New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
TITLE FOR BOY GOLFER
Sylvester Wins by Sound Play on
Public Course.
SOGGY LINKS NO HANDICAP
Wallace Runner-Up to Youthful
Prodigy at Van Cort-
landt Park.

Continuing his sound golf to the end
Joseph Sylvester. the seventeen-year-old
ex-caddie. won the championship Of the
greater city by defeating William Wallace
: up and TO play in the eighteen hole
final round over the Van Cortlandt Park
public links yesterday
This makes the first time on record that
one so young has gained important honors
IN a tournament at Van Cortlandt and his
Victory keeps the chief trophy alive as, If
the other man had won II would have been
H-allaCe's for good The consolation cup
was Won by ?. T. Haber who defeated
I. F. Rockwell by , and ! margin in the
final round.
Although the weather was far from pro-
7itious. rain falling al intervals throughout
the day. il did not seem to have any affect
upon Sylvester. as the youthful prodigy
made : IN the early hours and supple
rnented this with a 7e against Wallace II
IS g matter of record that for six rounds
throughout the three days Sylvester aver
aged Ts1a. figures that have never been du-
plfoated on the public course except by pro
fsssionals The way the boy PLAYED his
shots made II apparent 20 all that he sim
plv had no nerves. There is no deHheration.
no preliminary fussing. vet mistakes on his
par were as hard to find as dry feet in the
enthusiastic but water soaked gallery.
Sylvester gained his place in the final
bracket only after a sruelling match with
n ?. Healev, another unattached player.
Puts that failed to go down by the narrow
est Of margins prevented the boy from
gaining p substantial lead during the out
ward journey. He made one of his few
mistakes Of the day at the ninth hole,
where f1e was ;ounkered. and. losing that,
strokes reading IS 10 81. in Healey's favor.
Thereafter Healey was either up or level
until the sixteenth hole. which he lost, TAX
ing 5 10 the boys ;. Healey also played
tha 5Sa-vard sevent eenth hole badly. and
lost thai as well, thereby becoming I down
4 h6lve in 3 left Sylvester d winner by up
although Healey missed 4 short put on the
home green TO square the match. The
strokes read IS and p in favor Of Sylvester
In the mean time Wallace was fighting
81 out with G. H BTocker. the remaining
PLAYER from the New York Golf Club After
turning for home up Wallace played safe
" and finally won by TO l margin
Several hundred persons defied the ele-
raents and swung in behind Sylvester and
Wallace when they drove off in the decisive
match An incident happened on the first
green which might have ruffied an older
PLAYER, h1!r II never troubled Master Joe
While addressing his bali for the put he
accidentally moved II ever so little, but the
keen eye Of Wallace noted il and he i'm
1rediatelv claimed the stroke. which the
referee allowed Sylvester got a with
the penalty. which was good enough to
halve the hole Thereafter he followed
with eight consecutive Is. and with little
luck he might easily have had IS on at
least two of the greens
LoFa II
the rocks. and after TWO Intellectual efforts
To get out. picked up. sylvester drove that
green beautifully. and in putting out for his
score took :. instead of 2. which
lie might have had if it had been necessary.
He also drove the sixth green down the
hiH but lost the hole through taking three
puts. whereas Wallace. after pulling his
drive won with 4 3. thanks 10 a ten
foot put Going 10 the ninth hole, Sylves-
ter was up and he increased his advan-
taCe 70 . Ip hv reaching the green on two
fine shots getting the hole in 70 the 9th
er's < The strokes at the turn read 81 10 ~
IN his favor.
A weak approach cost Wallace the tenth
hole. making him ; down. They halved the
next three in good figures but another ap-
r~osch that fell green shy was responsible
for Wallace losing the fourteenth, where
Sylvester got a par 1 Now dormie !, Syl-
vester proceeded 10 finish matters hy lay
tnE MS rnashie shot TO within twelve feet
of the pin al the short fifteenth Wallace
was short of the green on his effort, but
recovered well enough 10 get ) Wnlch,
however. availed nothing, as the XopisSSo Sl,S,
with audaclous coolness. SLaPpeo tts ms io5+s ai
r,-,+ IN for . Upon the request OF the gal
lery. the boy played out the bye NOES get
ting q capital 76.