The New York herald., 1921-06-29
DRAKE ON TOP In
COLLEGE GOLF RACE
Players From Iowa Lead Stars
of East in Team Champion
ship at Greenwich.
DARTMOUTH is SECOND
Yale and Princeton Also Close
Up-Heat Bothers Repre-
sentatives Of England.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

Drake U7iversity's "cornfed" golf
ch. ynpio-s apparently are all that ad-
vance notices Of them declared they
were Coming from Des Moincs. Iowa.
the, East might have felt like induiging
In compiacent laugh at the mention OF
four sons of the corn belt carrying OH
tn. intercollegiate golf honors had IL
nys been for the play of the Drake laos
in the Western intercollegiate champion
shin last Saturday They won that title
and then came on to Greenwich Country
Club TO demonstrate to the star players
OF the big Eastern colleges. not 70 men
tlon tie half dozen stars VINO nave coi'ie
over from England to show what golr
IN Cambridge University Is like, that
they know all about the driving. aP-
preaching and putting art despite tneil
location away out there In the miost oi
the waving cornflelds.
To Robert Mckee OF Drake goes the
honor of leading the individual scoring
st the end of the first half Of the sew
enty-two holes of medal play TOT tne
team honors More than that, Drake Is
right UP In front for the leadership OF
the team rae, with a finc total OF bL1
for its four players. 1t is worth wniie
mentioning also that while most OF tne
colleges started half a dozen players ana
sometimes mere with the view Oh seiect-
ing the leading four scores Drake placed
its reliance in its stallar four. consisting
of Mckee. Ted Payseur, Frances DlcKin-
son and James Swick
Mckee at the end of the days play
topped the field of fifty-four stars IN
the greatest intercollegiate champion
shin ever started in this country. an in
ternational intercollegiate incidentally.
His score was 49, made up of IS ana
7s And after Jesse Sweetser OF Yale.
the present title holder, and A. p. Boyd
of Dartmouth had settled down into
tie for second place at $50 the second
representative Of Drake made his ap-
pearance in the person of Payseur. who.
with II and "A. took fourth place. Swick,
with so and So. and Dickinson, with 70
and s5, brought the Dralos total In the
team contest to 627 strokes, four strokes
better than the total OF Dartmouth,
which had Ankeny, BdSd. Babcock and
G. r. Mckee to shoulder the heavy
work.
Bulldog and Tiger in Race.
With e35 strokes the Yale experts are
In full chase, while Princeton stands at
$40. Cambridge. a. 662 will have to show
the golf of four Roger Wethereds to-day
If It is to finish anywhere near the top.
while Columbia. with 6s4; Williams. with
race, evidently.
While Drake played right up to the
top notch. or very close to II at least
It was quite apparent that the Cam
bridge men did not disclose anything
like the best form OF which they arc
capable. For instance, G. n. Hum
phrb,s. who probably is the star of the
English side. began with a 81. while /. s.
White was also so far out of form that
ha decided I'm
the afternoon round. In the afternoon
Humphries got an 80. which gave him an
aggregate OF III.
]. A. Bott. with 81 and II, was low
scorer for the English university, and
X. S. Morris second. with II and SIS.
c. H. Prowse had 81 and 79. while H.
E. La Bas tied Humphries with a 81
on top of his morning so.
What put the Englishmen Off form
was the intense heat. So different were
the conditions from what they are used
to on the other side of the Atlantic or
course the Cantabs found 1t necessary
to discard their blazers but to golfers
used to playing In coats this. of course.
did not help, save perhaps to make the
visitors feel a trifle cooler.
In the first round A l.. Walker, Jr.
the Columbia captain. shared the honors
with Richard A. Haight Of Princeton.
Each went round in rs. A rainy second
round made some difference 10 these two,
but 1t only seemed to spur to greater
effort certain other players. such as
Mckee and Sweetser. Mckee, with his
70. went to the head OF the class while
6weetser put a II on top Of 10 and
went UP beside Boyd. who backed up
his morning rs with a fine "A.
Sweetser Card a Record.
Sweetser's card is the best compiled
by an amateur in tournament play over
the Greenwich links and 1t is only two
strokes behind the record held jointly
by the professional pair. Walter Hagen
and Jim Barnes, since last years metro
politan open championship.
Sweetser might have had the SO or
haffar- for hn mis- eIrefc,f ttu