New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-28
Baltusrol Player Wins His
Fourth Victory of Year
in Greenwich Tourney.
BY GRANTLAND RICE

Maxwell X. Marston, OF Baltusrol'
had TO make one Of the finest shots
that golfer ever played 20 check the
game, uphill battle Of Henry j. Top
ping at Greenwich yesterday.
This almost approximations shot,
played to the sixteenth green with the
match all square, not only ended Top
pings fine rally, but it was good enough
to give Marston the lead that sent him
on TO victory. The first nine holes found
Marston playing brilliant golf and Top
ping hanging on as best he could to
prevent disaster. Topping was playing
well enough for ordinary purposes, but
as Marston was out in 35, ordinary pur-
POSES were doing very little business.
Max began with "a 3, and the
third hole is $40 yards in length. SO
Topping, who opened with three As
pretty steady playing found HIMSELF
down going to the fourth. The Green
wich star won the 430-yard fifth with
fine 4, but lost the seventh, where he
needed S. After halving the eighth,
the first big upset came at the 1885,
y L
ping was . down. But after Marston's
tee shot had struck solidly upon the
green and raced across into a waiting
trap, Topping's fine iron dropped fifteen
feet from the pin.
Marston's Recovery.
Apparently Marston was out of this
hole with his lead cut down to /. But
after brief deliberation, instead of
gouging his ball from the sand filled
trough with a niblick, the Bsltusrol
star used jigger, Clipped for the top
of the low bunker and brought the ball
10 rest exactly eight inches from the
cup, directly in Topping's pathway.
To avoid stymie on his next putt the
latter had TO play beyond the hole, and
when he missed coming back Marston
was up In place of up.
Marston then promptly added the
short tenth to his list when his OPP
ponent was bunkered, and being up,
the match began to lose interest. But
golf Is golf, where under certain CON
dltlons two plus two can very often
equal either five or three. In place Of
fading out Henry j. rallied at once and
won four of the next five holes. He
won the eleventh when Max failed TO
recover from trap. He won the
twelfth by dropping his tee shot twelve
feet from the cup. He saved half on
the thirteenth by canning a l0-foot
putt The long fourteenth came his
way when Marston's third shot overran
the green. One down coming to the
2lO-yard fifteenth. Topping reached the
green for a par 3, where Marston
needed a 4, after hooking his iron.
And then the shock arrived
The Miracle Shot.
The odds were now all in Topping's
favor. lie was coming fast and Mars
ton apparently was drifting back. The
former had cut away a fourhole lead,
and any one who has played golf
knows the double effect of such
rally, the inspiring effect il has on the
cutter and the depressing effect II has
upon the cuttec, so 10 speak.
Starting even again from the six
teenth tee. Topping laced out a long
drive straight down the course, leav-
ing only a mashie shot for the green.
Marston hooked his drive badly and
when he came upon his ball he found
the following barriers ahead:
/. Two tall oaks TO the right and
left with only a ten-foot open space
for the carry;
2. A third tree directly between his
ball and the green. making a perfect,
as you might say, tree-angle;
3. A deep trap beyond this last
tree, guarding the green.
To reach the green Msrston had TO