Evening star., 1917-05-06
BRAWNER CAPTURES
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Vanquishes Tom Dempsey in
Washington Country Club
Tourney, 2 and /.
YATES DEFEATS DAVIDSON

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most consistent veterans in the
District of Columbia, yesterday
won the fifth annual spring invita-
ton tournament given by the
Washington Golf and Country
Club, defeating his more brilliant,
but less consistent. clubmate,
Thomas c. Dempsey, in the eight
een-hole final round, 2 and l.
The final round was played over a
course thoroughly drenched from
the beating rain of Friday, and a
slight drizzle, which, however,
did not dampen the enthusiasm of
the small gallery which followed
the fnalists, gave an explanation
for the rather poor golf OF both
men.
Brawner, with one or two OF the
breaks of the game, outplayed
Dempsey throughout the final.
He puttcd more consistently all
the way, but on at least three
holes the breaks favored him,
where he laid his opponent
stymies.
Dempsey did not outdrive Brawner to
any great extent, although a majority
OF the dopesters had conceded the
youngster a great advantage in this
department. In the work around the
greens, however, the veteran clearly
outplayed his younger opponent, as
time after time, when they lay near
the green in the same number of shots
Brawner got down a stroke better than
the mcdalist.
Dempsey Plays Fine Shot.
The only really brilliant piece of
golf came on the short fourteenth
hole, where both men, on the green
from the tee, ran down long puts Tor IS,
Brawners being twenty feet from the
hole and Dempsey's little longer. On
the fifteenth, where Dempsey skied his
ball into the ditch. he picked out with
the loss of stroke and played mag
nificent iron to u point only twenty
feet from the pin and nearly ran down
q TO win the hole, getting half in ..
Had he lost this hole the match would
probably have ended a good deal
sooner.
Brawner, with the honor from the
first tee. put his usual straight ball
well down the middle of the course.
Dempsey topped his ball badly to the
rough to the left. from which d1sad-
Vantageous position he played long
iron shot out to the right of the green
and little short. Brawners pitch was
lust Off the edge OF the green, ana
Dempsey's third. played high with
niblick, stuck where 1t came down,
thirty feet short and to the left of the
pin. Brawner Clipped up short and
Dempsey, trying for 4. overran the
hole and missed coming back, giving
his opponent the hole. The veteran hit
a long iron shot, slightly sliced, to the
right and short of the very tricky sec
ond green and Dempsey played a high
iron which looked as if it might p, be
however, hit the near bank of the
green and kicked far down the hill.
Dempsey then pitched up well. twenty
feet to the left of the cup. Brawner
probably was a little too anxious to
see where his ball was going. for he
lifted his head and topped his second
shot completely. his ball not get
ting even TO the edge of the green. His
third was twenty feet beyond the cup
and he very nearly holed 4. Demp-
sey winning with 4.
Both men got good tee shots to the
third, the longest hole on the course,
Dempsey being ahead of his opponent
The latter played safe with an iron
failed to carry the sloping hill and
ran down TO the ditch, from which
he pitched up short of the green and
was on in four. Brawner was home
IN similar figures, but was down in
two puts, Dempsey requiring three
puts to hole out and losing the hole,
putting him / down. Brawner hit a
good ball down the middle on the
yhj1a laced a
screamer, which. had the ground been
harder, would have run on the lower
edge of the green. Both men Clipped
up well. Dempsey being little away.
He putted short. and then Brawner
laid him dead stymie. which the
youth failed to negotiate. losing the
hole and making him 2 down.
Brawner Is Four Up.
1t may have been that Dempsey
wished to get as much carry as possi-
BILE. or. again, he may have skied his
ball badly. However. his tee shot on
the fifth was buried in the hollow
and he had to use niblick to get
the ball from the hole it made on
Landing. Brawner was down the mid
die and down in 4, Dempsey requiring
one more. making him 3 down Play
Ing very consistently, Brawner hit a
good drive TO the sixth and Dempsey
again skied his tee shot and played
a hne nashie shot to the lower edge
OF the green, Brawner being on in the
regulation figures. Dempsey took three
puts to lose the hole and become 4
down
The veteran hit a good ball from the
seventh. and Dempsey hit a screamer.
which brought up just short of the
green Brawner Clipped little high
up the hill and his ball was ten feet
TO the left of the cup in three shots
and down In 5, Dempsey having a short
putt for 3, which he was NOT re-
Quired to make. Brawner won the
eighth with par 4, again laving
dempsey a half stymie. after the latter
had outdriven his opponent from the
tee. At this point Brawner was up.
Both men played irons from the ninth
Tee against slight wind, and We're to
the left OF the pin. Dempsey being on
TIE bank OF the ditch. He ran thirty
Ieet above the hole in two, and was
hve feet above the hole in three. sink
Ing the putt for four Brawner from
the bank Of the ditch Clipped UP short
and took three puts, losing the hole TO
q and turning up.
Hrawner botched up the tenth hole.
taking and losing the hole He got
good ball straight down the middle
while Dempsey again hit his ball high
and did not get much distance The
latter laced out fine iron shot to the
lower edge of the green and Brawner
was short in two and on In three Roth
men took three puts the hole pnip O.