The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-28
GREAT UPHILL FIGHT
LANDS WHITEWINNER
Four Down in Morning, He
Evens Match and Wins on
Thirty-seventh Green.
ONLY FAIR GOLF PLAYED
Brisk Summer Shower Affects
Contestants, hut Scores
Suffer Most.
ONLY FAIR GOLF PLAYED

round tolls the story OF the victory won
hv Gardiner W. White, Flushing, over
wallace VI. Sinclair. Bultusroi. In the final
round uf the invitation tournament OF the
Bal,usrol Golf club which was played to-
day Tho golf played was rot Of record
breaking quality---ln fact it was far from
tt--hut the closeness of the struggle and
especially Whites game, uphill fight In
the afternoon made IL a match well worth
watching. At least that is what the men,
oers Of tho gallery seemed to think. and
they gave still further evidence that such
was their opinion by dragging their feet
through the heavy wot grass In order that
tAcy might not miss "A stroke of the excit-
ing seesaw play on the last few holes.
Il was a good match In the truest sense of
the word. and not the least pleasing OF its
results was the fact that 1t put Whites
name back on the list OF tournament win
ners IN 1911 he won n majority OF the in
vitatlon Journeys In the metropolitan dis
,-ict but in the two seasons since lie has
PLAYED Indifferent golf SO his performance
to-day was like a return to old times.
For the first nine holes In tho morning
the match was as c.ose a one as the most
ardent follower of the game could desire
20 watch. They reached the turn on even
terms and neither had been more than one
hole in the lead at any stage OF the
way White won the tenth with a and
VISA UP. hut on the next six holes he did
not seem to know that there was such a
dgure as 4. although the score card par
calls for that score on nearly all OF them.
Five holes In succession In g and the six
teenth In left White four down. as
Sinclair. playing steady golf. won all
but the fourteenth. on which he too took
5. The seventeenth was won by White.
TO ), but on the home green Sinclair ran
down putt for "a 3 and regained his four
hole advantage with the match half com.
pleted. The cards:
MORNING ROUND.
Gardiner W. white. Flushing
Gin'...::..... i Ia
wallace NJ. sinclair. Baltusrol--
Eina'............ aatsttsS Iss-7s
Before he began the second round White
said that I've had hopes OF pulling the
match out of the fire, and for once the
usual words OF self-encouragement proved
true Sinclair helped out great deal
IN the first three holes OF the second
round. for on the first he sliced into a
trap. on the second he drove out OF
bounds and on the third he missed an
easy putt. As White won all three OF
the holes his chances began to look "a little
less gloomy
Just AT that point In the match n sum-
ner storm slipped over the edge Of the
hills and the next three or four holes
were played through binding rain. One
suffered a. much as the other. however.
although the scores suffered tho worst
OF all For example, on the sixth green
the water was so deep that White took
FOUR puts az he tried to skip over
he puddles, and Sinclair needed three,
the hole being halved in 6. The rain
stopped just as they reached the ninth
and White celebrated the return OF better
galfng weather by placing his tee sho:
on the green. and winning the hole in
10 T. That squared the match.
Sinclair was In the long grass from
the tee on the tenth and lost the aol..
putting White ahead at last. Elmer
might have won the eleventh II he had
been able 10 hole three foot putt bu.
both missed and the hole was halved In
5. SO was the twelfth. but on the thlr-
tenth White saw his lead fit away
when he missed another rather simple
looking putt that would have halved
the hole.
With the match all square once more.
White played superb iron shot to che
green from the rough on the right of the
fourteenth fairway and II was good
enough 10 win the hole. for after being
hunkered and playing two more without
getting on the green, Sinclair surrendered
NV Hpl' anu W lllt' WAS L ND. Ine nj
teenth WAS halvod CHIEFLY as a result OF "A
great hrsssey shot from the rough by Sin
clair after he had been bunkered from the
tee, and although the long sixteenth was
chapter OF accidents for both. the home
golfer finally won II in to 7. and was
on level terms once more. with but two
holes left to play.
1t looked as though IL were all over
when White laid IA splendid approach
dead N antth I'D mia Al.
g. for It Lent him dornle one The drives
on the home hole were scarcely more than
al clubs length apart, but White, seem
lng anxious to skirt the corner of the
Dig trap, hooked his approached shot to
the long grass above the green and was
NOT quite dead on his third. Sinclair made
h's and won the hole. finishing the stipu-
'atad round all square.
The extra hole striklngly showed the
,upertority Of Whites long game, which
mad been in evidence all day He was on
we green with drive and an iron. while
sinclair after using wood twice, still was
snort, The latter gave himself a splendid
enance by running up his approach 10
within four feet OF the hole He missed
the putt, however. and conceding White
an eighteen inch foot putt for a win In 4
Strengthened up and shook hands with the
viuor The cards
AFTERNOON ROUND.
Gardiner ". white. Flushing
op''...,., SO
ln..,...... 80 I 3 5-t2-s2-ist
wallace VI. Sinclair. Baltusrol--
,,A,..'.,., q 8 SO
N ....... - b 8 4-iS-sT--lst
LN'ra Holc--WhItc, I; sinclair 9.
Ia tho beaten eight of the first sixteen
Max H. EehD Baltusrol. beat a. y. Cow.
,'rlnwaitc, Midland. by 5 up and to play
HN" White Behr won his match after
o''hg behind at the end Of the first round
TOR ~ luncheon time Cowperthwaite was
up William Watson and c. l.. Var
week Jrr both of the home club, fought
ou' I'm the final OF the second sixteen
ana Watson finally won by / up after
van Week had deprived him OF the lead
IN ~" seventeenth by laying him q
"Nmi', In the other two divisions tn,
"N'ls We're at eighteen holes.
H. r. Mundy came over from Ardsley
IN" carried away the gross prize In tn,
handicap with an so. w r. Swords
o'"ind won the net prize with card o!
No-s' II, The summaries:
- lrst slxteen-Final round--Gsrdiner W
az Baltusrol l up l37 holes)
het'cn Eight OF First Sixteen-Fina
p.ma Max II, Rehr, Baltusrol, beat A, n