Evening star., 1923-06-29

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tween two sons of Father Knicker-
booker, J. Stewart Whitman and
golfer of parts and runner up last
year to Eddie Held of st. Louis in
the same championship.
Both Class Players.
If there Is such thing as a law
of compensation, Walsh should win
today. for he lost last year against
the sharpshooting of Eddie Held.
Held is probably a better golfer than
Whitman, his final round opponent
today. Whitman. however. Is no
mean citizen, in a golflng sense, for
he is as long from the tee as any
man in this tourney, plays his irons
professional and, all in all, shows a
well rounded out game. His put
ting leaves something to be desired.
however.
Walsh. using only a three quarter
swing. does not hit the ball as far
as Whitman. but he makes up for
the lack of distance with the accur-
acy OF his work on the greens. He
has won his way through this mans
tournament without much trouble,
rted him to the nineteenth hole In
the first round, and John MacAndrew,
another citizen of the town famous
for Goldfish. carried him to the eight
eenth in the third round yesterday
before, victory perched on the Walsh
escutcheon.
Caddied With Saraxen.
Many years ago Whitman and
Gene Sarazen. the national open
champion. were caddies together at
Apawamis, and Whitman has held
M n ha loS
Is Sarazen's.
The potency of the putter-that
club which either makes or breaks
golfer--was never better demon
strated than during the semi final
pat.er srots weo he as
the match won on the eighteenth
green. and it won for Walsh. who
was putting with une--ing accuracy
in his match against Cople.
The red-thatched, imperturba bl Q
Buffalo entrant. who has had hard
matches all the way through the tour
ney, missed a putt of about two feet
on the last hole to tuck Witham
in his bag. The putt wasn't hit at
all well. It ended three inches wide
another extra hole match. This time
he lost. His pitch was short of the
green, and his chip shot left him a
ten-foot putt to negotiate. which he
failed to hole. Whitman, on the
other hand, with a new lease on life
when McAuliffe missed his put at the
eighteenth. drove ESQ yards at the
nineteenth. and nearly holed a three,
winning the extra hole. As.
Sinks Forty-foot Putt.
McAuliffe stepped into the lead in
his match with Whitman at the sec
ond hole, where he stymied the lad
from the metropolis. Whitman won
&hn hnln hn1,
and won the sixth to become 2 up
The seventh was halved and Whitman
made sorry mess Of the eighth,
where he took four puts and lost the
hole when he should have won.
The ninth was halved and Whitman
tenth with birdie and the eleventh
was halved. Whitman annexed the
twelfth. when McAuliffe evinced a
tendency to push his tee shots to the
right The Buffalo entrant ran down
a forty-foot putt on the short thir-
teenth for a birdie 2 to square the
match. At the fourteenth hole Whit
ham played a splendid shot out from
the roots Of q tree to win the hole
when McAuliffe took three puts.
Three-Foot Putt Missed.
Whitman missed a three-foot putt
at the fifteenth over q treacherous
bit of terrain and the match was
squared. He became one down at the
sixteenth when he pushed his second
shot to the right, while McAuliffe was
home in 2.
Whitman had a splendid chance to
square the match at the seventeenth.
but he took three puts and the lad
from New York city went to the last
hole down. Both men hit long balls
from the tee, and McAulifYe's pitch
was just OF the right edge Of the
green, while Whitman was we'll on
and holed a four-foot putt for a 4
McAuliffe missed a two-footer for
half to win the match and then lost
on the nineteenth.
Walsh and Coble were all square at
the turn and the Philadelphia entrant
won the next two holes. Here Walsh
took q brace and playing the next
seven holes two under fours and one
under par, defeated Coble on the last
hole, where Coble's second shot was
bunkered.
Secretary of State Hughes will pre-
sent the prizes to the winner, runner
up and medalist at 5 o'clock this aft
ernoon.