New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09

ILLINOIS GOLF
TEAM BOWsTO
YALE PLAYERS
Princeton Beats Penn. and
Also Reaches Final in
College Tourney.

Good golf and plenty Of II. int,
spersed, with interesting incid.,,,
marked the second day Of .s,-
matches for the intercollegiate char.
pionship over the links Of the Green.
wich Country Club yesterday Yale A.
feated the University Of Illinois bv
score Of s matches 10 3. while Prince.
ton beat Pennsylvania at 7 TO 2. and a,
result Yale and Princeton will ss..
il out to-day in the final match for Il.
title.
In view Of the fact that il va, u.
first appearance Of the University a,
Illinois in these contests, peculiar IN.
terest was attached TO the doines AZ
the Western men. They found Ysl,
worthy rival. because the three point,
they won were obtained in match.,
which were carried 70 the home hol,
or further.
To begin with. II. R. Walton, n.
Western captain, and c. P. Weemsh IA
to 90 to the limit to defeat W. T. BAD.
ham and Dudley II. Nudge. lnd.
dentally Badham was runner-up in 4,
I METROPOLITAN junior championships. =,
we'll as the Eastern interscholastic iva
/ years ago, and is newcomer al Yale
while Nudge won the Minnesota title.
In the singles John VI. Simpson. ii.
| Western intercollegiate champion, was
pitted against ". Hamilton Gardner.
I'd. The struggle left them all even
/ at the home hole. but Gardner hooked
his drive on the nineteenth so badly
/ that it went sailing off into the ravins
ana the ball was never found. Thus
! the second point for Illinois was gath.
cred in. II. II. White won the las.
hole and the match from F. R. Bios.
som, which made the third point for
/ the Westerners.
On the other hand. De Witt Balch. Of
/ Cincinnati, Western junior champion
and the last man on the Yale team,
/ found il necessary 70 90 10 the twenty.
! first hole before he could defeat F. X
! White. They were even playing the
eighteenth, and Balch's second cane
to rest twelve feet short OF the pin
/ He ran down the putt for a half. and
after two halved holes won the match
on the twenty-frst by getting home
with two screaming shots.
Early in the day Gardner and R. d
L. Pierce got going. and had hest bal
of an Appropriated 68. Pierce main
tanned his fine form in the afternoon
going out in SO and playing the mex
seven holes in even As.
Only one match in the four-ball con
tests between Princeton and Pennsyl
vania was of more than passing IN
terest. in it s. Davidson Heron an.
Grant A. Peacock won on the nins
teenth from Franklin w. Dyer and
! W. B. Townsend. The Princeton lad
were dormie l, but Peacock missed q
putt of less than a yard for a hall, and
the match was prolonged.
In attempting to kill" the ball Dye
badly topped his drive into the rough
and Townsend, try though he might 4
| carry the burden, was unable 10 do 50
Z for Heron, pretty stylist, got ava!
fine, long drive and laid his approach
so dead to the pin that he might hayl
kicked it in for a three.
There was considerable interest il
/ the singles contest between Dyer an,
Heron, and matters ran along prett.
evenly until the end of the sixth hole
/ Dyer was l up there. On the next sil
holes Dyer recorded five IS, makMi
/ him up, and two halved holes left hin
a winner by and 4. The card Of thi
match follows: