Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-19

FULLER TAKES ELECTION
CUP AT CHEVY CHASE
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shot out. being a little ahead of Tai
colts well hit brassie second. The
latter played an iron and hooked it
badly. not getting to the bunker in
ing past favors. put his ball in the
bunker to the right and played to the
edge of the green in 4, Talcott's fourth
shot being just of the green: Neither
man was dead to the hole in .. but Tai
colt got down a six-foot putt to win
the hole and square the match, Fuller
missing one of equal distance.
on the seventh. While Fuller hit a good
ball. which went over the hill. The
brassie second of Talcott carried all the
trouble to the right of the green and
ended just off and short of the green.
which ended only twenty feet to the
left Of the pin and hole-high. Talcott's
run up was fifteen feet short. Fuller.
in his attempt for 3. ran four feet
over. but made the putt coming back
and again became up. although Tai
colt threw a scare into him when his
putt for a trimmed the cup and nearly
The long eighth hole could not have
been played better by any two players.
each getting g. The tee shots were
long. Talcott getting1a long run on his
ball, and both second shots easily car
mashie shot to fifteen feet to the left
of the pin. and Fuller was thirty feet
to the right. but ONT the green. Both
were down in the regulation number of
puts. Talcott winning the hole with a
stroke handicap and squaring the
match.
Talcott Misses Fine Chance.
On the ninth Talcott missed fine
hit and rolled on the lower corner of
the green. Seeing the long ball hit by
his opponent very probably made Full
er press wee bit. In any case. he had
a bad tee shot, way off to the right
from where his mashie second was,
thirty feet beyond the pin. Talcott was
five feet short with his approach putt
and Fuller dead in 3. The hole was
halved, Talcott missing the five-footer
to win.
One of the two long puts sunk dur
ing the match came on the tenth. Tai
colts mashie shot was on the green
and his opponents quite short, between
the traps. Fuller's second was fifteen
feet over and Talcott dead to the hole
in g. Then Fuller ran down the putt
for half.
Talcott hit long ball straight down
the alley on the twelfth. Fuller topped
his badly. barely getting to the far
bank of the ditch and being out in 2.
He played more to reach the green
and Talcott easily won the hole. 81,
putting him 1 up. Both players sliced
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ball, the shorter, carrying the gully
to the right Of the fairway and giving
him bad stance below his ball. Tai
colts ball stopped on the edge of the
played one of the best shots of the
round, his ball just carrying the bunk
er in front of the green. Talcott
hooked his second shot. but was on
the green very slow. and desiring to
hold his ball up against the hill, the
latter putted too strong and was ten
feet over Fuller almost hoied his
ten-footer the hole was halved. Tall
colt receiving stroke. Talcotts
brassie tee shot on the thirteenth was
SO far to the right that it was not in
trouble. while Fuller's iron shot, to the
right. too, but not SO badly sliced.
rolled into the bunker hole-high. He
just got out and was twenty feet over
in 3. Talcott won the hole, 4-5. put
ting him up. His game seemed in
capable of going badly at this stage,
as he was hitting all his shots with
confidence and getting better all the
time.
Taicott hooked his ball to the rough
off the fourteenth and Fuller hit
Then came the greatest shot of the
match From the angle ut which Tai
colt had to play 1t looked Impossible
for him to get on the green, but to
stick, and he did both, hitting a perfect
iron shot which carried thirty feet from
the pin and stayed there. Fuller was
on In 2, forty feet to the left. Ta1cott
spoiled his great iron shot by going
too hard for a 3, and overrunning the
hole six feet. Fuller after being eight
Talcott missed, Fuller winning the hole.
to be l down.
Fuller hit a very long ball on the
fifteenth, which. had it been a little
farther. would have been in the ditch
Talcott got a good one over the hill.
but far short of his opponents ball He
then played a long iron shot to get
home and was on the right-hand edge
Of the green. TalcottS chip shot was
short, and he was down in ;. Fuller
the match. Fuller just carried the
ditch on the sixteenth. while Talcott
got over the hazard all right, but bis
ball was hooked He sliced his sec
Cnd ana topped MS lHiiuy Gnu vas oii
the green in 4. Fuller hit q long iron
shot which just missed going in the
ditch to the right. and he Clipped up
twenty feet short. Talcott received his
last stroke on the hole and halved it.
Fuller sliced his tee shot on the
seventeenth to the bottom Of one of
the bunkers. and got well out with a
mashie Talcott half-topoed his ball
almost to the top of the hill. Had he
not then hooked his iron shot the
match might have assumed different
aspect. for Fuller got too far under his
mashie third and was short of the green.
Talcott's niblick pitch ran across the
green and his fourth was ten feet
short. with Fuller's fourth five feet
away Talcott missed and Fuller's ball
looked in the hole and stayed above
ground, halving the hole in s. Full
ler's caddie predicted victory on the
eighteenth. but 1t was not to come un-
til later. despite the long ball he hit.
with Talcott only d very little shorter
Talcott sclaffed his second and Fuller
i'll loss of distance and a hook, but
colts run-up was only fifteen feet
seemed fading. when his mashie third
ran off the right hand edge of the
green His chip shot was close how
ever, and he sank a four-foot putt for
half in 5.
On consultation with Burgess, the
professional, it was decided to play
three holes. with Talcott receiving a
stroke on any hole he wished, and he
chose II on the first He missed his