The sun., 1919-09-27


dope remained to attest the upsets Of
the day at the finish of play in the in
vitation golf tournament on the links of
the Nassau Country Club yesterday
afternoon after the last pair of con-
tcstants had ambled in to make their
report to the score board tender. Two
rounds Of match play were staged, and
supposed long shots tumbled through to
upset favorites in both OF these.
For one thing, Gardiner w. White,
the Nassau club champion, had been
bumped out of the picture at the close
Of the days activities White finished
out with flying colors In his morning
round against r. N. B. Fay of Oxford
County but fell before the attack of
Sam ]. Graham of Greenwich in the
afternoon. J. S. Dean, who captured
the qualifying round on Thursday and
was looked on as a likely performer to
hang around until the finals. also took
the count. He dropped before the vet
eran John NJ. Ward in bis first clash.
1t wasn't exactly the best of days
for youth anyway. In addition to White
and Dean, Howard N. Maxwell. Jr.. Of
the home club another young entry
highly regarded in advance, had been
eliminated in the returns of the second
round. He lowered his colors to e. c.
Beall of Uniontown. Morton L. Fearey
of Garden City is the other semi-flnallst,
though none Of the younger entrants in
the field were listed in the casualty list
that led to his winning a place in the
semi final clashes. He defeated A. w.
Rossiter of the home club in the morn
ing. In the afternoon he bowled over
James c. Parrish. Jr., National. after
the latter had taken the measure of g.
H. Ivison of Cherry Valley in his first
out.
The victories of both Graham and
Ward in their matches with White and
Dean vindicated the claims of those
who are wont to argue that distance
from the tee is hardly more than an
| incidental to winning golf. White and
Dean were slashing them out anywhere
from thirty to forty yards further than
their respective opponents, Graham
| and Ward. But when 1t came down to
rounding out the job with short APP
breaches and puts, the latter pair car
ried an advantage that kicked away the
| margin laid up on the drives of the dis
! tance wallopers.
Dean Hits EN- Far.
Dean is an exceptionally long driver
i and generally manages to keep pretty
good direction. In his match with Ward
| he was hitting 'em a mile" but the
| handicap from the tee didn't worry the
| Garden City player in the least. They
! battled on even terms through the
/ eighth hole. Dean pulled his drive for
| the tenth out of bounds, and Ward took
the Role to turn the first nine 1 up.
Deans fine driving handed him an
| advantage playing the new tenth. which
he cashed in for a win with bird 4.
| A wear approach putt on the eleventh
! left him too much to do with his next
| and Ward took the hole to regain the
lead. He missed a short putt on the
| twelfth that would have given him a
win. and evened up again From there
on he never overlook his veteran OPP
ponent. Ward stood dormie 2 as they
| reached the seventeenth tee. He lost
| that, but halved the home hole, when
| Dean took three puts after reaching the
green a stroke ahead of Ward. This
| gave Ward the match l up.
White had easy sailing with Fay in
| the morning. He was about up to the
| form which has carried him around the
! course around 10 on numerous occa-
sions this summer. He reeled off the
| first nine holes in 3S, equallng par for
| the nine. AS they turned for home
| White stood up. He hustled right along
at this dizzy clip, taking the next four
! holes in succession, ending the match
on the thirteen green. and 5.
But the stop. for lunch threw the
| White, scoring machinery out of gear
When he jumped off at the first tee
| with Graham in the afternoon he had
lost much of his cunning. His tee shots
were very good as a rule, but he found
no end of trouble in connecting with the
greens from the ends of his drives
Usually it was an errant poke that
found the rough or maybe a trap, and
on several occasions his efforts at re-
covery were as bad or worse.
Graham Puts Brilliantly.
Added to these difficulties came the
, adverse consideration for his hopes OF
a display of wizardiike putting By thu
| Greenwich player. Graham was nothing
especially good on reaching the greens
but once there he was as much at homt
as a woodthrush in pine thicket Six
teen holes were covered in the combat
| between the two, and on six of thes'
Graham dropped his ball with single
putt after reaching the green, and the
distances ranged all the way from fiv'
to thirty feet.
On the first three greens Graham ac
compllshed his purpose with but single
tap after reaching the green. On the
| first this was good enough 10 win III =
! when both chipped on In g. On the nex'
two single puts held Graham up for 6
half in 5s, after White beat him there
by a stroke. on the second green 1t wal
a twenty-five footer that Graham sank
White got the fourth hole with PAL
g. when Graham overshot the green
Then came a row of three 6s for White
a loser in each case. In each instance
White was practically flag high with hi;
second. with Graham taking to reacf
the green Each time Whites second
left him troubleNhat took two more &c
get the ball on the green. White scored
another par to win the short eighth
then lapsed into his habit OF IS on thu
ninth. when his second caught traI