The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-11
FIVE CAPTAINS FAIL
TO MAKE TITLE SET
Gardner Of Yale Tears Up His
Card, While Four Others
Score Too High.
BLOSSOM LEADS WITH 1853

GREENWICH, Conn. Sept. 1o.-The
t~hirty-six hole qualifying round for the
Individual championship occupied the
time and attention OF the members Of
the Intercollegiate Golf Association AT
the Greenwich Country Club to-day. The
annual competition for the team cham
pionshlp ended with a Yale victory yes
terday.
Having acquired the winning habit
Yale finished on top again to-day. +. r.
Blossom, a member OF the Blue team.
leading the field Of about forty col
legians with a score Of rs. 7b-15s. He
was just a stroke ahead OF Louis l..
Bredin OF Detroit and Yale. whose score
was 10, 75-l5i, and John NJ. Simpson
OF Illinois, who made II in zach round
for his 1874.
Blossom played exceedingly good golf
nearly all day and but for a sudden
lapse on the last three holes in the morn
ing round would have been several
strokes ahead OF all the others. A 6 on
the home hole was his worst perform
ance lie sliced his second shot over
near the frs; tee and took four more
strokes to hole out. In the afternoon
lie played wen and steadily all the way
and there was no blowup at the last min
ute. His card:
r. r. Blossom, Yale:
MORNING ROUSD.
2 fn'.. s-,i-n
AFTERNOON ROUND.
GA, A & 3 Z a-Sq
in'." 5siSStSi -ss-7s-is'
Bredin. who carried Robert A. Gard
ner to the home hole In the hrst round
OF the national championship at De-
| trolt. had q great chanc TO lead the
pst. but threw IL away BY poor putting
When Il was all over he could recall
seven greens on each OF which he TOOK
three puts. and he was none too SURE
that there were not more OF the same
dismal kind.
II was an extremely bad day for the
college captains. as five or the sever
who played failed to qualify In thu
championship sixteen. W. Hamilton
| Gardner I'd. the Yale leader, tore III
his card. and Captains Hepburn OF Har
ward, Rose Of Princeton, Walton N
Illinois and Townsend OF Pennsylvania
all were relegated TO the second SIX
teen with a good cup to play for. blu
no chance for the title now held by T.
T.. Allis Sd, who was graduated from
Harvard last June
A four cornered tie at 1855 resulte'
for the last three places In the frs
sixteen and was played on so late II
the day hi forecaddies, matches ant
,ther unusual aids 10 eyeslght had q
be employed. All four halved the frs
hole in 4, and at the second Lawrenc
II. Canaan OF Harvard made the only
and ioined the elect. w. A. Lowrie o
Princeton got a 3 on the third hols
leaving John Marshall. Jr.; OF William
and II. H.. White OF Illinois 10 kee'
OF for the last place. The fourth mol
decided it. Marshall getting a . an
White a 6.
During the day the co%llegians re
ported their usual quota OF unusua
shots. but II made by $. Davidson
Heron OF Pittsburg put all the other
to shame. Driving from the eleventh
tee. he sliced far into the woods. ant
when he found his ball discovered tina
there was no way to get back on TN
eleventh fairway from where II lay
! There was an opening In the other al
rection down toward the sixth fairway
so Heron played for II and made II
He was left far from his goal, at leas
$50 yards away. with the high woods u
between, but, nothing daunted, playe
a great iron shot that scared far owe
the topmost branches and dropped o
the green. When he had clambere
back up the hill and through the wood'
Heron was so overpowered by the dif
nculty of his climb and the success @
his shot hat he took three puts an
had to write down "A Q on his card
Two match rounds will be played &c
morrow, and both the semi-inals o
Monday and the finals on Tuesday wi
he at thirty-siX holes. The qualifyin
scores: