The New York herald., 1921-06-11

For the second consecutive year
Gardiner W. White OF Nassau is to
contest the thiriy-six hoe final for
the amateur golf championship of the
Metropolitan Golf Association. The
man who took ID. u. Sawyer of Siwanoy
to the thirty-seventh green at Apa-
wants last year came down to the last
bracket In the annual tournament yes
terday when in the semi-final round
| he eliminated j. Simpson Dean OF
| Princeton by 1 UP. This morning he
begins the decisive test over the double
circuit against Grant A. Peacock or
Cherry Valley, who earned his place
| IN the final by defeating the season
! sensation, ]. z. Hale of Upper Mont
clair, by the convincing margin of up
end to play.
White undoubtedly has come through
pocket in the draw that kept him
| on the rim of the series of upsets and
explosions which blew much Of the
class into the proverbial cooked hat
! iii the opening rounds. But what OF 1t?
| Playing sound golf, the Nassau man
had not been extended at any time, that
! Is. not until he ran afoul OF the Tiger
| Captain Dean in the semi-final yes
| terday afternoon, and then he showed
glimpse of match play capability that
| stamped him as a man worthy to wear
! the crown.
| Whites first match was against Alex
Calder of Cherry Valley. and 1t re-
| suited and 4. In the second round
Fl. p Bingham of the National went
| down by and 4. and in the third
round Alfred S. Bourne of Garden City
| was bowled over by and g.
But the next round saw a fight such
as thrills the heart of the gallery;
thrills 1t and keeps it at the highest
tension right down to the last putt. for
White came through to victory on a
grand rally. fighting stubbornly inch
! by inch. shot by shot. hole by hole, until
he had wiped out the three hole lead
which Dean had jumped on him on the
first three holes. squaring finally on
the sixteenth green and triumphing at
length on the last putt. and by the
narrowest margin by which a golf
match can be won.
White Has Disastrous Start.
BY the time White and Dean teed up
Hale and Peacock were half way
through their match, so that those who
cared to were enabled to see the greater
part of both contests. Word had come
in that Peacock was 3 up on his oppo-
!
to envisage a purely Long Island final
were rather taken aback when their sec
ond favorite began to lose hole after
hole. until at the third he found himself
| with to make up.
| Whites first disaster was the result
| Of hooked tee shot into the rough. At
the second he sliced into a trap and at
the third he missed a short putt. Dean
took the three holes in the par 4, Q, A..
| going along steadily and looking for all
the world as II he Intended to play his
| man to standstill.
| At the fourth there was another gasp
of amazement from the Long Islanders
when White sliced his tee shot almost
against the fence and had great diff
Guilty working himself clear. TIe took
to reach the green. while Dean was on
In 8. Then miracle happened. White
went down in one putt. while the Prince
ton captain took three. and with that
half In 6 the complexion of the game
began to change.
White was still going shakily at the
fourth. but he was fighting now. After
pulling to a trap and then sending his
second over the green he still got half
in by playing his third within two feet
| OF the cup. From that moment the bat
tie was on In earnest.
| AT the sixth 1t was Dean who found
| himself in q trap. White won this hole.
Dean should have had the seventh but
he missed n short putt and allowed a
| half In 6. The eighth was the feature
| hole of the match. Dean began the fire.
works by pulling into the thicket, but
the shot that he played from this un-
| promising position was one in a thou
sand. With an iron he tore his way out.
banging the ball mere matter of 200
yards to the green and laying the sphere
about fve feet from the cup.
To the spectators it looked as il the
| ball were dead. but it was not. The 3
did not materfalize and White got a
| half in by laying his third dead from
| the deep bunker over the green. where
| he had gone on his approach. Gardiner
was In that pit up to his eyes. but his
nibick flashed exactly as II had done
at the fifth and there again was the ball
right on the rim of the cup. A half in
4 at the ninth, where White hit the pin
| on his approach. left Dean leading by
UP at the turn.
Dean Again Three Up.
The playing of the tenth by White
did not stir up any noticeable excite
inent among the Long Island part Of
the gallery and simply because the Mas
sau man hooked from the tee and was
| short on his second. Dean got the hole
| in and again stood up. And then
| came two successes hand running for
| White and once more the fight had
| opened UP.
At the eleventh Dean sliced into the
| rough and took three to smash his way
clear. Ir fact. he missed his first shot
| completely. AT the twelfth White was
| within the ring OF hummocks. while
Dean was off to the left.
On the thirteenth both worked into
| trouble on the left. When White got
into bunker Il looked as II Dean must
win. Then Dean tried his best to hand
Il to White, but thinking better OF II.
| he laid chip from the rough dead
| and y half in was declared.
The next incident of note was mag
nificent recovery by White on the fif-
teenth. He had sliced his tee shot
among hummocks. but he got heffy
iron right on the pin. chinped TO within
less than clubs length and looked
| likely to square the match with 4.
| However he missed and Dean started
fo- the sixteenth still ! 10 the rood.
Down they went to thin hole with
I two raking drives and pair OF an
proaches that were hooked 10 the rough
Just or the green. White overplayed
about nine feet and Dean followed suit.
laying his ball just inside that OF his
opponent One Of the two puts went
down. II was Whites. In the excite
ment the Nassau man chased the ball
right into the cup.
7 Dean had n morstrous hook at the