The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-01
CARTER TAKES HIS THIRD
AND LAST JUNIOR TITLE
Nassau Youth, Who Will Be Twenty Next Year, Defeats
McIlwaine 6 and 5 in Semi-fnal and Then
Downs Lewis on Twentieth Green.

GARDEN CITY. l.. l., June 30.-Philip
Carter of Nassau won his third and last
Junior metropolitan golf championship
to-day. although he was hard pressed to
do 1t. In the final round played this
afternoon on the links OF the Garden
City Golf Gu Carter defeated Reginald
NJ. Lewis OF Wykagyl on the nineteenth
green. Since the Junior tournament was
instituted In 1912 by the Metropolitan
Golf Association Carriers name has been
prominent each year. He was runner
up In 1912. won the title in 1913 and
He will he over 20 years OF age. how
ever. by the time next years tourney
is played. so he will have to surrender
his honors then without making a de-
fence.
Although there was n title at stake.
neither Carter nor Lewis played espe-
cially good golf. They started out in a
good natured, happy go lucky manner
that although 1t created a fine atmos-
phere of good fellowship about the
match seemed to keep both of them
from settling down and playing the kind
of game of which they are capable. 1t
was In marked contrast to their play In
he morning too. for in one semi-final
Carter went out in 81, a stroke under
par. n beat Archie McIlwaine, the
medallist. by 8 up and 5 to play. and in
the other match Lewis played excellent
golf against Howard w. Maxwell, Jr.,
winning by > up and 4 to play.
No complaint could be found with the
final. however. as far as its closeness
was concerned for ~ a. min n nd tttrl
all of the way. Carter managed to get
as much as 2 up early in the match. but
his lead quickly disappeared and for
the rest of the journey neither was more
h on hole ahead at any point. The
match began with a halved hole, but on
the second the sloppy golf began. Carter
overplaying the green. wasting two shots
In the sand and losing the hole. Both
took three puts on the third green, bu,
on the fourth Lewis took three shots to
reach the o in front Of the green,
two more to play out and picked up his
ball after missing his try for a 6.
Carter won the NTH also when Lewis
o three puts and made IL three holes
in a row by holing "A long putt for a
\ on the sixth. 1t was a hard hole for
Lewis TO lose. for he seemingly had
saved himself from a sure loss by play.
ing a great iron shot from a bunker be.
SIDE the fourteenth green. into which a
hooked drive had taken his ball.
Having lost three holes in succession
and become . down, Lewis set about tn,
task OF getting square. and II took hin
just two holes to do IL. He didn't hav,
to hole out on either. for after playing
along in the rough for a while on tn,
seventh Carter gave up the hole. and {
topped drive on the eighth cost the cham
pion that hole as well. The ninth wa.
haived. so they turned for home al
square, Carter being out in 40 and Levi!
in AZ.
On the tenth hole Lewis discovered
that accurate play Is not always re
warded as II should be. He made a fin,
drive straight down the fairway an,
Carter hooked into the rough. His sec
ond shot was on the green. twenty-hv,
feet from the pin. and Carriers second
played from a bad lie. flew over tn
green and into the rough beyond, A
Carter had not been on the green sine
he left the tee II looked like n sure wi,
FOR Lewis. but Carter holed his chip sho
for n 3 n Lewis missed his Ions har,
putt by n hairs breadth. losing the hole
lie squared matters on the eleventh
however. when Carter took three putts
and as neither came anywhere near tn
green from the tee on the short twelftI
that hole was halved in 4. Levi
gained a clear stroke on Carter whe'
the champion topped his drive. but tn
advantage was lost when the green wa
reached. as Lewis approached over int
the bunker behind the green on the lef'