New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-20
Topping, Dyer, Ward and
White Will Strive for
Chief Cup.
MAX MARSTON FALLS
VICTIM TO LADD
Pennsylvania Champion Makes
Wonderful Shot in Match
with George Brokaw.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.

Henry J. Topping, Of Greenwich. win
ner of the Ardsley tournament last
week; Frank W. Dyer, OF Montclair,
Pennsylvania state champion; John NJ.
Ward. club champion, and Gardiner W..
White, champion Of the Flushing
Country Club. are the four men who
will fight II out this morning for places
in the final round Of the spring golf
tournament Of the Garden City Golf
Club. The winners will meet for tho
chief cup In the afternoon.
Judging from the work Of all four
players yesterday opinion seems TO
favor Topping and White MS the final
lists, with Topping emerging from the
fray with the laurel wreath after the
I lsst putt has been holed out. But
those delightful uncertainties in which
the game abounds may completely re-
verse this procedure and upset the
much abused old dope.
Max Marston, the brilliant youth
from Baltusrol, who failed TO get into
the first sixteen on qualifying day. pro-
vided another reversal of form yester-
day. After defeating f. +, Oates, Of
Flushing, by the overwhelming margin
Of up and to go in the first round
Of the second sixteen he fell before W.
f. Laid, jr.. of the Rockaway Hunt
Club, at 4 and 3. In his morning
match Marston went along at a deadly
clip, reaching the turn in 40.
Most Distressing.
He ended matters on the tenth hole,
and then they kept on to finish out the
round, although all the puts were not
holed out. Max was travelling at about
n II clip, and seemed to have found
himself. In the afternoon, how
ever, his play with tie irons and on the
greens was distressing. Ladd, who
swings at the ball with great freedom
and smoothness, started of so fast that
he took the first three holes, and all
he had to DO thereafter was 70 hold his
advantage to the end. which he did.
Topping gave ample proof yesterday
in the match with L. Mortimer Barnes
in the afternoon that his heart was as
stout as his arm. The secretary of the
Metropolitan Golf Association is a hard
man to beat at match play, and before
Topping could gather his forces Barnes
was leading by 2 up at the seventh
hole. Then the Greenwich golfer came
WIN rush, MS bhuIo AANih Wv w.
coming TO rest down the fairways a
good forty yards, on the average De-
yond his opponents.
In addition, Topping did deadly exc
cution with his irons, and several times
after Barnes seemed to have at least a
chance for half after playing his
second shot, the Greenwich star would
lay his ball on the green and WITHIN
striking distance of the hole. On the
sixteenth Barnes made desperate Ell
fort to hole out a long putt for win,
but failed and picked up, with Top
pings third inches from the cup. The
winner was going at about an 90 gait.
Dyer had nerve-testing struggle
with George Brokaw before he won out
on the third extra hole. The match
was a toss-up all the way, with Brokaw
having his man dormie going TO the
short eighteenth over the pond. Dyer
/ laid his tee shot fifteen feet from the
pin, while Brokaw left himself a putt
/ of fully twice that distance and lost
| the hole when his opponent got his 3.
1t looked all up for the Pennsylvania
champion on the nineteenth, however,
when his drive took hook 70 the left
and landed at the bottom Of the deep
sandpit Brokaw kept his tee shot
| straight down the line, with talr shot
/ for the green awaiting him on his sec
/ ond. Dyer stood on the brink of the
bottomless pit, surveying his ball; then
/ he scrambled into the depths with his
niblick and poised himself for the shot.
Cloud of Sand.
/ The gallery, waiting on the esrth's
/ surface, saw cloud Of sand and then
Dyer's ball sailing high and clear over
/ the great parapet Of sand that guards
one side of the green. The Penn
champion had only the narrowest Of
margins through which to squeeze the
ball diagonally between the traps to
the green, but he did it, and was greet
ed with applause as he emerged from
the trap.
Brokaw, making no mistakes. reached
the green in .. and both required two
puts, halving the hole and giving Dyer
one more chance. The next hole, a