The sun., 1919-10-12
GRAHAM EASY MARK
FOR 'DAVY' HEBRON
Golf Champion Easily Defeats
Greenwich Player in Piping
Rock Final.
THE SCORE Is 5 AND a
Graham Beats Gardiner White
on Nineteenth Green in
Semi-Final Match.
THE SCORE Is 5 AND 4
BY INNS DROWN.

D. Davidson Heron of Pittsburg
added bit of additional lustre to his
seasons golf record by scoring an easy
victory in the last two rounds of the
Piping Rock invitation tournament yes
terday. The new amateur champion
continued to play very fine golf except
for few bad spots, and neither G. C.
Greenway, Jr., of the National links
nor Sam J. Graham, the Greenwich
standby, were able to crowd him In his
two rounds of eighteen holes each.
Continuing his heavy pounding from
the tees, the champion as rule linked
up skilful second shots and steady ac-
curate putting. This combination was
good enough to bring him home a win
ner In the seml-final round by margin
OF 6 up and to play Graham made
the issue Just bit closer, losing in the
final match and 4.
A fair sized gallery turned out to
watch the final round. many of those
present having their first look at the
new king of the amateurs. Almost
without exception these emitted gasps
OF surprise and admiration at the
manner in which the husky Pittsburger
crashed into his tee shots as well as
his long seconds Graham, his opponent
in the final match. relies for his effec-
tiveness on his short game, including his
very steady accurate putting. He gets
scant distance on his drives compared to
the average good tournament player.
And as a rule Herpon was anywhere
from forty to sixty yards ahead OF him
consistently in their drives.
Heron Takes Lead.
On the very first hole Heron was
fully fifty yards ahead Of his opponent,
He easily dropped mashie shot on the
green, but almost overran. Then he did
something rather unusual for him in
taking three puts and got half in
five. Graham gave evidence that he
wasn't putting quite as well as usual on
the second, when he missed three foot
effort for half. and lost to 4. Neither
held the green on the Redan third, and
it was halved in four after both had
missed puts of some six feet each.
Graham skidded on the next when he
sliced his drive to the high grass and
followed with a second that fell short in
q trap. Heron dropped a mashie
niblick second on and won to ..
Herron's drive on the fifth was pulled
into the woods. hit a stump and bounded
back but left a fair lie. He was short
on his second, but Clipped his third to
within less than two feet of the cup,
long putt for his three.
The extra distance of the siXth-626
yards-was too much for Graham
against Herrop's long hitting. Trying
for extra distance from the tee, Graham
sliced to the rough, was out short and
fell still short of the green on his third
Heron failed to reach the green with
his two long shots. but Clipped his third
to within four feet of the cup, and Ora
nd q
his try for a five.
On the seventh Heron uncorked
second shot that paid the gallery in full
for its pilgrimage over the course. Fol-
lowing a terrific drive he slashed long
rsidiron that brought up, within three
feet of the cup, the two shots covering
distance of 444 yards. Graham found
trouble and when his fourth stopped
twenty feet from the cup conceded Her
ron the hole. That midiron shot was a
golf classic.
Graham Wins Eighth.
The next hole was badly gummed up
by the champion and resulted in the
only win in the first nine for Graham.
Trapped on his drive, Graham was still
short in two. Heron hit a tremendous
drive that sliced a short way into the
rough He played a high niblick shot
out of this rough that ran over the green
on to the far slope of a trap. His first
effort to get out failed and he ended
by taking for the hole. Graham had 8.
The ninth afforded the gallery another
opportunity to see to what heights the
champion can rise when the occasion
demands. His tee shot was pulled over
back of a low house to the left OF the
green. The house provided a huge
stymie. But instead of playing out to
the side and taking chance of dribbling
the ball onto the green, Heron took
full swing with his big niblick and lifted
the ball over the house onto the green
less than ten feet from the cup. Graham
took two to get on and they halved in 4.
Heron had totalled SO for his first
nine holes and stood three up as they
started the second nine. Graham lost
the tenth, where Herrons long hitting
again gave him a pronounced advan-
tage. The champion reached the edge
of the green on his second. whereas
Graham was considerably short In
trap. It was Herrons hole 4 to 5.
Both scored par IS on the twelfth.
Heron got the 364 yard twelfth in
three, also. His drived hooked to the
rough, but he smashed the ball out and
onto the green within Ave feet OF the
cup. then holed his first putt.
Alter TWO me criVeS, Doth Smedred
up the thirteenth. With a short pitch
shot to reach the green. both barely
reached the edge Heron made a
weak approach putt and finally needed
three puts to hole out. Graham scored
another win In four. Heron reversed
the count to win the fourteenth and
end the match. Graham couldn't get
home in two and required two puts
after chipping on. Heron dropped his
second on and holed out in two puts.
Gardiner White Loses.
For the second time within a fortnight
Graham forced Gardiner White of Mas
sau to lower his coiors, each time in
the semi-f1nal round OF tournament
At Nassau Graham ended the match on
the sixteenth green. Yesterday the two
carried their contest to the nineteenth
green.
Erratc work within easy range OF
the cup cost White his match After
turning 1 up, he Increased his lead until
they started for the fifteenth with White
up and 10 play. He lost the hf-
teenth, when he took three shots from
ten feet off the green. On the sixteenth
ne took three puts after reaching the
putting surface and suffered another
loss, Both holed puts OF seven feet
70 score bird twos on the seventeenth
With clear advantage on the drive
Tor the home hole, White almost missed
prassie second and they halved In 8.
Fiaying the first extra hole White
n