BY APPO' HTHWD VOLXXI 4 THE' M H W c o j 1 TNTEREST w ^ re iucraHi rear, because tb H ied ot i«im< matches. TTit W v^ question ot aipri C I only been airiTt-• AT / diffidence m i >< H lork players, ai u fsperiment was as H ha now \te k W a opinions. Arr the vor of was i :•-.: r- bit thb ^. is saying; "J| an -most decide GOLF BY APPOINTMENT AN OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION WITH "WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING," ESTABLISHED 1894 VOL. XXI DECEMBER, 1907 No. 6 THE TRI-CITY TEAM MATCHES Country Club, Brookline, Mass., October 25, 26, 1907 T NTEREST in this annual event ing, and more enjoyable. Golf con- t was increased very decidedly this sists of playing your own ball from year, because the afternoon play con- tee to hole, which is possible at the sisted of foursomes and not four-ball four-ball style. The other is a hybrid." matches. The decision to settle the It is permissible to differ with Mr. question of supremacy in this way had Travis as to the four-ball match being only been arrived at after considerable more sociable and more enjoyable. diffidence on the part of the New This is purely a matter of individual York players, and the success of the opinion and is largely a question of experiment was felt to be doubtful. temperament. To the writer, there is Even now we have only contradictory very slight enjoyment from a golfing opinions. A writer in one of the lead- point of view, in a four-ball match, ing Metropolitan papers made the an- and it is not understandable how it can nouncement that everyone was pleased be more sociable. Again, "golf does with the experiment and that New not consist in playing your own ball York golfers were unanimously in fa- from tee to hole." According to the vor of the foursome. It is probable rules "the game of golf is played by that this was a premature expression two sides, each playing its own ball. of opinion, for we have since been A side consists of one or two players." hearing from some of those who As a matter of fact it is the four-ball played at Brookline and they do not match which is not recognized in the talk this way. Mr. Travis is quoted definition of the game of golf. It is as saying: "My ideas on the matter difficult to see why the foursome is are the same as they have always been, peculiarly un-American, as one player —most decidedly in favor of the four- expressed it, seeing that the game ball. The latter is better golf in every itself is entirely an exotic. It is true way. It is more sociable, less exact- you do not get so much for your Copyriglit, 1907, by ARTHUR POTTOW. All rights reserved. 326 THE TRI-CITY TEAM MATCHES money, as you do only half the work, record, but their opponents squared but then according to Mr. Travis, it the match on the eighteenth green is more exacting; in other words, more and won the match at the nineteenth. strenuous, and this of itself, if true, The summary of the play follows: MATCH PLAY SINGLES. \ i ought to appeal to our golfers. But Philadelphia— Boston— after all, what is the good of dogma- H. M. McFarland.... o G. Anderson.... Dr. Simon Carr i W. Whittemore. tizing? The foursome will make its H. W. Perrin o G. Thorp way on its merits, if at all, and no A. W. Tillinghast i G. Lockwood... J. P. Edwards o Ivimball amount of argument will convince a E. A. Service i R. Johnstone... J. L. Alcorn i G. H. Crocker.. player of its advantages if he prefers W. G. Pfeil 1 T. Briggs 0 J. S. Castner o M. Stanton i some other form of the game. H. M. Clements o T. G. Stevenson I The New York team were decided favorites. New York had won the two Total s Total 5 previous matches at Garden City in Anderson beat McFarland, I up; 1905, and last year at Merion. It was Dr. Carr beat Whittemore, I up a strong Metropolitan aggregation (twenty holes) ; Thorp beat Perrin, 5 that went to Brookline, and might well up and 3 to play; Tillinghast beat have been stronger, the omission of Lockwood, 2 up and 1 to play; Kim- ball beat Edwards, 2 up; Service beat Max Behr, to name only one golfer Johnstone, 1 up; Alcorn beat Crocker, of prominence, being somewhat