The New York herald., 1921-04-10
MERRIMAN DEFEATS
WHITE BY 9 AND 5
Nassau Golfer Is 8 Down in
Morning Play in North
and South Final.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YoRK HERALD
PINEHuRsT, N. c.. April 9.-B. P. Mer-
riman Of Waterbury. Conn. succeeded to
Francis Quimets North and South anna
teur championship ttle at Pinehurst to-
day at the end of one sided final con-
test with Gardiner White OF the Nassau
Country Club. White spent a more or
less pleasant morning and afternoon in
the woodlands and in the rough, with
occasional stretches of straight going
along the fairways. but he was down
at the ninth hole, 8 down at the end of
the first eighteen and was beaten by 8
up and to play at the tenth hole in the
afternoon round, the twenty-eighth hole
of the match.
The big match Of the day was fought
for the consolation trophy and went to
the twenty-flrst hole, where Donald Par
son of the Youngstown Country Club
wrested a long deferred victory from
Frank c. Newton of Brooklfne, the
Massachusetts team captain. Both went
around in 75.
The first four holes of the Merrim m
White match gave not the slightest ink
ling of the runaway that 1t was to de-
velop into Stroke for stroke they went,
the only error TO that stage being Mer-
riman's wide drive at the second and
Whites topped second in consequence
Of which they halved the hole In in
stead of a par 4. When 1t came 10 the
fourth White sank a putt for a birdie
three from off the green and Merriman
duplicated In a putt only few feet
shorter.
White at the fifth began to waver, espe-
cially in his driving. sending ball into
the trees from the tee, habit which
stayed with him more or less all
through the remainder of the mornings
play. He lost this hole and then dropped
another by driving into the woods at the
seventh.
A peculiar circumstance cropped up
here, for he had gone back TO the tee to
drive a second ball. failing to find his
original ball. when a shout announced
that the lost ball had been located. He
went back, played the found ball up TO
the green, and then discovered that It
was not his. Merrlman was on deck
| for a five when White lost the hole.
Another disappointment awaited White
| at the short eighth, where he drove the
green, with Mcrriman In the "whisker
| to the left. Merriman ran his second
| on the green and sank a twenty-five
foot putt for three. whereupon White
took three puts. White had TO sink a
good putt to halvc the ninth In three
and turned three down. Merriman hav-
ing gone out In very fine thirty-four.
Nerriman. who got the three at the
short fifteenth, putting him five UP, and
/ sloppy work around the green cost
| White the next. Merriman was bunk
cred to the short seventeenth and White
over. The New York golfer had the ad-
vantage here after the tee shots, but
\ slipped again on the short game and
4 actually lost the hole to a four.
AIerriman followed up the advantage
bv taking the seventeenth In par four,
1 after White had driven to the woods
\ and he won the eighteenth In mediocre
\ five 10 six. His drive was so wild
that he cleared tho trees and landed In
the practice ground. But his third was
| bunkered and he took three more, which
\ left him eight down at the end OF the
morning.
Merriman became nine up at the
/ eighth hole OF the afternoon, lost the
ninth. but ended matters when he TOOK
| the tenth through Whites failure to
get down In two from just off the green.
4 The card