New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
Flushing Man Defeats the
BaltusrOl Star in
Pretty Game.
LOOKED EASY FOR
MARSTON AT FIRST
Match Is Close and Exciting
Winner Having Margin
Of One Hole.
By GRANTItND RICE.

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After playing sound. consistent goi'
most OF the spring and carly summer
where putting lapses had brought Oh
most of his defeats, Gardiner White,
of Flushing. won the Sleepy Hollow
feature yesterday afternoon, downing
Max Marston. the Batusrol star. Tho
margin was up and the match was
not only well played by both fna.is,s.
but was about as interesting a cash
of cudgels as one would care 20 see
Marston was the favorite, but thoso
who had followed the star Of whites
destiny this season recalled the fact
that the Flushing entrant had been
playing extremely well. Il was merely
a question as 70 how White would
come upon his putting stroke, fos
beyond this in-and-out feature the
rest Of his game had been sound.
At the start the final match looked
TO be an easy romp for Marston. Tha
tall Jersey Sycamore won the IRIS,
won the second when his opponent,
sliced his iron. On the third green
Marston was fifteen feet from the cup
in 2 and White was fifteen feet away
in 3. There was no evidence OF
close match in sight at this point
But golf il queer, quaint and
bizarre institution. as full Of wrinkle
as damp hannels, for Marston took
three puts here and the hole was
halved. Max took three puts again
at the fourth, and White was only
/ down as the growing gallery began
to sit up and take notice once more.
The short fifth. that DIFFERS night
mare across a deep rayine, was a Bit
sensational. Marston was on the green
to the right, while Whites iron ran
across into the grass beyond and
above. Marston tapped his approach
putt. and then il was up 70 White 20
get his shot dead. The chip stroke
came winding. twisting, almost clutch
ing at the fast downhill green, but
the line was perfect, and the ball
dropped in for a ., squaring the
match.
Marston favos Himself.
Marston won the sixth in 4. while
the Flushing golfer saved himself by
canning a canny seven-footer az the
seventh. At the dog-legged eighth a
fine drive and fine spoon landed
White on the green for a simple 4,
and the battle was squared again.
/ Both players scrambled up the 100
yard tenth, Marston saving himself
first by fine shot from the trap that
/ yielded n 4, and White returned the
compliment by sinking an eight-foot
putt for a half.
They were all square at the turn,
both out in 81 and both playing stead
lily. with streaks of brilliance. At the
440-yard tenth. a good and hard g.
Marston laid his second shot within
feet of the pin and moved back 20 up
again. The next three holes led
Marston to defeat. He oyerapproached
into trap at the eleventh and lost
that one His spoon shot to the Punch
Bowl twelfth was hooked. and when
White dropped a fine 7-foOt sidehill
putt Gardner was l up. At the short
thirteenth, one of the finest mashle
shot holes in America and the pref
test, without a rival-W White was over
and Marston was short, each in op-
posite traps. But White was down in
puts and Marston took 3. so the lat
ter found himself 2 down with only
five holes 20 play.
The fourteenth was halved. but a
wonderful shot az the fifteenth gave
Max another chance He sliced his
drive and failed to get out Of the rough
on his second. Then, with his OPP
ponent on the edge of the green in ,,
Marston clipped from the rough fifty
yards away to within two feet OF The
pin for a win.
A Desperate Chance.
One down and 3 10 play Marston
took game, desperate chance at the
long sixteenth. Instead OF playing
safely, he whacked his tee shot for q
short cut across grove OF trees s"f
with a great carry Of fully $50 yards,
/ had only a spoon shot left 70 the green.
Whites brsssie WAS fifty yards short,
as the hole is $40 yards in length, but
here Marston's spoon, one Of his favor
tie clubs. again went back on him, for
the ball was hooked into rough two
feet high. A fine niblick shot from
4 this matted mass gave him half, and
when the seventeenth was halved in
4 White was up and l to play, with
the 4S0-yard eighteenth ahead Mars
ton hooked into the rough, and when
White struck off one down the course
for 275 yards the match was practically
over. Each got 3, which left Flush
ing leading Baltusrol by | stroke.
There were at least eight or ten ex-
ceptionally fine shots played by the
two in the course Of the round. but the
outstanding feature was Whites steady
putting. For once that part OF the
4 game which had dropped him so often
before, pulled him safely through. From
six to eight feet away the winner CON
tinually found the back Of the cup,
while his driving was practically flaw
less.
White Is Consistent.
To show Whites consistency for the
/ day. he defeated Lee Maxwell, of the
home club, with exactly the same match