Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-29
BARTLETT AGAIN
GOLF CHAMPION
OTTUMWAN DEFEATS hU6BEl
TWO UP ONE AND WINS
CUSTODY OF CUP.
TAKES CLUB HONORs
Ottumwa Players Get Title, Medal ana
Cups at Tournament; Cedar
Rapids is Nearest Contend
er For Prizes.
BY r. D. MAC MANUS.

er For Prizes.
BY r. D. MAC MANUS.
Cedar Rapids, June %. Art Bart
lett Of Ottumwa is again golf champion
of the state after one of the greatest
matches ever witnessed in the nnals
of the state tournaments OF late
years. Jim Hubbell of Des Moines
gave the champion close run for hon
ors and looked like winner at more
than one stage Of the contest. The
match ended on the thirty-fifth hole Of
a thirty-six hole match with Bartlett
two up. A stymie laid by Bartlett pre-
vented Hubbell from winning the mole
and failure of Hubbell to play around
the stymie cost him his - chance to
halve the hole and throw the nnlsn
on to the next link. Hubbelrs snot
on the stymie laid him by Bartlett was
foot short of the hole and still IN
the line of the stymie which Bart
let's ball - lying as 1t did within an
inch or SO Of the hole - laid. Had he
shot to either side he could have halv-
ed the hole which would have sent
them in the thirty-sixth hole with
Bartlett one up. 80
Hubbell had played great golf during
the entire day and many expected to
see him take the title away from the
Ottumwan. Hubbell and Bartlett each
shot 40 in their first nine holes and
Bartlett 80 and his opponent 81 on
the second round. The Des Moines
player was one up on Bartlett, having
the distinction of being the only man
in the tournament who was up at any
stage of the game on the champion.
At the end of 81 holes Bartlett had
turned the tables and was one up but
in order to get ahead Of his opponent
he had to hole out on an almost perfect
stymie on the ninth green. Hubbells
ball lay within six inches of the cup
and Bartlett was two feet away. The
balls appeared to be in dead line
with the hole and the champions
friends gasped with dismay. But Bart
lett was convinced that by shooting to
the right Of his opponents ball, he
could rim the cup and if he could rim
the cup without enough speed to car
ry his ball past, the chances were its
weight would topple 1t into the hole.
His plan worked to perfection and the
ball brushed by Hubbells, hung for an
instant on the edge of the hole and
then fell in.
Hubbell came right back at him and
won the next three holes in succession
in three under DOGGY. That made him
two up and it looked like his match.
But Bartlett was not yet beaten and he
took his turn at playing under DOGGY
and evened the match by winning the
next two. Then came the Bunker
Hill" hole in which the drive Is over
a high sand cliff. Bartlett lay on the
green in one and Hubbell narrowly
missed reaching the top. He made a
good approach but could not hole out
and Bartlett was down in three for a
win. Both fizzled their drives but got
fair distance on the run and both play
ed irons short of the ditch in front Of
the eighth hole. Hubbells third was
to the far left hand corner OF the
green and Bartlett was short and bare
Nv over the ditch. His next shot was
within a foot of the hole for an easy
five It was at this stage of the game
that Hubbell was stymied and lost the
match.
Results in Other Flights.
Kenneth Lindsey of Cedar Rapids
won the championship consolation
from Jim Wallace of Des Monies. Carl
Piepho of Cedar Rapids won the
championship solace flight with Arnold
Peaslee of Dubuque as runner up. A.
E. Peddie of Cedar Rapids won the d.
rectors' flight with Newman Dorr OF
Des Moines as runner up. E. Boardman
of Marshalltown won the presidents
flight with R. D. Mac Manus Of Ottum-
wa as runner up. Charles Tilden OF
Ames won the Cedar Rapids flight with
F. w. Racine of OttumWa as runner up.
In the two ball foursome which was
a feature of the last days OF the tour
nament, J. G. Taylor Of OttumWa and
A. E. Smith Of Cedar Rapids were win
ners of the medals for lowest net
score playing with three different part
ners in three separate rounds.
Ottumwans Fortunate.
Ottumwa Jared better than any other
city as regards trophies won at the
tournament. Bartlett wins medal as
champion and the Ottumwa CLUB gets
the custody of the championship
trophy for another year. A victory by
Bartlett next year would make the big
cup the permanent property of the o.
tumwa club Mac Manus and Racine
each won nice cups as runners up IN
their respective flights and ]. G. Tay-
lors topped things off with a victory IN
the two ball foursome.
Cedar Rapids with low score medal,
team championship and three consola'
ton and solace cups were the nearest
contenders for club honors.
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