The New York herald., 1921-06-04
GOLF DARK HORSES
CAUSE BIG UPSET
j. f. Hale and n. c. Mair to
Meet in New Jersey State
Final.
HALE BEATS TWO STARS
Eliminates w. NJ. Reekie, the
Champion, and Then Puts
Out Jerome ID. Travers.
ny KERR N. PETRIE.

N. c. Mair of Shackamaxon. two play
their own club circles, turned the an
nual championship tournament of the
New Jersey State Coli Association COM
pletely upside down yesterday by COM
ing through to the thirty-siX hole Anal
over the links of the Canoe Brook Coun-
try Club. Truth to tell, the pair were
ably assisted by f. 3. Richardson Of
Morris County, who In the morning elm
mated the medal winner. j. Simpson
Dean of Princeton. only to fall before
Mair himself in the seml-hnal by 3 and
margin.
But up there in his own half of the
draw Hale did more than his share of
the cleaning up He also somewhat un-
expectedly turned the Upper Montclair
Country Club upside down, winning
from William NJ. Reekie, the title
holder, in the morning by 2 and /, and
in the afternoon taking the measure OF
Jerome ID. Travers, former national open
and amateur champion, in an extra hole
match.
Although on all hands Hale was given
full credit for a magnificent perform
ance, from the standpoint OF the gallery
Travers's elimination was disappointing
inasmuch as the old master had been
showing much Of the combativeness and
polished golf which made his name
household word a few years ago. Je-
romes come back" was in full bloom
up to the thirteenth in the afternoon, but
there it began to fade At the finish
Travers admitted that he had felt HIM
self firing rapidly on the second half
against Hale.
The former champion had gone around
close to par in the morning to eliminate
A L. Pierson. ,Jr., of Montclair by and
and he was out in Sc against Hale.
At the twelfth Travers still stood up
and looked all the world like a winner.
Tho next two holes saw the turning
point for Hale played each in a birdie
and thereby squared the match. This
was not exactly the faut of Travers. but
when the pinch came on the long holes
toward the end Jerome scarcely was
able for it. that is, his golf was not
crisp enough then to take advantage of
slips made by his slashing, far driving
but somewhat erratic clubmate.
Turn Comes at Thirteenth.
The play at the thirteenth and four
teenth is we'll worth recounting. The
first Of these is mere matter of 553
yards. Hale hit two shots that carried
him down i'm front OF the green, pitched
one over the bunkers and holed his putt
for 4. On the next a hole of III
yards. Hale laid his ball about two
feet from the flag and holed for his 2.
Travers had played well at both these
hoIes but for the above reasons his pair
OF pars were unavailing.
Driving for the fifteenth Hale was
thirty yards over Travers and while the
former put his second on the green the
latter sliced into a bunker, finding
heel print in the worst position possible
right where the sand met the grassy
bank. From this unsavory spot Travers
played the ball clear across the green,
was barely on with his fourth and final
ly gave up. leaving Hale with the lead
for the first time during the match.
Despite the fact that he had now lost
three holes in row Jerome was not done
by any means. Hale pulled among the
trees at the next and Travers squared
with g.
The long seventeenth was a weird
hole Travers skied his drive. but went
straight all the way, finishing UP in
a bunker in front OF the green with his
third, recovering weakly and holing a s.
Hale had come up with a succession
of slices that sent him first on to the
fifteenth fairway and then clear away
across the fairway of the thirteenth, so
that he was almost out OF bounds. On
coarse like Knickerboclter he would have
been out OF pocket at least a couple of
dollars on these shots. but he got half
eventually, hitting n tree on his third. a
most grotesquc shot, and reaching the
green on his fourth.
Bunkered Mt Home Hole.
The eighteenth saw what looked like
the finish OF Travers, for he pulled his
long iron shot into bunker But Jerome
came again, fighting back as stoutly as
ever. and finally holed nasty side
slope putt of about yard for half
Hale had been over the green with his
second. and coming back down hill he let
the ball slide along past the cup too far
TO hole on the return.
On the eighteenth Travers got Off n
fine ball from the tee, but he most un-
accountably pulled his approach to the
side OF the green against perfect
second by Hale. who had sliced on his
opening shot. Travers on his run UP was
short and he missed twice after this. The
card of the match: