New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
MarstOn Faces
Cubnate, Wild,
For N. ]. Grown
Latter Forced to an Extra
Hole, While Veteran
Wins on Home Green

No matter which way the wind blows
in the final round to-day, ,the Baltusrol
Golf Club is certain of the first leg
on the third championship trophy Of
the New Jersey State Golf Association,
for Max R. Marston and F. M. Wild,
who will meet in the decisive tilt to-
Short Hills organization.
Close contests marked the semi
final round yesterday afternoon, Mars
tons opponent finally losing on the
home green. Wild, who was opposed to
A. F. Hammer, a clubnrate, was carried
to an extra hole before he settled mat
ters with the former Staten Island
champion.
Links in Sodden State
1t. seems as though the golfers must
resign themselves to bad weather all
through this season, for hardly one
tournament hase been held without
rain coming down in torrents on Mt
least one of the days. The fog which
bothered the players on the first day
was succeeded by storm that kept
the links in a spdden condition yester-
day.
Earlier in the day, Wild playing in
old time form, never gave Harold A.
Steiner, of Hollywood, a chance, and the
Baltusrol golfer won on the thirteenth
green, after having reached the turn III
39 Hammers defeat of Chester L.
Maxwell. of Trenton, was equally de-
up and to play.
Marston, opposed to J. P. Bradshaw,
of Morris County, stood s up at the
turn and supplemented that by winning
the next three holes and the match by
up and to play. The only close
contest in the morning round was the
meeting between F. F. Turrell, of
Morris County, and w. F. Donohue, one
of the youthful Shackamaxon golfers.
This pair went twenty-five holes be-
fore Turrell finally won.
In the afternoon, however, it was a
different story. Both Marston and
Turrell reached the turn il 38, where
they were all even. The former New
Jersey champion became o..e up at the
tenth, but taking 6 at the lonk twelfth
cost him that advantage. The next
three were halved, and Turrell became
one down when his ball at the six
teenth landed in bunker.
Figures Too Finely
To the seventeenth, an elbow affair,
Marston figured a little too finely, and
his ball landed among the trees, while
Turrell, keeping to the left, gave him
self a long second shot. Every one
thought Marston would play safe, but
instead he tried for the green. and the
ball was sliced to the bank behind
some trees.
Quite some time was lost looking for
the rubber core, and after that Mars
ton had to play through the branches
to reach the green. He did so in good
got home. From there he should have
laid his approach putt dead to the
hole, but the soggy turf interfered, his
ball only rolling halfway 10 the pin.
Marston also failed to get dead on
his fourth, and he was laid stymie
when the Morris County man missed
mis- try for 5. The former title
holder then contented himself with
half in 6, which left him dormie going
to the home hole, which Marston
halved in A. The card:
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Wild, in his match with Hammer,
began we'll by winning the first with
a "bird" 3, thanks to an approach putt
dead to the hole. Hammer did not
square accounts until the sixth, where
he won with 3. The former Staten
Island champion became one down
again by driving to the rough at the
eighth, but drew level when Wild lost
ball going to the ninth.
After that it was case Of first one
up and then the other, and Hammer
defeated himself by taking three puts
at the extra hole.
The card: