The sun., 1919-05-22
SCHOLASTIC GOLF
TITLE TO RUMSEY
Lawrenceville Player Defeats
w. G. Jones of Atlanta in
Final at Scarsdale.
BY INNS BROWN.

Something OF a surprise attended the
finish Of the interscholastic golf tourna-
ment at Scarsdale yesterday when Lee
NJ. Rumsey OF Miami. Fla, representing
LawrenceviIle. waded through the semi
final and final rounds to a we'll earned
victory. Rumsey's finishing stroke for
his days play was twentieth hole VIC
tory over Willis G. Jones, the sturdy At
lanta youngster, representing Tome
School
On the form displayed during the first
two days play W. b. Sparks. Lawrence
Vile, and II. G. Davis Sd, Hill School.
were figured slight favorites over Rum
sey and Jones respectively in the semi
finals. However. neither measured UP to
expectation. and the latter pair found
but little difficulty In disposlng Of their
opponents in the morning round.
Rumsey himself scarce expected to get
away with first honors In the last days
play. Neither did Johnny Stout. the
Lawrencevllle Instructor, nor Rumsey' 3
teammates. They were pinning their
hopes to Sparks. But by steady. con-
sistent work Rumsey succeeded in taxi
ing lead before his match had got
fairly under way and Sparks was never
able TO overtake him.
Davis Easy for Jones.
Davis proved a rather easy PROPOSE
ton for Jones. However, the latter in
troduced the best stretch of medal play
shown in a match during the tournament
when he went out with a So In the morn
ing round. This was five strokes under
Davis and enabled Jones to start home
A t.
good but Davis never succeeded In pull
ing himself together sufficiently TO get
back into the running.
The final round was a nip and tuck
affair from start to finish. Rumsey took
the lead on the second green. when Jones
required 6. where he had turned a In
his morning round. The third and fourth
were hsived, but Jones evened the count
on the nth.
The sixth was halved after Rumsey
had encountered the good fortune OF
having a drive out of bounds hit tree
and bound back. enabling him to hole
L. Rumsey took the lead with a 4 on
the seventh, when Jones took puts.
Jones got the next two in Is, giving him
a margin OF starting home.
Jones Takes Tenth.
Rumsey took four TO get on the tenth
green. when his third shot landed in
the rough TO the left of the green, and
could do no better than 6. Jones was
on with his third and down in two
puts. making him 2 up. Rumsey got
one Of these back with a par on the
eleventh against Jones's .. The twelfth
was halved in SIS. but Jones took the
thirteenth with 4. again holding a
margin Of two holes.
After an excellent drive on the four
teenth. Jones hooked a midiron over
back Of a row of trees and failed to
land his third on. Rumsey played n
nice mashie third onto the green and
won. ) to G. He also took the fifteenth,
whom Jones drove out OF bounds and
could do no better than a 5, again
sauaring the match Jones missed n
three foot putt foS 3 TO win on the
and 1t was halved in As
On the seventeenth Rumsey played
a nice midiron second shot onto the
green. Jones overshot the green With
mashie. and failed to get on from some
high grass with his third. Rumsey
landed 4. and took the lead. after hav-
ing lost IL at the ninth. Jones won the
eighteenth chiefly through n fine mashie
shot from 4 hillside lie, which landed
about fifteen feet from the cup. Rum
sey's second didn't reach the green. and
he lost 10 ). This evened the match
again.
The nineteenth was halved in 5s. On,
the twentieth Jones hooked a long drive
Just over into the rough of the third
hole. The ground was very soft and
the ball almost buried itself in the turf.
Rumsey sliced into the trees at the turn
of the elbow. but had good enough luck
to send the ball through the leaves and
onto the fair course. He short u nice
mashie to within fifteen feet of the
cup. Jones did we'll 10 get forty yards
out OF his lie and lost his last chance
when his third landed in high grass to
the left OF the green. Rumsey took two
puts for 4, winning the match. The
scores for the match follow: