The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-04
NATIONAL AMATEUR |GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
 TOBE DECIDED TODAY.
Gardner and Anderson De- feat Opponents and Meet Today to Fight for
 National HOnOrS

Detroit. September 3-Robert A.
 Gardner of Chicago and Yale will meet
 John G. Anderson of Mount Vernon,
 the national amateur golf champion
 ship. After n tremendous effort which
 enabled him to square his match on
 the thirty-sixth hole, Gardner today
 defeated Max R. Marston of Springfield
 N. H.. on the thirty-seventh. .........
 Gardner apparently did not have
 chance after 31 holes had been played. lMarston. steady as mountain, was 3 lup. Gardner had been missing short butts
 with depressing rugarity Then three
 times he shot holes in par; three times Marston failed.
 On the Beth green with his ball two feet
 from the cup, Marston had only to make
 a simple tap to win the match. He tried land missed
 Gardner who had outdriven his op- lponent all day, was on the 3th green in | ?. Marston required three shots and when the westerner holed his putt for a par 4, the eastern player could not dupli- cate the feat.
 l Neither man played consistently steady game. Marston had a score of 80 in the forenoon and Gardner took S1.
 Each completed the first IS holes of the
 afternoon half in Y. Gardner played 24
 of the g holes in par and was under par twice. Marston had r par holes and five that were better.
 Marston squared the forenoon round
 on the 18th hole. when Gardner drove poorly and had to chop his ball out of | Hyt.- 1 ly forged ahead after lunch. He took the 18th hole, 5-6, Gardner slicing his drive and missing a putt. The next two were played well and halved but Marston, after being outdriven, outplayed Gardner on the green and captured the 22d, 3-4 They l split the 23d Marston laid Gardner a.
 stymie on the 24th, but Gardner holed a
 jump shot. Driving across a brook for l the 18th, Gardner put too much speed in
 his effort and the hole made Marston 2 l up. The easterner lost the 26th, 6-5, where his ball found the rough. He won | the 27th with par A.
 | Gardner cut his opponents lead to l up by driving splenddly approaching
 well, and claiming the 29th, 5-6. Marston retaiated by sinking his putt in the 30th cup to beat par by a stroke and increased l his lead to three holes on the 31st when Gardner's weak short game lost him the green, 5-4. The Chicagoan then began his
 
 l a good putt to win the 32d and agan was victorious on the 33d when Marston was not able to sink his fourth shot. | Each played perfect golf and halved the next two holes More than 2000 spectators l lined the course from the 35th green to the clubhouse, when Marston made what | he hoped would be his last drive The hole was but 1855 yards distant, on an elevation and he had only to play it on even terms to be victor. His ball whizzed forward, a low flying white streak and landed short of the flag. Gardners ball dropped near the cup and he holed in 3. Marstons approach was carefully made and successfully executed. but the strain told and his two-foot putt was a failure. Their afternoon cards Marston (even in forenoon). Marston out ...................o5 .o54 33o 364-5S Gardner out ....................654 .654 336 445-40 Marston In ....'...,....... b5o 44o o44-59-6 Gardner in ................. 454 354 543-37-77
 Extra hole, Marston B. Gardner 1. Gardner won, 1 up in 37 holes The Anderson-Sherman match was all most lost sight of, so keen was the gen eral interest in the other duel. sherman fought pluckily and made Anderson ex- tend himself to win. The Utica man was down In the forenoon. as a result of losing the eighteenth hole Possibly the intense heat fatigued him, for he was outdriven in the afternoon, and his butts often were just short of the cup. He played slowly studying every shot with deliberaton and conserving his strength for a final effort. Sherman's weak putting gave Anderson a margin of f up at the end of the twenty-second hole. Sherman cut the lead in half by winning par victories on the twenty fourth and twenty-fifth greens. but played the next two poorly, and was down when they started on the homeward trail. Anderson was short and had to take two butts, which cost him the twenty eighth, but he reversed the verdict by outdriving Sherman to win the twenty ninth. They halved the thirtieth. Sher- man then had to make his last effort. and it was a worthy one for then he won the thirty-frst and the thirty third holes. playing par golf. He had chance to again score at the thirty fourth when Anderson was in difficulties but. too, ap- l preached poorly, and they each took a six With a lead of 2 up Anderson 1 missed his putt for the thirty-fifth but | so did sherman, and the match ended.
 Their afternoon card: Anderson q up). out .......... .534 435 454-T | Sherman out ....................5 .545 o34 36O-4O | Anderson in ........................o o55 o4o to | sherman in .........................4 46o 444 to |
 Anderson won, and l.
 sherman is son of the late vice presi- | dent of the United States. He and his | brother Tom achieved the first official | victory of the present tournament by win | ming the American golfer silver trophy | for two-men teams, turning in the lowest | best ball score.
 Most of the great amateur golfers in | America competed.
 Gardner and Anderson each have taken | part in a previous final match for the | national championship. Gardner captured | the title at Wheaton. Ill., in 1909. Ander- son was once runner up to Jerome Travers.
 The crucial battle tomorrow. which is 1 also a test between eastern and western | golf so-caled. will bring together play | CTS of far different temperaments. Ex- perts consider Gardner brilliant golfer, a hard fighter at all times, but now and then inclined to be cratic. Anderson is