New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-26
KENDALL WINS j.
GOLF MEDAL ON
LAKEWOOD LINKS
Beats Par Three Strokes
on Last Six Holes and
Leads Big Field.
FAR DRIVING BIG
FACTOR IN HIS GAME
Marston. Not at His Best, Finishes
Third in Qualifying Round
of Holiday Tournament.

If the test of a true golfer is the
ability TO produce "the goods" at the
right time, then Percy W. Kendall. Of
Deal, fully deserved TO win the medal
in the testing round Of the Thanks
giving tournament yesterday at the
Country Club of Lakewood
kendalps 70 led a field Of nearly
fifty, and il was only through beng
able to beat par three strokes on the
last six holes that the player from
Deal was able 70 turn the trick. His
effort was four strokes less than Har-
old A. Steiner, of lnwood, ami six under
Maxwell K. Marston, of Baltusrol.
Yet Kendall might have saved other
strokes but for his putting. On tho
first green, for instance, the Deal man
had an eight-foot try for a 8, but took
three puts from that distance. Out in
43, although nothing worse than iives
appeared on his card, he turned TO the
much easier inward nine. His tee shot
on the short tenth came 10 rest only
six feet from the pin. but he could get
neither a 2 nor 3. Altogether he took
three puts on six greens.
1t was on the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth holes that Kendall was az
his best. over this ground Walter j.
Travis has saved many stroke and
match. The far-driving Kendall was
able to score three IS for as many
st okes saved, and the last three holes
in even par gave him a SO returning.
His card follows:
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The golf Of Marston, who was looked
upon as almost certain to win tho
medal, was spotty. Some holes no
played as he is quite capable Of play
/ ing them, but others were so different.
No particular department of the game
suffered. IL waI merely that when no
went of he was away of. Dropping an
occasional extra stroke, he reached tho
turn in 80.
On the short tenth the New Jersey
title holder played his mashie tee shot
too weakly and the ball went into
Carasaljo Greek. He elected to drop,
then repeated the performance. Only
/ through sinking a twenty-five foot putt
was he able to get there.
Another lapse came at the twelfth,
where he did not get his drive suf-
ifciently high TO carry the cop bunker.
/ lie failed 10 get out on his next, and
/ then got into sand pit. Altogether he
took for the hole and an So in all.
Friends of Eugene Van Schaick, OF
| Sleepy Hollow, congratulated TINS ar
dent golfer on his temperance yes
terday. Van Setback was badly hurt in
an automobile accident last July near
Tarrytown, but he said he no longer
felt any i'll effects. He gained a place
in the first division.
! II is not often that Donald Brian, OF
/ Dunwoodie, is set down in public prints
as a golfer. but as such must be his
present designation. lie danced around
/ in III and took place in the third
flight, where. as he commented, he
would be likely to have chance OF a
match with Matt Grau, an old theatre
cal friend.
Three divisions will be sent away to-
day for match play, the draw in tho
/ first sixteen being as follows:
Randolph, jr., vs.. Kimball. Mcclure
VS.. Morten, Kelley VS.. Marston, Gibson
VS.. Randolph, sr., Kendall vs.. Fralich,
Van Schaick vs.. Barrett. Steiner vs..
Bredemus and Morse vs.. Hicks.
Rarely has Lakewood been blessed
with such fine weather at the Thanks
giving season as was the case yester-
day. The day was ideal for golf, and
many not in the tournament took adj
vantage Of il in the afternoon.