inex- 4 up and 3 to play; Pfeil beat Briggs, plicable. Philadelphia also, consider- 1 up (nineteen holes) ; Stanton beat ing the limited area from which to Castner, 4 up and 3 to play; Steven- choose, was well represented, and Bos- son beat Clements, 3 up and 2 to play. ton had never been so strongly repre- MATCH PLAY FOURSOMES. sented. The prediction was that Philadelphia— Boston— McFarland and Carr. i Anderson and Whitte- Boston would beat Philadelphia and Perrin and Tillinghast I more 0 J McFarted, Edwards and Alcorn.. i Briggs and Wilder. o that New York would win in the final. Thorp and Johnstone. o This was not realized, for though the Pfeil and Service.... i Kimball and Lockwood o Castner and Clements o Stanton and Crocker, i Boston and Quaker City golfers 1: broke even in the singles they were Total 4 Total i Total scores—Philadelphia, g; Boston, 6. :-. badly beaten in the foursomes, being McEarland and Carr beat Anderson pl» of Petti hoist with their own petard, for it and Whittemore, I up (nineteen was their action that caused foursomes holes) ; Perrin and Tillinghast beat to be played. One of the best matches ffiiitr ;: Briggs and Wilder, 2 up; Edwards Grakm, drew was that between Dr. Carr and and Alcorn beat Thorp and Johnstone, Whittemore, the strongest player I up; Pfeil and Service beat Kimball fetsom.es, an probably in the Country Club, and the and Lockwood, 3 up and 2 to play; «% The c Philadelphian won on the twentieth Stanton and Crocker beat Castner and matches: green. Lockwood, who has not had Clements, 7 up and 6 to play. Ik, much success this season, was beaten Philadelphia went down to utter de- by Tillinghast by 2 and 1. There was feat in the final, not winning one four- a brilliant foursome between McFar- some and only two singles. From a In., « 1 land and Carr against Anderson, the scoring point of view there was f I Massachusetts State Champion, and nothing remarkable in the singles, the Whittemore. The Philadelphia pair strong northeast wind and somewhat ; played the course in 76, a foursome sticky greens militating against good On., In... :- 1 THE TRI-CITY TEAM MATCHES 327 THE PHILADELPHIA TEAM cards. Travers, who played against Robert Abbott and A. M. Robbins— Out S4453 5 44 4—38 McFarland, the Philadelphia cham- In 3 5 4 4 5 5 3 pion, had 84 to his opponent's 85. The E. A. Service and W. G. Pfeil— Out 54542644 5—39 amateur champion lost his ball at the In 4 5 5 4 5 4 4 seventeenth. In the foursomes Arden Archie Reid and Marshall Whitlatch— M. Robbins and M. Whitlatch took the Out 434455 5 6 3—39 1° 35445444 5—3S—77 places of Peters and Herreshoff, the R. Kimball and H. M. Clements— latter having a strained knee-cap. The Out 6 4 5 6 3 5 5 5 5—44 In 4 4 5 7 6 6 4 5 5—46—90 amateur champion and the runner-up, Walter J. Travis and George T. Brokaw—• Graham, drew a large gallery in the Out 5 3 5 4 3 5 5 5 4—39 foursomes, and won their match In 3 4 4 4 6 5 3 H. W. Perrin and A. W. Tillinghast— easily. The cards of the foursome Out 64443646 4—41 matches: In 3 5 5 5 5 4 3 John M. Ward and Findlay S. Douglas— The summary: Out 53S43S36 3—37 SINGLES. New York— Philadelphia- In 3 5 5 4 5 5 4 5 4—4°—77 Herreshoff Service (2 and 1). J. P. Edwards and J. S. Alcorn— Peters 0 Alcorn (2 and 1). Reid (4 and 3) Out 43353556 5—39 Pfeil !n 4 6 5 4 5 5 3 s Ward (2 and 1) Kimball 5—42—81 Brokaw (5 and 3)... Clements Jerome D. Travers and Archie Graham— Travers (1 up) McFarland Out 54543556 4—41 Douglas (2 and 1).. Dr. Carr In 4 4 6 4 5 4 Travis (4 and 2) 1 Perrin 0 Graham (5 and 4).... 1 Tillinghast 0 Dr. Garr and H. McFarland— Abbott (1 up) 1 Edwards o Out 5445 3 656 4—4 In 3 5 7 4 6 5 Totals 8 v: • 328 THE TRI-CITY TEAM MATCHES i THE BOSTON TEAM for so ima] The members of the three teams menta! i FOURSOMES. were guests of the Country Club at y 1 •_•-1 J. M. Ward and F. S. J. P. Edwards and J. Douglas (2 and 1). 1 S. Alcorn o dinner on Friday, October 25th. J. D. Travers and A. Dr. Carr and H. Me- The team match was for a trophy Graham (4 and 3) • . 1 Farland o R. Abbott and A. M. E. A. Service and W. known as the Lesley cup. It was pre- Robbins (3 and 2) .