New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-14
Veteran Yard Bo'cs to Topping;
Polo Star 1riunphs at Golf
Stevenson, Kirkby and
Hoyt Also I'm Se1ni-Final
Rounds at Garden City
By Ray Mccarthy

Judging from the quality of golf
and the closeness of the matches in
the annual Invitation tournament Of
the Garden City Golf Club, one would
think the contestants were fighting for
a national Championship. On the open
Ing and second rounds yesterday all Of
the matches in the frsta two divisions
were hard fought and brilliantly
played.
The milling was certainly disastrous
for the home players, for of all the
star performers Of the Garden City
Golf Club who were competing in the
first two flights, only one, Al Bourne,
IN the second sixteen, went to the
semi-fnal round.
Included in the downfall of the home
talent was the veteran John NJ. Ward,
who won the qualifying medal on
Thursday with wonderful card of rs.
The swift pace apparently was too
much for this hardy links warrior. In
the morning Ward playing gameIy
against plucky youngater, j. G. Lad
die" Mcmahon, of Sleepy Hollow, was
victorious by / up. On the second
round the veteran encountered Henry
L
was eliminated by score of and 3.
Topping Shows Good Game
Topping played steadily the whole
distance against Ward. He was out
in 80 and was 8 up at the turn.
Coming back he managed to retain his
advantage and ended the struggle on
Ward got the jump on his young op-
ponent, winning the first two holes
with fine scores. But after that Nc
Mahon kept right at the heels of the
veteran and was barely nosed out.
Oswald Kirkby had a strenuous day
of it in surviving the double journey.
In the morning he met and subdued
George Dixon, of the National Links,
after a brilliant battle Of nineteen
holes Dixon. putting like fdiend,
forced the former metropolitan cham
pion to an extra hole, where Kirkby
won the match by getting fine
bird 8.
In the afternoon the Englewood star
went through similar struggle. His
opponent on this round was the genial
Hamilton Kerr, who has transferred
his allegiance this season to the Gar
den City Golf Club.
Kerr carried his rival along at q
rapid rate to the nineteenth hole Here
Kirkby, after driving the rough, got
beautiful out to the green and sank
victory. The cards of the pair were:
Out:
k kisF'g -: 3 / t 80
In
K!rhby -s54ss4.s 5-4s-s5-3
Polo Star in Semi-FinaI
Kirkby will meet Henry Topping in
the semi-fnal round this morning, The
winner of this bout will meet the win
Ter of the Stevenson-H oyt conflict. NAL
Club, who plays polo as well as he does
golf. acquitted himself nobly on the
day. In the morning he knocked off
Gardiner White by 1 up, and in the
afternoon he showed enough stuff to
take the Fox Hills star, l.. G. SpindIer.
over the hurdles. The score of this
issue was the same as the morning,
/ up.
Frank Hoyt, of the Engineers Club,
disposed of the last of the Garden City
performers on the second round. z.
Knowlton, of the home club, and fine
player, who had beaten John N. Stearns
IN the morning, was Hoyt'5 victim, the
score being 1 up: In the early round
Hoyt trimmed W C. McConville, also
of the Garden City Club, by score of
4 and 2.
In the second sixteen the two Pea
cocks-Grant, of Cherry Valley, and
c. N, of Apawamis-remain for the
semi-fnal round. While Brother Grant
is playing W. f. Ladd, of the Rockaway
Hunt Club, frere C. N. will tackle Al
Bourne, of the home club.
The summary:
FIRST SIXTEEN
First round-Hamilton X. Kerr Green
wfch, won from Clinton Elliott, Cherry
Valley, by default; Oswald Kirkby. ,Engle-
wood, defeated George A. Dixon jr., Ma
tional Links. up Go holes); Henry j.
Topping, Greenwich, defeated e. w. Nash,
Rockaway Hunt, up and TO play; John
M Ward, Garden City, defeated Joseph G.
Mcmahon jr, Sleepy Hollow, up; L. G.
Spindler, Fox Hills, defeated Arden NJ.
Robbins, Garden City. / up; Malcolm Ste
vepson, Meadow Brook, defeated Gardiner
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