The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-15
PHIL CARTER SAVES
BEST FOR The LAST
Never Up on Kerr Until Pair
Reaches 10Th Green in
Oakland Tourney.
MiRSTON OTHER FINALIST

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Philip Garter and Max Mars,on came
through in the Oak,and S3olf Clubs in
yltation tournament yesterday and will
meet to-day in the thrty-siS hole final
It will be he first big thlrty-six hole
match of the 1915 season In the metro
politIn district.
Marston furnished the fireworks yes.
,erday by making the round In 70 in
the morning and disposing of Roy d
Webb while doing 70. II was the best
round Of golf that has been played on
the Oakland course since IL was length
ened Webb. who also played excelien;
golf. WAS beaten by only 3 up and 2 TO
MAY. anu after the two bye holes had
been played out his total for the round
Was IS. against Marston's great 10. Car.
ter also played well In his morning
match In which he beat Percy Pyne by
: up and TO play. The interscholastic
and Junior Metropolitan champion made
an aproximated IS. Tho other two morn
ing winners were Hamilton Kerr and
Henry ]. Topping. The former beat l..
T. Gwyer by big margin. but Topping
had a close shave. At one point In his
match against +. :. Mclaughlin Top
ping was 4 up. but the little Scarsdale
veteran managed TO finish all square
and carried the match to the nineteenth
hole, where Topping won.
Both semi-finals In the afternoon
proved to be excellent matches. Carter
and Kerr go, away first and had a good
Nght every foot OF the round with Kerr
in the lead nearly all the time. In fact
the only time that Carter was up was
on the nineteenth hole, and Il must be
admitted that he could hardly have made
a better choice of places to take the
lead
AT the sixth hole Kerr was all OF
NJ, but the rest Of The time he was
either UP OF all square. NJ the turn
nc was hole ahead and kept that
lead until the twelfth. AS the tenth and
eleventh were halved. From that point
on. however. there was not single
hllved hole. Carter squared the match
BY winning the twelfth. only to see Kerr
win the next and take the lead once
more Following the same sequence they
arrived at the tee OF the home hole vita
Kerr dormio. Carter drove the home
green and made his 2. taking thee hole
md sauar.ug the match. On the extra
role Garter again put his tee sho
spuarcly on the green. while Kerr wal
o. ped The latter got out well. bu
hs could NOT get near enough to rui
down the putt. and Carter had 40 trouble
g. winning 3 10 4. The cards
v e. Carter. Nassau:
81 ~. ! : : ; !, So
u x. Ksrr. Greenwich;
r. a.. !; : Z / ! ! ! 3 So
CStra hole. 4.
Mars;on beg IN with a against Top
riay but The latter made on thu
s.tr.d hole. and so 1t went TO the turn
w.,h Icy reached on level terms. boil
eo!ag out in 80. Topping's on ia,
seventh and his . ON TIE eighth put hin
ahead for the only time during tn
match. but Marston vas down In oil
tar asN yard ninth to square 1t again.
Coming In N1rston won three hole
ana the res, Were halved W TO TIM
sixteenth. where the match ended will
Marstun the victor by up and t.
play The last few holes Were poor!!
'5ycd. the last one Of AL the sixteenth
being halved in &. both players travel
ling along in the rough from teo &
green and putting none too well whe
they reached there. The cards:
Max r. Msrs,on. Baltusrol:
o fS'........ ; ; ! : { : "a
Henry j. Topping, Greenwlch; 49,.
Gf e.. : : ! ! ; Z s-'
NBye holes not played.
Fred Herreshoff and Gardiner Whit
hiso INDUCED In semi-final mattel
Il was Ia the second sixteen. and afts
hard struggle. unattended by specta
tors. Herreshon won by . up. ~
had the upper hand most of the way an
was up at the turn as well as at III
finish Whether or not they did IL !
an attempt to preserve the prophetic
OF the occasion could not be learned. bt
both winner and loser played a secon
sixteen brand of golf 5. b. Thorn
o. the home club gained the honor ,
Playing around with Herreshoff In III
fnal to-day.
In all four sixteens and in the beate
eeht classes the semI-fnals were playe
yesterday, 30 that nothing but the flna
are left for decision to-day. There ais
VII he the usual eighteen hole handica
to-day The summaries;
First sixteen. Second Round--Philip Ca
to-, Nassau. beat Percy r. Pyne I'd, Prime
ton, aud /; Hamilton Is, Kerr Greer
c.,h beat L. y. Gwger, Siwanoy, and
Haury J.-Yopping, Greenwich. beat u.
N,cLnuFhin, scarsdale. up ns holes
Non rS MisSiSa sai nHd = peat Roy
ni.nnal--CArter beat Kerr up q
ho,.'; Marston beat Topping. and Z.
Rourd-Ileut. W X. Dunn. Oakland. ",
'om " W Hoffman National by defaul
Frederick Snare. Englewood. beat r.
Rogers. Garden city, l up tg0 holes
W. Case. Owasco. beat Dr.. a. T. haiyh
W}kngyl, 9 up; W. :. Brown. oaklan
be-. NJ Kerr Maidstone. up.
Srmi-hnal-Snare beat Dunn, l up &
ho,sIt case beat Brown, up.
Second sixteen. Second Roupd-frede
r. Herreshon. Garden city, bea, n.
Bsrner Nassau, and /; Gardiner
s1H'h Shore. and /: : B. Thorne. GA
.nd. beat J. C.. Parrish, Jr., Na'ion'
ana Q. Il. a Bale. South shore be
@. Thorne, Brook lawn, ! up on holes
ni-hnal-Herr"shon beat Whi.e.
~ Thorn. beat BIlfe and 2
la,nd- Theodore Ca.sebaer. Onkland be
Twyerfort, Igehamp'on. nnd
u Boyd. Flushing, won from II
y 20 EnglcNood ny default; AleNhnd
u.a, We Burn. beat e. ii. Hart, Du
r... . and 3: william l.. HlckS, va
p.t Or. Nj Carpenter oakland'
s'. .'nal--CassNhecr beat Boyd, ! a
VI KS beat Holmes, and 2.
T.rl sixteen. Second Round-Clnren
Ntf'' o.. Ballusrol, beat Il + Ontes, Flus
,+ . and ! f.. \. q. Wyla Humson. be
, Allison. Midland, and .; u
|..r. Oakland, beat q. 10. cirha
nJ heat =. Lewis. Flushing
sem. .nnaI-wyuc beat Martin. and
toNprr,hwait beat Itidder, and !,
b'atru Eight OF Third sixtees ~
I'nnl.-o. G. pickhard: 81. Andrews, "
,lu., II. OConnell. Yountakah, W
rom \ Daley, wykaxyL BY default
N,lc. Rumson. he at y. A. Proal, RUNS
:up; j V. Graham. Oakland, beat A.