New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-19
GARDINER WHITE
DEFEATS PYNE IN
STIRRING MATCH
PrincetOnian, Outlucked at
Opening Holes, Loses
by Big Margin.
MORTIMER BARNES
BEATS J. NJ. WARD
Secretary OF Metropolitan Golf
Association Wins in Con-
ISOLATION Round.

Two sensational recoveries at the
outset Of his final rounn match enabled
Gardiner W. White. Of Flushing, to
defeat Percy r. Pyne, I'd, OF Princeton,
by up and to play, in the invita-.
tion golf tournament on the links or
the Piping Rock Club yesterday. .
There were more recoyeries crowded
into five minutes Of the afternoon than
is usually seen during the entire three
days of tournament. On the first
green in the match for the chief trophy
Pyne laid White a stymie, which the
Flushing man proceeded 70 jump with
neatness and dispatch for half in B.
A few moments later, while playing
the short third, White holed mashie
shot for half in 3, after almost miss
ing his second shot
As the pair was passing this green a
moment later, on their way 10 No. 4,
they, as well as the gallery. saw W.
Parker Seeley, playing in The handicap,
hole a mashie shot for 2. That stroke
of luck sent the Brooklyn golfer along
with high hopes of winning something
in the handicap. hopes, by the way,
that were shattered when he took IL
at a spot further on.
But, returning 10 the main match,
White. after Stealing the halves at
the first and third, and winning the
second because of short approach by
his opponent. again saved half by
pitching back near the flag after an
approach to the fourth. A better
mashie shot from the rough behind the
fifth green enabled White 10 get down
the putt for a 4 there and become 2 up.
LII. Of DxnQ
much to do going TO No. 8, the longest
hole on the course. so that when White
! brought off putt of a clubs length
for a 5. the Flushing man became 3
up. ANY time one gets a 4 at the sew
enth he should be pardoned for stick
Ing out his chest, for il ever there is
an exacting approach it is found there.
Both golfers supplemented good
drives with we'll played seconds over
| the trap, White using an iron and Pyne
a spoon, yet so keen was the green that
/ the balls ran on TO trouble, pit for
| White, and rough for the Princetonian.
As il happened, both laid their thirds
up so cleverly as to enable them to sink
the puts for a half in 4. The only
hole Pyne won going out was the ninth,
where he drove the green and got 8.
White therefore, turned for home
UP, going out in 8s to 40 for his antag-
onist.
Although golf is a game Of wasted
opportunities Pyne surely missed his
big chance at the tenth, whore his OPP
ponent, after a sliced drive to the
rough, supplemented half topped sec
ond and an approach that fell greer
shy. Pyne, after two good wooder
club shots almost home, barely got
within putting distance on his next and
then fused around for four gentle
strokes, SO that White won in to T.
In this way the Flushing golfer be-
came 8 up again, when he might have
been only l to the good.
Pyne got into trouble at the next
two holes, losing both and becoming b
down. He won the thirteenth because
OF an approach by White after pulled
drive. The fourteenth was halved in
4. and then came comedy Of errors,
both getting trapped at the difficult
fifteenth, with White finally having the
hole thrust upon him, so to speak, his
rival taking 8 strokes.
Tho card of the match follows: