The New York herald., 1921-06-09
met GOLF MEDAL
! FOR ]. G. ANDERSON
Siwanoy Representative Leads
Field at Garden City
With 157.
THREE TIE FOR SECOND
G. w. White, w. P. Seeley and
A. L. Walker, Jr, Each
Scores 158.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

The golfer who could better 80 twice
was just about in line to lead the parade
in tho qualifying rounds OF the annual
metropolitan amateur golf champion
ship yesterday over the Garden City
links. Not quite. however. for John G.
Anderson took the trophy emblematic
of supremacy In the card and pencil
method OF scoring by improving on this
average by stroke.
After hearing that Peter Harmon, the
young Scottish american star who cut
such a swathe in the national champion
ship last year by taking 8. Davidson
Heron to the fortieth hole had played
around in 20 Tuesday, in practice,
everything holed out, there was an ..ir
os expectancy that seemed to pave the
way for regular food of low scoring.
No such thing happened. Stars there
were innumerable. probably the best
field I'm fact that ever started in the
metropolitan championship, but, as ever,
the famous old course had much the
better OF the arguments defying the
field to do better than 76 or any single
circuit and holding the medal winner
TO @ score of 157.
Anderson was within stroke OF the
low honors of the morning round with
but he did not repeat by any means. as
his aggregate of 164 will testify. Garden
City has r. way OF getting even with
players who take liberties. A card Of
SO was the best tho Cherry Valley man
could do the second time around.
As for Anderson he played an 80 on
top OF his II. Treading right on his
heels were w. Parker Seeley of Brook
lawn and A. l.. Walker. Jr.. Of Rich
mond County. the intercollegiate cham
pion. each with a pair OF 79s. and Gardi-
ner W. White Of Nassau, last years run
ner up, with 81 and II.
Oswald Kirkby Gets an Eight.
Another who was in the chase for the
medal right UP to the thirteenth OF the
afternoon round was Oswald Kirkby OF
Englewood, former metropolitan and
New Jersey champion. This star had a
70 the first time around and after going
out in 81 in the afternoon it seemed that
nothing could prevent him from, WIN
ming.
A at the tenth was bad and at
the eleventh was another shot wasted.
He made 3 at the short twelfth, but
on his third shot for the thirteenth he
got his ball into bunker In such po-
sition that he could not do a thing but
squandar precious strokes. When he
had finished his excavations here the
former title holder found himself gaz-
ing upon nothing less than an s. That
played the mischief with his chances.
But 8's were not confined to Kirkby's
card. ID. e. Sawyer Of Siwanoy, the de-
Tending champion. had a pair Of them
IN his afternoon card. and In view of
this 1t Is rather surprising that this
player got around in 83. duplicating his
morning round. The first disaster was
at the sixth and he repeated at the sew
enteenth, visiting the rough and more
traps than he had any use for.
Anderson played smoothly all day. In
the morning he started with six consecu-
tive As. went out in 3S and came home
in 80. He had one In the morning
and another in the afternoon. This fig
ure was the highest on his card. For
the home hole in the afternoon the ST.
wanoy man overshot the green and re-
Quired to hole out, but he had gained
one with at the seventeenth, even
after sliced tee shot. His approach to
within about six feet Of the cup did the
trick The winning card:
MORNING ROUND.
Out. .... 4 8 5-3s