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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-03

MArLrwoop, y IL, Sept, 1.-The first
round Of match play In the hay fever
season handicap golf tourney was
played here to-day, V, Hockmeyer OF
Lowell, who beat \. c. Gould OF Brae
Burn 6 and 3, made n medal score of
II. Walter l., Richards of New York
won a match from r. 3. Owens Of
Brooklyn, 3 and 4.
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MORNING ROUND.

The back tees were In use to-day and
the course was heightened still further
By using a tee constructed yesterday or
the twelfth hole, making It 40l yards
long instead of 365, This increased thn
length OF the course to G,G5l yards,
The weather was Ideal for golf, The
summary
Championship Division, Third Hound
Sawyer, Wheaton, and 6; Max II.
Marston, Bsltusrol, beat Howard II. Lee,
| up t3S holesD, Jotn n Anderson. 81
%anoy' beat Nsls9n ~. whi'nsS audubon
beat james ID. standish. Jr., Detroit. I up.
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When Marston missed his long try
for a 4 1t seemed all over. but Lee
couldn't sink his short one. and the hole
was halved. On the second extra hole
Marston was home with his second and
Lee was only a yard or two short.
Three shots from that point while Mars
ton got down in two settled the match.
Jerry Travers SURRENDERED the bag Of
clubs to a boy and heaved a profound
sigh of relief. Il would have died of
heart failure II 1t had kept OF much
longer" he gasped. The cards
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Last Hole u Heart Breaker.

The last hole was u heart breaker. Two
thousand people were lined IN by the
side Of the green and all was as still
as death while 'Standish teed up and
prepared to drive. ! had n good posi-
ilnn near the home hola and next Ia me
was Tom sherman, Sherrill's brother,
with huge drops Of perspiration rolling
on his forehead,
"Are you bringing him home a winner,
Tom2" | asked.
"Whew,' no answered, I'm mere
worn out than Sheriff. Ia right now.
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Wins Only Three Holes,

gardner really played championship
golf an day and would have been a hard
man FOR any one TO beat, but SAWYER
never put up a fight. Tn Wheaton man
won only three holes during the day,
ne eleventh in the morning and the
uIrd and tenth In the afternoon. The
cards
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Methods OF Play ers Of Modern Lawn Taunls,
ny J rarmly parct
500 pages or solid text on the methods OF
pay ana expert opinions frnm an lraiing
On lmpions, including Williams, Rundy'
Behr, Alexander, hackett. Washhurn
church and many others. ~ pages 81
photographs OF champions In action ~
per copy. AMERICAN LAWN TENNIs
ii9 Broadway. y, Y,
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Who Would Have Dreameds

What went wrong with Ned's game
to-day is n Of those mysteries which
pertain to this game, where the cham
pions fall by the wayslde just the same
~ do the lesser lights, even II not 80
often. Who would have dreamed that
In his 1915 national championship The
semi-finals would not include the nam s
OF a Travers, a Ouimet, an Evans, d
Fownes, a Sawyer, a Byers? Every
pre-championshlp favorite gone. II all
goes to show that in the latter day
championships the men who are recog-
nized as the foremost experts OF the
day In the amateur ranks must go to
the championships In the finest OF physl-
cal condition and keyed up to their top
performances from their first stroke in
the medal round until they have played
the winning stroke for the title. other
wise, they are certain to meet along tho
way some man who. for at least a day,
Is getting his drives down the line. his
approaches accurate and his putter
working like the cogs of a machine, So
that, unless the favorite also is doing
all these things, he stands a strong
chance of being defeated. Regulations
10 longer count; IT'S the results.
All the superb golf that sawyer
played before he met Gardner yesterday
went for naught against the 1909 cham
pion. Where Sawyer had been Keeling
on his 72s and 73s in the previous
rounds. in this match he met "A man
who was doing hole after hole in par
or better. II was as II Gardner had
usurped the position which Sawyer had
thought was his for Keeps, n when
Sawyer had to face such opposition
something went wrong with his game.
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SIXTEEN LEFT
TO FIGHT FOR
TENNIS CROWN
Five of Ranking Ten Are
Mingled With Some
Earning Spurs.
HALL BRINGS FORTH
r. n. WILLTAMS'S BEST

