The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-12

For the second time this season a
team of American golfers scored over
Canadian opposition when the home
players defeated the visiting Seniors at
the Apawamis Country Club yesterday
afternoon. A visiting team of home
players Journeyed across the border for
victorious Invasion several weeks ago.
Yesterday the victory again was scored
In a decisive manner by a margin of 81
to on a Nassau basis of scoring.
Only three of the visiting players were
able to count points for their team.
These were George S. Lyon. many times
amateur champion of the Dominion, who
took 3 points from William Clark,
prospective new champion of the Sc
niors Col. Miles Hamilton of Peter
boro, who scored the same number of
points against L. J. Hasse OF Philadel-
phla, and c. A. Bogert of Toronto, who
nosed out G. Waldo-of Brooklawn for
single point.
But If the visiting team as whole
took trimming, it's captain, Lyon, went
right out and showed the home team
thing or two about how the ancient and
honorable game ought TO be played. Win
ming golf matches is more or less of
habit with the Lambton veteran. And
he goes about his Job in a snappy, busl-
nesslike way. He is decidedly out Of
place in senior competition, where the
field as rule prefers to take things
leisurely. meandering along at ease.
Lyon scampers right along. and any
entry who is taking on weight for age
is put to a rather strenuous task to even
keep pace with him in following his
shots. much less measuring skill with
him in manipulating the various clubs,
Lyon No Stranger Here.
AS far back as thirteen years ago the
Canadian player journeyed down and
took a hand In our amateur champion
ship at Englewood. He toppled over all
opposition until he met Eben NJ. Byers
of Pittsburg in the final round. Since
that time he has been visitor on more
than one occasion. Followers of the
game are familiar with his rather awk-
ward style. They are also familiar with
the manner in which he gets the results
desired in spite of any unorthodox
methods.
Yesterday he was pitted against
William Clark of Misquamicut, who ap-
pears to have the championship prac-
tically sewed up, though the second
round of the second section of the field
is to be played to-day. The Misquami-
cut player was seven or eight strokes
above his two rounds in trying for the
title, but had he been at his best he
would have been no match for the
active, agile Lyon. who carries his 61
years as lightly as feather.
The visiting captain scored a 70.
against s2 for his opponent He went
out in 40 and returned in 80. And these
figures include two strokes chucked off
on the eighth green, where he took four
puts, as well as two extra ones on the
ninth, when he counted Z. Three puts
on the seventeenth ran his score on that
hole to 6, when he lay just off the green
after two beautifully played wood shots.
This hole served to show what re-
markable distance the visiting veteran is
able to get from the tees and through
the fairways. Even from a forward tee
the distance on this hole is more than
4S0 yards. Grading from a depression
some hundred yards or SO from the tee
the fairway continues to rise until IL
reaches crest about three hundred yards
from the tee. Yesterday Lyon got fully
24O yards on his drive. and this included