The sun., 1919-02-07
STYLES ELIMINATED
BY STEARNS AT GOLF
Disposes of Nassau Player in
Feature Of st. Valentine
Tourney at Pinehurst.
spociat Despatch 10 TUE Sun.

PfSEUHRsT, y. c., Feb. 6.--Ail ten
divisions disposed of their first match
round in the ST. Valentine tournament
at Pihehurst to-day. the first four six
teens using the championship course and
the rest of the field playing on course
No. :.
Interest centred largely in the match
between Edward styles of North Hills.
the medallist, and John y. Stearns Sd
of Nassau, who has been responsible for
the best rounds played on the champion
ship course this season. Stearns won by
9 up at the seventeenth. but he had TO
play the seventeen holes in even fours
10 do It.
Styles took CT for the first sixteen
holes and was / down going to the
seventeenth. Tie drove into trap when
a gained hole would have meant a
squared match and took to get out.
That ended the match, but the round
was played out. Stearns finishing In ~
and Styles in ~, including the fatal six
on the short seventeenth.
FOwnes Benten by GwnItncy.
Stearns will meet r. II. Gwaltney of
Baltusrol in to-morrow's round and will!
probably have another stiff fight on his
hands. Gwsltney defeated IL. c. Fownes
of Oakmont by G up and 10 play. to-day
and was even fours when the contest
ended.
! Donald Parson OF Youngstown was
! 2 down at the turn in has match with
r. r Mundy OF Garden City and was
| still ! down going to the eighteenth.
where he squared the match with 4.
1.-THE nineteenth. twentieth and twenty
| first were halved in low figures. and
Parsons finally won the lengthy battle
by the simple expedient of stymying
Mundy on the twentysecond green and
getting knocked into the cup for win
ming Q on that par hole.
F.. c. Leonard OF Philadelphia, a club
fellow of Styles, was 1 down to c. F.
Watson. Jr.. of Baltusrol going to tho
eighteenth. but squared the match ana
won II at the second extra hole.
| Extra hole matches seem to be the
order of the day. In addition 10 the
two long ones in the first sixteen there
were two extra hole contests in the Sec
end sixteen and seven others scattered
through the other sixteens, including L
tWenty-one hole match in the third six
teen in which r. H. Hunt of Worcester
defeated r. ]. Francisco of oakhill, at
tho twenty-hrst-
The Summaries.
FIRST sixteen-F. W Kennedy, Toronto,
beat l. D. Pierce. Ekwanok. and !; 7.
R Brown. scs-sdale. beat J. d; Chapman.
S TounEstoTn, beat r. F. Maady. Garden
city up lee hg:ei; = a ke GYy.. S9ntR
3 and !; George a. Dixon; jr., .Nationai:
ana 2; F: Z: Leonard; North Hin.; S Be-,
So,.s;; John aI'n Il. si.srn. 81. Nassau. bes,
Edward STYLES, North Nils. 2 and |; R H,
Gwaltney, Bal,us.oi. beat H. c Fo"nes'
1 Second sie e"e L. Becker, Phnad.l.
Phai o 1so' z RI hGF assiga a
s0a ana o'i Franz. Sso'H: M.han S5SS
/. g. l. Bloodgood, Cherry valley. beat
Z. Z. Wissr. Alpine and 2; p; A. pr9a,;
PEEK beat ana doa e John II Ta capp en.S
Chase, won from J. ". Carroll. Jr., Nor
wfh Sy d.iau tia,; R r Ss1Gs I.s sp %,a
ne a2 be Beat t0'i Dw.gh, R. M.iss. Merton
F Th,!d siateeH-T. A. chea,ham, Pitts
burg. beat J. / Meiarson. Tedesco and 3;
H Hunt IVY WoTcesier; peat So, r; j. Frsn,
woodland. ; and :; william, 7. Barr. Gar.
wanok. and !; Jansen Noyes. Montc!air
beat Z, b. Fay, Bel!eriye, ! Mpi J. :
sla'G cs,Sarne up bsas ". !. vancii.f To,
HIS. and 2: J.. o II Denny. A!ieshe1y
won from h. Z. shannon 3D. BrockpoTt, by
default
Fourth Sixteen--J. A. Bryant. Detroit
beat b v. Covert, Lockport ana i o.
+ Dunlap, Canoe Brook. beat w. J.. Mill
ken. Hysnnisport. and /; T: p. Clemson
Orange County. beat 5. n. Morgan, Fits
| burg and 4; c. -. Sturtevs Mt. Frankfort
beat 4. c. Potter. Belmont Springs, . and
!; A. s. Higgins. St. Andrews, beat r. E
Wadbrook. Kntckerbocker. UP; Emile De
Planque. Richmond County. beat Martin q
srumbaugh. HsTisburs: and !; G B
mings, woodway. up; P. b. O Brien, De
t-oit. won from Nat :. Hurd, Pittsburg, by
default.