The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-05
Walker Surprises Golfers
In METROPOLITAN Tourney
Richmond County Man Leads Amateur Field at Brook
lawn With 150-White Is Second Two Strokes Be-
hind, and Reckless Card Proves Third Best
~ INNS BROWN.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. June A star
shell fsausht with surprise rocketed and
| exploded over the golflng embellishments
at the Brooklawn Country Club here this
, afternoon in the qualifying round for the
nineteenth metropolitan amateur cham
pionship. 1t broke in the nature Of a
victory for A. J.. Walker, Jr., of the
Richmond County Country Club in the
thirty-six holes medal play. with a card
OF $50. Walker linked UP a round of
rs In the morning with "a in the after
noon.
Regarded as a likely entry to loiter
among the select, II was hardly ex-
pected that he would romp home in the
van or the entire cavalcade of more
than three score players II was not
expected because of the fact that the
field included. with few exceptions, the
full complement Of topnotchers in the
metropolitan district.
But playing as he did, Walker left
little room for argument over the final
issue. He was consistent. and what IL
more, consistently good. He made few
misplays in either round His FIRST nine
holes In the morning required thirty mine
strokes. three over par. AS good as
was this performance, II proved his
worst stretch OF the day. He came
homo in thirty-seven, and then turned
or both mines in the afternoon in the
same figure.
First Nine in 81.
His outward journey In the afternoon
was done in 81 after he had been forced
to accept on the par 4 FIRST hole
But from that point on he allowed but
little lost motion. He halved three Of
the remaining eight with par, took one
fho htrH
one of his figure at the fifth, seventh
and ninth.
When Walker turned in his 20 for the
morning round he landed second place
to. Gardiner White. Nassau, who had a
hne 70. But there were several other
older and more experienced players, but
thin margin back. who were favored
as the most likely to overhaul White
William Reekie. Upper Montclair, John
@. Anderson. Siwanoy. and John NJ
Ward. Garden City. each had a IL. while
Max Marston, Baltusrol, and F. H
Hoyt, Engineers. both had rs.
But by the time the first nine holes OF
the afternoon had been finished II be-
came apparent that none of these were
making any progress toward ovevhauling
the Nassau man. Reekie picked up three
Of the four lead to the turn, and Ander-
son retrieved two OF his handicap. But
White opened up briskly after the turn
homo, and his 81 for the nine holes didn't
leave much encoura cement for either of
the above.
However. by the time Walker had
reached the twelfth hole II began TO be
noised about that he was going like
tornado. His 81 out against Whites
~ picked up Whites morning lead of
three strokes and put him two to the
good. Then when he sank on the
tenth against Whites 4 and halved the
5s7 yard eleventh with a par he had
banked 4 stroke lead, which began to
loom large.
White Gaips Stroke.
White cut this lead by one stroke on
the thirteenth. which Is 462 yards, mostly
UP hill. by landing a bird l. Gardner
also picked UP one on the short fifteenth
over the lake. Walker chose to play
this one safe and shot well over the
green into the road. His chip shot left
him a four foot putt. but he failed TO
hole II and had to take a 4,
Both got~fours on the sixteenth. but
White lost one stroke when he took
three to reach the seventeenth green.
and made 8. Walker was on in two
and down in four White had a par 4
or the eighteenth. while Walker could
win with 6. His second was behind
the chocolate mounds 20 the LEFT of the
green and he barely got on in three.
But he holed out In two puts for 8,
winning the round by two strokes.
walkers score for the thirty-six
holes follows: