Evening star., 1916-11-16
SURPRISES IN GOLF
First Round for Election Cup
Played at Chevy Chase.
DALZELL LOSES TO MASON

Several matches in the nature of up
| sets featured the first round IN the
competition for the election cup at the
Chevy Chase Club yesterday. In the
| first of these Samuel Dalzell. winner
of the Siamese cup and the club cham
| pionship recently, was defeated by
/, w. b. Mason in a manner which le1t
no doubt of Mason's superiority. al
| though Dalzell was not going al MS
best gait.
| The southpaw was 3 down at the
turn and lost the tenth hole when ne
took three puts and Mason sank
| seven-footer for 3. Dalzell won the
eleventh with a S after his opponent
had topped his tee shot. Mason, how
ever. annexed the twelfth hole with
his stroke allowance when Dalzeli
| missed a precarious side-hill putt for
| a half The latter put his ball in pit
/ to the right of the thirteenth green
! while Mason's ball was topped, ana
| then Dalzell played fine shot out OF
the hazard and won the hole with 4,
| to be again down. bdt this time
with but to play.
Dalzell should have obtained at least
| half on the fourteenth. even with
| the handicap of a stroke allowed Ma
| son on this hole. The left-hander hlt
! his tee shot we'll. while Mason topped
his drive and did not get good sec
ond Dalzelrs mashie second was
hooked and carried the ditch to the
right of the green, while Mason was
on the green thirty feet short OF the
hole in three shots. Dalzell Clipped
up short and took three puts. losing
dead with his approach putt and
missed the next. The loss of this hole
put the club champion dormie down
and the end came when he failed to
get home in on the fifteenth and Ma
son got half to win the match "a.
Another result in the nature of an
upset came in the 6- defeat OF E. NJ
Weaver by A. B. Duvall. J: D. Cassels.
for the past three weeks. was beaten
by ]. H. Gore by 40. John l.. New
bold and Hughes Oliphant came to the
eighteenth all square, but the former
got down good-sized putt to win oy
one hole.
r. Kaufman was 2 down to E. B.
Babbitt, winner Of the presidents cup
last week. at the fourteenth. and the
former put his ball in the ditch In front
of the green. He got well out, prac-
ticalIy dead to the hole. and sank the
putt to win. and be l down. The hf-
teenth was halved when Babbitt missed
a short putt, and the sixteenth was
halved in 8. Kauffmann's third shot
was on the edge of the seventeenth
green. while Babbitt was only ten feet
away. The former sank his long putt
and squared the match, but lost the
last hole.
of whom won their first-round matches
by default, played their second-round
match yesterday, and Fuller. who mad
not played golf since the Middle At
lantic team matches month ago, found
himself going strong and putting like
a wizard. He took only fifteen puts
on ten greens. and was out in 40, being
4 up on his opponent He put his tee
shot on the short tenth. fifteen feet
from the pin. and sank the putt to be
) up. The eleventh was halved. and
Treat won the twelfth. Fuller again
put his tee shot nicely on the green at
the short thirteenth, and won the hole
with 3 to be dormie 5 up. He did not
bad second. and then topped his masnie
third. The ball ran over the bridge to
twenty feet short Of the pin. Mean
time Treat had put his third shot into
two shots to get out and although
Fuller took three puts. he won the
hole and the match by 6-4.
The second round will be played today:
The summaries:
W. c. Mendsnhall defeated G. F. Ell
lott. 80; A. B. Duvall defeated E. N.
Weaver. 60: J. H. Gore defeated J. D.
Cassels, 80; w. B. Mason defeated Sam
uel Dalzell, 4-3; c. G. Treat defeated w.
@. Peter by default; c. A. Fuller defea ted
]. A. Emery by default: H. r. Dulany.
jr.. defeated Morven Thompson. 4-3: ].
L. Newbold defeated Hughes Oliphant,
up; E. B. Babbitt defeated R. Kauf-
man. / up: J. S. Larcombe, jr., defeated
G. T. Dunlop by default: L. B. T. John
son defeated F. w. Hornbrook by de-
fault J. A. McIlhenny defeated H. A.
Gilis, 3-2: Allan Lard defeated F. p.
Waggaman. 4-3: T. A. Claytor defeated
feated Robert Stead, 5-4: T. n. McAboy
defeated j. NJ. Sterrett, s..
William Comedian. the course architect
from Canoe Brook, n. j.. arrived in
Washington yesterday from Detroit
where he has been working on the De-
troit Country Club course. the scene Of
last years amateur championship He
will work on the Columbia course for
the next few days 1t is possible that
some Of the improvements which were
| proposed for next year at Columbia will
! be gotten under way this year.
Despite the high wind which swept the
was around in ~. His puts were going
down and this explains the low score
Being barred from amateur golf has
seemingly made no difference to Francis
Ouimet a business man. The firm Of
Ouimet & Sullivan was recently forced to
| move 10 larger quarters to accommodate
| their increasing business.
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