The sun., 1919-02-08
STEARNS REACHES
FINAL GOLF ROUND
Will Meet ParsOn in Deciding
Contest for st. Nalcn-
tine Cup.
Special Despatch TO THE suS.

P1NEHuRsT, n c.. Feb. John
Stesrns Sd of the Nassau Country Club
and Donald Parson Of Youngstown will
meet In the thlrty-six hole final con-
test In the st. Valentine tournament at
pinehurst tomorrow. Both the second
match round and the semi-finals were
disposed of in all ten divisions to-day.
the upper divisions playing on the cham
pionship course and the lower divisions
using No. 8.
Donald Parson came through TO the
inal by defeating in succession T. a.
Kelly OF Southern Pines by 5 and and
+. X. Brown OF Scarsdale by 8 and S.
Brown. who was defeated by Parson
In the semi-fnal, won against +. w
Kennedy, the Toronto star, in the morn
ing round, and figuring along this line
Parson ought to be able TO give Stearns
q hard fight for the presidents trophy
Tomorrow.
Stearns had two hard fights on his
hands to-day. playing against r. II.
Gwaltney OF Baltusrol in the morning
and against &C Leonard of North Hills
In the seIni-fnals. lie won both by a
very narrow margin.
Playing against Gwaltney Stearns was
I down at the turn and 2 down at the
tenth. and the only thing that saved him
was the uncanny skill with which he
sank a putt of sixty feet for a winning
4 on the twelfth after driving into pit.
and a putt of Just 100 feet over hIll and
dale for an, eagle on the par 5 four
tenth. whefe his opponent went down in
I. With the help Of these two stunts
Stearns eventually won by I up with a
medal score OF 40. Ss-1s.
In the Leonard Stearns match Stearns
went out in 80 and Leonard in AZ, but
things were nevertheless all even at the
turn, and Stearns found himself down
at the tenth. At the fourteenth Stearns
was up. but Leonard took the fifteenth
with a 3 and the match again was even.
The Philadelphia golfer slipped up on
the sixteenth. however. and lost the
match by 2 and by driving into one of
the numerous traps which guard the sew
entecnth green. Stearns's medal score in
the sem-fnal was SO. o6-I5.
The Summary.
First sixteen--seoond round--T. r.
Brown. Scsrsdale. beat F. W. Kennedy.
Toronto. up: Donald Parson, Youngstown.
beat T. A. Kelly, southern Pines, and
!: =, C. Leonard, North Hnls.. beat George
a. Dixon, Jr, National. and ) John y.
stearns 3D., Nassau. beat II. II. CIV aitney,
Baltusro., l up.
Brown, 6 and 5; John y. Stearns 90 beat
+. Z. leonard, . ard !.
Beaten Eight--second round---J. n.
Chapman, Greenwich Won from l.. D..
Pierce Ekwanok, b. default; r. F. Mundy.
Kansas CIV, beat q. w. Carhart Green
wich. and !: Franklin II. Gates. Moore
County. beat G. +. Watson. Jr.. paltusroi.
! up; Edward stiles. North Hills won
from II. c. Fownes. OAK mont by default.
Semi-hnals-R. F. Mundy beat J. n.
Cha pman. and ! Franklin II. Gates beat
Edward Stiles. up.
Second Sixteen--Second round--C. l..
Becker. Philadelphia, beat courtlnnd Van.
elief. Richmond County, > up; +. l.. Blood.
GOOD. Cherry valley. beat Frank II. Mahan.
St. pAvids, and 5; John {. clapp, Chevy
Chsse. beat \. Freal Deal, up: r.
A. Stranahan. Inverness. beat +. 7. Keat-
ing, spring Lake. and 5
Semi .fnal-C. J.. Becker beat z. L..
Boodgood. and !; r. \. Stranahan beat
John =. Clapp. . and 2,
Beaten Eight--Second round-Georee n.
Williams. Arcois. won from r. l.. Lennon.
Highland. by. default, Everett Wilbur,
Alpine, Seat O W. S:atSEsl,. Arori think,
? and l. John ". Watson, Merton cricket.
beat A. Elliott Kdnn"y. Grecn"ich and
Sem..nnals--iieorse II. Williams beat
Everett T. Wihur > and J. Dwight L
MeiEs won from John w. Watson by de-
fault.