New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-09
Sohoolboy "Giant Killer"
Plays Brilliantly in Title
Golf Tourney.
CLOSE CALL FOR
OSWALD KIRKBY
Gardiner Whites Poor Putting
Aids Observation-Disclosures
Beats Pell and Douglas.
Bv FRED HAWTHORNE.

,cboolboy' defeated Phil Carter, gold
medallist, in the qualifying round on
Wednesday, In the first round OF match
play Yesterday, in the Metropolitan
championship at Nassau, by the de-
cisive margin Of up and to play
Not satisfied with this startling per
Torrance. young Lewis went out IN the
afternoon and took the measure OF Mel
son Whitney, Southern champion, by
8 Up and to go. Tomorrow morning
the youth will be called upon TO race
Oswald Kirkby for place in the SEMI
finals of the lower half Of the draw.
Ii was a notable achievement for any
Golfer 70 vanQuish two such formid-
able opponents In successive rounds,
but those who had seen young Lewis
put out John @. Anderson at Wykagyl
last week and win the Westchester
championship from Dwight Partridge,
IN the anal round. were not unduly
surprised .
diet Of q veteran golfer, who saw
Lewis triumph over both his opponents,
and the title seemed to ct the twenty
year-old star well.
Herreshof Defeats White
Others TO reach the round before the
semi-fnals yesterday were Frank n:
Dyer,'of Montclair; Roy D. Webb, OF
Englewood; Frederick Herreshof, OF
Garden City; Harold L. Downey, OF
Apswamis, who defeated Henry, D.
Topping in the first roundi Maxwell h
Marston, of Baltusrol; M. P. Lewis, OF
Flushing, and Oswald Kirkby, Of En-
glewood.
Herreshoff gained his bracket in the
6rs4 round hv the defeat Of Gardiner
". White, Of Flushing, by and, 2
margin. Both were strong with the
wood and through the fairwsys, but
Whites old trouble, inability to con-
troll his putter, cost him the match.
Kirkby had tight squeeze to come
through In the second round, and Tor a
time It looked as though the New Jer-
seq champion was TO figure in the sec
ond sensational upset Of the day at the
hands Of II. G. Berner, Of Nassau. Inc
latter went out like wild horse for
the first nine holes, his card reading
80 for eight holes, at which point he
was 4 up on his famous adversary.
Driving out Of bounds on the ninth,
Berner picked up, although even a D
FOR that hole would have brought him
70 the turn in IS, three under par.
II was remarkable golf under the
wretched conditions that prevailed yes
terday. and Kirkby, who had gone out
in SO himself, was thoroughly scared.
Beginning the inward half, however,
young Berner literally "blew up" and
lost hole after hole, enabling klrkDy
TO draw even at the twelfth and finally
win by 2 UP and to play.
Marston was in rare scoring mood
yesterday, and; after dumping W. W;
Pell into the discard in the first round
l. 90 70 M O1f after the
scalp Of Findlay s. Douglas, national
champion in 1898, long before Max was
accustomed TO his first pair of short
trousers. Douglas, who had defeated
Cornelius Smith, IT,, Of Ardsley, in the
morning, gave the tall Baltusrol player
a hard battle before bowling in defeat
BY 8 up and 2 to play. Marston will
play Morrel F. Lewis, of Flushing, for
2 semi-fnal bracket tomorrow morn
Ing.
Lower Half Especially Strong.
The luck of the draw seems TO have
placed most of the playing strength In
the lower half, what with Marstoni
Kirkby and Reggie Lewis in that sec
ton. DYER and Webb and Herreshotf
and Downey is the order in which the
player. will meet in the upl er half.
In his battle with Carter, Lewis
showed the GOODNESS Of veteran, and
if Phil pulled off a brillia.t shot, Reg
gle came right back with one as good
or even better. On the long fifth hole
when Lewis seemed fairly certain of g
half in 8, Carter calmly holed out with
his deadly mashie when fifty yard;
from the pin, getting 3, two strokes
under n difficult par Instead Of being
disconnected, the Wykagyl youth bide(
his time. and on the short eighth. over
the pond, had his revenge
Both pitched TO the green from the
tee, with Carter a bit away. On hi:
second putt Carter's ball trembled or
the lip of the cup. A breath of wine
would have toppled it in, and there !
\ lay, directly in front of Lewis's ball
Y fourteen inches away. Reggie studied
the lay Of the land carefully for half &
minute, saw there was no chance o.
edging his ball past the stymie, ant
called for his little mashie.
Jumps Ball Into Cup.
Deliberately and after half dozer
preliminary wiggles Lewis jumped the
ball into the exact centre Of the cur
without even grazing the other, and the
hole was his in to 4. He got the
ninth in 3, a stroke under par, and
turned for home up.
The Westchest : champion was short
on his tee shot at the tenth. getting
into trouble there, and Carter won in
3 to 4. But Lewis did not intend tc
have his opponent cut down the lead
he had gained, and won the eleventh in
par 4. On the twelfth both got of
long drives, but Lewis found one of the
deep traps to the right on his second
and appeared hopelessly out of the run.
ming on that hole.
Once again he proved his mettle by
slashing his way out Of trouble with &
niblick The ball sailed straight fol
the green and came TO rest within
inches of the pin. Lewis tapped the
mutt In and va In 4 To Carter,s s