New Britain herald., 1927-05-16
|DR. VAN QUEER IS
 TOURNEY WINNER
Beats "0ld Man Par" Four Up at Shuttle Meadow Saturday

Il LIT. N. M. van DuZer ndnQeQ 'OlC Man Par" 8 decisive and trium. . phant facing in the Saturday tour, nament at the Shuttle Meadow clul : by coming through on the old fel- / low four up in IS holes. The pop ular osteopath took the honors for , the day over all the other contest ants. The event was match play
 against par tournament with a full
 handicap allowed.
 The entry list was the largest the , club has ever had in its entire his tory. Fifty-flve members engaged
 in the play which totals about 15 more than the Saturday previous.
 Dr. Van Duzer had a handicap
 of 24 which enabled him to go the course in tourney-winning style but his good shooting has attracted the attention of the handicap commit tee and his margin will. in all proha bility. be cut down to consid- erahly under 20 before the Missis- sippi flood subsidies.
 A tie for second place resulted between R. w. Peteet. traffic man. ager at the Stanley Works and George Rogers. bowling alley king. Besides these three, a number of others took shot at the heretofore invincible champion of the, course, Mr. Par. and threw him for a loss. II. W. Hatch and Judge J. II. Kirk ham came in witR two up. A. B. Vessels and P. C. Platt scored one up while M. II. Pease and A. C. Sweetser were all even.
 Although these sharpshooters handed the common enemy fine pasting Par also had his innings be- cause the scores ranged from all even down as far as nine down.
 4 feat that has never been equal led and which will not be equalled probably for some seasons to come. was executed by Ted Hart when he shot the third hole. 54S yards, in three. This is the longest play on the course and Hart was driving in to a strong head wind. He shot . 1 long drive and had an equally long brassie and then sank his mid iron shot. He has chalked up a mark i that will stand for something for the next few generations of golfers 1 to shoot at.
 Only 10 cards out of the entire l field were missing at the final &C., counting and surprising as 1t is to l poto t%,t nf IT IT Whoe1ar u.iOnpr of last weeks event was counted among those After coming through to win his first tournament, his card Saturday was very conspicuous by its absence. and despite the at tenlpts of those interested to find out how he made out, Mir. Wheeler i still believes that " Silence Is Gold en-"
 Alen Sweetser equalled mark set bWW. J. Sweeney in his record ! breaking trip over the course last year, on the last three holes of the i lower nine. The first of these measures 500, the second 51s and i the third 164 and par for them is i 553. Sweetser finished them Sat- urday in 442.
 Bill Sweeney is serving decisive notice on the club members and | those who take part in the state 1 tournament that he is out for all the laurels within reach this year. He shot the course in "A Saturday | for the third successive time this year which is championship form. Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Howard Humphrey. wife of the president Of the club, was seen to make 27 holes. | She Is out to give the women golf CTS a run for the championship this year because she was out again ! Sunday afternoon doing IS holes. Golf divorces may become fre- quent if many more Sundays like yesterday happen. because the cold rain of the early morning caused many Sunday dinner to grow cold awaiting the mastication of the mas ters of several houses in the vicinity of the golf club. Usually on the Sabbath. the early morning golfers | get started about S:30 or o'clock but yesterday. because of showers none got started before 10 or 10:3o, A few of the wives who waited drumming their fingers on an un- responsive table. have started movement whereby club members who indulge in Sunday morning golt will be required to carry watches while they play. In jus tice to the men who came In around 1:3o or o'clock. however, 1t must be said that when the time of day | was learned, there was a terrific scramble for clothes and many tie was awry as fleeing figures broke all speed records going towards Lincoln street.
 Every kind Of weather imagin- able excepting snow storms, was en- countered by the players yesterday afternoon. The sun shone gently on the slopes of tho course only to have a gale arise without warning. i Then rain began 10 sprinkle again | only 10 have old Sol break through the clouds with a benign smile. But minutes after, a downpour drenched the mcklcss ones at the 14th or 18th hole. This kept up all day.
 1 Anyone who claims that the wo- men arc not good sports will find himself in an argument with strong standardization for their opponents after yesterday because the women stuck it out and let the wind howl l it's worst and the rain pour its hardest and though clothes were 1 wet and dripping. 1t would take considerably more rain-than fell all last week to dampen the golfing ar dor of those who went the full course yesterday before the twilight hours cast q dark shade over the course.
 Next Saturday. a team four ball | match will be tagged with IA add