New-York tribune., 1921-10-29

Favorites Win
In Engineers
Golf Tourney
Kerr, Van Week, Armour
and Worthington Qualify
for the Semi-Final Round

No upsets were recorded as q result
Of the first and second rounds Of match
play in the invitation tournament at
the Engineers Country Club yesterday
Those who remain to fight it out in the
semi-fnal this morning are +. NJ. Kerr,
Of Merrimac Valley: c. f. Van Week
Scotland, and j. s. Worthington, the
Armour won both his matches By
comfortable margins, defeating L. A.
Wilson, Forest Hill, in the afternoon
and eliminating A, NJ. Brown, Of the
National Links. in the morning. Against
the last named. Armour went round in
rs, good enough to win for him the
qualifying medal. It viii be recalled
that the Scot and Frank II. Hoyt, Of
the home club, tied for the medal on
Thursday, and the play-off was decided
coincident with their matches yester-
day morning. The best Hoyt could get
was about an Sc, which put him out Of
the running.
f. M. Kerr. OF Merrimac Valley, did
the unexpected by defeating Hoyt after
an extra hole match. The veteran
practically had the contest within the
hollow Of his hand, standing up with
three holes TO play. Then he proceeded
to lose the sixteenth and Seventeenth,
so that they were all square going to
the homo hole. There Hoyt had a
chance to win, but he missed a wee
putt, 80 thst the hest he could get was
a half. Kerr clinched matters at the
nineteenth.
The Merrimac Valley golfer kept UP
the good work by winning in the after
noon from T.. B. Porter, Of Forest Hill.
3 and 2. The last named had made his
way to the second round by eliminating
Don Parker, one Of the best Of the
Garden City golfers.
Another extra hole match resulted
from the meeting Of Van Week and Roy
Webb, Of Englewood, in the second
round. Van Week had played at his
best in the morning to defeat A. Leo
pold, Of Woodmere, 8 and 7, while
Webb had beaten Morton Feary, Of
Garden City, and s.
The summary:
FIRST SIXTEEN
First roundF NJ. Kerr, Merrinasc Val
ley, bsat Frank II; Hoyt, Engineerss. !
up 90 holes) T. &. Porter Forest Iiill.
beat Don Parker. Garden CITY. up; Roy
Webb, Englewood. beat NJ. L. Feary. Gas-
Den d,nc,e CITY Up up and to play; c. e. Van
Armour. Scotland. beat A. NJ. Brown. l,0ts;s Na"
roTssf ISona ,, up and nd. to play l. Wilson
6 up and 3 to play; J. s. Worthineton'
slwanoy. beat ". !; Hicks. Nassau. : up
beat II. a. VIII. Nassau. by default.
Second round--Kerr beat Porter. up
ana to play; Van Week beat Webb, l up
and to play; worthington beat Brand,
up and to play.
Beaten eight tfrst round)-TIoyt beat
TO play; Brown beat Black. mp and
TO play; Hicks beat VIII by default
SECOND SIXTEEN
First round-Arthur Peterson, Engineers
beat Vene Pennali, England; @. A. Grounds
Pittsheld. beat Frank B. Barrett, Holy
wood, UP and to play; II Connect, Lido.
beat Leon Abbott 1r.. Nassau, b,, defauIt
G du Bosque,. Engineers beat r. A. De
Thompson, Engineers beat l.. S. Green
baum. Quaker Ridge, 4 UP and 70 plav:
A Stewart. Engineers, beat e NJ. Mendel.
Engineers up and 20 play; n NJ Gar,
tand. Engineers'. beat George Owen. North
Aempstead. up and TO play: B. Fox.
N"rth Hampstead. beat B. r. Allen, Fox
HihA up.
Second round-Grounds beat Peterson. 5
up ahd = 70 play; Connett beat du Bosque.
up ~ holes1; Stewart beat Thompson,
up; "ox beat Garland. up and to play
THIRD SIXTEEN
First round - Theodore Grinler. Dun
woodie, beat A. Hsight, Newburgh s up
and to play: j. r. Bayne jr. Engineers.
TO play; ]. S. Watson. Quaker Ridge. beat
j. w. ,Faison;; engineers. up and to
play; Howard Maxwell jr., Nassau. beat
NJ. waldman. Milburn. 2 up; n. e. sprasue.
lInwood. beat ]. s. ogilvie Lawrence Psrk'
UP and TO play; w. II. Fol!ett. Fox
Hils- beat Adrian schetss. Garden City,
{. up and to play: II. S. Block Quaker
Ridge, beat G. A Easton. Engineers, up:
Martin Littleton, Garden City, beat w II
Tew. Engineers. l up.
Second round-Bayne beat Grimle-. up
and 2 TO play; Marshall beat Watson, j
up 90 holes); Foilett beat sprague, up
and to play, and Littleton beat Block,
UP and TO play.
FOURTH SIXTEEN
G. g. Barton. Rockaway, by detault; G. E.
Somner.. Scottish American, beat B. AL
cock. Worcester. by default: c. NJ Hib-
bard Garden City beat w G. Mcconnell,
San Psulo, up; r. n. L. Church, Nassau,
beat w. Burtenshaw. Engineers up (ls
holss); W. d. johnson, Engineers, beat
P Gray. New Zealand. up and 3 to play;
D. Frankel, Mflburn, beat W. Erb En-
gineers. l up; c. zeigler Engineers beat
8. Allison. Wheatley Hills. up and