The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-13
G. W. WHITE PULLS
MATCH OUT OF FIRE
Is 3 Down 4 to Go, but De-
feats J. r. Hyde on Mas
Sau Links.
BY KERR n. PETRIE.

But for the almost superhunan effort
made by Gardiner w. White. the nome
champion. in his afternoon match with
James r. Hyde of South Shore, Nassau
Country Club to-day would be racing the
cheerle SIS prospect of starting the semi
final round of It's annual invitation goii
tournament without a single representa-
tive to bear its colors aloft. WHITES was
one Of those Homeric struggles that act
like tonic TO the gallery and bring the
flush TO the cheek of the contestant, a
match It was well worth the winning. FOR
the Nassau man. facing a three hole
deficit with only four TO play. carried
rampant after rampant and finally
emerged victorious on the home green.
Save for that closing squirt, the match
throughout belonged to Hyde. t'or
fourteen holes the South Shore man set
the pace, turning up and adding an
other early in the second half. To every
one 1t seemed that Hyde had White at his
percy. AS the pair drove off for the
fifteenth about all the home star was
conceded to have was a fighting chance.
ont with a rare exhibition of grit and
skill White annexed hole after hole.
souaring the seventeenth and then talk
irg the eighteenth as well to pull the
match out Of the fire and to place him
self in the semi final round.
In his match this morning White faces
another hard task. for he now meets the
philadelphia champion, J. Wood Plat OF
North Hills. 1t was cold day for
golf. and Plat dff not seem to take
Kindly to the conditions but for all that
he played we'll enough to. smother the
aspirations first of T.. Mortimer Barnes
of Nassau and then of j. Simpson Dean
tof Princeton. The Philadelphia wor
each time on the fifteenth green. in the
morning by and 8 and in the afternoon
! by and 3.
! Armour Plays Well.
| T. d. Armour. the Scottish amateur
| and +. r. Holland Of Wee Burn are
| the two who are left 10 face the music
| in the upper half Of the bracket. Ar
mour won from Hugh Halsell Of Sleepy
! Hollow, the senior champion in the frs
round. by and 1 and later in the da,
! completely overwhelmed Reginald NJ
Lewis of Greenwich, the player wht
| took Charles Evans, Jr., of Chicago
the ultimate winner. to the forty-firs
hole in the national championship. The
margin was up and to play, and tn
4 Scotsman had amasSed half a dozen o.
these holes by the time he reached thu
! turn.
F, Cold weather and fast green's did no
! dsmay Armour in the least. In fac
il seemed that conditions for him were
Just about right. He, was out in n, ant
but two over fours for the twelve holes
played And although that pace unde
ordinary circumstances Is scarcely fas
/ enough to pile up seven hole lead OF
Lewis. the latter made II all the easie
for Armour by taking extra puts. Put
ting really may be said to have settled
the match. for whereas Lewis tool
three shots on each Of the first, secon'
and ninth greens. and missed Yer,
short one on the fourth, Armour hole
a twenty-five footer on the fifth. use
full one of yard or four feet on tn
sixth. and then another of thirty fee
on the eighth.
Turning the corner Lewis began I
visit the traps. lie halved the tent
without mishap. but on the eleventh II
vas bunkered on a slice and he wa
again In trouble ut the twelfth. III
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