New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
Perry Annexes
Golf Laurels
At Fox Hills
Staten Island Player Beats
Clubmate, Newman, by ?
Up in the Final Round
By Ray Mccarthy


tilt for their annual club champion
ship yesterday afternoon. This course
of events probably was as it should
have been according to the law OF
nature and other logical elements. In
the final setto, Perry showed more
steadiness than his clubmate and won
the right to call himself the Fox Hills
Club champion for the next year. His
margin of victory was up.
For the first time since play was
started on Thursday, Newman's score
rose higher than So He took 81
strokes to go around the hilly links
that overiooks New York harbor yes
terday afternoon, whereas had he
maintained the form shown in pre-
vious contests he probably would have
been the victor. Considering the fact
that this is but the second tourna-
ment Perry has played in for year
or more, his march TO top honors can
be considered meritorious accom-
plishment.
Newman Beat Lawyer
In the morning round, officially, the
semi-fnal, Newman disposed of the
who threatened for time to walk
off with the main prize. The score
Of this match, which was we'll played
and close throughout, was 2 and l.
Perry. in the meantime. was repell-
ing the other invader. Miller Jones,
who had crossed the Island from the
rival club, Richmond County, to try
his luck. Perry had an easier time
than Newman, winning by 6 up and
to go. Thus when starting time ar
rived for the final. everything had
been pretty we'll localized and prepared
for a regular Fox Hills event.
There was no great difference no
ticeable in the play of the two fnalists
afternoon. They drove practically
alike on every hole, making good, long
smashes that generally sailed down the
middle of the fairway and ran to good
lies. The putting of both men, while
not brilliant, was for the most part
steady. and each got about everything
of reasonable legth. But Newman's 8
was the better short game going out
and as consequence he was able to
turn with an advantage of l up.
Coming in things were reversed.
Perry did the better work with his
irons, whereas Newman got off the line
frequently, little more so than Perry
did going out, and accordingly was
H..
short Of it.
Perry Takes Lead
Perry got the jump by playing the
first two holes in par figures, while
Newman. because of erratic iron shots,
was forced to play one more stroke.
On the third hole Newman laid his
opponent g styme and cut down Per-
rvs lead. Both played sound golf, as
i : 4
and got IS on the long fifth for d half.
Newman continued the good work on
the sixth, crashing out a long drive
which landed him on the green, and he
holed out in two puts. Perry Swervcd
from the main line on his drive, fell
shy on his second and took three more
shots to get down.
Thus settled into his stride, Newman
went the score card and his rival one
better on the next hole by shooting a
birdie t. His drive was lallapaloos ,
one of the screaming, bullet-speedlng
kind that starts foot or so above
ground and doesn't reach the, crest
of its fight until some 200 yards cut.
His next shot was also a corkcr, which
left him high and dry on the green,
whence he holed out in 2.
Perry in the mean time was hrlnglny :
up the rear, two strokes behind. NeH-
man also won the eighth hole with
some more nifty play that netted hlro a
par d, while Perry took 5. Each got
par on the ninth, leaving Newman
one to the good.
At the tenth Perry promptly over
hauled the fast travelling Newman and
cut down his lead by scoring a par a
Newman got off the fairway. on his sec
ond and was on in 3 to hole out IN 3.
Newman. who seemed able to do his
best work on the long holes, got back
the lead on the eleventh, a hole of 45C
wards. which he made with a par >.
Perry required six strokes to negotiate
the distance Both missed puts on
the twelfth and got down in As.
Even on Thirteenth
Going to the thirteenth, Newman 5
drive found its way into bad lie. he
barely got out on his second and his
third took him to the far side Of the
green. from where he made three puts.
4 was easy for Perry and left him on
even terms once more. The struggle
was even-steven for the next three
holes. both playing them in par lgures
Then came the seventeenth, which
cost Newman the match. Both made
good drives, but Ne"man's second {,
mashie pitch, was off the line and
landed on the edge of the green.
Perrys was quite good. Newman
overran the cup by seven feet on his
putt and took two more to get down,
while Perry, playing it safe, scored
4. On the eighteenth, Newman again
plaved his iron poorly while Perry
pitched his nicely to the green and had
an easy A in front of him. Newman, on
his third, was still thirty feet from the
cup.
Their cards:
sz55,, Rs5Fy .......-. ssSs5S5 III III
EsrET Esv;nan .:: 5-3S-s: 5-4s-s:
Walker Beats Wallace
A. L. Walker, of Columbia, had little
diffi Guilty in defeating William Wallace
of the Scottish American club, by :
and i in the first sixteen. c. H. Paul
of Gedney Farms, won the honors IN
the third sixteen and J. Pulling, OF
Princeton. was the winner in the fourth
sixteen. Morton L. Feary, of the Gar
den City club, won the low gross score
prize with a card of 15-6-69, and b
c. Buchanan took the low net prize
with card Of 76--6-70.
The summary:
First sxteen-sern'- -hnal round. D
Newman. Fox Hills. defeated l. D. Law
yer. Albany. and / 4 c. Perry. Fo'
Hlia. defeated Miller Jones, Richmoni
Final round-Perry defeated Newman.
second sixteen--A L. Walker. Richmond
County. defeated G. G.. Baxter, Fox Hills