New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16
CARTER WINS A
GOLF PRIZE ON
OAKLAND LINKS
PLAYS Like a Wizard at
the Start and Beats
Marston Easily.
GAINS BIG LEAD IN
FIRST NINE HOLES
Margin at End Eight Up and Six
to Play--Herreshoff Carries
Off a Pitcher.

On a P1tCner.
Driving low, far running ball.
Philip V. Carter, OF this city, although
representing the Bridgenampton Golt
Club. was able to laugh defiance at the
wind and incidentally overwhelm Max
we'll r. Marston, Of Baltusrol, in the
thirty-six-ho final round OF the invl-
tation tournament at the Oakland COLI
Club yesterday. Carter won by up
and TO play.
81 wonder why il is that they all play
their heads off against me- observed
Marston in resigned sort OF way
after il was all over. What the Jer-
sevman had in mind was an uncanny
start on the part OF the metropolitan
Junior champion. who went out IN the
stingy number of 33 strokes.
How did you do it?" asked friend.
81 don't know. | surely am not feel
ing well to-day" replied Carter.
Unquestionably the former Pawllng
schoolboy is. one Of the most promising
golfers developed in the last few years.
Even when only getting an even break
in the luck mis- game is hard TO beat,
but when the tickle goddess smiles ms
way there's little need for the other
fellow to come around.
Where Dame Fortune took a hand
was right at the start. After narrowly
missing trap, Carter ran down long
putt on the first green for 3. few
moments later the Long Island golfer
made the gallery gasp by sinking a
sixty-foot putt for on the second
green.
From where he stood two billowy un
dulations crossed his line, and any
one would have been content TO lay up
somewhere near the hole. 81 just hit
the ball." said Carter, with a puzzled
shake Of the head.
I'm waiting for him 10 get reason
able and then I'll try 10 do something"
murmured Marston. As il turned out,
he had long wait. for Carter con-
tinued TO maintain the weird pace, lay
ing an approach shot close up 70 the
61O-yard fourth end holing the putt
for 4
Here were three consecutive holes
each made in stroke better than par.
Narston might have had a chance for
Lalf At No. had he not underplayed
his mashe-niblick approach, for ne al
most got home with his two fine
wooden club shots.
II was loosely played wrist shot
that cost the Baltusrol man dearly on
several occasions yesterday. There are
times when he makes this shot do the
work, but for al that it is the one
weak spot in an otherwise wellnigh
faultless armor These vulnerable
spots are discovered when one IS sorely
pressed. and surely that explained
Marston's position at Oakland.
was a half in at the long sixth, so
that he found himself 8 down at the
turn. Il was a new experience for the
Baltusrol champion, who fevently
trusts It will be his last.
TT outward journey, covered in
less Tine than most golfers would take
TO play half the distance. practically
tells the story. Thereafter the rivals
played about equally, Marston steady
ing down and Carter showing that he
could be human.
Standing on the eighteenth tee, with
the green more than 200 yards away
uphill. Carter was : up. He then hit
ball that bored into the battling cross
wind with the accuracy OF rife snot.
The rubber core came 10 rest about
twelve feet from the pin, giving him
nice putt for a >, which he failed 20
make. but even so 3 was good
enough 20 win. as the other mans tee
shot went wide. and he couldn't get
better than 4. In discussing the match
later. Carter declared that that drive
70 the home green IN the morning was
his best shot OF the day.
A glance az the card showed that
Carter made the round in 70, some nine
strokes better than his opponent. The
last named never had any hope OF
pulling the match out of the fire in the
afternoon. The prompt manner in
which the pair resumed their tilt after
hasty luncheon fooled many in the
gallery, who had not looked for such an
early start.
There were no hesrtbreaking puts
in the afternoon, nor for that matter,
any woful lapses. Occasionally Mars
ton, with one OF his long high carries
from the tee, would get Off the course,
and once. while playing the seventh
hole, his ball brought up 10 an almost
impossible lie close to the fence, so
that he practically lost a shot in en-
deavoring to play 1t out lefthanded.
After going out in 81. Marston had only
reganed one hole. thus finding himself
still down, with nine holes TO play.
Favored by the wind, both drove ex-
ceptional balls from the tenth tee, Car
ter almost hole high, while Marston
was really past the green, but in the
rough to the left. The distance TO this
hole is 344 yards. From his poor lie
Marston failed TO get out well, but the
other Clipped up dead, and won the
hole in TO 4.
Marston's last chance was frittered
away when he overspprosched to the
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