The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-17
NONE HAS TEMERITY
0PREDICT WINNER
Birmingham. Kerr, Carter and
White Left in Struggle
at Sleepy Hollow.
SELECTS WRONG BROTHER

first two matca rounds of the Sleepy
Hollow Country Clubs invitation tourna-
ment to-day. Theodore V. Birmingham,
Wykagyl Hamilton *. Kerr, Green
witch Gardiner W. White, Flushing, and
Philip ". G.. Carter. Nassau, are all
that are left of the first sixteen. and II
would be a bold prophet who would
venture to pick any one OF the four as
n certain winner. In fact each one has
AZ good a caance to come through as
any of the others. II will be Ber-
mingham against Kerr and White
against Carter In the semi-tinals to-mor-
row morning. with the two winners
meeting in the eighteen hole final in the
afternoon.
n seemed to be the fashion to-day
TO play we'll in one round and poorly
in the other. and no one golfer in the
first set played consistently good golf
all day. In the morning Gardiner White
and William Fellowes Morgan, Jr.. did
most OF the low scoring. White. who
was playing against c I. Lansing.
Knickerbocker, went out in 81 and woul
ave been better but for Il tendency to
take three puts TO a green every few
holes. He beat Lansing by I up and u
to play. and decided that II was too
hot to play out the bye hole. Morgal
In the meantime was trouneihg Mason
u Starring, Jr.. OF the ZONE clup' anu
doing IL by the simple process of driving
| such a lens bail that he had nothing
but mashie shots left. on the olo yalu
sixteenth he varied the mono'ony ny
using a ridlron 10 &c, home on his
| second shot, hut most of the time ne
stuck TO his mashie. He was out In 81
| and came home In 80. heating starring
by 5 up and 4 to play on the way.
The play in the other morning
/ matches was closer, but not quite SO
sood. Birmingham won from H. l.
| Phillips of Siwanoy, Dwight Partridge
after being , down TO Reginald NJ
Lewis with but three holes to play won,
them all and with them the match ana
Charles H.. Brown. -. Andrews beat
stuart II. Connolly. Rockland' the fiuu-
son River champion. AS II was bFoWh
| who Connolly beat in the nnil Tor tne
Hudson River title not long ago the -,
Andrews golfer thoroughly appreciates
his victory. Kerr and Carter won with
en-, much trouble and Lee Maxwell adj
vanced through the default OF howard
W. Maxwell, Jr.
Because Of his great golf in the morn
ing Morgar was expected 10 pun UP a
FOOD fight against Carter when the az
ternoon round began hut II was 'ar'eF
who did the real golf playing. tie won
the first hole, I to /, and then began
a series of well played holes that took
him to the turn in 81 and put INN h up
al that point. He took Il . al the
tenth by missing a putt but a me .
at the eleventh made up Tor the lapse
! and he was dormy !. His go!t was
TOO good 10 last. however. for he over
nlayed the twelfth green and took a
/ Morgan winning the hole ana pro-
longing the match. TIE short thirteenth
was halv,d. So II was carriers victory
by { up and . 70 play, and thef i"ppe
right there. -
also were expected to play 4 close
match and they did for the tirst SIN or
seven holes. Then Partridge began 20
miss putts and Birmingham began 10
gain. winning the match 10y I up m J
10 play. Hamilton Kerr won from Lee
Maxwell by the same mar-in IN inuth
the same sort of match. They were AL
square when the twelfth began, nut herr
won the next four IN succession.
Gardner White and charlie Brown
engaged In the only struggle OF the four
that went TO the home green, IL was MP
and tuck all the way and Al the four
tenth they were on level terms. Nhlte
won the fifteenth by holing a thirty 1907
mutt for a 3. the sixteenth was halred
] anu bIONi sNiaA ~ - ht"A'' -
the seventeenth in I to b y stym!e
helped him. but he probably would haN"
won the hole anyway as whites putt
for a 4, after aking three shots To reach
the green, was a fifteen foot affar that
would have been difficult 10 sink even
II Browns ball had not been IN the way.
On the home hole Brown sliced into a
shallow trap and although he played out
we'll he did not reach the green. White
played two fine shots that left nun win
a putt for "A 3, tvit he didn't need 1t as
Brown took 3. losing hole and match,
The minor divisions furnished more
than their usual share of thrills. In the
beaten eight of the fourth sixteen his
~aftosnoon j. Copper Lord, Sleepy iiol-
low, startled himself and his opponent
by making "A | on the NTH ldl yards
long. His srx with his driving iron
was the truest he ever made ana the ba'l
came to rest In the cup. The usual cere-
monies were observed later in the day,
Brothers T.. G, i~iolston, Scarsdale, and
w. II. l~lolstou OF Wykagyl also fur
nished II little diversion, Both won their
morning matches in the fourth sixteen
by 3 up and 4 TO play, ami when l.. G
Holston came out in the afternoon he
started out with A. y. Peterson N his
second round match. Later W. II. iol-
ston arrived and began to ask where
that man Peterson was. 4 glance at
the scoreboard AT once revealed the iact
that +. &. Holston had set out with his
brothers opponent and the officials lost
no time in sending out caddUcs to recall
the two golfers, They finally were
tagged at the eleventh green and were
brought back TO the first tee, Peterson
In none too happy a frame Of mind, as
he was . up on T.. e. Holstou ana did
not relish the task of starting all over
again with the other brother. He had
to do it, however, and W. H. Ho!stor
beat him.
In the last match of the long day
John X. DE witt. once famous on III,
gridirou when he played for Princeton
was carried tweuty-one holes by w. l.
colt. Both golfers missed puts through
sheer nervousness on each of the three
extra holes, but Colt missed one TO,
many and DE witt won, The sum
maries:
FIRST sixteen, First Round--r Y. Ber-
ming ham, WNkagy!l heal ~ J.: Phillips,
ford, beat Reginald NJ. Lewis, Ridgeicld,
up. Hamilton Is, Kerr, Greenwich, beat
l. =. Gwyer, siManoy' ana !, Lee ".
Maxwell, sleepy Hollow, won from Howard
W Maxwell, Jr, Nassau, by default
Charles n Brown, 81, Andrews, heat stu
art u, Connolly, kockland, and /,
Charles r, Lansing, knIckerhockcr : and
Il Philip V. q, carter, Nassau, beat g u
Wilcox, BaltusroI, 3 and . william Eel
loves Morsans Jr, taitusroI' beat Mason
Second -Hermingham beat Par
tridse,i and. 81 Kerr heat J." W, Maxwell
. and 3; White beat Brown up Garter
beaten Eight. First sixteen. First Round
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