The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-25
WILLIAM NJ. REEKIE
TRIUMPHS At LIDO
New Jersey State Golf Cham
pion Takes HOnOrs Of In
vitation Tourney.
BEATS GARDINER WHITE
Margin in Final Over Long
Beach Course Is 6 Up
and 4 to Play.
BEATS GARDINER WHITE
by KERR n. PETRIE.


ment golf finals this season put. still
another kink in his game yesterday on
the Lido Beach Club links and made
him a comparatively easy victim IN the
last round of the first invitation meeting
ever held on that circuit for William NJ.
Reekie OF Upper Montclair the New
Jersey champion. II was a coincidence
perhaps that the first tourney decided on
Americas most Scotchike golfing ter
rain should have been won by links
man who learned the game in the Land
o. Cakes. on the other hand. there is
possibility that not since he came 70 the
American Continent has Reekie found
conditions of wind and turf and gem
eral layout that suited him better.
Trained where the blow OF the North
Sea constantly is endeavoring TO wreck
the game of the links-wise. Reekie had
tho shots that were called for at Lido,
and that is why to-day White is looking
back on drubbing that was given him
to stow away over winter. Reckless
margin was up and 4 to play and,
allowing for the fact that White did not
play as we'll In the decisive match as he
had done in his earlier ones. Reekie was
fully entitled TO the honors. If these are
TO be given to the man who plays the
most consistent game throughout tour
nament.
To reach the final Reeke on the morn
Ing OF the last day Of play had to dis
pose of John y. Stearns, Jr.. also of
Nassau This he did to the tune or
and 4. White also came through on the
crest of prosperitys HIGHEST wave, for
he eliminated Louis Livingston of West
brook and Lido by and 6. and to do so
put UP a game that was fully as snappy
as the crisp wind that later in the day
blew the whitecaps off the crest of the
coamers as they tumbled shoreward.
White had some exceedingly pretty
holes in the semi-flnal. including a mag
nidcent at the long and difficult eighth,
where he reached the edge OF the green
with a brassie and then Clipped into
the cup.
white Makes an Eagle"
This feat on the part Of White cut
par by no less than two strokes. More
over II put the Nassau champion up,
and although he lost the eighth he was
still 10 the good at the turn as
result of a 4 for himself and for
his opponent at the ninth. The match
did not last long after that, as It Will
be seen that to win by I and White
must have taken the first three outgo-
ing. His at the tenth was scarcely
worth q hole but there Is no disputing
the value of his golf at the next two.
where with a brace Of long puts of
from lllletu 10 elsHleSn ltci anu ~ phlF
of Is he cut into par each time. White
was out in 40 10 Livlngston's A.. good
golf at Lido.
Tn his semi-final match Reeke got
away to a fine start and won the first
three holes In par a. 4. 3. his OPPONENTS
putting making his success on the last
two OF these possible. The New Jersey
champion ran into n snag or two after
that, but always had q way of coming
back after a slump. lie was 3 up at
the turn. up at the tenth, and although
he lost the eleventh he took the twelfth
when Stearns pumped two balls into
the water hazard. At the next Reexie
made Il 5 up and he finished the match
with half in at the fourteenth.
There was nothing to presage a hol-
low victory for one or the other Of the
finalists In the play over the first four
holes. On the first both sliced n trlfle.
Reekie into n bunker and White into
the rough The latter lost n shot get
ting clear and that cost him the hole.
At the second, however, White played
perfectly and squared, Rcekie getting
caught on the drive. The third was
perfectly played White, with the
honor, laid his ball within fifteen feet
of the cup over a trap and Reekie
placed his inside. They halved In and
then went on 20 the fourth, whore the
Nassau man failed to get a proper hold
OF his ball on the drive ana had TO
sacrifice a shot playing clear. His third
carried him TO the green. whereas
Rockie lost the shot he had gained by
falling to carry the trap and a half In
8 was tho result.
Loses Five I'm Succession.
Up to this point everything had
pointed to n close finish. but beginning
with the fifth White had a siege OF mis-
fortune that cost him five holes In n
row. He began the fifth with a topped
drive and played his fourth over the
green into n bunker. so that Reekie won.
even with three puts. At the sixth both
got caught In the Dent" trying a long
carry on their second shots and while
both were on In 4 Reekie beat White TO
II on the putting
i.eekie's ability to extricate himself
from trouble again stood him In good
stead az the seventh for after being IN
the rough. first 10 the left and then 10
the right, he played n grand mashie shot
20 tho green and scored an easy 3, while
White with wasted shot in the stubble
20 tho left and fourth that won't into
more trouble over the green could show
nothing better than T.
ReolSie'e lead now had mounted to 3
up. on the eighth Il was taken 20 up
when White failed TO make a par 4 after
PLAYING his tee shot short and at the
next Il became up. chiefly through
white playing his toe shot into bunker.
Reelcie this time had gone out in nice
40, against &C for White.
Starting the second half of the round
White made n squirt that won two holes
back. On the tenth Reellie was just n
trifle strong with his approach and bit
the other way with his chip. The Upper
Montclair representative lost his shot az
the next by slioiug the least bit OFF the
course However he made fun amends
at the twelfth, whore after outdriving
White by twenty yards he placed his sec
ond within less than five feet OF the cup.
He missed this putt, but as White was
strong with his second and passed tho
hole with his putt the New Jersey cham
plon won In 10 8.
The thirteenth hole was won and lost
on the run NJ Both were on wide IN 2,
but while Reelie laid his bail up prac,
tically stone dead White was short This
made Reekie dormie and he won the
match on the next with par 2 against
"a. ReelSie was on from the tee. but
White failed to carry tho pit. The card
of the final:
Reckie-
Out ............ ssss 40
: In ...........s...
out ............0 4a56 e74 $40
The summary.