Evening star., 1916-08-14
SAM DALzE[L WINS PRIZE
Best in Consolation Group in Golf
Contests for Championship of
Alexandria Bay.

The annual championship of Alex
andria Bay, on the ST Lawrence river,
where Sam Dalzell of the Chevy Chase
Club is spending the summer, was won
yesterday by Max Marston, runner-up
in the Metropolitan championship and
former New Jersey champion. Dalzell,
who is known as one of the leading
golfers In the District of Columbia,
was beaten by Frank w. Dyer in the
second round of the tourney. Dyer is
the present Pennsylvania state cham
pion. The Washington southpaw then
went through the field in the consola-
tion and defeated H. L. Gillespie in
the final. This event annually brings
to the st. Lawrence watering place a
number of the best-known golfers of
the country. Dyer and Marston were
the finalists, and the latter conquered
by up.
The newly organized Cobbs Creek
Golf Club, an organization founded at
the fine new public course of Phila-
delphia; held a tournament yesterday,
event was won by ]. w. Clapp, who
turned in the excellent card of 50.
Two titles were decided in the mid
die west last Saturday afternoon. The
city championship of the great golfng
city Of Chicago was won by Murray
Deming for the second time, and the
Wisconsip-s state championship was cap
tured by Ned Allis, making the fourth
time the doughty little Harvard stu
dent has annexed, the Badger state
title. Allis is the man who upset the
dope in the western amateur champion
ship of 1913, when he. in turn. defeated
Chick Evans and Robert Gardner, and
hagf TN IL,
player, Warren K. Wood over his
home course. Allis won the intercol-
legiate championship while a student
at Harvard University.
A green keeper at one of the Chi
cago clubs lost the hole for one Of the
players in a championship match re-
Gently, although his intentions were
well meant. The drive landed on the
side of a bunker where the grass was
ball. cut the grass around it and then
replaced the ball. Upon being asked
why he touched the pellet. he replied i:
NO one could play it out of that long
grass. so l cut it for you" His we'll
meant action resulted in the loss of
the hole, as the players opponent
claimed that outside assistance had
been given.
There have been tales of balls land
ing in the cuff of a players trousers
and tales of a ball caroming into the
caddy bag. but the star story comes
from Chicago, where one of the woman
members of the Windsor Golf Club
was playing the tenth hole and drove
her ball into a pit. In endeavoring to
play out, she hit the ball high in the
air, and it fell inside her shirt waist.
1t took some little argument on the
part of the committee to convince her
that although she was a moving object.
1t was not permissible for her to walk
to the green before dropping the ball
From recent advices. a special dis
pensation will be made in the case of
Norbert Dempsey of the Columbia
Country Club to permit him to play in
the national amateur championship
His name is not on the official handicap
list of the L. S. G. A, but New York
golfer is authority for the statement
that ne will he allowed. to play in the
championship as result of a special
ruling. ,
Yesterday afternoon a match was
played at Bannockburn between Dick
Beattie and p. L. Taylor against ]. II.
de Farges and Dave Burgess the pro-
fessional. A great battle was staged
which the former pair won on the
twenty-tir hole after they had been
down all the way