The sun., 1919-08-13
FOUR SURVIVE IN
PUBLIC LINKS GOLF
Wallace, Poinsette, Purcell
and Brooke in Semi-finals
at Van Cortlandt Park
ny INNS BROWN.


With two more rounds Of match play
remaining. the field in the Herald Cup
golf tournament at Van Cortlandt Park
winners are set to the Job of repelling
two newcomers In the semi finals. In the
upper half Of the bracket William
wallace OF Forest Park must reckon
with Allan F. Poinsette of the News
paper Club and In the lower half Walter
II. Purcell, the Durwoodie southpaw,
VIII be pitted against r, H. Brooke of
the New York Golf Club.
This quartet constitutes the surviving
list through the two rounds of match
play yesterday. during which more than
one interesting battle was staged. After
an easy victory against Hiram Serine
in the morning, Wallace ran into a
rather tough argument with Dick Walsh
In the afternoon. Walsh led by / up
at the turn, but Wallace took the
twelfth to finish the Meadows all even.
Inc fourteenth and sixteenth were also
won by Wallace. giving him q margin
Of 2 and Z.
Poinsette encountered rather stubborn
opposition in the forenoon with f. d.
Bamman, winning and 1. In the aft
ernoon he defeated little Bobby Tobin 4
and 2. He finished the Meadows three
to the good and wound Up the match by
taking the sixteenth.
Purcell Comes Through,
Purcell disposed OF e. L. Rohdenberg.
the Columbia golfer. with little difficulty
III the morning. winning I and 2. In the
afternoon he met w. T. GotellL who had
eliminated ]. G. Fraser in the forenoon.
2 and /. Purcell got away to a lead, but
3otelli ran down long putt at the third
to make 1t even again. BY the time
they reached the ninth Purcell again led
by one hole. he having taken the fourth
and sixth, with his opponent winning
the ninth. The eleventh and twelfth
also went to Purcell, and he started for
the hills three UP. Wins at the thir-
teenth and fifteenth gave him the match,
5 and 4.
After having bumped NJ. T. Clifford
OF Woodhaven out of tho lists In the
forenoon. Z and o, Brooke came near
picking up a nail in Martin Hammer In
the afternoon round. Hammer defeated
T. T. Tomas. Scottish-American, 8 and 6,
in the morning round He then forced
Brooke to the twentieth hole for a de-
cision In the after noon.
The two see-sawed back and forth
through the first four holes. Each won
two and lost two, and in each case the
figures were 4 and 8, Brooke getting the
first and third and Hammer the
second and fourth. The next two were
halved In Is. Brooke picked up two in
a row. with at the seventh and at
the short eighth. But he faltered on
the ninth. losing II. I to 8, and turned
up. He was out in 40 against Al for
Hammer.
Hammer Takes Lead.
Hammer counted a at the tenth to
even and took the lead with a 3 on the
short eleventh over the pond. They
halved the twelfth in IS and began the
journey over the hills with Hammer !
up. The thirteenth was halved in As,
but Brooke took the fourteenth. to 8.
to get an even break again. From that
point out the rest were halved. each
player making the second nine in 80.
The first extra hole failed to yield a
decision. both getting down in 4. But
or the second extra. Hammers putter
became unmanageable. and he lost the
hole and match, after beating his oppo-
nent to the green. He was on in two
and took no less than four puts to get
down. Brooke took three to get on, but
holed out with two puts.
Wallace meets Poinsette in the morn
Ing semi-hnal to-day. the two bearing
the colors of Forest Park and the News
paper Golf Club respectively. Purcell
will tackle Brooke. The final round will
be played of this afternoon. Should
Wallace and Purcell survive the morn
ing round. the Anal will determine the
permanent winner of the trophy. since
each has scored one of the two victories
necessary to gain permanent possession.
The Summaries.
Second Round-willIam wallace Foreat
Park. beat Hiram Serine, newspaper,
and 4; Richard Walsh, unattached, beat
Ralph Seeler. unattached, 2 and /: A. F.
Poinsette, newspaper, beat F. D. Bammsn.
unattached. and !; T. ]. Tobin. unat-
taehed. beat A c; Moore. New York. :
e. L Rohdenbers. North Jersey. 1 and 3;
W. T. Gotslli. unattached. beat J. @.
Fraser. Scottish American. 2 and /; Martin
hammer. unattached. beat T. 7. Tomas.
Scottish American. and 3: r. H. Brooke,
and g.
Third Round-wsiacs beat walsh, 2 and
l; Poinsette beat Tobin. . and 2; Purcell
beat Gotelli. 5 and 4: Brooke beat Kam-
mer, up Gao holes).
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