With only sixteen OF the original l2S
starters left in the running at the end
OF yesterdays play the national cham
pionshlp lawn tennis nan at the
West Side Tennis Club In Forest Hills,
l.. l.. should ave nothing but close
matches from now to the finish. Four
OF the men who came through TO the
fourth round are new to that stage OF
the national championship, Bernard c..
Law, the Princeton football player, j.
Il. Adoue, Jr.. OF Texas. Francis r.
Hunter. n former Cornell player. and
J. S. Pfaffman Of Boston having never
got hat far before.
OF the men rated in the first ten at
the end of last season, Robert Lindley
Murray OF Palo Alto, fourth William
NJ. Church OF New YORK. seventh Wat
son VI. Washburn OF New York, ninth,
and Ella r.. Fottrell of San Francisco.
tenth, are not among the remaining six
teen. Murray, Clothier and Fottrell did
not start. while Washburn eliminated
Church Wednesday and vas put out yes
terday by Theodore X. Pell of New York.
This leaves just half Of the first ten
still in the hunt. or those rated In the
second ten, six started and two. Pell and
Clarence j.. Griffin. are left. Irving
Wright is the sole representative of the
third ten, Charles NJ. Bull, Jr.. Of the
fourth decade, J. Il. Adoue OF the sixth
ten, and William Rand OF tho seventh.
Hunter. Law. Pfaffman. Craig Biddle
and Bernon :. Prentice did not get their
names in the lists at all last season.
Maurice l.. McLoughlin, the California
comet Richard Norris Williams "a Of
Philadelphia. the national champion, and
Karl II. Behr Of New York. rated one,
two and three respectively. each had to
20 four sets to win their matches, while
the other two OF the first ten. Frederick
t.. Alexander OF New York and William
VI. Johnston Of San Francisco, took their
victories easily In straight sets.
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The one objection that the crowd
had to offer about the afternoon was
hat each individual In It's makeup had
not been endowed like Argus. There
was so much good tennis going on in
all corners OF the arena that II grated
on the nerves OF the followers of the
game to think that they could not
watch more than one court at any one
time.
Mclaughlin was playing Leonard
Beekman OF B~ronxville. y. V, the inter-
scholastic national champion, on court
4, over in the extreme west side OF the
enclosure. Right next to this pair
Williams, national champion, was hav-
ing his own trouble disposing of Wal
ter Merrill Hall of New York. Then
came Behr. the other member Of this
years triumvirate. needing an extra
set to win from Robert lie Roy. another
New Yorker, and on the turf nearest
the clubhouse pcll, exponent OF the
backhand stroke, par excellence, was
backhanding in form and therefore
beating Washburn.
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Last season Washburu was in tho
flrst ten and Peil 10 The scroul ten. and
W or TINS seasons comparisons favor
Nashburn, so a three straight victory
Tor IcIl, and that without a close set,
AFTER an opposite result less than a week
before certainly needs some explaining.
Is. c. Law, the Princeton halfback,
and @. W. Wightman. the husband Of
me FORMER woman champion. Hazel
Hotchkiss, played the longest match Of
the day. and although they started early
IN the AFTERNOON they were still at The
hfth set long after the play on the
championship courts was all finished
and most of the big crowd OF spectators
mad started for home At the end. II
was "A staggering match and Law was
positively groggv. II seemed ~ though
he could not drag himself around to
finish out the last set. with 81
against him, Wightmau began to play
SAFE and lob over Laws head, pilling
up to b, only to lose 20 ap.cudid
change In the last game 10 90, the score
and perhaps even win the match.
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second set started playing a slow ball
TO the backhand expert and for a time
ne mad Pcll putting the balls out OF
court IN his anxiety TO hit harder. II
was the best way to play r. II. and
proved pruiitabl" as long as Washburn
stuck to 1t. by these methods and
chopping the balls back with an UNDER
cut the Harvard man clearly ouiplayed
fen az southampton only last saturday,
ana why he did not stick t. hI, VIM
ming tactics it seems hard to understand.
Yesterday he hit out harder much OF
the time and this style just suited his
adversary.
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II is hard to say which of the matches
held the greater part OF the crowds
interest. Every player on the cham
pionship courts had his following. hut
1t seems likely that Williams and Han,
the last OF the stars to TAXI thu arena.
We're the most watched, and we'll they
deserved to be. Han was beaten at
6-3. 81, "a, 6-l, not because the
national champion was playing poorly ;
he could not have won II he had been,
for Han was playing real tennis 1t
IL doubtful II for brilliancc. speed,
startling gets and scintillant rallies the
second and third sets OF this match will
be surpassed In the tourney.
Hall seldom has been SO steady. lie
went on the courts determined to play
the game safe and let the national
champion beat himself. The plan was
a well ordered one and would have sue
ceeded If Williams had had one OF his
well known bad days, hut unfortunately
for Hail the Philadelphia was at his
best and was making errors only when
compelled to by the New Yorker. The
kind OF n fight Hall was putting up
against the champion may best be
judged by the fact that Williams made
a total of only four more points I'm the
match while he won six more games,
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The veteran lie Roy put up a wonder
ful night against Behr, the third of the
tennis trinity. and was beaten only at
10 Ct, 6-i. Cd. His game was
an excellent test for Behr. because the
former college champion plays a slow.
careful, methodical game, exactly he
opposite to that OF Behr. who is highly
temperamental, M 1t is the style that
frequently eliminates In the defeat OF a
nervous player like Behr.
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Cannot Awe Beck man.

