New-York tribune., 1919-09-27
Favorites Lose
On Golf Links
OF Nassau Club

avorites we're brushed aaide with
scant consideration in the irst and
second match rounds Of the invitation
golf tournament at the Nassau Coun-
try Club yesterday. For starter, ].
Simpson Dean, the sturdy Princeton
athlete who won the medal in the test
ing circuit, was defeated by John NJ
Ward. the Garden City veteran, the
match being carried to the home green.
Later, Gardiner ". White, the home
champion, who had shown q fash Of
MS true form against r. N. g. Fay, Of
Oxford, fell before Samuel j. Graham,
Of Greenwich
AS the situation now stands the SUI
vlvors for the semi-fnal round to-day
are Graham vs.. E. c. Beall, in the upper
half, and Morton L. Fearey vs. Ward,
on the lower side
Dean lost to Ward IN the morning
because of the deadly approaching and
putting on the part OF the Garden City
man. The latter found enough trouble
to have defeated any ordinary golfer,
put when once on the green or there
aoouts he missed few opportunities
close Al! the Way
1t was close all the way around Aft
er being one down Dean drew level with
at the eighth. but ne pulled his
drive out of bounds going to the ninth
and losing there stood one down at the
turn. At the twelfth Ward stood 2 up
He was dornlie standing on the eigh-
teenth tee, so that a half in at the
nome hole lett him a winner by up
He made the round in 81 70 Deans 81.
Graham began the day we'll by de-
featlng Hamilton X Kerr. Greenwich
club-mate, up and 3 70 play. That
placed the first named into the secono
round with White. From the starr
Graham proceeded 70 either save
halves or "steal" holes by bringing OF
lcng puts. In fact, on no less than
SIX greens he needed only single putt
After taking three shots to &c. home
at the first, the Greenwich man sank
a goot putt to win in 4, while at the
second he got a half in by bringing
Off twenty yhvefooter
1t was due to another putt that savec
Graham at No. 3, and again at the
twelfth where q ffteen-footer netted
him half in d. He had made en-
Indifferent second shot. At that point
Graham was 3 up and he made victory
all the more certain by laying brassle
shot TO within eight feet of the nag
at the thirteenth and again dropping
the putt for 2. After that only three
more holes were necessary TO settis
the match.
Some Cncanny Putting
Graham was free to admit that his
putting for the last two or three weeks
had been almost uncanny. be mas
been holing the ball at all sorts OF
distances and incidentally wondering
how long the deadly streak is going
to last. On the other hand, White says
his game seems to be getting worse ana
worse. He now has about come 70 the
conclusions that it will he just IS wen
to quit for the rest of the year
Ward defeated II. V Bingham, Of the
National Links, 3 and 2 in the second
round, while Fearey scored over James
Parrish, jr, 2 ansl
1t was odd to see Fred Herreshon
competing in the third sixteen, ano
stranger still to have TO record de-
feat
The summary:
First sixteen, first round.-saruel J.
Graham. Greenwich beat Hamilton a
x err. Greenwich. Up and TO play Car
diner w. White. Nassau. beat f. n; D.
Fay Oxford up and TO play, T.
BeaN. Uniontown. beat william l. HICKS
Nassau, up (ia holes) II. w. Aaxws.''
Jr, Nassau, beat George A Dixon II. Nas
sau. up and to play: Morton L. Fesssy'
Garden city beat a W Rossiter Nassau
2 up and to play. James c Parrish, j..
National Links. beat II. s. Ivison. cherry
Valley. up and TO play; John NJ. "src-
Garden City. beat J. Simpson Dean Prince
ton. up; II. V. bingham. National Links
beat J. S. ORourke Nassau. up and 70
play.
Second round Graham beat Wh.te.
up and TO play; Beall beat Maxwell,
up; Fesrey beat Parrish. up and 70
play; Ward beat Bingham. ; up aad 2 I"