The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-21
TOPPING DEFEATS WHITE
IN R y CITY TOURNEY
Greenwich Golfer Takes Final by 4 Up and 8 to PLAY
After Leading All the Way-Long Puts Win
for Him on Three Holes.

GARDEN CITY. l.. L.. May 20.-Henry
/ J. Topping made 1t " straight by win.
! ming the Garden City Golf Clubs invi'
tation tournament to-day. Just n week
ago he triumphed over John q. Ander
son in the fnal at Ardsiey and this
afternoon he downed Gardiner w. White
by I up n : to play. Two tournament
victories In as many weeks and both 81
them earned by the playing Of good
sound golf make Topping loom up as q
real contender for high honors IN tSs
links this season.
Topping won the fnal to-day In the
way that many matches OF greater mo-
ment have been won In the past. It
picked up three holes of his lead by
holing extraordinary puts, the first from
just on the f1rst green when the mole
seemed irretrievably lost. the second q
curling thirty-five footer on the hftf
and the third a twenty foot AFFAIR on toe
tenth. That kind Of golf will win al.
most anywhere and at any time and Z
served him In good stead to-day. As
the rest OF his gains was good nearly
all Of the way. White was fight'ni
against heavy odds. and even though IN
did not play badly he had no real chaiico
to win. Both semi-fnals this morning
were the closest sort Of struggles. Top.
ping beating +. W. Dyer by l up and
White conquering the veteran John al
Ward by the same margin.
The first hole undoubtedly had a GOOD
deal to do with the final outcome OF the
afternoon match. for the golfer who
turns defeat into victory In the twink
ing Of an eye. even though only a single
hole Is won at the moment, always gains
- aud fhf
man who loses has to fight hard to
keep away from a corresponding feeling
Of di~scouragement. So Topping had
much to be grateful for when he rar
down his long putt on the first green
IL gave him "A par 4. but before ne
made It he had sliced his drive into
the rough and had put his second into
the big bunker. TIL third just got out
and then came the great putt. All ths
way across the green the ball never
wavered from the line and then dropped
in. White. who had played the hole il
orthodox fashion. then missed a fairly
easy putt for his I and was down IN.
stead Of up. as every one had expected
him to be when Topping's second dropped
into the pit.
No, only did White rave the memory
OF the first hole confronting him as a
mental hazard when he drove on the
second tee but he also had "a coupe
Of other little things to worry him,
Topping had made the most OF the honor
by pitching his ball to within eight feet
Of the pin. and White also was harassed
by the recollection of his tee shot IN
the morning match against Ward, which
had fallen short into the pehbly chasm
| which yawns hetween the tee and the
green. Keeping all those things clearly
in mind White carefully overplayed the
green and his bail never stopped until
1t dropped nto the sand pit beyond. II,
played two more shots and then picked
| up without making Topping putt.
Two halved holes followed, both hav-
ing chances for A. on the iH0 yard
! fourth. and on the NTH green Topping
whose approach was not as good as
Whites. stepped up 20 his bail and
/ holed his second great putt OF the round
getting a 2 and becoming 3 up. White
won his frst hole when Topping played
the sixth poorly. but Topping got II
, right bach again as White missed a sN
! foot putt for a half on the seventh. A
hooked drive that took him far off the
, course cost White the eighth. and M
was 4 down. The ninth was halved