Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22
I. WARREN CORKRAN
IS V|CT0RAT GOLF
Baltimore Player Captures
Honors in Fall Event at
Columbia Club.
BEATS DYER ON 18TH HOLE
BY W. R. McCALLUM.

B. Warren Corkran, the Ste1-
ling little golfer of the Baltimore
Country Club, yesterday won the
fall invitation golf tournament
even by the Columbia Country
LIB, defeating Frank w. Dyer
q. Montclair, N. J., in one of the
81 sensational matches ever
.gcd in this section of the
oo.,ntry, on the nineteenth hole.
Corkran by playing superb
COLI on the first nine and taking
instant advantage of slips by the
New Jerseyman was q up at the
turn and won the tenth hole.
1t seemed improbable that two
golfers of the caliber of Dyer and
Corkran could be so far apart in
playing ability in a single round,
but the fact remains that when
Cori5ran won the tenth hole with
a par 4 he stood up and 8 to
play.
Five Straight Holes to Dyer.
Then the deluge came. Dyer won five
straight holes and stood on the seven
teenth tee with the match all square
after his game. uphill fight, only to
drop his chances for ultimate victory
by missing a wee putt on the seven
teenth green for a half. That putt
probably will be the topic of most OF
the hot-stove golf conversations for the
coming winter, and opinions as to its
length will vary from five inches to five
feet.
The actual distance to be traversed
by the erring ball was not more than
eighteen inches. and the only possible
explanation for its failure to drop lies
in the probable carelessness of Dyer
who thinking that 1t was SO simple that
1t could not be missed. failed to hit 1t
with the proper frmness and the Dali
ran around the cup.
When CorkFan sliced his tee shot on
the fatal seventeenth, and Dyer having
all the psychological and physical ad-
y
tee shot to the foot of the hill, the Bal
timorean's chances would not have sold
FOR much even to an enthusiastic ad-
mfrer. When Dyer played a great pitch
to the plateau green and Corkran
pitched his ball away over the pin, it
looked still more dubious for the Bal
timorean until the putter, that little
club which has possibilities for good
or evil. failed to work for the Mont
clair man.
Again on the nineteenth hole. after
Dyer was on the edge of the green
nearer than Corkran, who had to putt
first. the former was not up to the
hole; while Corkran also was short.
Dyer stepped up to the 4-foot putt on
which all depended and the wayward
pill trimmed the cup. Corkran stepped
up to his ball, only few inches short
than the one Dyer had missed and
the ball never wavered, dropping into
the cup with satisfying cluck and
bringing to an end one of the most in
teresting matches ever played in the
Columbia classic.
a large gallery followed the players
and in entire sympathy and understand
ing with the game never failed to cheer
a Sooc putt or a particularly brilliant
shot The cheering when Dyer holed a
-eE-p shot from the edge of the pit on the
sort thirteenth hole was heard all over
tie course.
Corkran Tops His Tee Shot.
Dyer had the honor off the first tee and
hit Il screamer straight down the middle,
willie Corkran. who has been unable to
PLAY the first hole well. did as he has done
before. topped his tee shot, his ball being
go short that it stopped on the near side
Of the ditch. Dyer played a fine pitch
q good pitch. Dyer won the hole, 4H5.
The Montclair man hit a fine tee shot on
the second hole. his ball being on the flat
Just short of the branch Corkran sliced
iis bah to the hillside, Just missing the
tunkers to the right. He then played a
magnificent mashie shot from q hanging
lie TO the far edge of the green, while
Dyer's niblick pitch was only few inches
and laid his ball dead. Dyer's putt was
three feet over and he missed the shor,
one coming beck. Corkran holed his
short putt to square the match.
Both men hit long balls off the third
tee. Corkran's being little the longer
and each shot was played we'll to the
green. although Corkran was to the
right. while Dyer was thirty feet over
Of bad approach puts which put him
down at the tenth hole. His ball or
the third shot was ten feet over tbs
hole. and Corkran laid his approach
putt dead. Dyer missed coming bach
and the Baltimorean was ] up
Corkran hooked his drive of tbs
fourth tee to the edge of the rough
and Dyer hit a long ball with slics
10 the rough to the right. Corkran hac
great piece of good fortune on hi.
iron second. The ball was badly
sliced. and carrying the trap to the
right. bounced of the elevated fifth
tee onto the fairway. Just of the green
Dyers second was a little short of tn,
green.
Corkran played poor chip shot, ant
he usually is very accurate with hi
mashie-to within fifteen feet of tn.
cup. while Dyer played a fine run-up
his ball being only a yard short 0
the tin.
Corkran Sinks Good Putt.
Corkran took great pains with hi
fifteen footer and sank it. and thei
Dyer stepped up to his short one ant
missed. putting Corkran 2 up.
The fifth hole was played by Dye
identically as he had played it in tn
morning against Worthington. He hi
fine ball and put his second irol
shot out of bounds over the fence 4
the left. Then he played a superb irol
shot to the bank back of the greer
and Clipped out dead to the hole for
o. Corkran hit a good ball straigh
down the alley off the tee and pushes
lie then Clipped up and halved tn
hole.
corkran hit a long ball off the sixtl
tee 10 the right-hand edge of the fair
way and beyond the hollow. while Dye
failed to get hold of his tee shot an
hooked his ball into the bunker to tn
left. Ordinarily his ball would carr
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