Mclaughlin. the third of the trIlm-
virate. also had To play four sets before
he earned his next bracket. Young
Leonard Hickman OF Brouxvine. who
opposed the Californian. refused To be
scared out by his formidable opponent
and played his best game just as con-
ildently as though he was In "A minor
tournament against "A weak adversary.
He didn't win only because his hest
game was not good enough to beat Nc
l.oushlin, which is "A fault no one need
apologize for. Beekmau's passing
sround strokes were particularly effec-
tive and when McLoughlin ran up TO
the net in the mids of general play he
frequently was passed,
The Comet was clearly practising
strokes, however, that he felt needed
some polishing up before the bigger
the net all the time on his service. lie
knows this style Of game so well that il
does not need practice. The constant
rushing of that style wears out a mans
stored up vitality and Mac may think IL
safer 10 hold that attack in reserve until
he needs II 10 win. McLoughlin's
ground strokes are certainly not ~ good
as in the lnternatiOnals last season on
the same courts. Who can ever FORGET
the iorehand swipes he brought Off
against Nilding, three clean aces on
such shots In one game? He SHOWED
no such speed yesterday and when ne
did try to hit hard he was AS often nm,
OF court as safely in the corners. There
are two or three DAYS OF play vet Ia
come before he can meet the champion
however, and these allow plenty of time
YET 10 tune up to concert pitch.
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Johnson. the Californian, VINO will
oppose Behr this afternoon on one of
the championship courts. did his best
work since his arrival in the East in
running through "a straight set victory
over Douglas : Waters. No. ! in the
South, al e, 81. IL Some little
edge, however. was taken on the VIC
tory of the Californian 10y the fact that
Waters WAS not at his best. Clarence
J. Griffin IL the only other Californian
sun I'm. lie dropped Ward Dawson of
san Francisco from the list OF surviv-
ors yesterday at "a. -. 60
Griffin Will meet Buzz Law, the Prince
ton grid!ron star. to-day. the latter hav-
ing displayed remarkable ability in
beating George Wghtmau of Boston at
-, 2-6, Cd, 10. 6-4.
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Hall slow In starting.

Hall did not get going very well at
the start OF the match and II was not
until the sixth game that he showed
anything like the top of his game. From
trailing at - he came up To al and
made Williams fight hard to win the
next two games and the st, The New
Workers. drives were very strong and he
frequently succeeded in getting them by
Williams on sheer speed. In the second
set Han was going at his best and so
was williams, which was anything hut
lucky for Hall. The New Yorker led at
"a, lost the advantage but pulled the
set to deuce and forged to the front
again at ID. He was figh,ing every
inch of the way in the next three games,
but could not pull them out, and the set
went to Williams.
The hard work Of winning that set
took "A lot out of the champion and
Halls powerful build helped him to run
through the first three games of the
third set with the loss of only two
points. Fiye more games were played
In that set and Williams won only two
OF them, one after II had been 10 deuce
four times. Then came the customary
rest and II was Halls undoing, for being
n slow starter, he could not get going
again after the rest until Williams had
"A commanding lead of 4-lDve,
The one game that Hail won went to
deuce six times and the New Yorker
took 1t by making two clean service
aces Hairs particular bette noir was
his rivals ability on the pick up stroke
In any part OF the court, Time and
again the New Yorker looked to have n
sure point when he slammed over n low
hard one only to have Williams dig il
out OF the turf and pop it back over the
net. The point score:
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AFTERNOON roll.

