New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Adair Gains Tie
With Merriman
For Golf Medal
Waterbury Player Loses
Chance to Win as Ball
Stops an Inch From Cup
From a Spec.a, corre,pondent

rom SpectuI COrrespordent
P1NEHURST, N. c., April 5.-When
q putt from the edge Of the home green
stopped an inch from the cup here this
afternoon p. P. Merriman, Of Water
bury, lost out on q fine effort he had
made to take the medal for the low
score in the qualifying round Of the
North and South amateur golf cham
pionship from Perry Adair, Of tho
Druid Hills Club, of Atlanta.
AS it was, Merriman, by playing a
fine round of rs on the No. 8 course,
total Of 155 each for the 36 holes.
Adair finished his second round this
morning. After rs on No. 2 course
yesterday he took SO to-day, thus CIV
ing an opportunity for few of the
players behind him to catch up in the
race for the qualifying medal. Merri-
man started just as Adair finished. He
took 80 yesterday and NEEDED ID. The
Waterbury player was out in 36 and
reached the eighteenth tee needing a
par 4 for "a.
Barely Misses the Cup
His third shot was just off the edge
of the green and his long putt looked
good ali the way but stopped just be-
fore it reached the cup. Merriman
played perfect golf except at the
twelfth hole. where he drove more than
500 yards with a following wind. His
second was too strong and rolled over
the sand green and into the woods be-
yond. He took 7.
Adair appeared to have the medal
enteenth in the morning, when he
needed 3 and for IS. He missed
q short putt at the seventeenth and
took 4, and after hitting a long
drive down the middle TO the home
green attempted to slice an iron
around the strip which guards the
home green. The slice did not come
off and the ball sailed into the woods
at the left, costing Adair a z for
the hole.
Joseph schlotman. of Detroit, who
and get IS on the No. course
and got into the first fight. With
Schlotman in the first division there
was not a real upset in the qualifying
round, all the golfers who were ex-
pected to make the fight getting in,
although strong wind to-day made
the scores higher than yesterday.
An Entertaining Play-Of
1t required 167 or better to make the
first fight, and as four players were
tied for three places at this figure
there was an entertaining play off.
The contestants we're James Standsh
in. of Detro it; John 7. Chapman, of
Greenwich; G. w. Mead, of Montclair,
and H. G. Welborn, Of Woodland.
Welbcrn drove first and sliced his
ball over into trap just off the
eighteenth fairway. He put his second
into the woods, which divides the
eighteenth and first fairways. Chap
man was the second hitter and he
topped his ball into a trap in front,
but it ran through. Jimmy Standish
was third and he hooked his drive
against the stage door of the Caro-
lima Theater, just off the first fairway.
The ball bounced off the door, to the
roof and behind tee. Mead hit one
down center.
Welborn, who had beeu struggli.lg
in the woods, finally hit his ball out,
only to find it in a trap. Having
played 5 he picked up and dropped
back into the second flight.
The summary:
FIRST SIXTEEN
r. P. Merriman. Waterbury,. s0--T5-1 -
Perry Adair. Atlanta. ........., TS--s2-l So
Gardiner White, Nassau. ...... 7S-I8-l Sc
Lou hamilton, Garden City. 76--S0--15 Sc
r. II. Gwaltney. Batusrol.. $50. 7a-S0-~15 50