New-York tribune., 1921-06-09
Siwanoy Star
Tops Big Field
By One Stroke
Walker, White and Seeley
Tie for Runner Up:
Travers In First Division
BY Ray Mccarthy


round until after o'clock, and had it
rot been for the efficiency of McMahon
and Potts, the demon scorers, it would
have been an hour later before this
pair got off.
Every crack amateur in the section
was on hand for the competition. but
few Of them were able to break so.
Johnny Anderson, of the Siwanoy
club, travelled the morning round in
seventy-seven strokes, but he took an
even eighty in the afternoon. Yet his
total of 15T was good enough to win the
medal BY one stroke. Johnny played
fine golf ell the way.
His card:
out-Meerning ...4 444s4 SIS
afternoon = = 40
afternoon "a I 4-4o-so
Lucien Walker, of the Richmond
County Country CIah, captain of the
Columbia University team; Gardiner
White, of the Nassau club, and Parker
Seeley, Of Brooklawn, were runners-up
80 Anderson, All three played finely.
Seeley In particular might have cap
tured the medal with any kind of luck.
He took three puts on the ninth green
in the. afternoon and later, at the thir-
seenth hole, slipped into a trap and
took z.
Oswald Kirkby was next in line with
star youngsters, "Laddien Mcmahon
and Peter Harmon. Harmon, it will
be remembered, gave s. Davidson Her
ron g hard struggle in the national
meeting last year. Had he played
more deliberately yesterday Harmon
might have bettered Andarsons tally.
Peter plays like the pros, going at top
speed from the moment the gong rings.
Garden City IS such fine test of
golf one can't score there unless he
plays every shot. Every dubbed shot
on this course means trouble. In the
afternoon high wind didn't help the
players any. Thus several stars failed
to qualify, not because the pace was
exceptionally swift, but because they
were not playing sound golf. One of
the notables who failed to get in was
Reggie Lewis, who carried Chick
Evans to the forty-frst hole last year
IN the national. Lewis had two s5s
yesterday.
C, V. Benton. Findley Douglas, A. M.
Reid, c. II. Brown and j. J. Kane were
others who were locked out. Douglas
was the winner of the qualifying medal
in the first championship when it was
played over the Garden City course
back in 1899. His winning total then
was 173. When the championship was
played at Garden City in 1904 Douglas
again figured IN the medal prize with
score Of 165. His card yesterday
read 169.
The noted Jerry Travers, after f,ne
round Of 70 in the morning, nearly
slipped up and out in the afternoon.
He got into lot Of trouble and came
home with an 81, but managed TO
qualify by two strokes. ]. E. Hale, who
eliminated Travers and Reekie last
week, also managed to breeze in by a
close margin.
Title Holder Nearly Out
New Sawyer, the title holder, is also
thankful that 1853 was the qualifying
score, as he had two consistent but
fairly high scores of SO. Seeley, as
a matter of fact, was the eGly player
10 break 80 on each round, and alto
gether only thirteen got under the sc
mark.
However, practically all OF the good
ones are in the running, Including
Reekie, Dyer, Dean, Worthington and
Kirby, and some fine golf should be
shown during the rest of the week in
the various matches.
The feature Of the first round will
be the struggle between the medalist
Johnny Anderson and young Harmon
Harmon is q game player; fighter OF
first rate caliber, who will be sure too
give the veteran Siwanoy star hard
battle. The pairings for the first round
are as follows:
Reekie VS.. Stearns; Mcmahon VS.
Mundy; Wood VS.. Rhett; Kirkby VS.
Dean; Ward VS.. Bingham; Calder vs.
White; Holland VS.. Scharff; Ranney
VS.. Bourne; Peacock VS.. Dyer; Worth
ington VS.. Brand; Harmon VS.. Ander-
son; Donahue VS.. MAR; Travers vs.
Seeley; Van Week vs.. Hale; Sawyer
VS.. Walker
Dick Haight, the Princeton student
knocked 80 strokes out of his system
in the morning, then took an 80 in the
afternoon to lose out by two. Dick
was unable to figure 1t out. Haight
and Dean incidentally are going to to
with sidnev Scott, the Yale team cap
tain, to try their luck on English and
French course. The summaries:
CHAMPION DIVISION