DC HUIts not played,
Ihe Narston-Lee match was an up and
uo"h afalr II there ever was such a
,n'hs IN the history OF golf. First one
would forge ahead. only to have the
ouhef pun hin back to level terms, and
we nerve Wrecking struggle went on I'M
u" second extra hole. An indication
u, ..' way the match went IL the act
nat IN ~, afternoon round lust three
OF 'h" eighteen holes were halvcd. And
Mr quality Of the golf was uone too good
I.tatr.
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Detroit Out of Tourney.

The elimination OF Lee and Standish
puts the home club out Of the tourney.
except In the role OF host, which it fills
so well, and the championship division
as now constituted consists Of one
Westerner, Gardner, who lives in Chi
cago. and three Fasteners, Marston of
New Jersey. Anderson of New York city
and Sherman OF Utica.
The first match to start and the first
match to finish to-day was that De-
tween Gardner and Sawyer. the Chica-
goans. In view of Sawyer's remark
able golf In the earlier rounds he was
a good deal of a favorite even though
Gardner had been improving steadily
from day to day. And even those who
prophesied that the former title holder
would win had no idea that he would
take Sawyer into amp as easily as he
did Gardner never had TO work hard.
He just played good golf with here and
there a brilliant hole and let Sawyer
beat himself. That feat the Wheaton
golfer accomplished by weakness wnen
called upon to make short approaches.
His chip shots nearly all went wrong
IN one way or another.
Going out this morning Gardner
played his best golf and reached tho
turn In 80. a stroke under par. His
best stroke was at the short Nth where
his tee shot stopped less than eighteen
inches from the cup. The remainder of
the way II was good. steady golf. with
dependable work on the greens.
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lie Roy q Formidable Threat.

Al various times through the match
II looked as IL lie Roy's cool ways were
going TO get to Behr. In the first set
the middle States champion led at i-2
and then blew up. making only three
points In the next four games. which
went TO lie Roy and gave him the So.
lie Roy led at "a In the second set.
but could not hold the pace. In the
mira set Behr led at 1 love and an as
eension cost him three games In a row.
hut he recovered in time TO win two
OF the next three. Le Roy. freshenei
by the rest after tho third set. took tho
first three games of the fourth and then
was smothered by Bchr's brilliancr.
which gave the latter Ave straight
games and later the match. The point
score
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DISTANCES AND PAR OF
DETROIT COURSE, SCENE
OF NATIONAL TITLE GOLF

teenth hole began, and IL turned ont to
De one OF the most remarkable holes
ever seen In a big match. Both drives
were good, Marston's - being the longer,
aIu AFTER Lee had played "a fine brassy
snot traight down the course Marston
sliced his shot over n fence. A long
discussion followed on the question of
'whether or not the ball was out Of
pound, but after consultation with vari-
Gus members Of the club Howard w.
Perrin, the member of the L.. =. q. A.
executive committee who had charge Of
the match announced that there was no
bounds on that hole and instructed Mar
ston to play ball. Waiting until Lee,
VINO was away. had put his third on
the green, Marston clambered over the
hVe foot wire fence md took up his stand
as best he could. for the ball was not
more than two feet from the wires.
Travers handed over a niblick with q
last word Of advice and left Marston to
do or die. As Jerry described IL later {:
II didn't think he mad a chance In the
world to get IL out, but I told him he
could put II right on the green"
ball Clears the Fence.
All cramped against the fence, Mars
ton drew back his club and bringing II
sharply shot the ball almost
straight up in the air. 1t never touched
the wires as II rose, and although II
did not quite reach the green, II fell In
the middle OF the fairway. Marston
then Clipped up close to the pin and It
was Lees turn to putt. His opponents
astounding recovery seemingly had
shaken Lees nerves, for the Detroit
golfer overran the cup with his long putt
n then missed the shorter one COM
ing back. That was Marston's chance,
so he holed his putt, winning the hole
3 to 6 and squaring the match.
from that point on both Marston and
Lee were painfully nervous. ON tr~
seventeenth Lee drove behind a mound
and after n couple OF more bad shots
left Marston with a putt about a foot
long for n win. Thereupon the Jersey
champion missed II and the hole was
halved. The home hole again gave
Marston an opportunity to win. for Lee
was bunkered and could do no better
than a I. Three puts cost Marston
his chance, however. and the crowd
fiocked over the first tee to see the extra
hole. Lee reached the green with two
fine shots, but after Marston. who wal
short. had overrun the hole on his third,
the Detroit golfer putted and overran
about "A yard.
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GARDNER ONLY
WESTER NER IN
GOLF TOURNEY
Standish. Sherman. Lee and
Whitney Fall by
Wayside.
MARSTON ADVANCES
BY FINE RECOVERY

