New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-01
Norman Maxwell
Wins Match by
Less Than Inch

Pinchurst, y. c.. Feb. 2S.-Two hun
dred and eighteen survivors of the
qualifying round in the spring touma-
ment, at Pinehurst, played over Courses
2 and 3 to-day
Young Norman Maxwell, Of the ArOn-
mink Club, who won the qualifying
medal and is largely backed to win the
tournament, gave his supporters an
anxious time of it to-day, when he came
within less than an inch of being
beaten. His opponent and fellow Phil
adelphian, Justice NJ. Thompson, of the
Spring Haven Club, VINO had just man.
aged to squeeze into the first division
on the play-off of a tic, put up game
contest against the medalllst and, al
though down all the way TO the fif-
tecnth, managed not only to square the
match at that hole, but went step
further by making it l up at the six
teenth.
Maxwell Drives Into Trap
Driving for the short, but treacher-
Gus, seventeenth on the No. course,
Thompson's ball reached the green and
came to rest about ten feet from the
cup, while Maxwell drove into one Of
the n eIous deep traps which guard
the green.
The AronimiIk youngster had not
been playing up to his usual form at
any time during the round, and the
gallery was prepared to concede the
match to Thompson without further
discussion. Maxwell and his niblick
then descended into the trap, his ball
rose in a cloud Of sand, skidded across
tho green with a strong back spin, in a
bee line for the cup, struck the pin,
bounced back ind lay dead within a
few inches OF the hole.
Thompson had then to choose be-
tween halving the hole by playing safe
or risking something in the hope of
ending the match by going down in
two, and elected to take the risk. His
ball missed the cup by fraction Of an
inch, rolled past MaXwell'S, and was
stymied. This squared the match and
Maxwell won it in an antl-climax, with
a very ordinary five on the eighteenth
Hunter Defeats Danforth
Robert Hunter, of ;he Wee Burn
CLUB, VINO was lunner-up ln the guam
flying round and who is expected to
come through, with Maxwell, TO the
semi-fnals, played considerably better
golf than Maxwell to-day, and disposed
OF Frank s. Danforth, Of the North
Fork Club, by Up and to play.
The summaries follow:
FIRST SIXTEEN
J. c. Reau. Uniontovn. beat C. " Fink S.
Address 4 and 3. :. ". Morgan. Altoona beat
e. W STEEL AroumiIk. and .; C. J. Murphy.
WouasfOu beat Franklin Gales. Moore County, 4
and 8. j. A Gsmmous. Wannamoisett beat T.
n Brown Scardac. o and !; Norman VI. MAJ
we'll ArJuimink. beat Justice Thompson. Spring
Haven / up: c. r. Deuuen. Detroit. beat =. r.
Blossom. Yale. 9 and /: John D.. Chapman,
Greenwich. 6eat J u. CGyp. Chevy Chase. ! up.
Rolert Hunter Wee Burn. beat +. :. DanfortA.
North FORK Z and 6
SECOND SIXTEEN
NJ Reed Ek7ano.. heat q + Mason. Chel-
sea and 3. C. :. Mcdonald. Lampi0u. on.
beat T. y BOYD 81 Ions up. Dr. George 7.
Grang OaIm1ut. test ID. e. tnUncs. OabmO1t 8
and 5. Donald PaBo.. l.lus,-0"n. bat j. :.
SOsson. Richmond toIa'f. up. =. tennessee.
COoper,toau heat W D. T-u.sicl. Fox HIS. >
sgd'4: p " Kennedy. Nis,iuaaga. OFT. beat A.
= Ranney. CreeuW.ch aud p. q r. Ire. Spring
nsld beat e. y Hudson North F'rh. ] up l9
ho.es): p. :. MaeLauztlD. Sear,taIc. beat T. A.
CheGlhsm. Pittsburgh. ] up 90 h0.e,I