The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19

Van Week. T., TiumphS
ON Greenwich Links
Furnishes Big Surprise by Taking Final Round of 1nvi-
taton Tourney-Beats Graham
by and 4.
ny INNS BROWN.

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G. e. Van Week. Jr., took the bit In
his teeth In the two closing rounds of
the Greenwich invitation golf tourna-
ment yesterday and breezed home a win
ner OF the event in display Of golf that
surprised, not to say shocked. about
everybody on the course except himself
He put Simpson Dean, the tall Prince
ton golfer. out In the semi-fnal round by
margin Of u Up in nineteen holes Of
play in the forenoon. Resuming after a
brief rest he proceeded to tie Sam J.
Graham club mate, Into a complicated
knot In the fnal round. winning and 4.
II was a Van Week day all right.
Time was some years back when base
ball and basketball chronicles emanat-
ing from New Haven told OF the diamond
and court activities OF this same Van
Week In more or less glow ing terms. He
was a pitcher on the baseball team and
centre on the basketball FIVE among his
osher athletic activities. In later days
he has come to be known as quite con-
siderable of a golfer. But yesterday saw
his boldest bid for links distinction.
or the four semi-hnalists, including
himself, Graham. Dean and Grant Peer
no doubt the gallery was about agreed
: on Van Week as the outsider OF the
quartet. Form students would say that
he was too much Of an in-and-outer.
Dean was regarded as something Of A
favorite in the morning round. Then,
even after Van Week had polished off
the Princetonian In cyclone fnish the
gallery still persisted In believing he
would fall before the steady, accurate
| game Of Graham.
Van Week CONFIDENT.
That opinion predominated easily
! among the onlookers. But there was
one who harbored no such belief Tha,
was Van Week himself. He had his
confidence with him and offered SUBJ
stantial proof OF his Theories in his
match with Dean. And the fact that re
was meeting Graham, veteran Of
many hard fought tournament Itch.
I didn't dull that confidence a whit in the
! afternoon match. Van Week voiced his
| belief that he would defeat Graham ami
| graciously accommodated in material
| fashion any and all who saw 1T to disa-
! gree with his opinion.
| Whether stimulated by this confidence
| or stiffened by the consideration which
said confidence prompted him to inject
into the combat. the former Yale athlete
went right out and busted himself with
substantiating his ella inns right from the
jump. 1t was expected that he would
outdrive Graham and possibly beat him
| to the green's. but II was hardly antici-
pated that he would prove a superior or
witch favorite on the short game.
| But, as remarked above, Yesterday
was Van Weeks day. He leaped right
into the lead on the first hole winning II
to s. And he scored the win by ac-
curate putting where Graham slipped and
| took three puts after they had reached
the green on even terms There was
| nothing to choose between them when
| they halved the second in par 8. The
next also proved a draw. Here Van
| Week was short on his second. with his
| opponent on the green. But he again
| exhibited his skill at the short game by
chipping his third within two feet Of the
cup.
| Van Week Loses Fourth.
The fourth hole is 575 yards In dis
| lance and on this test Van Week lost
! his first and only hole in the first nine
| to par He got home on his third. but
Graham's ball lay directly in the path
OF his long putt. and he had to play
| of the line and needed three puts to
get down In and halve the hole. He
won the next by slashing a nice midiron
second to the green and laying his APP
proaoh putt close up. Graham had taken
taken four TO get on and conceded the
putt and hole.
On the sixth Van Weeks drive rolled
into trap, but left him a good lie
and he slashed another long iron to
the green $50 yards away. and scored
a half in par T. 1t was good enough
to win. when Graham missed a four
putt for a half. The seventh went to
Van Week by thes same figure. though
this time he ran down a seven foot
putt after taking three shots to reach
| the green Graham also took three to
get up and two to get down. Van Week
was holding an edge in the short play
| all along here.
They divided the eighth In 4, and again
Van Week did his deadly work with a
short chip short after his second had
failed to reach the green. Graham beat
| him on but took two puts The ninth
also went against Graham. due par
TALLY to his unsatisfactory work on the
| green. Both drove the green from the
tee. though Graham was thirty-hve feet
| short OF the cup, with Van Week some
| twelve feet away. Graham overran his
approach putt fully ten feet and missed
his second. allowing Van Week TO win,
8 to 4.
BY taking this hole Van Week had
completed u satisfactory job of winning
four of the last Ave played and finished
the nine with a lead OF Ave up. 1t was
a tolting surprise to the gallery and
looked like an early finish to the match.
But on the tenth hole Graham gave his
friends their first chance to express APP
proval of his work. With both on the
green from their drives Graham ran
down q twelve foot putt, to win the
hole, 2 to 8.
| HaIve Eleventh in 4.
Both got home with their seconds on
the eleventh. though Graham was just
on the edge of the green. After he
stopped his approach putt within a foot
OF the cup Van Weeks try hit the back
OF tho cup and kicked away. They
halved In I. Graham was short on the
twelfth with his tee shot and his short
pitch stopped fifteen feet from the cup
Van Week drove on and rolled his Sec
ond within two feet of the pin Graham
missed and lost, 4 to 8.
A fine putt OF twelve feet enabled
Graham to register a bird to win the
thirteenth. Both landed in the high
grass to the left OF the course on their
second and took to get on the green
Van Week laid his approach dead for his
par s, but II got him nothing. when
Graham holed single putt. Both
gummed their second shots for a lone
fourteenth. After Van Vlcck had played
his thru into the edge of brook
Graham took a desperate chance TO get
extra distance in recovering from traT