The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-04
Pennsylvania Golfers
Score in Lesley Cup Match
Beat New York Team in First Half of Battle at South
ampton by 8 to 5-Kirkby Trounces Heron,
National Champion, by and A.
ny INNS BROWN.
.ures to win the fifteenth. ending the

figures TO win the fifteenth. ending the
match.
Jess W. Sweetser. the brilliant young
Ardsley entry. duplicated the trick OF
Kirkby in taking the measure OF Woodie
Plat. The conqueror Of Ouimet In the
national championship had to take his
opponents dust from the fourth hole
through the rest of the journey, and Ike
Heron, managed to win but a single
hole from the local player.
sweetser was out in 30. eoualiins
Kirkbys record. including O on the
third, where he took three puts AFTER
reaching the green and lost to Platts
par 4. The next green also cost Sweet
ser three puts, holding him to half
in T. The match was even here.
Sweetser drew away on the next hole
where he got down n bird TO win. He
followed with a bird to win the short
sixth, his tee shot leaving him three
| foot effort They halved the next three,
leaving Sweetser two UP.
Both putted badly, taking three each
for the tenth, and halving in .. Then
Sweetser settled and took the next two
| In par A. Two 3s accounted for the
thirteenth and Sweetser ended the match
by winning the fourteenth 4 TO 5.
George Hoffner shot par golf for the
first nine holes to turn two up on John
| g. Anderson. Through the FIRST eight
holes of the nine he was one under par.
but took six on the ninth Anderson
took the lead on the second with a bird
| 8, but Hoffner evened, when Anderson
needed six on the NTH. Hoffner got
| the lead on the seventh, where Ander-
son ran to six again. and then increased
It with bird . on the $50 yard eighth.
They snapped wins on the tenth and
eleventh. and Anderson got the four
teenth But Hoffner prcked of the fif-
| teenth and sixteenth 10 end the battle.
Gardiner W, White and Paul Tewkes-
bury waged a merry battle right through
to the eighteenth hole. Tewkesbury
out in 40. stood two up on the nine
holes, but wins at the tenth and twelfth
| pulled White back TO even terms
White looked like a winner on the next
with his tee shot fifteen feet from the
cup and his opponent Just short OF the
green. But the Nassau champion took
three puts, whereas Tewkesbury Clipped
dead and hoied his s. He also got the
fourteenth when Whites drive found q
trap.
But the latter braced and took tn,
next two, 5 to 6, getting to even again
The seventeenth proved another tough
loser for White. He coupled TIP two
brilliant shots landing his ball just or
tho green, whereas Tewksbury wal
short. But the latter Clipped well VI
and won, 4 and s. when White again took
3 puts.
+ white Makes Bold Bid.
One down and l to play. White sal
lied forth boldly to take the home hole
He was inside his opponent on their sec
onds and seemed 70 hold the upper hant
n a.
his third and trickled over the high
banked green.
!, Tewkesbury succeeded in dropping hi
fourth we'll UP to the pin, and with moth
} ing better than a. half In sight Wait,
conceded the hole and match.
A. F. Hammer sprang something of
surprise In his defeat of w. c. Fownes
! former national champion and seml-flnsl
! list in the late Pittsburg tournament
The Baltusrol player was playing In fin
form and when his opponent skidded
few times in the early part OF the mattel
} 7 ran into a fat lead.
As they approached the twelfth te
Hammer led by five holes, with bu
} seven left to play. But he fell into er
: ratio ways and the Pittsburg player wa
prompt to take advantage OF the breaks
He managed TO pull up to within on
hole Of his opponent as they went for tn
1
ahead of Fownes, he had q three foo
putt to win the hole. when Hammer
: approach putt left him a stymie and h
could do no better than a half, losing,
r down.
| T. NJ. Byers and Frank w. Dye
I fought another homo hole finish. Afte
. see-sawing along Byers took the Twelfth
5 to get a lead of one. They halved tn
next but Dyer evened by laying hi
4 i NASs xxTt,, a.
4 fourteenth. Byers got the fifteenth an
r the sixteenth was halved. Dyer agail
got even by winning the seventeenth
On the home hole he suffered the fat
of White, playing his third over tn
r embankment and losing the hole.
I Dwight Armstrong played practicali
4 par golf to beat w. N. Reekie, s and 4
He did the first nine holes In IS, no
i including the seventh. where he lost
ball, A six here would have enable
him to equal par. Reekie was five dow
= at the turn and could never recover an
h Of the lost ground. Grant Peacoc
4 scored rather easily over ]. B. Crook
ston. Peacock was Ave up going to tn
/, thirteenth. but lost that then halve
! the next two to win. I and .. The sun,
!. maries:
o ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS W. @. Fown,
and Max Marston q and ~, 4; Geors
i a
5 Davidson, Heron and r. NJ. Byers t5 an
!. -, Paul Tewksbury and Pat Grant,
. Dwight Armstrong and George ormIsto
New York-oswaid Kirkby and oardln,
$ White, o. John q. Anderson and A.
0 Hammer, o; William Reekis and =. v
h Dyer. o.; A. l.. Walker. Jr., and Jesse v
swsetser. Il Archie MeIlvain and J. i
!" stearns, Jr.. o. Total l.
4 ron, o; Max Marston q and -. 1; w.
Fownes Jr.. o.; George Hofrner q and Q
l; Paul Tewksbury "a up). /; L. Wood
EiAts 4 y DwlTht u Armstrong ss e and 2.
n B. crookston, o. Total. s.
= New York; Oswald Kirkby Is and q,
A. L. Walker, o. 4. y. Hammer q up).
ID John g: Anderson, .; Gardiner White,
R.ssis i':' Dyer sns g. AsoAi. Ms %tIlsi
q up), !; Grant Peacock a and a.
. Total, g.. Grand totaIt Pennsylvania,
Observation-Disclosures; p. W. Viii
!. temore and b. W. Esthbrook q and -,
w. c. Chick and F. @. Newton q up)'
l. Il. r. oorton and II, De Pierce q and l
= I; i. q: Patton and p. +. schohsId Is ar
It o. ! i M Sianin and g. T. Hicks
S veterans, II. s, Douglas and Gran,
i Peacock, o. H. H. Wider and Psrc,y
; Gilbert; o; J, a Thompson and ].
B. Barnes, o. Total 0. "N "'orse
y singles-R, r. Gorton Is and q, 1, '
y 6 Chick q Rodney Rodney Brown q ana d.
Newton Ss SpS' +, = T. Sna sos 10 E;
10 b, Patton 6 and -, 1; T. NJ Cisnin
* and d. /; r., pes Pierce, 0; S. Mieh
v SR "a So j. l. Thc TSs: q, o.o, .
' mission q and ~, Il F. s. DouEiss
'e C J Sullivan, PereivaI Gilbert. Q;
,r y, stearns, Jr: u and -, 1; oeorEe