The New York herald., 1921-05-18
UPPER MONTCLAIR
PAIR LOW ON LINKS
". MI. Reekie and w. Braid
Win New Jersey Amateur
Pro Event.
RETURN TOTAL OF 1873
Oswald Kirkby and Cyril
Walker Second With 142
at Knickerbocker.
RETURN TOTAL OF 1873
BY KERR n. PETRIE.

One of the finest exhibitions OF team
work seen on a New Jersey course IN an
Important tournament in long time
was that which won the first prize for
the Upper Montclair pair, William NJ.
Reekie and William \. Braid. IN the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. event which was
held over the links of the knicker-
booker Country Club OF Tenafly yester-
day as a prelude TO the first open cham
ptonship of the New Jersey State Golf
Association. The Upper Montclair pair
won the first set OF prizes with an az
rregate score OF 13S strokes and a mar
gin of four strokes, Oswald Kirkby and
Cyril Walker of Engiewood being sec
ond with 142.
The Enelewood pair led the field in
the morning round with a card of 50,
against the 70 of the Upper Montclair
presentatives. but in the afternoon
they had to be satisfied with 70, while
Reekie and Braid were playing around
for the lowest total OF the day, 6S.
Third place was taken by E. M. Wild
and Francis 3. Gallett, representing
Baltusrol. while G. T. Lansing and VIII
lie Collins brought the host organiza-
xion we'll into the limelight by annex
Ing fourth place with LAT.
Starting the second eighteen holes
Wild and Gallet were only stroke be-
hind Reekie and Braid. and therefore
but two shots removed from kirkby and
Walker. Lansing and Collins had made
q 73 as an opener. and they duplicated
this on the second round. 1t was, how
ever. really a three cornered fight be-
tween Upper Montclair. Englewood and
Baltusrol from the moment the morning
cards were returned, and in the long
run superior team work won.
The manner in which the Upper Mont
clair pair doyetaied their golf in the
afternoon was remarkable. Seldom
were they both in error on the same
hole. Turning in 50 for the second time
during the day. they began the incoming
journey as they had done the first time
around with 3 by the professional,
Braid. They got a fine at the elev-
enth and a par 9 at ths next, at which
stage they were three under fours. At
the thirteenth, where the path is mar
row and the way of the transgressor
hard. ReekSa half topped his brassie
shot and failed to carry the ditch. Braid
vas over. but. being trifle weak on his
putt. lost n stroke which might have
been gained for his side. On the short
fourteenth Reekie. who incidentally is
amateur champion of New Jersey, put
his ball within q few feet of the cup
and sank his putt for n q
The fifteenth was made in par while
on the next Reekie broke his nlashie and
put his ball In a bunker In front of the
green. Braid was nicely on. but Willie
was feeling the tension by this time, and
instead of tricklng a downhill putt he
hit the ball trifie hard and missed
coming back. This missed putt was
really about the only chargeable mistake
Of the round. but it affected the result
not at all.
On the seventeenth, which Is a $50
yard shot to n plateau green. both
Reekie and Braid were down in 3, and
at the home hole Reekie played mag
n.ficent brassie shot from a hanging lie
TO within about eight or ten feet OF the
cup and sank the putt for birdie 3.
The card Of the winners: