The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-27
'PLATT GETS STEADY
AS MATCH is LOST
Hammer Obtains Commanding
Lead i'm Early Stages of
Fox Hills Final.
VAN Weeks - Is LOW

August f. Hammer won the Fox
mis- Invitation tournament yesterday by
defeating the painstakinG Percy Platt of
the New York Golf club by . up and l
10 play In the eighteen hole final round.
Hammer, who is the best OF the Fox
Ing on his home course, but that fact
did not cut any great figure in the ulti-
mate result. for Plat spent time enough
during the final In studying his shots to
learn about as much in regard TO the
peculiarlties Of the links as Kammer
knew before the round began.
For the FIRST nine holes OF the match
Il looked as though ammer would win
by a big margin. for at the turn he was
2 up and PIa.t had Won put one hole.
When Hammer mad ~ 1 up by winning
the eleventh the chances OF an early fin-
ish began TO look brighter, but then
when IL was too late TO 40 any real good
Plat braced M. u by playing excellent
golf managed 10 carry the match 20 the
seventeenth green.
The first hole went to Hammer when
Flat took three puts. but the latter
atoned for MS error by winning the sec
ond { 10 > and Quaring the match. The
next was halyed. but on the fourth and
NTH Plat, played hopelcssly Sad golf
and picked up on both holes, on the
fourth he sliced two balls out OF bounds
and hooked his third into the rough and
on the hfth he threw away n couple OF
strokes In a bunker before Conceding the
hole to hammer, whose first shot
reached tn" green. Hammer should have
won the sixth also. but took three puts
and halyed the hole instead OF winning
II. lie mad i 2 w at the eighth. how
ever, by getting n good 2, and so began
the Inward journey with a comfortable
lead.
The tenth was halved. but on the
eleventh Flat topped a brassey shot and
lost the hole, becoming 4 down. As the
next two were hnlvcd. hammer became
I up. with bu: five more holes to play,
and IN. match seemed about over. Plat
won the fourteenth with a good 4 and
took the fifteenth when hammer played
his second into a bunker. Realizing that
the tide was turning against HIM KAN
ner steadiod himself. and by halviug the
next two In par settled the match. They
played out the bye hole and halyed Il in
I The cards:
Augus, hammer Fox ms:
GU, ,..,.....,. ? ; y 80
Percy Plat, New York cor:
out ,,.,........ . I 1 I tt
n........... $3.50 i-3y-7S
ln..""......., $50 i-S7-Si
Roth fnanists won their morning
matches without much trouble. Plat
beat =. c Clark, sleepy Hollow. by 3
up and ! to play II Hammer beat j.
Harold Slater. n clubmate, by / IN ana
B 2 IN nluN Sf4tap has IaN.I tg,,1. ...,S
this season aud was more willing tnau
ever to admit IL when his morning match
was over.
Play In five sixtecns and in five beaten
lights was completed yesterday and n
big field played in the handicap. Charles
T. Van Week, Jr, distinguished him.
self 10y playing round with "A borrowed
set OF clubs and making a "a. which
won the gross prize. II. l.. Downey won
the net prize with 77-5, -, although
Van Weeks net score was lower. but
was eliminated by the rule that the
same player shall not take both prizes.
The summaries:
FHtst sixteen, Semi-hnsl R~ound-Percy
q. Platt, New York Golf, beat :. g. Clark,
mer, Fo> HIS, beat J, Harold Slater, Fox
Final Rouud-kanmer beat Plat. .
and /
Beaten EIgNt FIR, sixteen, Semi nnal
Alfred MOrrrl, . and I Charles Hitch
cock, Ir, Point Judith. beat u. q, Is
jtilcy, FoN lillls, . ana T..
Final Round-Dyer heat Hitchcock, 4
second sixteen, semi-nnal Round-w. S.
Johnston, Dunwoodic, beat W. W Van
Loan, Fox HIS. I and 3. 7. " Potter
Westchrster, beat. W, Roy Bnrnhill, Fos
lIills, | up C9 holes),
Final Potter beat Johnston, .
Hcaren Eight, Second sixteen. Semi.
final Round-Richard r. Mamlock, 70,
INNS, beat Ellis Adams, Essex Count,, .
and |; Cortlandt VAN CIlef. Richmont
County, beat John W, McMcnamy, 20,
Final Round-van Clief bcs, Mamlock
| ny,
Third sixteen, Semi. final Round-w. l.
Richard, Fox Hills, heat DR.. Morris car
penter, Oakland, . and /: Howell Woolley
foN nus, beat Clarence Martin, Baltusrol
8 aud ..
Final Round-Richard beat woolley.
and /,
Hea,en Eight, Third sixteen, Semi. ina
Round--E. +. Allaire, Fox ms, beat e. g
Pearson, Jr, Greenwich. I and . Jamer
D.. Foot, Apawamis. beat Richard Haight
Massapeaua, . and l.,
Final itound-toot beat Allaire. 4 and 3
Fourth sixteen, scmi-rnal Round--C. II
Zimmerman, New haven, heat " v VI
Crescent, heat James G.. Patterson, Fo'
INNS, . and .,
Final Round Zimmerman beat Denninr
I and ..
psaten. Eight, Fourth sixteen. semi tina
Round-.A. p: Roth. Manhattan. beat J. r
I Beck. ThoSneur6s , Up; George y. Arm