New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
RISLEY PLAYS
BRILLIANT GOLF
in TWO MATCHES
Home Club Man at His
Best i'm the Contest with
T. B. WoOtten.
MARSTON ALSO SHOWS
WELL IN TWO TILTS
Newton and Parrish Also Reach
Semi-Finals In Tourney at
Atlantic CITY.
TBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune.

Atlantic City, n. j.. April 30.-Varied
and spectacular golf marked the first
and second match rounds of the tourna-
ment of the Country Club of Atlantic
City, here to-day and as the result of
the wedding out process the following
players, who will meet in the order
named tomorrow, survived: Maurice
+. Risley, of the home club; Herbert Is.
IRISH, jr., of the National Links, and
Maxwell r. Marston, of Baltusrol.
1t fell to Risley to furnish the best
work of the day After brushing aside
A. H. Johnson, who is affiliated with
both the National Links and Sleepy
Hollow, to the tune of 6 and 5, Risley
smothered the aspirations of Thomas
B. Wootten, n promising local man,
with the fumes of and margin.
Risley had fine chance for a record,
for he went out in 36 despite the fact
that he missed no less than three puts
on as many greens, and not one OF them
was longer than two feet. Then he
reeled off 3, 3, for the next three holes
as il TO add insult to injury to the
hapless Wootten. In other words, Ris-
ley needed only 46 strokes for II holes,
two under fours.
His card follows:
Out ................. 8 SIS
Sharing interest with Risley was Mar
ston. who might have won sooner but for
Indifferent work on the rather slow
greens. He first opposed c. A. Bogert,
of Toronto, and the Baltusrol man was
neatly held by the short driving but
deadly putting Of the left-handed Ca
L., Of tah
play began to tell on the elderly visi-
tor, and the younger man gradually
drew away, winning by up and to
pay.
Thomas P. Edcott, who is a good
golfer. but rather excessively DELHI
crate. was Marston's next victim, the
result being 3 and 2. Endicott is a
fighter and never would give in an
inch. By the time the seventh was
reached Marston had q lead of two
holes, but lost the ninth through miss
ing a two-foot try ror 4. Marston's
lack of direction at the eleventh cost
him dearly and the match was levelled.
and he promptly went wandering from
the beaten track at the twelfth, so that
Endicott appeared to have his man on
the hip. Then Marston steadied down
and played par golf, winning on the six
teenth green.
Parrish first met Chester L. Maxwell,
of Trenton, a youth of seventeen sum-
mers, tall, angular and strong. Max
we'll drives as long ball as almost any
golfer in the country, and usually he
is straight. Parrish, however, held up
better toward the end, for he has
played a great deal abroad, and conse-
ouently is not lacking in experience.
Afterward Parrish had little diff
Guilty in eliminating II. Wellington
Wood, the old York Road southpaw,
who had previously trounced Hugh L.
Willoughby, the Philadelphia crack.
Several matches went TO extra holes,
the most protracted of the day being
in the beaten eight of the third sixteen.
A. f. Smith, jr, of Berkshire, had to
90 five extra holes to defeat Harry
F. Rebmann, of White Marsh. There
are many left-handed players in this
tournament, such as Wood R. c. Max