The sun., 1919-10-05
Quakers Find Bay State Men
Easy and Take Ten of Fif-
teen Matches.
CHAMPIONS ARE BEATEN
WhittemOre and Esterbrook
Are Winners Over Heron
and Byers.
ny INNS BRoWN.
snsrtni pa.nnfcA 10 THE snn.


ing the success Of Friday over the New
Yorkers, the Pennsylvania golf team
came in victorious over the Massachu-
sets team to-day, thereby gaining pos
cession of the famous Lesley cup. The
Quakers won three Of the Ave four
somes in the forenoon and took seven out
Of ten singles in the afternoon, running
UP total Of 10 to 8.
The feature of the round Of four
somes was the victory of Parker w
Whittemore and w. B. Estabroox of
Boston over S. d. Heron. national
champion, and e. M. Byers former ma
tional champion. The Pittsburgers were
unable to get together and dropped the
match 8 to 4.
Larry Patton, the Boston scribe golfer,
teamed with II. c. Newton to capture
the other foursome for his team. They
beat w. c. Fownes. Jr.. and Max Mar
ston 2 and 1.
w. C. Fownes, Jr., turned a losing
nine holes into q winning match in
close finish by a rally in the late holes.
After getting a bad start on the first
hole Larry Patton settled down and
scored 80 for the nine and turned 2 up.
Fownes began his climb at the four
teenth, and they stood even starting for
the home hole. stymie on the eigh-
teenth green, when Patton had a two
foot putt for a half. gave Fownes the
hole and match.
Wins on Home Green.
Max Marston and Rodney Brown also
prolonged their argument to the home
green. Marston got an early lead and
managed to turn the hrst nine up.
BY the time they reached the sixteenth
he had run II to s, But Brown broke
past him for wins on the next two and
Marston finally triumphed 1 up by halv-
ing on the last hole.
f. c. Newton proved rather tough
proposition for Wood Platt, though the
latter eventually won 3 to 2. Platt led
by three holes after they had played
eight. But Newton won both the nlnth
and tenth TO pull UP TO within one hole
Of his opponent. Platt got one oach
at the twelfth where he scored on
four despite a topped tee shot. He then
won the sixteenth after halving the
intermediate ones.
The last three players on the Mas
sachusetts team were the only winners
in singles Strangely enough each won
by a decisive margin. r. X Gorton
was matched against Il. M Byers OF
Pittsburg and walloped the veteran
5 and 8. Percivai Gilbert romped nome
an to 7 winner over Pat Grant, who
recently won the Pennsylvania cham
pionship. Parker Schofield found but
little difficulty in taking the measure
of George Ormiston. another Pittsourg
player, and 3.
whittemore Draws Heron.
with both Francis Ouimet and Jesse
Guilford, the two Boston aces, missing
from the lineup there was considerable
advance speculation as TO VINO woulu
draw the assignment on meeting cham
pion Heron. When the lineup Swas
announced the Job had fallen TO the lot
OF Parker W. Whittemore OF the coun-
try club at Brookline. Whittemore ap-
preciated the heft OF his assignment
but he went about his Job in bulldog
| fashion.
The champion overthrew him, but had
no sinecure in the undertaking. The
score was up and to play. But as
late as the fifteenth hole Whittemore was
| hanging on go doggedly that he appeared
on the verge of evening the match. A
| lead obtained at the very first hole when
whitteuore topped his drive badly, ana
still barely missed getting half, was
all that Heron could pile up on the
| first nine holes.
Three puts on the eleventh green,
| where his approach putt left him five
J foot effort, which he muffed caused Whit
| temore to drop that and become 2 down.
| He got It back on the eleventh. when Her
ron took his turn and missing a short
putt, and losing the hole. Heron got
the twelfth, but Whittemore ran down
| 10 footer on the fourteenth to leave HIM
self still / down. On the next he ap-
peared all but sure to get even, Heron
was short on his second and still IL feet
short on his third, with Whittemore dead
| on his third for his 4, But the champion
holed his TO get half.
Whittemore missed another nve foot
putt for a half on the sixteenth to be-
come down with to play. He lost
the next to 4. when he was short on
his second after a fine drive, and hten
ran his third so far past the cup that
he missed four coming back. Cards
| Whittemore (out) ,5 81 6-4l
| Herrnn lnnt -..A s 3 J 8 10