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Show So far as mere medal scoring goes, there have H been better games over the Country Club links H than the finals for the handicap cup played last H week between J. Walcott Thompson and Frank H McGurrin. But from a spectators point of view it H wjis fully as interesting as the championship finals JM last fall. Played under extremely disagreeable conditions, with the rain coming down in a verlta- H ble deluge at times, and with the greens covered H with puddles, there was more really brilliant play- ing than I haTe seen for many moons. At least half a dozen putts were holed out from the edge of the green or even farther away, and in the twenty-eight holes play which was necessary to decide the match only three bad drives were made, M One of them was by McGurrin, and proved fatal. M One of Thompson's was the result of his foot slip- M ping on the soft tee. His other, a low driven ball, M found the seventh bunker. The play at this hole M in the third round really decided the contest. fl Thompson's Iron shot from the bunker put him on the green. That was enough to rattle any oppo- nent, but when "his fourth, a putt from ten feet H away, missed the cup a foot, stopped, and then H slowly rolled back and into the hole, McGurrin H went to pieces long enough to drive his ball into H the poplars. Tne medal scores will show how H close the game was. H Thompson: H Out 55 65 53 54 543 I In 7 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 541 I Out 5 5 G 4 4 4 5 4 845 Extra hole 5. H McGurrin: t H Out 4 5 446455 542 H In 4 5 7 4 5 3 5 3 541 Out 7 4 5 4 5 3 5 5 543 1 1 Extra hole 6. jfl Thus, In a twenty-seven hole match the men M finished all square, although McGurrin's medal M score was three strokes less than Thompson's, M which Illustrates the glorious uncertainties of the H game. & t & I Thompson's putting of late has been deadly. I In the semi-finals with Stelner, he made a medal I score of 79 for 18 holes, running down a number of I putts from the edge of the greens. On the green I in two is the only safe game with Thompson when fl he has his putting clothes on, and he wears them jH pretty often now. II A. FOOZLER. W |