The New York herald., 1921-06-05
NC. MAR DEFEATS
J. E. HALE, 8 And Z
Shackamaxon Golfer Takes
New Jersey State Cham
pionship.
STANDS z UP IN MORNING
Runner-up Is Wild From Tee
in Final Over Canoe Brook
Links.
STANDS z UP IN MORNING
By KERR N. PETRIE.

up on the first round, and slightly
more than holding his own in the af-
ternoon, Newton c. Malr gave Shacka-
maxon Country Club its second New
Jersey golf title by winning the thirty
six hole final OF the annual State
amateur championship over the links
of the Canoe Brook Country Club yes
terday from j. Z. Hale of Upper Mont
clair by the one sided margin of up
and to play.
The great surprise was not so much
the victory of Mair as the manner in
which on the fipal day he played rings
around the man who had thrust sem
sation upon sensation ON Friday by
eliminating the champion William M.
Reekie in the second round and Jerome
D. Travers in the semi-final. But in
the final Hale was AN entirely differ
ent golfer from what he had been
against his two clubmates. who at
Upper Montclair are said to be good
enough to give him hole or two on
each half of the course. Yesterday ne
was wild as typhoon, so wild in fact
that had the parallel fairways Of
Canoe Brook links been a canal or
river he woul have used up perhaps
a couple of boxes of balls.
Hale appears to be afflicted with
chronic slice to his long shots. MAR. on
the other hand, has a grip which, when
the timing goss wrong, invariably sends
the ball into wild left curve. In the
morning Mair worked a good deal to the
left. while Hale performed mostly on the
right leaving the gallery in charge of the
middle of the fairway. Later on Mair
got his driving Strengthened out, but
Hale never did. In fact. the Upper
Montclair man. in striving to correct his
slice. occasionally went to the other ex-
treme. BY actual count in the afternoon
round Hale had but one drive that was
down the centre of the fairway. That
was at the eighth, and he played the
hole perfectly. but got nothing better
than half. On the ninth, short hole,
the conqueror of Reekie and Travers
sank Atty foot putt for 2.
Rally Comes Too Late.
With the very decided Improvement in
play on the eighth and ninth the gallery
began to look for better things, but
Hale's rally came too late. Judged by
the score card. Hale's afternoon game
was by no means bad Comparing II
with the morning play. 1t was really
good. Jbut with that drive continually
playing him false, the Upper Montclair
man was leaving himself too much TO
do to have any chance to overtake his
opponent. AS a matter of fact, he was
really playing two. men all day long,
MAR and himself.
Mair and Hale have furnished the big
gest surprise OF the 1921 golf season so
far on this side Of the ocean at least. 1t
IS seldom that a pair of unknowns come
through to the final Of a tournament as
important as the New Jersey and very
rare to find a man winning a champion
ship In his first attempt at tournament
play. as Mair has done. With the lat
ters victory Shackamaxon places the
New Jersey amateur cup alongside the
trophy emblematic of the State open
championship. Peter O'Hara, the Shack
amazon professional. having won that
the other day I'm the tournament held
over the Knickerbocker links
At the conclusion of five holes of the
opening round the finalists were all
square, Mair having taken the lead
twice only TO have his opponent bring
him back to evens On the first hole.
nOWcNtTs tlait was ODStINtu W COIhtA
his second and close observers saw In
this n sign. Nor we're they mistaken.
II looked even at that early stage OF
the match as though Hale were fighting
himself harder than he was his op-
ponent.
still IL was very fine golf on the part
OF MAR that started the landslide. Be-
ginning with the sixth the Shackamaxon
youth won five holes straight, two of
ttsn fxpfH q. EtrIt
The eleventh was a weak half i'm six,
but not so the twelfth. Here in fact
the finalists made up tho shot they had
lost on the preceding hole by sinking
mutual birdie
Plays over Tree Tops.
Following this Hale had another
rowing seizure and he lost the thir-
teenth to a par by a margin of three
strokes. lie got the short fourteenth
In par but lost the next to T. on the
sixteenth Mair hooked so badly that
he had to play a mashie niblick shot
over tho treotops. So masterful was tho
recovery that he was enabled to halve
in fine on the long seventeenth
put MAR I UP and he kept this lead by
halving the home hole.
The afternoon round started with two
rousing drives. one OF which was
ttralBnt, tne otner curved out TO the
right so that the ball came do wn on the
parallel falrwny. The slice was per-
petratcd by Halo. and IL cost him the
hole. On the second Hale first hooked
10 convenient fairway. then played
back so that the ball went over into the
rough. His third shot hit the limb OF
trec that ought not really TO have been
70 the way, and Il certainly seemed as
y the Jig were up. However. Mair took
three TO clear himself from the depths
of a bunker where he had gone on his
fecond shot. and the par hole went 70
Hale in 6 TO Z.
At the third again both were on the
course on their respective favorites'
rfdes. but nevertheless they managed 10
hnlve In par 4. At tho next Halo sliced
" The rough and then overshot the
green, playing weak shot back that
cost him the hole.
He won the nth ovsn after sllclnE
eighty yards Off The course. and also
took the sixth as the result OF "a fine
hrsssie second. A 1ubbed tee shot cost
Halo the 1es yard seventh. but he played
the eighth perfectly. and then. by hol.ng
his at the ninth, brought Mair down
10 up AZ .he turn.
Starting the second half Hale again
fliced OF tho course and took three 10
rcach the green agains. his opponents
two. Each took three puts so that
AAl l. xw~F.vr a.. . 4.