Willmar tribune., 1922-08-02
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Victory II Central Mimi. our-
nament at Detroit

From Friday dawn to Sunday dusk
the name of Willmar and her golf rep
resentatives was the big feature Of the
Central Minnesota Golf Tournament
held at Detroit during those days. Will.
mar players returned to their home
city carrying away sWeepstake. hon.
ors and all the ribbons were pinned on
their coat lapels. Both the individual
and team contests for which elaborate
and beautiful cups were awarded, were
won by the WiNmar players. The
teams entered consisted Of five! men
each and the Willmar quintette had
very little trouble in capturing the
trophy. The five men from Willmar
in the team were: Oscar Oman, ID. IN.
Tallman, Carl Wallin, DR.. Freeman and
w. E. Scott. D. N. Tallman from
Wil1mar won the individual honors
over 48 contestants.
The Willmar aggregation consisted
of ten men who left the city Wednes.
day morning for Detroit. They arrived
in time to play over the course several
rounds and thus became accustomed to
the links before the tournament. The
value Of this was apparent in the con-
test and aided Willmar greatly in car
rying away the honors
The following clubs had their teams
entered in the tournament: Willmar,
Detroit, Alexandria Qast years cham
pions), Bemidji, ST. Cloud and. Little
Falls. The team contests were all
played on Friday and when evening
came Willmar possessed the cup. The
cup was won last year by Alexandria.
The rules governing the awarding of
the cup allows the winning team to
have its name engraved on the sur
face of the cup and to possess it for
a year. Should the champions win a
second, third or fourth, etc, tourna-
ment the name will be engraved that
number of times and the champion
will continue to hold the trophy. Will
mar is the second holder of the cup
and will have her name inscribed on
it. ~
The following were the team scores !:
Willmar S71; Detroit 9O3. Alexandria
939; Bemidji 945; st. Cloud 949; and
Little Falls 1042. Those scores cover.
ed, a contest of 36 holes z*s-.z. s>
In the individual contests. D. N.
Tallman emerged the champion of the
tournament. There were 4S entrants
in the matches. A point of pride for
Willmar is that 5 of the men who
survived the tournament and played
in the finals were Willmar men These
four were DR.. Freeman, D. N. Tallman,
Oscar Oman and Mr.. Buef Of Detroit.
In the finals Tallman defeated On
an, one up, Freeman defeated Buef
five up and four to play. The final was
therefore between DR.. Freeman and
Mr.. Tallman Tanman defeated Free
man 3 UP and two to go. :
Another light of the tournament was
the record smashing of D. N. Tallman
and Oscar Oman. Both men broke
the records of the Detroit links.
The individual matches were begun
on Saturday morning and ended Sun
day evening. Last years champion
of the association was Mr. Tyson of
Alexandria.
Mr.. Tallman now possesses the cup
for the season He will have same on
display for his friends at the Office
The team cup will be in custody Of
the Green Lake Country Club
5 The Willmar men making the trip
to Alexandria were: D. N. Tallman,
Oscar Oman. Carl Wallin, DR. Free
man, r. W. Stanford. Sophus Larsen,
Richard and William Gratz, Dr.. Da-
vison and w. E. Scott.