DETROIT. Sept. 2.-Robert A. Gardner
against Max r. Marston in one match
ard John G. Anderson against Sheriff.
Sherman in the other Is the programme
for the semi-hnal round OF the twenty
first amateur championship OF the
United States Golf Association. which
will be played tomorrow on the links
Of the Country Club of Detroit.
The four matches to-day were in the
nature OF an anti-climax to the UNI
looked for upsets OF yesterday, and
even the golf played was not up to the
standard set in the earlier rounds. Rob-
ert Gardner probably did the best york
of any OF the eight golfers who took
part In to-day's proceedings. His play,
combined with n collapse OF Ned Saw
yer's hitherto excellent game, gave the
former champion an easy 7 and 6 VIC
tory over the conqueror of Chick Evans.
Max Marston, after he seemed badly
beaten by Howard Lee, pulled the match
out of the fire and won on the thirty
eighth hole. John q. Anderson plugged
along with splendid ~steadiness and
sowned Nelson Whitney by 5 up and 2
to play, and Sheriff. Sherman filled De-
troit's cup OF woe to the brim by finish
Ing the thirty-six holes / up on Jimmy
Snndish. the Ouimet killer of the
t~wenty-four hours ago.
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zr@on Has Nn~ow Escape From Golf Elimination Tennis TmnurMe Intact at Forest Hills

lin was rather IN agreeable rurprise,
for the schoolboy played an excellent
match before ~succumbing to the prowess
of the Comet at O., 3-6. 60, 60.
There was an added pleasure in his
match too in that Mclaughlin showed
more of the Comet than at any other
time this season. lie used his old SER
vice frequently and successfully and
was o as unbeatable as ever when
he went 20 the net. which was quite
often.
The young Bronxville boy showed
something OF "A service himself and
made the gallery sit up and take no.
tice by his ability to whip back Nc
Loughlin's hard drives with speed and
accuracy.
Mclaughlin was making a number
or errors by dropping the ball into the
net. n habit that did not look good to
the ordinary follower OF the game in the
stands but was a happy feature to
those who have seen McLoughlin's
sight backsliding In other matches this
season. The Comets main fault to
date has been his propensity for slam
ming the ball out of bounds, but yester-
day MS outs were remarkable for their
paucity. II showed that ne IL get
ting his drives back TO normal, that is,
closer to the top OF the net. The Cali
fornian played at top speed in the last
two sets and simply overwhelmed the
hghtlng ~youngster. The point score:
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on the days play, however. William.
certainly looked the strongest OF Tho
three favorltes, lie will meet Adoue to-
day, then probably Blddle tomorrow
ana Behr or Johnston Monday in tba
semi-iinals. Behr meets Johnston "a.
day and he will have his work cut out
for him., hut ought to win by the noyeIty
ana variety OF his attack. In case n,
anticipated victories Griffin viii b. his
next opponent and then Williams in tina
semi-rnals, ~McLoughlln's programme
hrinss Alexander to-day against him
then probably Hunter tomorrow and
most likely Pell in the semi-nnal,
Alexander and Johnston might nrovn
stumhllns blocks to-day, but eNcent rnr
them there seems little or no opnor-
tnnlty for changing the expected lineun
Tor the semi-tnals and the fourth mia ns
alongside Mclaughlin. Williams ana
Rehr Will probably so to pell now.
fells victory over Washhuru y.stcr-
day was tho surprise of the dav. Wneb-
burn was not the same man who elin,i-
mated Church on Wednesday bv any
means and he did not show the samee
~steadlness nor the same speed I'm ,ha
other hand, Pen was in the hes, ,orr,
! have ever seen him. He seemed thor,
oughly confident, which is half the ho,-
tie in tennis, and he let loose mor.
speed thai for many moons back.
Ndshhurh for a short time In Tho
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Course Lengthened Again.

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