New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Medal Winner
In Golf Seldon1,
Capture Titles
Results of Many Meets Sho,.
Leader in Qualifyinss
Round Is Usually Beste,s,
By Ray Mccarthy

80 ~ YOU probably figure that yor
are ready for the fray after a w;nt.s :. J.
practising chip shots OF She hal, :.
pet and putting on the din;p. M
table. The professionals mean.im. ~. I'M
be coaching you in the art Of kesn 49,.
your eye on the ball, your r;obt PUG
line with your left arm on Won, - ( =
swing and your toes at right .r.,."
each other at the finish of the $500, 70
put we also have a little tin ~ .'ote.
those VINO are aspiring to win to,sst give
ment prizes this summer. '0ufna'
Anybody who cares more for
and a title than he or she doc. '.vpuy
mccall should not try to win hn.s iol
otner words, if you would be ~. IN
winner avoid winning a ops,; pliIe
medal. A player capturing A.
generally falls by the wayside on 'e a soio
the succeeding rounds. Of courss ome o.
Know this, and many there are ~sn!
superstltlous persons, who fee, =, aVn-
medai winner is absolutely. pos ;aas !
and effectively jinxed in So fa r0s.slvsiy
nlng the tournament itself is can.s, WIZ
otatlstlcs certainly seem to snnas.
TINS contention, for they show s ttas
medal winners chances of tat;rn as :, q
trophy are something like one in MIN; r'
The Defeat of DIR. Haisbt
To satisfy our curiosity ws Oh.
over the records of about usa as.'so
tournaments held in this sect;or is ol
season, including the nationa, ar.,. 'ass
championship. This list is far frors
complete. But it is sufficient to prove
the point in argument. f''''
Last May at Atlantic City. for IL.
stance, the veteran DR.. Haight. Of "a.
belieciaire Country Club, Long Island
Playing as we'll as he ever did in h;s
long career, led home a classy field IN
tne qualifying round of the Atlansic
,Slty Country Club meet. The doctor
MAD knocked out very spiffy 70. pis;.
ing IN the rain. He was immediately
favored to win that tournament. .Bn.
saa to relate the Long Islander took
the air on the very first round
Maurice Risley, of the Atlantic c;,,
club, won that tourney.
The annual invitation tournaments ~
the Garden City Golf Club taok nIsss
shortly after the Atlantic Citv meet
Grant Peacock, of the Cherry VALLEY
Club, and H. P. Bingham, of the Ma
tional links, tied for low score on tba
qualifying round. That tie. apparently
was the only thing that saved Peacock.
He managed to win the tronhv and uiy a.
medal as we'll.
At the annual Fox Hills Golf Club in.
vitation tournament W. E. Donahue,. of
the ShackamaXon Club. ran wild on The
qualifying round, but he persisted soon
after on one of the later rounds. where-
as A. c. Perry, Flooding steadily along
Ike the tortoise, came through to win
the tournament.
In the Westchester Junior meet las:
June Willis Jones played fine golf to
winsthe medal, but that was as far as
Willis got toward winning the main
prize. J. G. "Laddie" Mcmahon. of the
Sleepy Hollow Club, won that prize.
Medal Winners Out of Luck
In the Westchester County amateur
championship meet John G. Anderson
and c. H. Paul tied for the low medal
score. In fact, on the play-of Ander-
son went SO far as to break the course
record of the Dunwoode Country Club
But that did Johnny no good. ]. S.
Worthington was the winner Of the
tournament, which seems to be the
main point of such competitions.
1t is the same in women's tourna-
ments. Mrs. T. E. Du Bots, of Baltus-
rol, and Mrs. Charles NJ. knight, Of
Garden City, struggled to tie in the
qualifying round of the women's met
ropolitan championship tourney, but
Mrs. Quentin Feitner, of South Shore
proved to be the winner of the cham
pionship. Down in Philadelphia, in the
Old York Road tournament, J. Wood
Platt showed brilliant performance in
winning the medal, but Eddie Clarey
of the Bala club, won the meet.
You will find it's the same every
where-medal winners are simply out
of luck. In the far Northwest last
year DR.. Paul Hunter won the quail
flying medal in the Pacific Northwest
championship tournament, but H.
Chandler Eggn, former national cham
pion, was the boy who carried away the
title.
In the Southern amateur champion
ship tournament the result was the
same. Perry Adair. of Atlanta, and
Pollack Boyd, of Dartmouth, tied for
the low medal score, but Bobby Jones,
who took an 83 on that particular
round, carried off the title. Jones,
after winning the medal in the two big
yest amateur tournaments Of the year.
The Western and the National, was
in match play
In the National tourney at Roslyn
asst fall Jones and Wright tied for the
ow medal score, Jones winning the
,lay-otf But both Jones and Virgin
during the course OF the
week and here again Evans remained
% become the champion
OF course, ii medalst is fortunate
enough at times to win both medal ana
honors. William ReeNe,
Of che Upper Montclair Club. turned
the trick in the New Jersey state cham
pionship tourney at Arcola last May
Jesse Sweetser, of the Siwanoy Cluo
vas double winner in the Victory Cup
meet at the Wykagyl Club. and young
J. C. Mcmahon managed to win doupie
donors in the Metropolitan junior tltle
Journey. =,
In open tournament. where medsi
play only counts. it is very much inc
same story-that is, the fellow VIM
gets off in front on the first round O.
!. st two rounds seldom remains tbeie.
u course, when an ace like Barnes, ioI
nstan.e, gets Il flying start on tne
ieii. DIS he did at Jacksonville TINS
winter. there is nothing TO it. Barnes
lclI ,hs Lead ali the way at that meet
,r, rather, from the second round On.
But tor player TO get out IN irons
" a couple of strokes and TO TemssH
here 20 the end is rare accomplish
uent.