The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-07
WALKER VS.. KIRKBY
IN BROOKLAWN TILT.
Young Staten Islander to Play
Veteran for Metropolitan
Golf Title To-day.
by INNS BROWN.

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. June 6.-Arthur L.
Walker. Jr.. of Staten Island. Lucien to
his intimates, Is all that stands between
Oswald Kirkby, lanky Jerseyman, and a
third winning Of the metropolitan ANA
teur golf championship Standing up
under the gruelling battling of three sue
cessive days, these two alone survive
from the thirty-two players who qualified
here at the Brooklawn Country Club last
Wednesday.
Reckoned in terms of battle imme-
diately preceding the arrival at their
present status. Kirkby and Walker ara
still in the running. for to-day they
smothered the respective hopes of D. e.
Sawyer and Max r. Marston in tho
semi-hnal round, very considerable ac-
complishments, by the way This hap
pened in the afternoons play. In the
morning round neither had been called
on to introduce any convincing play in
order to get by.
It developed upon Max Marston to
eliminate the ono other dangerous look
ing eligible In the person of Gardiner
White of Nassau. Walker found rather
easy going against G. B. Carhart in the
morning, winning 4 and 3. while Kirkby
cantered home winner over c. V. Benton.
and 8. and Sawyer shvnted w. b. Stod-
dard the last fiuttering hope OF the
home team. out OF the picture under d 6
and defeat
Marston-walker Match Attracts.
With two very fine matches on the
programme for the afternoon, Marston
against Walker and Sawyer against
Kirby. most OF the gallery elected to
watch the former. There Is always in
terest in the newcomer and Walker Is
newcomer. at least in such elite golf
ing society.
Those who followed him and Marston
had their reward. If they expected to
see him bend or break. crumple or COL
lapse. they were disappointed. The
youngster made just one noticeably bad
shot during his whole round. BY the
| time the two had travelled through four
holes, Marston had opened the gate to
| his opponent twice. and the latter
promptly hurried through to a victory.
| From that point out. Marston was never
| able to head him.
Marston took the lead on the first hole.
| when Walkers second was short. and he
could do no better than against
| Marston's 4. The second was n dead
heat But on the third Marston dropped
his defence by pulling into the rough
| from the tee and getting no more than
| thirty yards on his out He took three
to get on against Walkers two. and
he couldn't make it UP. Walker. and 4.
walker Takes the Lead.
Marston followed on the fourth with
another slip by hooking his second to
the rough. His third was a poor out.
| and he needed 4 to get on. Walker was
right up the alley and counted 4. Civ
ing him a lead on the match. They
halved the short fifth in S. both miss
ing IS by inches on long puts. The
sixth was halved in So. But Marston
played the seventh very badly from tee
to green, taking a :. Walker had a 5,
| increasing his lead to two holes.
! Walkers drive on the eighth was his
one VIGOROUSLY bad effort. The ball
sliced into the rough almost against a
rock wall. lie had to play out straight
across the fair way. His third fell short
OF the green, and he had no further
chance, Marston winning with 4. The
eighth was halved in Is. leaving Walker
a margin Of one as they started home.
Both drove the green on the tenth.
| and their balls were SO nearly equi-
| distant from the cup that much measur-
| ing was necessary to show who was
away Walker was, and he sank a
twelve foot putt for a 2. The gallery
applauded loudly. Nothing daunted.
| Martson, who was about the same
distance away, also holed his putt.
The long eleventh was halved in 6's.
both putting rather feebly. But Walk
er stepped out on the 336-yard twelfth.
! His second shot settled about ten feet
| from the pin. and he dropped n bird g.
| He was up. He got another on the
thirteenth, when Marston sliced TO the
high grass, had a rather poor out, and
fell short of the green on his third. He
took a s against Walkers 3.
Mareton got one back at the four
teenth. He was on in 2. while Walker
was short. Marston dropped a against
' Walkers 5. Walker got II back on the