The New York herald., 1921-01-12
Favorites Have Easy Time in
.Ad' Mems Golf Tourney
at Pinehurst.

Special Despatch to THE NEw YORK HERALD.
PINEHURsr, n. c., Jan. 11.-All of the
contestants i'm the Winter Golf Leagues
tournament who qualified in the eighties
Yesterday came through with startling
unanimity in to-day's first round of
match play. r Murray Purves of Wood
land, winner OF the qualifying medal
w. p. Cleveland of Brooxland, who tied
for the second honors, and George l..
Fordyce of Youngstown, the last of yes
terday's leading eight. all won their
matches to-day by default of their
scheduled opponents. Tied Purves and
Cleveland will clash in the second match
round i'm what is expected TO prove one
of the feature contests of the tourna-
ment.
Clinton Elliott, Jr., of Cherry Valley,
who tied w. Cleveland in the qualifying
round. played against C. E. Johnson of
Evanston and won easily enough up
and 8 to play.
c. l.. Maxwell of Trenton. who quail
fled In fourth place. had to work a good
deal harder than the leading trio in order
to win to-day. Playing against M. c.
Meigs OF Chicago Maxwell was down
at the turn. He succeeded, however in
squaring the match on the home green.
halved the nineteenth with Meigs and
finally won at the twentieth hole when
Meigs made gallant but unsuccessful
attempt to jump dead stymie.
Don NJ. Parker of Garden City. fifth
man to qualify, went around at fast
clip against Roy Durstine of Scarsdale
and won by the comfortable margin of
z and G.
George II. Williams of Arcola, sixth
of the qualifying list. defeated William
Campbell of Detroit by up. Campbell
qualified In ninth place and was the
first on the list to lose his match to-
day.
Lou HamiItOn's Fine Round.
Lou Hamilton of Garden City. who
qualified seventh at SO. played the star
round of the day in his matck against
Guy Pierce of Chicago, whom the Gar
den City golfer defeated by and S.
Hamilton went out in 80 and came home
in great "a for 73, an Improvement
Of 16 strokes on his qualifying round
and by far the best round played in the
tournament
Harold T.. Porter, better known as
Holworthy Hall. was another man to
clip 16 strokes from his qualifying fig
ures to-day. Porter went around in So
against r. G. Maxwell of Chicago and
won by 3 and 2.
The other survivors In the champion
ship division were w. r. Hotchkin of
Montclair. w. L. Conklyn, of Dunwoodie,
Frank Finney of Baltusrol. DR.. A. r.
Gardner Of Swanoy, C. A. Speakman
of Swanoy. II. r. Reed of the Knick-
erbocker Club and FL. f. Harrison of
Arcola.
Two extra hole matches were played
in the second division. w. S. Bird of
Sleepy Hollow won at the twentieth
green from ID. NJ. Stewart of Dunwoodie
and r. D. Ward of New York emerged
victorious at the nineteenth hole of his
hard fought match with Arthur j. Bald
win of Essex County.
Extra hole affairs were won in the
third division by w. l.. Brann of st.
Andrews. who went twenty holes with
c. l. Putnam of Dunwoodie, and by G.
c. Ronalds Of Montreal. J. a. Dickson
OF Chicago and w. f. Powers Of Engle-
wood, each Of whom won their matches
at the nineteenth hole. Powers had a
particularly hard job on his hands; he
was down to John G. Todd of Upper
Montclair. when they were on their way
to the fifteenth