The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-26
PROAL WINNER IN
TITLE GOLF MATCH
Beats A. e. Ranney for N. Y.
Athletic Club Champion
ship at Fox Hills.
POISON IS WINNER
POISON
, CaptpreS Trayers Island Tro'
phy-Oler Wins in Beaten
Eight-Other Results.
BY INNS BROWN.


months or thereabout will repose in the
hands of Pierre A. Proal. wose golfns
efforts are usually extended In the inter-
est Of the Deal Golf Club. Proal stood
looking about for other conquests to
make at the end of the three days joust
on the links of the Fox Hills Country
Club yesterday afternoon. He had just
completed two successful rounds against
w. L. Richard of the Engineers Country
Club and A. Elliott Ranney of Green
witch.
Ranney can lay his defeat largely to
the fact that his driving was erratic and
far from satisfactory throughout the
match with Proal. On the other hand
his short game was very good. and more
than once he saved the bacon with short
chip shots when the tide was running
against him. Proal was driving well
enough, but played many of his short
approaches timidly. Also he putted very
badly at times. However, his game was
consistently better than his opponents
and he deserved the match.
BY the time the two had gotten thor
oughly warmed up It looked like walk
over for Proal AS they stonn"d m two
sixth tee the Deal player stood 8 up, and
Kanney had been unable to get the de-
cision at single hole. Both staggered
somewhat on the first two tests and they
resulted In even breaks. both players
counting on each But Proal took the
lead on the next hole. Ranney's driver
played him false and he took three shots
to reach the green, only 239 yards away.
and he lost It, 5 to 4.
PronI Scores Bird 4.
The 500 yard fourth went to Proal
when he clipped off a bird 4, running
down a nice putt after dropping his
third on the green He continued his
winning pace on the short NTH where
he drove the green and holed his par 8
Raney was short and could do no better
than 4.
But the trend OF the match took a rad
icai turn starting on the sixth. Proal
invited trouble for himself by hooking
his drive to the rough. He slashed
long second out but pulled II over the
fence and out Of hounds Dropping an
other bail he landed II IN an almost i'm
possible lie and fl lied to get out on his
third stroke. His fourth was out. but he
couldn't reach the green on his fifth.
pa,nnv landed home with NE third nd
Proal conceded the hole without playing
II out.
Both got home at the seventh with
|
| dict when Proals approach putt STONED
six feet short of the cup and he missed
his next for 4. Ranney continued his
winning pace by taking the next bv the
| same score, 4 to 5. His drive landed be-
| hind n bunker. but he got nicely out
within eight feet OF the cup and missed
n by an inch or So Proa, played his
| srcord timidly and II stopped short Of
| the green and he needed 2 puts after
| chipping on with his third
Ranney wasted a nice turn of luck on
| the ninth, His drive was rather boo,
| and he half topped his mashe niblick
| second But the ball hoped over a
bunker and onto the green. Proal
pitched his second on. Ranney made a
poor attempt with his approach putt
| from the far edge of the green, the ball
! stopping twelve feet short of the cup.
He ran his fourth several feet past and
tN"n missed his coming back. Proal
holed a 4.
Ranney Evens Match.
The win at the ninth allowed Proal to
| turn the first half l up. But Ranney
promptly got 1t back on the tenth. He
| dropped his second short of the green.
but Clipped his third within three feet
of the cup and holed In L. Proal rolled
his second fifteen feet past the cup. then
| . s.
Tho eleventh was halved in uneventful Is,
Proal got the winning lead on the
! twelfth His drive rolled ten feet pa st
| the cup, whereas Ranney was short OF
| the green. The latter was too strong
on his chip shot, overrunning the Gun
| fully twenty feet. He missed his putt
and Proal won, to 4. The long thir
teenth cost both players four strokes to
| reach the green, hut Proal holed an
1 fnr
hole.
Both played the fourteenth badly.
Ranney sliced his drive to the bank of
| the ravine and the ball rolled back 10
the fiat. His second was pulled into the
rough, just of the green. ProaI followed
nice drive with feebly hit mashie
pitch and stopped twenty yards short of
the green. Both took two puts after
getting on the green.
| Proal took the fifteenth, to 4. In ha-
come dormie three, when Ranney missed
a putt of less than three feet for a half
! The Deal man drove the green at the
sixteenth, while his opponent was
trapped. After Ranney had PLAYED his
third to within a foot of the cup Proal
left himself a stymie with his an
proaeh putt and took a half in 4 to end
| the match.
Jennings Is Beaten.
In the forenoon Ranney won a hard
fought match from w. c. Jennings of ST
Andrews. After seesawing back and
forth through the first nine holes the
two finished the twelfth all even. Neither
could gain an advantage on the next Sly
holes. They also halved the nineteenth,
: but Ranney took the twentieth, when
Jennings sliced his drive and took for
the hole.
Wesley NJ. Oler. Jr, took the final
match OF the beaten eight from Arthur
McAleenan, Jr.. up. Oler caught his
opponent on the fifteenth. won the six
teenth. halved the seventeenth and won
the home hole. A. II. Pogson captured
the Trayers Island Trophy by defeating
j. A Miller Ir he anai