New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-15
Wins
Staten Island
Golf Laurels
Interscholastic Champion De
fcats A. f. Hammer in
Thrilling Match

In one Of the best played matc1es
ever staged for the famous old Staten
Island golf trophy, with which goes
the annual championship honors, a. J..
Walker, jr., yesterday defeated 4. }.
Hammer By up at the Richmond
County c. c. The contest went 70 TIE
last hole, and it also required tic
very last putt 10 decide II.
This match was more than mere
battle between these two players, as
the respective members Of the Rich
mond County Country Club and he
Fox Hills Golf Club consider it an ~
fair between the two ciuos, which
makes it doubly interesting when The
final has representatives. from eacn
club, as 10 had this time.
Walker was the Richmond '0u1.y
entry and Hammer carried the best
wishes Of every member % the FOX
Hills clubs Hammer had won the .ro-
ply so many times that he himself
had actually lost count Last year ne
was dethroned by a Richmond County
player, but he was urged to prepare
himself especially for this years
struggle and regain possession Of the
precious medal. In the old days John
VI. Ward won the trophy four times.
The event was started in 1899. and is
the oldest interclub fixture IN exist
ence.
Hammer the Fayorite
Young Walker is the present inter-
scholastic champion, having won tlis
title last June az Nassau. IL was not
thought. however, that he could h3ll
the dangerous Hammer, and the .It-
ter was the fayorite when the pair
started on the hrs- round IN the morn
ing. The Richmond golfers were will
ing TO back their man, but they were
doubtful Of the chances OF their star
when the man from Fox Hills started
at sucn last cup that be won he
first five holes. Walker showed BIS
grit and got two Of these back. and
the pair see-sawed back and forth m
I'll the sixteenth green was reached,
but Hammer held the advantage o. )
up when the men went % luncheon.
Walker began 20 play rea. golf from
this point on. He WOE the nrst hole .n
the afternoon by sticking a long
mash.e-nlb..ck shot dead 20 the pin
= y
next one when hammer found his ball
Ia bunker and failed 90 get Out
This squared the match, but Walker,
pressing his luck at this point, TOOK the
sixth ard became one up on his OPP
ponent Tor the first time. lie lost The
long seventh and found so much troI-
bic that he finally picked up and con
coded the hole. but he regained his
lead on the short eighth b. sinking
long twcnty-foot putt for q two. k4m-
mer was not discouraged biz aad took
the ninth with the aid Of . well played
approach and stymie.
The youthful Richmond County golf
er Tough: back hard. and when KAN
mer gave him an opening a. the twelfth
he got the hole with a aye 90 six and
was handed the next one. too. by Kan
mer, who had TO be satisfied with a
seven. The latter was two down. but
not beaten by any means es he came
20 life again az the fifteenth and with
q beautiful approach scored thrc, and
the hole when Walker failed % get his
long patti.
Hammers Stock Rises
Two fiyes followed or the next. Jut
hammers stock rose again when be
SANK a twenty-five foot putl Tor two
AZ the seventeenth and put tne match
on even terms AGAIN, with one
hole LETT 10 play. Both drove well
from the last tee. but neither reached
the green. Walker cnlpped up % wltn-
IN SIX feet OF the cup and the Fox Hills
star was only wee bit worse.
hammer then putted and missed BIS \
mario" margin, DUt JUST as the la ge
gallery was preparing 10 see an extra
mole match Walker sem his putt
straight and true for the back Of fhe
cup, the bail spinning around out mail
~ settling 90 me bottom OF the TN i0r
three and a victory Tor lts owner
In the morning round Hammer tai
lied - while has opponent TOOK one
stroke more for -. Walker won the
sixth with i've where 10 had cost
hammer seven. Wakes had the best
medal score IN the afternoon, getting
Is on tho total, but 10 was ms out
ward journey OF IS that settled the
match m mis- favor. Hammer could go
no better than Il Tor the urst ha.t and
Al Tor the incoming hail tor an -.
The Staten Island championship
played for THIS year Was the most sac
cesstul ~ the history Of the tourna
ment and brought on, about eighty
golfers from the Two clubs. hour slN-
teens We're arranged in order 70 give
The players entered chance for match
pay.
As the storm interfered with Ffi-
days play many Of the competitors de-
faulted, put they were back on the
INKS yesterday as memccrs OF the gal.
lory.
The cards:
MORNING ROUND