New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
OaknlOnt Star
Keats Graham
By sup and 4
Title Holder Has Little
Trouble With the Con-
queror of Gardiner White

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chief honors in the invitation tourna-
uent at the Piping Rock Club yester-
dav In the final round the "big fellow"
;rnm Oakmont defeated Sam Graham,
=, Greenwich, up and 4 to play. In
,dentally, it made cleanup for Her
ron. who spread eagled the field in the
Qualifying test with ia.
Graham will doubtless remember
1919 as his season of near victories,
for it was only two weeks ago that the
! Greenwich golfer was runner-up to John
| N Ward at Nassau. Yesterday Gra-
ham did we'll enough, for early in the
Jsv he removed Gardiner W. White,
the Nassau champion. who had been
generally expected to fight it out with
. Heron in the final. The match between
| Graham and White, from a standpoint
of close competitors, was the best of
the day.
At one point White stood 2 up That
was at the fourteenth hole. He lost the
next two by taking three puts on each
green, so that the match was all even
| going to the short seventeenth. There
both played their uiashie shots to with
| in eight feet of the cup and halved
in q 1t looked as if White would lose
the home hole after he topped his Sec
ond shot, but he got half in 5.
To the extra hole White pulled his
second to the bushes and taking two
shots. to get out could not get better
than a s, so that Graham, who was
close to the green on his second shot,
won the hole in and took the match.
Ends Match on 18th Green
In the mean time Heron had been
having things pretty much his own way
against G. Z. Greenway. jr.. of the Ma
tional Links. BY going out in 80, the
Pittsburgh player stood up and the
match ended on the thirteenth green.
There never was a moment in the
decisive contest between Heron and
Graham that the champion did not look
like winner. He only halved the first
hole in 5, as his second shot failed to
make the green and ne could not Law
the next dead. One of his long drives,
supplemented by mashie niblick shot,
left Heron nicely on the second green
in two, and ne won in to 5.
The third hole is l78 yards long, and
neither man held the green from the
tee. Heron was on the slope of the
bank few feet short, while Graham
overran. Their seconds left them about
ten feet from the cup, and after Gra-
hsm missed his try for 8 Heron ap-
parentiy got his, but the ball. after
going into the cup, ran around the rim
and came out again, so it was a half
ina.
At the fourth hole Graham was in
trouble all the way, first slicing to the
rough and then getting into a trap on
his third shot. Heron won it in A to 5.
The champion had to call upon his
powers OF recovery at the fifth. This
Ya 2so-yard hole, but the green is so
we'll guarded that it is like shooting at
the small end of a bottle.
Makes Excellent Recovery
Heron pulled his tee shot to the
woods, whereas Graham, with straight
ball, stayed on the fairway. The Green
wlch man reached the far edge Of the
green on his second, and then it was
Up 20 Davey. He took a full niblick
shot, and the ball flew out, never hit
ting thing, and came to rest on
the edge Of the green some forty yards
from tie cup. From there Heron
Clipped up beautifully to within yard
Of the hole.
1t looked like sure 4. but not after
Graham made MS approach putt, the
Greenwich mans ball stopping within
few inches of the hole and laying
Heron haE- stymie. The champion
only had a fraction OF an inch to
spare in getting by the other rub
ber-core, but he made it~with uncrring
accuracy, so it was half in 4.
The sixth hole is 526 yards long and
the Pittsburgh golfer gave sample of
his driving ability by almost reaching
the green in two shots and winning
In to s. That made him 4 up. He
was even more brilliant at the seventh
hole, 444 yards. where ne reached the
green with drive and an iron and
then sank the putt for an eagle" 8.
The first hole won by Graham was
me eighth, where both men cot in
trouble. Heron was over the green
On his second shot, and his next
landed his ball in a trap Graham
was also trapped on his third, but
supplemented good niblick recovery
hy sinking the putt for a 5. Heron
aking s. To the 2l0-yard ninth, Her
ron pulled nis drive back Of the small
aouse, while Graham sliced his toe
shot to the rough. Heron then laid
out grea. niblick shot, the bail fly
ing over the building and coming to
fess a clubs length from the cup. He
missed the putt for 3, however,
sna the hole was halved in q. That
,git the champion 9 up at the turn.
ae haf gone out in SO to Graham s
Shows Powerful Driving
=, Up the hill to the 433-yard tenth,
herron got home in two shots, and
Eoh witn TO 8, az his opponent was
saoft on hss second. After half in
a. the l57-yard eleventh, Heron
sgain brought off one Of those master.
reeoveriss, laying niblick shot
"s' o. the rough TO within few feet
bird 3. '''''''@ ''' '""' ''- q
20" ; up, Heron lost the thirteenth
.9le' Graham cnipped his third W
.,-s enough 20 yet the putt down for
"a. - ~hereas the best Heron could ge,
< .. The champion settled the
~"ea On the next green, where he
aoh WIN after being over on his
scond snot For the fourteen hoet
~ hccron's card showed only .
suVse "orsc than "a. az follows:
| g.. o. 81. i.... ! /. 3 -,
e.s'a. a. -
~: r Bingham, Of tho Nationa
/ s-Ns' .a' oad ~ york hard TO win the
=. .syno n cup, defeating Edmund Nash
Il (, hocka~ay, on the twentieth greer
ma W. final round Another cost
ieh was in the final of the first
/ c.sHn e.gat, wherein w. y. Khett. o,
/ ssosh tity, defeated John n. St4arns
i a. Nassau, up. j. Simpson Dean
4 Is .tHncelon, won the first net prize
Il ~ -h> Eart.cao win :, card ~ "a -