The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-20
PUTT COSTLY
TO GARDINER WHITE
Philip Carter Wins Final at
Nassau. Match Going to
Nineteenth Green.
PRATT TAKES HANDICAP

defeating Gardiner White on the nine
teenth green in the final round. The
extra hole was almost an anti-climax.
for White. who had holed an unusual
number of long n hard puts during
the round. missed a short and easy one
on the nineteenth and the match was
over. Carter now has won two Of this
years invitation tournaments. his first
being that OF the Oakland Golf Club q
few weeks ago.
Two hard semi-hnal matches this
morning. In one Of which Frank ".
Dyer, the young Montclair golfer, car
ried White to the nineteenth green, while
Carter was beating william l.. Hicks.
the Nassau veteran, In the other. mad
the finalists take their time this after
noon. and they did not leave tho nrst
tee until 8 o'clock. BY that hour the
biggest gallery that has watched the
final OF an invitation tournament this
year had assembled.
The match began In ordinary enough
fashion with two halved holes, but at the
third White played a fine chip shot
that left his ball deaf to the hole.
He got his 4. a stroke under par, and
won the hole. Playing n perfect tee
shot on the short fourth. White got close
enough to run down his hard putt for
a : and was 2 up and two strokes un-
der par. The next was halved In 6. but
ON the AL yard sixth White played a
great iron shot TO the green after a
good drive and all but holed out in
.. The ball trickled past the cup and
stopped a foot beyond. Carter didn't
even ask White to hole the putt for q
3. II looked so easy.
-Four strokes under par and 4 up
on carter. White had a great chance.
but he began TO throw II away without
a moments delay. He hooked his drive
into some mounds on the seventh. losing
a shot in getting out. Carter won the
hole In 4 to 5 and was only 9 down..
The short eighth was halved, but on
the ninth White drove poorly, put his
second into a bunker. played out, tried
"A long putt that missed and then con-
coded the hole TO Carter. who had a sure
I and a possible 8. Carriers win lon
White only ] up at the turn.
White was bunkered from the tee on
the short tenth and lost the hole. tho
match becoming all square. The elev-
enth went TO White when Csrter's ap-
proach putt was poor and the Flush
Ing golfer found himself ahead again.
The next was halved In 4. but on the
thirteenth White was bunkered and lost
the hole. the match becoming all even
once more.
poen uIo'e INTO tne Dig trap 10 the
LETT OF the fourteenth green and when
Carter got safely out with his second
and White wasted a shot In getting clear
II looked like a victory for Carter.
Whites only chance TO halve the hole
was to get down a twenty foot putt for
n Z. which he did In splendid style.
Carter was so ~astonished that he took
three puts. and lost the hole instead
Of winning II as he had expected 20 do.
The npW fftaenth h-r yarJs lop~ u
Sassau's pride and both ~fnalists reached
the green with their third shots. White,
however, took three puts and let Carter
square the match again. As White took
three shots TO reach the sixteenth green
and was forty feet from the cup when
he got there, while Carter was much
closer and had played only two shots. II
looked as though the junior Metropolitan
champion would win the hole easily.
White, however. was equal TO the &C.
oaslon and ran down his forty footer
for a 4 and Carter was 80 astonished
that he missed n putt OF less than q
yard, losing the hole. Whites lead went
on the next hole, however, for no sliced
his drive TO a trap and failed to get
home with his second. Carter winning.
I TO &.
That left It all square as they went
to the home hole. This was halved in
4. Carter saving himself by running
down a fifteen foot putt after he had
overrun the hole 10 that extent a mo-
ment before. Then came the extra hole
with its disappointing ending. Roth
reached the edge OF the green with
their seconds and White proceeded to
throw the match away by taking three
puts. The cards:
Philip ". q. carter, Nassau
aia.rrdiin.r ". white rla.hins;
Out, 8 e-G
na..;:s ..sss. +-se-H
Extra hoie-Carter. a. White. ..
In the second sixteen final there was
another extra hole match, c. l.. Wat
kins of Apawamis beating Archie Reid
OF 1T. Andrews on the twenty-second
green. Play In all fve sixteens and In
four beaten eight classes was completed
to-day and there also was an eighteen
hole handicap in which J. T. Pratt,
Nassau. won the net prize with 92-1s.
u, and Findlay 3. Douglas, Nassau
the gross with IN 81. The summary:
First Sixteen. ssmi.fnaI R~ound-Gardi-
ner w. white, Flushing. beat Frank W,
oyer, MSn's!.,,; ! Up ts william lillian phi HEY y.
Final ~Round-Carter beat white. I up
Beaten llsh, of Frs, sixteen. s.mi.an..
Round-F. c, Jennings. Nassau. beat 4.
Mor,sll. HaGxen:ask up CA holss)i T.
w; ro,,sr, ws st beat Oliver Per-
Final Round--Potter beat Jennings. Z
second sixteen. ssmi-nnaI Round-A. N.
Reid, 81. Andrews. beat George 7. Brokaw.
@s wants. SSssstt'd , Adams. National. ssnn98is :.
Final Eound-watkins beat Reid. l up
Beaten Eight Of second Sixteen, Semi
h. Van Week. Jr. Baltusrol. . and 1; A.
g Bourne. westbrook. beat H. c, Bsrnsr,
Final Round-Bourne beat Kerr, Q and I.
Third Sixteen. semi-hnal Pound-A, W,
HS.si':T' M Ms':.p; ssA Ms y nre X1S.. S S:.,
l., Brsdin, Detroit, . and l..
Final Round-Mabon beat Rossiter. I up.
Beaten Eight Of Third sixteen, SEMI
Ilwaine, National, beat c. d. Pate. Nas-
Ein.i Rsund-Morwains beat c.rh.rt.
Fourth sixteen, Seminal Round-D. A.
I.oring. Jr.. Nassau. beat J. n: Ottlsy.
Si snS, Beat : u K! I; Il 0 hNissSS,mssiad "a aaoS Sss.
FINAL, Round-oRourks b.a. Lorins. :
Firm sixteen, Seminal Rsund--E.. Coo
ssu, 9 and q. X. p Newton. Frapkford.
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