New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
YALE WAN WINS
TITLE AT GOLF
BY WIDE MARGIN
Blossom Fairly Smothers
Peacock, the Prince
ton Hope.
STRONG, SHORT GAME
TELLS THE STORY
Victory Comes by II Up and .
to Play in intercollegiate
Championship Tourney.

Francis r. Blossom, of Chicago, cap
tain of the Yale baseball team IN 1914,
won the intercollegiate golf title az the
Greenwich Country Club yesterday. He
defeated Grant A. Peacock, OF Prince
ton, by II up and 9 10 play 10 the
thirty-six-hole final round.
None of those who attempted 20 fore
cast possible champion before the
round started considered that Blossom
had much of a chance. Peacock de-
feated Francis Ouimet then the ma
tional amateur champion, IN the invita-
ton tournament at Greenwich last fall.
He disposed Of some good men in the
course of this championship, and ne
knows the Greenwich links well.
On the other hand, Blossom has not
so much experience, has never played
in this championship before, and was
classed as a reserve player on the Yale
team. Even after he won the medal IN
the qualifying round last Friday, with
rounds of II and rs for a total of 1913,
his chances were not considered seri-
ously, but he played sound golf and
won on his merits.
In the twenty-seven holes played Pea
cock won only one, and that through
the fact that Blossom pulled his drive
into the rough and iubbed his second
shot on the eleventh in the morning
Peacock was the longer off the tee, but
Blossom simply outclassed him around
the green. The Princeton man was
usually from ten TO twenty-five yards
in front on the drive, but Blossom
| handled his irons so well that IN the
course Of the first round he had no less
/ than six greens on which only one putt
! was necessary.
/ cock has been playing a great deal OF
golf lately. There has been scarcely
| day in the last several weeks that he
! haf not had at least thirty-slx holes,
/ and although Blossom has also been
/ busy on the links, he has been little
more moderate. Be il said 10 the credit
, of the Yale man that he played az the
| top of his game yesterday. lie went
! round in rs. to his opponents SO, then
! required only 81 for the nine holes
necessary in the afternoon.
He gave an inkling Of what was in
| store when he laid his approach at the
! frst hole so close TO the pin that ne
/ had an easy put for 3. He won the
| second also, when Peacock got INTO
/ trouble. and took the fifth when HIS
rival was wild once again. His margin
was increased to I up at the sixth,
where the Princeton mans approach
was short, and he reached the turn
holes to the good when the hockey play
er was guilty of the same offence.
blossom was out in 80 20 his oppo-
nent's Il, the difference of five strokes
being accounted for on five holes. How
useful a long putt can be was well IL
Illustrated on the thirteenth. an elbow
hole n quarter of mile long. Slicing
his drive a trife made il necessary for
| Blossom to take the long way, so that
he had spent four strokes in order 70
get within twenty feet Of the pin. Pea
cock played the hole perfectly, getting
home in and taking two puts. Ills op-
ponent, however, ran down his long one
and earned half.
Much the same situation was brought
about on the fourteenth. a matter OF
six hundred yards, where Peacock, with
three long strokes, reached the green,
only TO have Blossom save himself with
a 25-foot putt.
The oldest incident of the match
happened on the sixteenth green, and
brought about more discussion in the
gallery as to the merits and dement's =
of the stymie. Both were within TWEEN
tv wards of the edge Of the green on
their seconds. Playing the odd, Bios.
/ som pitched his ball within a foot OF
/ the pin. On the like Peacock APP
/ preached to within less than two feet,
but laid himself dead stymie,
He attempted to overcome the OBJ
stacle by the jumping process, using
a deep-faced mashie, but the effort was
unavailing, and he found himself
down. Peacock foundered into more
trouble on the home hole, so that Bios
som was up when they retired for
luncheon.
With the exception Of the fourth hole
Blossom never needed more than par
figures in the afternoon. His golf was
a marvel OF smoothness. A missed putt
cost Peacock the second, taking three
strokes from the bunker lost him the
fourth, and failing to reach the green
on his drive to the short ninth cost
him another and the match.
In the afternoon Peacock was exact
" as many strokes worse than his OPP
ponent as there were holes lost, which
means that Blossom went out in 81 TO
Peacock's 40.
The card Of the final match was as
follows: , -