The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-15
BLOSSOM OF YALE
COLLEGE CHAMPION
Defeats Peacock of Princeton
by If Up and 3 to Play
at Greenwich.
GIVES ELI CLEAN SWEEP

GREEN wtCH. Conn, Sept. li-Francis
n. Blossom OF Yale made n runaway
match Of the final round for the individ-
ual championship of the Intercollegiate
Golf Association on the links Of the
Greenwich Country Club to-day. Just
three-fourths OF the allotted thirty-six
holes were enough for Blossom, who
beat Grant a. Peacock Of Princeton by
all of II up and . to play. Peacock was
expected to put up n much better ight
but i was his OF day. and as Rrossom
was at his best the match ended with
the Inward nine CT the second round
unplayed.
blossoms victory made this years
tournament n Yale triumph all the way
through. for Yale won the team cham
pionship last week and 40 will hold
both team and indi ,idual titles for a
year. Incidentally Blossom was only
Il substitute on the Eli team last week
and did not play in all Of the matches.
but he wasn't worrying much about
that fact when II was all over to-day.
When the two hnalists set out this
morning Blossom lost no time In ac-
quiring the winning habit. for he holed a
good putt for Il 3 on the first green
and tool the hole. Another 3 Mt the
second put him . up. and he kept right
uu playing good golf, reaching the turn
in 80. The only hole On which he was
over par was the long fourth. $50 yards,
and as the wind was against him his
s there was eNCusable.
Peacock. who was short with enc APP
proach and over with the next, took II
TO reach tie turn, and at that point was
> down.
Blossom won the tenth in 3 TO 4 and
the eleventh was the only hole OF the
match that Peacock won. Blossom
hooked his drive into the rough and took
a 9 to PeaCock's 4. The mex was
halved in 1 and on the thirteenth II
fourteenth Peacock had chances to win
which disappeared suddenly when Bios
som holed long puts. Three OF the
remaining four holes were won by the
Yale golfer. a stymie helping him on
the sixteenth. and he finished the round
3 up. His medal score was rs. excel
lent golf, and Peacock's was SO, The
cards:
MORNING ROUND.
Francis r. Blossom, Yale:
out. ........... . 8 3 4 Z s-N
Grant A.. Peacock. Princeton:
out. ........... D 5 I al
In. ............ 3 5lbb<t5 4-3s-75
In ............. tt&BS5 5 5-i2-s3
II was nothing but n forlorn hope
for Peacock when the afternoon round
began, but In spite OF that fact he
played better golf than he had In the
morning. He missed a couple Of puts
on the two short holes, the second and
the ninth. and at the fourth was
bunkered and picked up after playing
three shots without getting clear, but
kept at par on the remaining holes and
halved all of them with Blossom. Tho
Yale golfer, with the match practically
won, played along steadily, keeping TO
par on every hole but the fourth, and
there might have mad his 3 IL he IA
not picked up without putting when
Peacock gave up the hole.
The Princetonian's missed putt at the
second made Blossom 9 up, and the
catastrophe at the fourth increased the
lead to 10 up. blossom became dormy
on the eighth green, II when Peacock
hooked his drive on the short ninth, and
then after n good approach missed his
putt for a :. Blossom, who had reached
the green from the tee. ran down n
four foot putt for n 2, and the match
was over. The cards:
AFTERNOON ROUND.
Blossom:
Out. si65<< s-s7s
Peacock;
Out +t75%t> <-4o'
'Bye holes not played.
As soon as the match was over the
last Of the collegians who have been
STAYING at the club since Tuesday OF