New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Winner Beats
Cherry Valley
Player / Up
Peacock Leads Nassau Star
Until the Last Green i'm
Match at Garden City
By Ray Mccarthy

ing III the door IN the metropolitan
amateur golf championship tournament
the past several years, broke through
yesterday and won the title at the Gar
den City Golf Club in one of the most
remarkable contests ever held in this
section. Grant Peacock, the diminu-
tive gamester of the Cherry Valley
Club, was Whites victim by the score
of / up. After leading his opponent
practically the entire distance Peacock
succumbed on the final green.
White defeated Peacock yesterday
Just as he had eliminated J. Simpson
Dean in the semi final the previous day.
Dean led White all the way to the six
teenth, where the match was squared.
Then the Nassau Country Club star
captured the match on the last green,
it being tho only time that he was up.
White played exactly the same
against Dean. At no time was he up
on Peacock until the last hole and was
playing constantly out of the rough.
Remarkable recoveries, coming one
upon another, kept him in the running.
Going to the thirty fourth hole Pea
cock was ! up. At the seventeenth,
or thirty fifth, the Cherry Valley
player, full of confidence after having
just become / up, tore off q beautiful
drive, blow that sent the ball spin
ming down the middle of the fairway.
Whites was also we'll hit, but the di-
1ectlon was roor and his ball lodged in
the rough on the right.
Trails at Last Green
Peacock on his second smote bras
sic wallop that was as perfectly hit
as any shot during the day That fine
second put him within nifty yards of
the green, White got fine out from
4ol IL 4
| particular moment it looked like cur
tans for the Nassau representative.
White pitched his third to the far
corner of the green twenty-five feet
| from the cup, while Peacock chipped
up to within fifteen feet of the tin
Peacock apparently had a good chance
for his d; Whites looked like an i'm
possibility,
White knelt down and studied the
lay of the land. Then he took his
/, stance and raped the ball smartly
1t rolled swiftly and true to the cuf
and dropped out of sight as though
| dumfOunded. Peacock also was some
what shocked by this sudden turn. In
stead of being 2 up, as he appeared tt
be a moment before, he faced the tasl
of sinking his putt to maintain his ad
vantage. Naturally enough, he failed
and the issue was squared once more.
White then went to the eighteenth
tee, took his mashie and, brimful o.
confidence, planted perfect high pitch
dead to the hole. Peacock's tee shor
was short, his second rolled Is fee'
beyond the pin and he failed to g,e'
down coming back. White simply
picked up his ball and received the
congratulations of his game little op
ponent. although it would not have
| been difficult for him to sink that put
of only 4 feet.
Peacock played by far the better golt
during most of the match in that ht
was steadier. But the man who wins il
game of golf is he who gets the bal
| in the cup in the least number O.
strokes. And although White, particu
larly on the afternoon round, was con
| tinually in trouble on his tee shots, HI
was always there with his rival on tn,
green because of his wonderful recov
| cries.
Reduces Rivals Lead
In the morning Peacock, playing per
feet golf on the outgoing journey, made
down He plugged along, and at the
seventeenth hole had cut his rivals
lead to two at the seventeenth. He ha6
a chance for the seventeenth, but lost
| his ball, played another that he found
then discovered his error and lost the
hole Peacock by wonderful recov-
cry from a trap on the left of the
eighteenth green halved the hole an6
ended the morning round up.
| The afternoon affair was one which
will not be soon forgotten by those whc
/ followed the play Peacock increased
his lead to up at the very start of the
afternoon round. On the nineteenth
hole White played over the green or
| his second and took 5, while Peacock
got on in . and down in more strokes
| White planted his tee shot to within
fifteen feet of the cup on the second
hole and sank his putt for win, Pea
cock being off the green in the rough
ON the left. White hooked to the
rough in the third but got on nicely in
| 2 and got his a. winning the hole, as
Peacock, after playing over, was short
on his approach put and took a s.
White was then only 1 down.
Peacock, however, got back this hole
at the fourth. Both had good drives
but each hooked to the rough on their
seconds. White failed to get out on
his third, while Peacock made a nice
out FROM a trap and won the hole with
s. White sank a fifteen-foot putt on
the fifth for a win, leaving him / down
again.
White SQUARES the Match
! They halved the sixth in four, both
! playing their third shots dead to the
pin. Each played the seventh hole per-
fcctly, getting par fives. At the eighth
Peacock shifted his weight too quickly
as he started his downward swing, and
topped his drive. White pulled wildly
to the deep rough, but made a brilliant
out to the green and won the hole
squaring the match. 1t was the first
| time since the start of the struggle he
was on even terms with his. opponent
In playing to the ninth green Pea
cock was short and barely avoided
landing in the sand pit that fronts the
velvet. White pitched on nicely, but
the greens were fast and a stiff wind
was blowing from behind and the ball
rolled over into the rough beyond
Both got tives here. The wind, Incl
dcntally, was responsible for many OF
| the wild shots. 1t was a strong breeze
that blew across the fairway on most
OF the holes, and the contestants had
difficulty in keeping their shots
straight.
White hooked to the rough at the
tenth, while Peacock sliced his drive
Each played this hole rather poorly
| and took skies. At the eleventh White
drove trap and did well to get a
five. Peacock played his third in fine
manner, dead to the hole, for a four
| Again he was in the lead.
| At the twelfth Peacock pulled his