The Washington herald., 1917-05-06
Columbia Country Club Golf
er Wins Top Honors from
Thomas c. Dempsey at
Jewell. Station Course.
By FRANK H lsorNc

tor honors in the Washington Golf and
Country Club tournament when he won
out in the first night. with Thomas c.
Dempsey. also Of Columbia, as runner-up.
The other sikteens went to home players.
A c. Yates taking the second. c. V.
Piper the third. and Sidney Kent the
fourth.
The matches played yesterday brought
out some good golf when weather and
course conditions are considered. IL was
drizzling practically all day while under
foot the ground was wet and muddy. In
the semi-hnsls OF the first night. played
In the morning. both matches were won
by big margins. Dempsey beating w J.
Hughes, Jr.. of Columbia, 4 I'D and
and Brawner winning from r. p. Hawes.
Of Washington. by the same margin.
In the aforementioned match. the result
was much closer than the score would in-
dicate. Brawner took the nrst four holes
and then all were halved until the eighth
At this point Hawes rallied and some
brilliant golf. including a pretty on the
ls1-yard ninth. enabled him 20 square the
match. He could not stand the pace. how
ever, and Brawner had things pretty
much his own way on the next few holes
The Brawner-Dempsey match in the
finals was. OF course. the main one OF
the day and notwithstanding the un-
favorable conditions quite a gallery fol-
lowed the players over the course The
match brought out an odd mixture OF good
and bad golf by both players. num-
Der Of good puts were made and stiI a
/ larger number missed while several
looked like young drives" going from
one side n the green TO the other.
The first two holes were divided
Brawner taking the third when his o.
ponent went in the ditch on his third and
: then oyerplayed his fourth and laid him
self stymie on his NTH. Brswner was
? up when he took the fourth. Both
were on the green In and Dempsey un-
I fortunately again stymied himself and
then knocked Brawner's ball in on his
attempt 20 pass IL. Brswner won the
fifth and sixth. making him up. Going
! to No. 6, Dempsey was on the green IN
4. made pretty approach putt, but
missed his next which was a short one.
Meantime. Brawner had a bad lie on the
hill Just on the green. but made an ex-
/ cepttonally pretty approach which en-
sbled him TO win after Dempsey missed
his
| The seventh went 20 Dempsey after
Brawner had made poor second and third
shots, but Brawner came back with a
win Of the next making him up again
For third time. Dempsey laid himself
a stymie which cost him a hole. Aside
/ some
other luck on this hole as his drive struck
a tree but kicked TO the fairway with
virtually no loss OF distance. Brawner's
tee shot was short playing No. g. falling
in the ditch. This cost him three strokes
and the hole.
Dempsey showed q fash Of golf az
this stage which all but gave him IN.
match He took the tenth. eleventh and
/ twelfth. squaring the match. on the
eleventh, his ball hit the top Of the mound
guarding the green and bounced over
while his opponents also hit Il but
I dropped dead This is a par 4 hole. but
ithe Columbia younEster made II in
when he sank q putt OF at least fifteen
J feet Brawner getting out nicely for a
4 Playing the twelfth. Dempsey made
pretty iron shot to the green for his
first and Brawner conceded him the hole.
after taking to get on and missing
twice. his ball on his second putt striking
Dempsey's and kicking away from the
hole.
I The older player came back again In
the next. due largely 10 poor putting on
Dempsey's part The fourteenth was
halved an odd feature OF the match be-
ing that this hole was the first one an
Of the others being won by one or the
other. This hole is a par 3 0S5 ysardsl
one, but both got rs. They were on the
green on their frsts, Dempsey's hitting
Of the hill and kicking on. Brawner was
fully twenty feet away and when he
holed his IT looked very much as II he
had the hole won but Dempsey showed
that he was there in pinch and fol-
lowed suit with one almost as long
Hard luck cost Dempsey the fifteenth
, as he managed to hslve il after going in
the ditch on a topped drive and drop
ping out with a one-stTike penalty. He
had another good chance on the six
IL
shot with Brawner just on Both made
good 2s and when Brswner missed
four-foot one. IL looked as II Dempsey
would make the count all-even again by
taking the hole. but he, too. missed.
This made BraWneT l Up with only two
to go. Playing the seventeenth. Il look
i ed as though the fates were AGAINST
Dempsey. He made a beautiful drive,
but his ball stopped against bunker
with tree stymyinE him. His attempt
to pitch out also looked perfect but hit
a limb OF the tree. the ball bouncing back
almost where II started from. This en-
sbled Brawner to take the hole ard with
IL the match. the card for which was:
Brawner Out 6 ( 3 5 4 6-F5
In 6445 $ x-St7
Dempsey Out 7565l SO
In 3 6 5 s x-SSSN
The final round match between f. B.
Eynon, jr.. and John II. Clspp in the con-
Solatlons OF the nrst night, brought out
some of the best golf OF the day, Eynon
going out in IS to Clapp's 81 and playing
the first seven holes in Is including a
6 on the par 4 fifteenth. He won, 4 up
and .
The handicap event was won by Earl
Wheeler and John c. Fales. wheeler's
- gave him the gross score prize, while
Fales easily won that for low net with
a 6s. getting an 50 (which was second
best gross). with II on.
The summaries:
sRuFINALs.
1 First srteen-Iohn W. Brunsr Columbia d
Z fested r. p HaWes Washinrtun, 4 and 3; Thomas
] c. Dcmpssy. Columbia, defeated W. J. Hughes. j.,
Columbia, and ;
Flrst cunsolstious-E Edward r. Eynon r., Cohin-
hiA. defeated Geote z Truett Washington 4 and
I ); John II. Carp. Chevy CHASE defsatod Emmons
s. smith, b.. Columbia, and l.
secnnd sixteCn-A. c. NHtes. Washington, defeat
| cd LINN HAines. Kirkside. I M 81 80 holes; John
c. Davidson. Washington, defeated Harris n
Brown. Columbia. and 6
Sec1nd cunsolatou-Rohisou White Columbia de-
| feAted Bod Taylor BanBockbmn. ) and 2; Albert
r. Mackenzie. Colmhis. defeated 4 b. DuFan
Il ua Washington. 4 and
Third siKtsen-T. J. W. Brown. Bannocfburn
Dictated Charles r. Dooing. ir., Wsshiugton ] up:
i c-V Piper. Washington. defeatsd W. r. Ham
Chery Chsse. ! up