New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-09
Nassau County
Amateur Beats
Adair, 4 and 3
Frank Dyer Plays Brilliant
Came, but Trails Home
Behind Waterbury Star
Sneciai Corrcspondence Of The Trl5un,

SpeclM Correspondence Of The Tri5uns
PlNEHuRST, N. c., April Scar
diner White, the star amateur golfer
OF the Nassau Country Club, worked
his way into the final round of the
North and South amateur champion
ship tournament here to-day. Whites
victim was young Perry Adair, the At
lanta star, who lost by a score of
4 and g.
In the other semi-fnal round Frank
Dyer, of the Upper Montclair Club, was
beaten by B. P "Buck" Merriman, Of
Waterbury, Conn, and l. White and
iM1errlman, consequently, will meet in
the final tomorrow.
Adair virtually defeated himself by
his poor work on the green's At the
eighth he was one down and at one eoch
OF the next four greens he took three
puts, thus losing four holes, which
left him down and to go.
Loses Match at Fifteenth
the fourteenth, but could only get q
half at the fifteenth, which cost him
the match.
The cards:
White-Out ........ 49, SIS
White-In ....... 49,. s 4 3
Auair--lh ........- .
The Merriman-D match was all
Merrlman going out, all Dyer coming in.
The great golf played by the Waterbury
star for the first nine holes is be st
summed up by saying that he PLAYED
eight of the outward holes in twenty
nine strokes, four under As, and that
even charging him with an approximate
ed 7 for the seventh hole. where he
drove into the woods and picked up, he
was out in 35.
Dyer took 80 to go out and was down
at the turn. Then he started one of the
most remarkable streaks of golf seen
here IN long time. He picked up one of
the lost i've holes at the tenth, another
at the twelfth and a third with semi
MIRACULOUS at the fifteenth and was
only down going to the sixteenth.
Dyer Plays Brilliantly
He lost the match by and l with
the halvlng of the sixteenth and seven
teenth, and played the bye hole for a
total Of 33 for the last nine holes Mer-
riman went around in 35, 36-71, and
Dyer in 80, 23-72.
1t was great match, and although
Merriman's defensive work coming in
and his fine 80 for the last nine holes
was more or less overshadowed by
Dyer's brilliant performance, the
Waterman star has now supplanted
White as the majority favorite for
Francis Ouimet's North and South title
The cards
nserl oa. Out. ; y ss-ss
Merrilnan. In. 4 3 4-s6-7l
Dyer. In. = 3 4--33-72
f. c. Newton, of Brookline. and Don
aid Parson, OF the Youngstown Country
! Club, came through in the consolation
section. Both had to fight hard to win
Newton played against Jim Standish, OF
Detroit, and won by and l. Parsor
had to go to the twentieth hole to wiz
against Christ Dunphy, of Woodland
by up.
The line-ups:
First sixteen-B P. Merrinan. Water
bury. beat Frank w. Dyer Upper Mont.
clair. and l. Gardiner White Nassau
beat Perry Adair, Druid Hills, and s.
Beaten Eight-Donald Parson. youngs
town tow beat G. j. Dunphy, Woodland, l ur
j. D. standish jr.. Lochmoor. and /.
Second sixteenth c. Phillips Moore
County. beat j. w. Bowman Aberdeen
and 2 Newton Richmond beat & W
hensor, Westbrook. and 3.
noro' beat r. a Stanahan. Inverness,
Elliott Rarney. Greenwich l up GO holes)
Third sixteen-W 5 Dillon. Alphlie
beat J; NJ Thompson Spring Haven, ap
Joe Hotchklss. New Haven beat c. f
Beaten eight-Malcolm MacGregor De-
troit beat j. r. Page jr, Southern pines
| up; }. d. Armstrong, Spennecosette beat
II. + foWnes Oakmort, up GO holes).