The Washington herald., 1916-05-07
GOLF HONORS To
DIR. IL. HARLAN
Columbia Country Club Play
ers Land First Prize in Wash
ington Clubs Tournament.
N. DEMPSEY RUNNER-UP
BY F. II. YOUNG.

Or. Lee l. Harlan, the Columbia
Country Club veteran. who has prob
ably won more golf prizes than any
other local player added another to his
collection yesterday afternoon at the
Washington Golf and Country Clubs
spring event when he won out in the
hnal round of the first flight with
Norbert Dempsey, a 17-yeHr-old youngs-
ter from Bannockburn. as runner-up
Columbia took the lions share of the
price, its members also winning the
fourth sixteen. the first and fourth
sixtsens in the consultations and both
the low gross and net-score prizes in
the handicap event
The home organizations entrants alto
showed up well as they were best in
the second and third sixteens and
furnished number OF runners-up.
Bannockburn and Chevy Chase scored in
the other events
One of the surprises Of the year came
in the semi-tnal round of the champion
ship flight when Norbert Dempsey beat
Sam DalZell, Of Chevy Chase by up
and !. Dalzell, veteran Of years ex-
perience. has been going at a fast clip
and he was generally picked to win the
event and 1t hardly seemed possible that
he would be beaten by Dempsey, a good
but inexperienced youngster. Dalzell
was good in his match. but his opponent
was just a little bit better. the youngster
going out in IS and making the eight
holes in the homeward trip in 30. This
really tells the story. At the turn.
Dempsey was > up. At the twelfth, he
was four up. The next four were halved
and the match was ended when Dalzell
lost the seventeenth in par to
! Dempseys 3. The card was:
Dempsey
out........... 3s 343 3-9s
Dalzell-
Out.......... 44544 544 80
In........... ; : X-25-6s
! In the other semt-fnal round in the
! first sixteen. DR. Lee Harlan had a
much harder time beating c. II. Will
Jams OF the Philadelphia Country Club.
winning by up. The doctor got good
start and was up at the turn. Two
holes were halved and then Williams
took the twelfth. When he lost the next
| two, the local man was dormie (, and
things looked exceptionally bright for
him as 1t forced Williams to take the
| last four in order to get halve. He
came very near doing this winning three
but losing the match when the best he
could get was a halve on the home hole.
The card for this match was
Harlan
IN. 5 3 G 5-S9-74
! Williams
Out. cas- 4f4 +Ss
| In............ ; 545 8 . 3 $50
All interest Of course. was centered on
the final round between Harlan and
Dempsey The latter, because OF his
youth and inexperienCe in tournament
play. was really not expected to show up
as well as he did in crucial match Of
| this kind especially as he had broken
his driver in his morning round and was
somewhat worried over the accident. AS
! it turned out, this really cut quite a
| figure in the result as il was noticeable
that he used his iron from most Of the
tees rather than take chance on a new
club.
When Harlan drove out OF bounds
| from the first tee it looked as II Demp-
sey would get A good start at least, but
the veteran made a perfect second and
| managed to halve the hole. The second
| was also halved the Columbia player
making It l up by taking the third by
| sinking a six-foot putt. after Dempsey
| had missed a long one. Another Ions
! putt gave Harlan the fourth. He was
on the green on his third. with Dempsey
just of, due largely to hard luck His
second carried almost to the green, but
! his third hung in the shallow trap sur
rounding it. The younger player came
very near taking the fifth when his third
rimmed the cup. getting a halve when
| Harlan missed a long putt.
! Both got away well on the sixth. but
I Dempsey topped his approach while his
opponent went to the green and down in
! 4, giving him the hole and making him
! 3 UP. The seventh was the first hole Won
! by the Bannockburn player and this was
due to Harban's poor work as he drove
| to the rough, had bad lie and II cost
| him to get up, Dempsey sinking long
down-hill putt from the edge OF the
green Harlan made it 3 up again by
| taking the eighth and the match stood
| that way at the turn. when the ninth
was halved. On this hole. Harlan made
great second shot after having gone
| to the ditch on his drive. but he was
awfully lucky, his ball hitting on the far
edge of the green and kicking back al
most dead to the hole.
| Dempsey's second win came on thu
tenth when Harlan overran the green or
his second and then came back too
strong. passing the hole again. the for
mer playing perfect golf and goinG
down in par 4. Harlan won the mex
three holes. maxim him dormic five. anC
making it necessary for his opponent t
win all of the remaining ones in order tC
win. This of course was out OF the
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