New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

The advantage see-sawed back ard
forth from the time the pair started
out at $50 a. m. until they finished at
6:4O p. m. At the completion of the
first half of the match in the morning
White stood l up.
When the two began their journey in
the afternoon the gallery was aug
mented by hundreds of people, includ-
ing great number of fair damsels,
who had arrived at luncheon. These
spectators we're treated to wonderful
match, which closed the greatest Met
ropolitan tourney ever held
Ideal Title Mattel,
Yesterdays was tussle such az was
held in England the other day between
Bob Gardner and the English cham
pion, Tolley. 1t was an ideal match
for championship final and produced
exactly the kind of play generally ex
pected of topnotchers, but which is
seldom seen in the final round of a
big match.
Both played in perfect form, prac-
tically throughout the entire game.
Their play at times verged onto
phenomenal golf. In the morning
White finished with a score of II to
Sawyer's 76, and in the afternoon each
player bettered this mark by one
stroke. Both made several mistakes,
but they. were of slight nature. and
generally after committing mistake
each man came back with remark
able recovery that left the gallery
dumbfounded
1t was tough match for White to
lose, but as we look back over the
records and the score OF yesterdays
game it seems that Sawyer is in evcsv
way deserving of the honors. To begin
with, Sawyer won the medal with a
brilliant score of II. Then he ham
mered and fought his way through a
that encountered by White-a field in
cluding Oswald Kirkby, the former
title holder; young Harry scharff and
Eddie Van Week. White had no easy
time of it by any means, but his oppo-
nents, it seems to US, were not quite
the equal of those of Sawyers. At least
White had no such opponent as Kirkby
to beat to get into the final round.
Sawyer Game Steady
And then, in yesterdays play it must
be admitted that Sawyers was just
trifie steadier game than White :.
White played brilliantly, but he had to
play in just that manner to keep in the
running because of his erratic work
with the wood. He made some excep-
tonaiiy fine recoveries, and his short
game was quite superior to Sawyer's.
but il: driving and on the greens Saw
yer did the better work.
Both got long drives on most, of the
holes, but as rule Sawyer was straight
down the middle, while on the inward
journey, both in the morninr and in
the afternoon, White got off the line on
several occasions. He was generally
able to nullify these mistakes with his
nifty iron play.
Going out in the morning, White
was able to make the turn Q up. Com
ing back, he kept up his good work
and won another hole at the twelfth
Then he got to pulling his drives. This
procedure proved very costly to the
Long Islander, for it enabled Sawyer to
get back two holes ard to trail his op-
ponent home by only l down. The fea-
ture shot of this round was a remark
able so-called "Brady" shot by White
at the thirteenth hole.
White pulled his drive a trife, while
Sawyer's went straight and long. White
took his mashie and on his second shot,
lofted the ball high over the trees and
dead to the green within eight feet
of the pin. He holed this putt and won
the hole. But most of the thrills were
reserved for the afternoon.
This is the way the pair played the
deciding round:
On the first hole Of the nineteenth
officially White drove into the sand
while Sawyer's was straight down the
iairway. White played out to the fair
way and landed his third six feet from
the hole. Sawyer's second was within
fifteen feet Of the hole. Both putted
and Sawyer was left about a three
quarter stymie. The Siwanoy man,