New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-08

went 10 lNs lA0 AANfNN wv NO.
halved. but Jones won the twelfth and
became ! up. At the short thirteenth
Gardner made one Of the most remark
able shots of the day.
Both were good. but Gardeners ap
proach putt was fifteen feet short, as
he had 10 use chip shot, while the
kid was one foot away on his second,
and almost in the path. Gardner
brushed by his opponents ball on the
road 20 the heart of the cup and sank
his long putt for a three. This shot
required the nerve that wins cham
pionships.
Jones. in place of being disheartened,
promptly won the fourteenth and be-
came two up again, but Gardner won
the fifteenth. After the kid had missed
4 four-foot putt for half. Jones put
his second short on the hard sixteenth
eight feet from the pin, winning this,
for another lead Of two holes.
Gardner Becomes Worried.
At this point Gardner was beginning
20 ret worried. No one but hard
fighter could have stood the strain.
The worried look was still there when
the seventeenth was halved in par threes,
and who can blame him? Gardner had
been playing fine golf, but the four
teen-year-old machine was romplng
along at such clip and making so
many fine shots in succession that
merely good golf wasn't enough.
After the sixth hole, where Gardner
stood > UP. the kid had played the
next eleven holes in forty-one strokes,
exact par. 1t vas here that the cham
MON proved that he belonged and that
the laurel wreath was a perfect 1T.
For he won the eighteenth, and 80
ended the morning round but / down,
and in the afternoon he began with
rush.
Bv the time the two started for the
final spin. over $500 had come out 20
see the queer duel On the one part,
the old Yale athlete, six feet tall, finely
built. perfect physical type; on the
other a chunky. chubby fourteen-year-
old boy. playing in his first champion
ship. Gardner was the winner of two
amateur championships, one OF the
greatest and most experienced match
plavers in the land, a fine golfer and a
finer fighter, forced 10 give the best
he had against an almost unknown KID.
Gardner Again One Up.
In the afternoon Gardner won the
first TWO holes when Jones hooked both
drives into trouble. SO he was ! up
again. At the third both were trapped
uncr their seconds, but Gardner was
twenty feet short on his recovery, while
Jones Clipped four feet from the cup
and won. 4 to 3, squaring the match
again
Gardner won the fourth when his
opponent pitched 20 trap, and after
this he was never headed. But he need
cd ali any golfer can carry 20 hold his
lead. and after the fifth there came
three holes in succession that broke the
kids heart, and that would have broken
the heart Of almost any golfer alive.
Coming 20 the fifth after fine drives
Jones placed an iron within twelve feet
OF the pin. Gardeners second was ten
feet above the green, with a ridge 10
pitch over and a fast down hill slope
awaiting mis- shot. No one believed he
had even a chance 90 get the ball close,
but by a wonderful recovery he stopped
the chip shot within four feet Of the
putt and got half in four
This was the first shock The second
came at the 2l0, seventh. Jones was
on the green, twenty feet away. while
Gardner's long iron had carried over
into the rough. Once more he had TO
call upon his nerve and skill for an
other chip shot over a ridge 10 last
down hin slope, and this time the ball
stopped only foot from 'he cup for
another half