
their thirds We're about an equal distance
from the hole Marshall was trifie
away and missed. but Wheeler ran down
Z very long putt and took the hole.
On the tenth Wheeler made a poor APP
Nroach putt, but saved the day with an
other good putt and haived the hole in
sour Wheeler was In the ditch with his
second ON the eleventh, and failing TO
recover, lost the hole ia six TO four ON
he twelfth Re was in the pitt. but made
4 beautiful shot out and halved the hole
tiVe. Marshall got off beautiful drive
On the thirteenth, but Wheeler was IN
the rough. He was short of the green
with his second, and his third only just
cot on Marshall was with his sec
uuI and taking two puts won the hole
i four To i've. On the fourteenth both
we're on the green in two, but found the
sreen very thcky, Marshall taking
lhrcs puts and Wheeler four. This
raade the Yale man only : up. Both
played the fifteenth Well and halved it
,a fours. Marshall made a mess of the
i1ng sixteenth and taking a seven 10
ihs opponents sin, the match was all
over.
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