New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
Baltusrol Golfer Plays
Fine Game in Eliminat-
ing WeStney,
SENSATIONAL FEATURE
IN THE SEMI-FlNAL
Randolph and Waldo Are Re
<oective Victors in Third and
Fourth SiXteenS.
r. FRED HAWTHORNE.

By FRED HAWTHORNE.
Atlantic City, y. j., MAY 6.-lt re-
-.;,ss for Schuyler Van Neehten, OF
u. Rsltusrol Golf Club, 20 carry the
- 81 the New York metropolitan
s..,i,t 10 the front to-day IN the
.,,sal spring tournament Of the Coun-
~ Clrh Of Atlantic City. Van Nech-
=. plaving the most brilliant golf Of
-, tournament. defeated +. c. Clary
,,e morning semi-hnal match, and
49,, took the measure Of A. W. West
,.v Of Atlantic City, in the afternoon
the final round by the overwhelming
-srein OF up and ) TO 80.
although the quality of his game
- better IN the final round. it was
n, match against Clary that produced
,,s most sensational features, and the
-.nerv that followed the players
,,cund the long course had plenty Of
,,oor,unity to applaud rare shots.
SP. Randolph, jr., won the FIRST
,-i,e in the second sixteen, defeating
pober, Weir. Of Wilmington, in the
raj nv a margin Of 6 up and to 20.
rtle &. Gilbert Waldo, the veteran
f-,,, Brcoslawr. was first home IN the
bird fight putting out Herbert B. New
ion. Of Fraraford, a, 2 up and to 60.
Battle Is Hard Fought.
Victory for Van Nechten in the
Warning match came only after a des-
,sratelv fought round, with neither
Tsn more than 2 up at any time
during the morning. After being :
m At the third hole Van Nechten fall
cred Bit and Clary drew even at the
ffth. From that point on 1t seemed
snvbodv's match. first one and then the
otber going into the lead for hole,
orly 10 be pulled back by his opponent.
Finishing the outward journey Van
Vechten and Clary were all square,
both requiring forty-three strokes to
hat point. Frequent visits 70 the many
we'll laid traps with which the course
hounds accounted for the compare
lively high medal scores. The next
Jour holes found the hope Of Baltusroi
and Woodbury's favorite still locked
In a death grip.
On the fourteenth, 1876 yards. Van
Vechten sent a beautiful drive 23O
Yards straight down the centre. Clary,
who was formerly a caddie at the
Woodbury. Golf Club and plays with
The confidence Of a professional, came
along only ten yards behind his OPP
ponent. and both laid their iron shots
A. the edge Of the green. The puts
found the balls lying three feet from
The pin and both registered for the
hole, par golf
Drive Of ESQ Yards.
On the next. 290 yards, Van Nechten
drove into the deep sand trap that
guards the green TO the right. II was
poke OF fully $50 yards, and fate
.emed cruel that it should penalize the
Bsltusrol man after such an effort.
Clarv's tee shot struck a cop bunker.
200 yards away, and he overplayed his
second. the ball bouncing across the
green and landing in deep grass IN the
back.
The gallery gasped when Van Vech-
ten. with a niblick, failed 20 get the
bali out Of the sand on the first at
.empt With his next shot, however,
he laid the guilty. six feet from the pin,
and ID looked like his hole when CIary
paved his second too strong and the
bal ran fifteen feet past the cup. But
The Woodbury. player laid Van Nechten
nicely calculated stymie on mis- fourth
shot. and the Baltusrol man was un-
able 20 negotiate the curling putt, the
hole costing both men ..
Van Nechten again went into the lead
on the sixteenth, taking a Z 10 Clary 5
3. The Woodbury. golfers drive landed
near the clubhouse, reposing near a
high hedge of lockwood and stymied by
a long line Of automobiles. Van Vech-
tens tee shot landed in the bunker TO
the left, because of a bad hook.
The Baltusrol star IN his anxiety to
get out of the sanoplt overplayed ms
econd. and the ball jumped over the
green and into the tall grass IN the
back Clary. after looking the lay OF
'te land over carefully, decided II
would be impossible to clear the hedge
and the automobiles and had TO waste
q stroke by playing his shot backward
ON 10 the fairway. He laid his third
twenty feet from the pin and still
ecmed 20 have a chance. The lmper-
iurbable Van Nechten squelched all such
hopes, however, by cutting his ball out
of the clingiug grass and bringing II
TO rest only two feet from the hole on
his third. Clary overran the hole on
bis fourth by six feet and Van Nechten
sank his for q figure 4, putting him IN
The lead by one hole.
Another Drive Sails.
The Batusrol man tore into his drive
for a total Of 2sO yards on the seven
'eonth. but a bit Of slice carried the
hell into the rought 10 the right on the
edge Of the eighteenth hole fairway
l.ary got 200 yards on his tee shot
playing straight down the line. He
.red a mid iron on his second and the
ball skipped along over the fast turf
or another 200 yards before it came ia
iest. twenty yards from the green. Var
techten's second, a brassie, sailed
along for 200 yards, but far TO the right
o. the green. and when he came tc
play his third, he was confronted by d
grove Of lofty maple trees.
Clsry laid his third fifteen feet from
no pin, and Van Nechten shot his
through the trees and twenty feet from
The cup. After studying the downhilI
putt Van Nechten laid his fourth two
nehes from the pin, and Clary man
aged TO stick his to within eighteen
.WrNne D.