The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-31
WALKER WINNER IN 4
GOLF AT PINEHURST.
Staten Island Star Scores
Easily Over Capt. Roberts
in First Match Round.
Special DespatcA 10 THE sux.

Spec1oI Despntch 70 The Sun.
PINEHuRs n. c.. Dec. 30.-Prophets
were proved wrong in several instances
in the first match round OF the midwin-
ter golf tournament on the Championship
Course to-day. The match between Ar
thur l.. Walker. Jr., of Richmond county.
the medallist, and Capt A. T. Roberts
OF Detroit. which was expected to be close.
went TO tho New Yorker by UP and
to play.
Both played good. steady golf going
out and although Walker was one mp at
tn turn, he owed his advantage to n
dead stymie which cost Capt. Roberts
half on the ninth. Coming in Capt
Roberts was stymied for the second time
on the fourteenth green. Walker played
out tho round and finished with ~,
37-79.
Donald Parson OF Youngstown. who
qualified in tenth place on Saturday at
So, was matched against J. D. Arm
strong OF Buffalo, who took third honors
in the qualifying round at SO. Parson
won by up and o to play. Parson not
only played the game OF his life. but
also established new Tow record for the
in 81 for a IS. Notwithstanding a six on
the tenth hole.
The most interesting match was
staged between W. +. Truesdell OF Gar
den City, the seniors champion. and
John d. Chapman of Greenwich. Chap
man got away to a flying start. and
Truesdell found himself three down at
the sixth, The Garden City veteran be-
gan to play. reduced his disadvantage to
one down at the turn and squared the
match at the tenth. Chapman won the
eleventh and thirteenth. but this was
offset by Truesdell taking the twelfth
and fourteenth and forging to the front
with ine three on the fifteenth. Trues-
dell was then one up and he held this
advantage to the end. the remaining
three holes being halved.
Tho longest battle was fought in the
third sixteen between William T. Barr
OF Garden City and c. b. Hudson OF
North Fork and went 10 twenty holes
Barr finally winning at the second extra
hole. The summaries:
First Sixteen.
+. s 1anforth. North Fork. beat c. F.
Lancaster. Brseburn, 2 and J. H. Clapp.
G GhsyE Chase beat l. Becker 5 Phils,
Haven, beat, Julian T. Bishop; GhevS
Chase. and 2: Arthur L. Walker. Jr,
Ri:hT po1to, COUNTY heat Capt T Rob
Richmond County. beat H. O. wenborn,
Woodland, Up; " +; Truesdeil: Garden
up; Donald Parson. Youngstown. beat J.
| u. Armstrong. Buffalo, and 5; +. r
E hr'siins spring spring G Lake beat w c Van
second sixteen.
c. F Watson. Jr.. Baltusrol. beat Dr.,
J. $. Brown, Montclair, and 7. X,
Turner s. FoS NUS, beat, C. r D1nlse
siwanoy' SSa, p s Maci.aGshiin, Scars.
dale. up; J. Appleton Allen. Baitusrol
beat J r r; Bovke5, WOODLAND; and ]
s y ,'' ArS Safsgs Sisy p e
por:. "S Ssa, L. up d pierce. ERWanok Sp!
n. :. Hunt. Worcester, beat O. II. Weaver
Siwanoy, and 6.
Third sixteen.
II b. Mcclellan. Fox Hills. beat Arthur
Il TaIksT Risnmosa County. 80, and /. ::
Mcmahon. Deal by default; $. G. NIL
neat. asT SHs 0S %i Ia f Barr d.TS:n
| CITY, beat c. b. Hudson, North Fork, |
up 20 holes; 3 :, Tennessee; Soopsr',
ard 2 A =. Gray, .Arcola, beat VI a
german Englewood, and :; r.
Gil,eu, WykaEyL beat P r; oBs Bile! De
beat c. W peterson "'f ST. c.,horins.
and ).
Fourth sixteen.
4. r. Watson. Garden City. beat A 5
ws sfIs' Moore County, be- Thoms.
, .r, s.. Catherine, heat H. II. Duden,
Medford, bea; r. q. Breed, swampsco,t
| : and 3; George Van Keuren, EnElewood,
beat @. c. Austin. Englewood, up. A.
! T.. johnson. Cleveland, beat y. T. Will
| hanson, Kanawaki. and :: {. W. Har-
man. wykagyl won from Dickinson
Bishop. Michigan by default; Clark
WILCOX, weatague. beat II. ]. Frost. ST.
wanoy, l up.
Fifth sixteen.
II Fayen, Montclair. heat c. l..
Hsydt, New Canaan. s and :: ]. p.
Ruinsey, Brooklyn. won from O. 4. Ma
| COON. Pittsburg, by default, J, l., Meenan.
and 3; II. W. ormsbee. south shore. beat
W b. Merrill. Boston. g: and !: W. \
| sanford. ST. Augustine beat DR.. Thomas
| YounEman, ScRView, : and ?: Lindsay Rus
sell. Tuxedo. beat W p. Orvis, Knicker-
booker, and ! James Barber, Englewood,
| beat ". T.. Phillips. Piping Rock. and
! NJ. c Perkins Whostley HIS, beat II. {.
| BlArcke Montc,air. up.
Handicap Etght-Hush Hslsei:, Sleepy
! Hollow, o, beat Edmund stevens, FL MORO.
| H. lup. l.. Earle Edgar. Wilmington,
| 10, beat II $ Houston. Mount Tom. IS, !
/ up: 8. Rothschild. south shore. 20, beat
! J.. .. White. Thorny Lea, 81 up; b. II.
Ellington, Virginia, 20, beat d. p. Morse.
| Huntington, 20, up.
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