The Washington herald., 1917-05-13
CORKRAN wins HONORS
in LOCAL GOLF TOURNEY
Winner Outdrove Opponent on Almost
Every Occasion.
~ FRANK u. YOUNG

I
Local players made a very good show
II ing In the seventh annual invitation golf
tournament Of the Chevy Chase Club,
which closed yesterday with the semi
fnal and final rounds In the various six
teens and consultations. D. Clarke Cork
ran. OF Baltimore, captured the first
\ flight, with William 8. Reyburn, Chevy
chase, as runner-up,' while the second
sixteen went to ]. C. Parrish, jr., of the
National Golf Links of America. All of
the other winners were home talent-Tom
Dempsey, of Columbia, taking the third
John Larcombe, of Chevy Chase. the
fourth, with the consultations going to
William r. McSallum, unattached; Or.
Lee Harlan, Columbia; Albert R. Mac
Kenzie, Columbia. and Harris N. Brown,
Columbia, respectively
! The feature match of the day was
that in the upper half of the semi-final
round between d. Clarke Corkran, of the
Baltimore Country Club, semi-finaIist IN
last years national amateur champion
ship event, and Norman w. Maxwell. Of
the Aronimink Golf Club, Of Philadelphia,
who recently won the amateur North and
South championship at Pinehurst. Both
are youngsters who have taken to golf
like duck does to water. and the match
went to the nineteenth hole before the
Monumental City player was declared
the winner.
corkran outdrove his opponent on al
most all occasions, but he found vlr-
tualy every trap on the course, while
Maxwell, much the steadier, usually kept
straight down the course. Although
Corkran was in trouble of some kind-in
traps or topping shots-on almost every
hole he seemed to be blessed with the
happy faculty OF always being able to
get out, and had 1t not been for this he
would have been beaten rather badly.
He started on by pulling his drive to the
sand trap and did not reach the first
green until his third, losing when his
fourth was short and Maxwell was down
in 2
Corkran won the second in par after
Maxwell had sliced his second shot, mar
rowly missing the trap guarding the
green. and overrun on his third. II
looked as If CorkTan would win the third
hole as he got away from the tee with
beautiful drive of fully 800 yards but
he failed to allow for the wind on his
second and hooked it and overplayed 1t,
taxing to Maxwell's par T. The
short l46-yard fourth was halved, as was
also the NTH, CorkIan getting a good
drive from this tee, but the ball hit the
top Of a mound and rolled back TO the
trap. He made a beautiful out and
both were on the green in and down
In T. :.
The count was squared again on the
sixth after Corkran had sliced to the
rough and topped his second, but luckily
Tor him Maxwell also had a poor second
and they lay about alike playing their
thirds, both going to the edge Of the
green. Both overapproached, the BaItI-
more player winning when he sank his
second putt and Maxwell missed. Corkran
showed he was made OF the right stuff
on the seventh when he got a half after
topping his drive and h..lf-topping his seq
ond. as he laid his third on the green
and then sank a pretty fifteen-footer He
aiso showed his ability at getting out Of
trouble on the eighth
ne got In all three traps going to this
hole and yet managed to get a 6onIy
one stroke over par. Maxwell took the
hole, however, with a pretty par g.
Corkran drove almost to the green from
the ninth tee, while his opponent was
short taking three to reach it. Maxwell
trimmed the cup on his fourth. enabling
Corkran to win, and making the match
all-eVen when they started the inward
Journey.
The tenth should have been haIved as
Doth were on the green from the tee but
Maxwell laid his second to within easy
putting distance from the hole and was
down in and won when Corkran over
ran the hole on his second and missed
coming back. Maxwell got into trouble
for the first time playing No. II, when
he sent his second into the water haz-
zard and dropped out with a one-stroke
penalty. Corkran too had his troubles
as he sent his second to the sand tran.
but a pretty out almost dead to the
hole enabled him to win
The twelfth and thirteenth were
halved. Corkran doing some beautiful
work on the thirteenth. when he went
to the rough on his tee shot, Just reach
ed the green on his second and then
holed twenty-five foot one past a half
stymie. Maxwell in the meantime had
long putt for 2 and was down in
The latter won the fourteenth. He
overplayed his second shot, but Won
when Corkran's second fell short and
went in the water hazard and he clear
ed the green on his out. Corkran out
drove the Quaker City player on the
fifteenth. but was Just OF the green In
the rough on a slightly hooked second
with Maxwell on. Corkran pitched his
third dead and the hole was halved
when Maxwell missed, the ball trimming
the cup.
Maxwell's second trouble came on the
sixteenth when his drive went to the
water hazard and his third over
ran the green to the hazard again.
Corkran meanwhile reaching the green
in 2, playing safe and going down in 4,
squaring the match again. The seven
teenth was halved and it looked very
much as IL Maxwell would win out on
the last hole. He was Just of the green
on his second with Corkran about the
same distance away on his third. The
latter laid his fourth dead, however,
and halved it when Maxwell took two
puts to get up.
Corkran was never up throughout the
match until the extra hole which he
won in par figures Maxwell had all of
his bad luck at once, sending his drive
to the trap, playing safely out and then
going into another bunker on his third.
His attempted out laid the ball on top
of the bunker and it took him f1ve to
reach the green. Corlran's second wem
into the water ditch, but his out was
perfect, dead to the hole. and he was
down in 4, which gave him the match
and the privilege of playing Reyburn
in the finals.
The other simi-nnal round match in
the first flight was also an interesting
one, William 8. Reyburn, of the home
club, beating w. P. Cleveland, a club
mate of Maxwell's, 2 up and 1. Reyburn
won the first three holes, losing the
fourth. Reyburns worst hole was the
eighth. when he played all over the
green, finally going down in 9. He took
the next in part 8, however, and they