FORTUNE FAVORS A. L. WALKER, JR., IN HIS GOLF MATCH AT PINEHURST
NEW YORK PLAYER
WINS AT 20TH HOLE
Defeats Fred B. Elliot and
Reaches Semi-Final of
' Tourney.
SHOULD HAVE LOST 19TH
Drives Off Line to Brambles,
but Gets Benefit of Casual
Water Rule.
8pcaaL Dispatch to Thb New York Hbrald [
Pinkhurst, X. C., March 11.?FVedj
B. Ell.ot, captain of the Woodland
Golf Club team, gave A. L. Walker, j
Jr., of Richmond County, a few un-!
happy moments here to-day when the I
Floston player, after being four holes !
down at the eleventh, squared the;
match at the home green and looked j
like a winner at the nineteenth. Wal
ker Anally got a half in four at the
nineteenth and won at the twentieth
hole, moving into the semi-flnal of the
spring golf tournament, which started
Monday with 333 players.
The nineteenth hole furnished Wal
ker with a very lucky break. He
hooked his teo shot far over the rail
toad into what would be out of bounds
on ninety-eight of a hundred courses.
There is no out of bounds here. The
wild shot of the Richmond County
player feil into what in dry weather is
a tangle of brambles, but the heavy
rair.s of yeste.'Jay had turned the
ground into a lake of casual water.
Walker's ball was not located, but It
was assumed that It was in casual water
through the fairway, which allowed him
to drop outside the water without a
penalty. He then had an open shot to
the greon and hammered an iron about
fifteen yards from the sand. Elliot drove
down the middle and put his second on
the edge. They halved in 4.
