New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Youth Winner
Over BaltusrOl
Star on Links
Walker Carries OFF Chief
Honors in Invitation Golf
Tourney ON Staten Island

Chief honors in the invitation tour
nament at tie Fox Hills Golf Club,
Staten Island. went TO A. l. Walker,
jr., the youthful Richmond County lad,
when he defeated A. +. kammer. Of
Baltusrol, IN the final round yesterday
afternoon, by 3 up and | to plsv. Only
a week or so ago. Walker won tho
medal in the qualifying round of tho
Metropolitan championship meeting at
Brookiawn, and then reached the final.
where he was put out by Oswald KIRK
by. the Englewood crack.
From the time they left the first
tee yesterday. up TO the moment that
the match ended on the seventeenth.
Walker always had the upper hand.
He won the first two holes in As, but
lost the third when Kamme- rolled in
a long putt from off the edge of thu
green There Walker tried TO chip in.
but his ball overran and he needed &.
In Trouble at Fourth
Both got into trouble going to the
fourth. but Walker won in 5 to 6, and
was . up again. The next five holes
were halved, and the Columbia student
turned for home up. having gone
out in 81 to 80 for his opponent. Luck
was with Walker at the sixth, where
his second shot, which really should
nave gone OUT oA pounus. nlt tne
fence, and his next narrowly missed
the bunker.
A half stymie laid hy Hammer at
the tenth caused Walker TO lose there.
and despite the fact that he ran down
twenty-foot putt for at the
eleventh. he could get nothing bet
ter than half. Hammer. after get
ting in the rough, had recovered well
and rolled in six-foot putt for bis
A IL ,,,ts.
trouble at the thirteenth. where his
ball landed in The gorge and he needed
8 to a for Walker.
By winning the fourteenth in 5,
Hammer reduced his rivals advantage
to l up, but Walker quickly got
ahead again at the sixteenth, when
Hammers ball got trapped. Walker
was then dormie two, and fine 3 az
the 295-yard seventeenth gave him the
hole and the match. They played the
bye hole, Walker taking to 6 for
Hammer. The winner had gone round
in ~ to 7S for his opponent. The
card follows:
Walker. out. a 4 4 ) , 4-s7
Manla Nammer' out = . 80 >.
hammer. in.4 1 3 6-3e-7s
Hammer Beat Follett
Hammer won his way to the final
round by defeating W. H. Follctt, of
the home club, in the morning by
and A. The Baltusrol man always
had the upper hand over his opponent,
and he finished the round in ", in
cluding at the home hole Walker
eliminated F. F. Hunt, of Jamaica. 3
and l, in the other semi-final match.
The summary follows:
FIRST SIXTEEN
Semi final round-A F. Hammer. Baltus-
rol, beat w. H. Follett, OF Fox Hills up
and to play: A. l. Walker. jr. Richmond
County, beat L. Il. Hunt. Jamaica. 3 up
and / to play.
Final round-Walker beat Hammer up
and to play.
Beaten eight, final round-L. G. Spind-
ler Fox Hills, beat +. i. Bessire. FOX Hills
/ 7 up and to play
SECOND SIXTEEN
- Semi final round-George G. Baxter Fox
| Hills. beat F. G. b. Riley. Fox Hills. al,
and to play; W w Van Loan Fox Hills
beat A +. Dawson. Fox HIS. up and
to play
Final round--Van Loan beat Baxler. q
up and to play.
Beaten eight, final round-T Tunis tr
Columbia. beat DR.. W. C. Fraiick, Massa-
pequa, up and to play
THIRD SIXTEEN
Semi final round-A. s. Trippe Fox Hills
beat f l.. Byrne. Fox Hills. by default:
Jones. Richmond County. one up Il holos).
Final round-f'laugh beat Trippe. 3 -
and 20 play.
Beaten eight. final round--C T. Sweeney.
unattached, beat w. ". Harris. Dun~oodie
2 up.