New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-11
Stars Topic
In Early Play
At Apawamis
Anderson, G. Peacock, Wal
ker, Worthington Loses
ChampiontoM eetMedalist
By Ray McC arthy


Exceptionally close and exciting
matches. which produced several
startling upsets, featured the play
yesterday in the first and second
rounds Of the Metropolitan golf cham
.pionship on the links Of the Apawamis
Club, st Rye. No "Met" title tourney
has ever been more keenly contested
than this seasons, nor is 1t likely that
the quality of play on the whole has
ever been Of a higher standard. The
way things are progressing, it is a
toss-up as to who will be the next
champion.
Oswald Kirkby, the present title
holder, has come through safely so far.
but already he has experienced stiff
opposition. He defeated Ted Nash.
the star little player Of the Rockaway,
in the second round, 4 and 2, but for
more than half the distance it ap-
peared that the champion was due to
fall.
Nash was playing in great form on
the outward journey, and at the eighth
hole had obtained q lead Of 8 I'D
on the Englewood IN. j. Club star.
On the eighth green Kirkby, although
stymied, was able to halve the hole in
4. On the ninth, Nash fell down so
hard in his putting he took an 8 and
lost the hole. as Kirkby managed to
get a 7. This left Nash 2 up going
to the tenth tee.
Gets Half on Stymie
Kirkby won the tenth hole also,
despite the fact he stymied again,
and halved the eleventh in 4. 1t was
taen the Englewood Club player be-
gan to show his real form, and he per-
formed so excellently on the remaining
FIVE holes, that he overcame Nash's
lead and quickly forged ahead, win
ming on the sixteenth.
Their cards:
out-kirkby .......4 1855 ia
Nash ...........5 8 +,
In the morning round Kirkby
started his match competition by de-
feating our own Grantland Rice, S and
2. Grantland stuck right close to his
clubmate most OF the way, but a few
slips coming in gave Kirby an id
vantage which his opponent could not
overcome.
Ned Sawyer, who won the medal,
and Jerry Travers are still going, as
are ]. c. stearns jr, Henry Topping,
such stars as John Anderson, a. L.
Walker, J. S. Worthington, Grant Pea
cock, Eddie Van Week and others will
view the remaining contests from the
sidelines. All these and more were
brushed aside. Sawyer will meet
Kirkby in a third round match to-
day.
A player who went around in whirl-
wind style and who has shown some of
the best golf since the meet opened
is Henry Topping. 1t was unfortunate
for Young Walker, the Columbia star,
that after a tough match with William
Reekie. the New Jersey champion,
whom ne defeated in the morning l I'D
in 10 holes of play, he should have
encountered Topping at the top of his
game. All things considered it is no
wonder Walker lost to the Greenwich
Club player by 6 and 4.
Walker Loses on 10Th
The match between Reekie and
Walker was ono of the best of the day. |
Reekie was l up at the turn. going out
In par 35 to Walkers 36. 1t was nip
and tuck up to the fifteenth, at which
hole Reekie was 2 up. Walker took the
sixteenth with q birdie 8, and on the
seventeenth hole he won out by getting !
an eagle 3. Here he walloped a drive
Of more than PTS yards. laid a brassie |
dead 70 the pin and sank his ball in 3.
He then won the eighteenth hole and
went TO the nineteenth with Reekie,
where he won the match.
Their cards:
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However, for the real scintillating, !
must be handed Gardiner White and
!. ). Huntington, who battled to the
twentieth hole, where the Long Island
ssar won out. Wprthington, who halls
from England and who was former
champion Of Ireland, Ia a fine, game
goiler. He plays in the good, old, me-
thodical, deliberate English manner and
never gets rufied.
white is a splendid player and also
g 8 goher who has plenty of nerve.
ne snowedFFhat when he came from
oenlnd yestsrday TO defeat his English
opponent Here are their cards:
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New Sawyer had the time Of his life
ELIMINATING young Harry Scharf and
ssssplng himself in the running.
ncaarh, who can mErder a golf ball in
nuLh fashion, held his own with the
%saa.!lst until the final hole before he