The New York herald., 1922-06-10
Upper Montclair Club Player
Defeats Richmond County
Star at 10Th Hole.
FRANK DYER ELIMINATED
Semi-Finalists Play Metropoli-
tan Championship in Swell
tering Heat at Lakewood.
By KERR n. PETRIB.

has a way of repeating itself in golf
as in everything else. There was
something of a repetition to-day when
in the semi-final round of the annual
championship tournament of the
Metropolitan Golf Association over the
I links of the Lakewood Country Club,
j. E. Hale of the Upper Montclair
: Jr., of Richmond County in nineteen
hole match and thereby earned the
. right to contest the tEirty-six hale
final test tomorrow against Jesse
Sweetser of Siwanoy.
Sweetser few minutes before had
won close and interesting match
from the New Jersey State champion.
Frank W. Dyer, also of Upper Mont
lair, by up and 1 to play.
There Is so little between Hale and
Walker apparently that any time they
ore paired to meet on the links they
might just as well toss a coin and let
1t go at that. At Garden City a year
ago they came together in the third
round and went to the twentieth hole
before Hale sank the winning putt.
This time it was finished at the nine-
teenth and after game as swelteringly
hot as the day in which 1t was played.
They had turned the first nine all even,
4 and all square they still were battling
as they drove off for the seventeenth.
Here Hale hooked his tee shot into the
trough. The ball whirled up into the
heat haze, curved to the left and then
was swallowed up In the daisy billows
Just as II 1t presaged the sinking of all
hope for Hale.
walker Was Comfortable.
~ Walker, who had been driving mag
nificently. working quietly but method
fcally and yet looking as cool and ma
1estic for 1t all as if he had been
breezing through January day. drove
a ball that fought shy of all trouble.
There was one thing TO be said for
Hale's hook. it had shortened the way
for him il he could but get his club on
the ball. Walker played his second into
the warm breeze, shot that hung the
sphere on high to drop it short of the
green. Now came Hale's chance. Down
into the waving sea of daisy tips went
his niblick and UP came the rubber-core
soaring on high and aiming straight for
the pin. That shot gave him the hole.
for although he missed the putt he had
eaSstr6ke on Walker
.sor ME one. Hale aimed too much for
fhe iaft on his eighteenth hole drive.
Naskes was down the middle. 1t was
do or s4ie now. Hale felt probably that
se h:iiN squandered his opportunities with
ex'-at rcrooked tee shot. But Eddie Is
huiit FOR such work. Nature did not
make him straight driver but having
u 4.t~. sf.s-
&rve MIN bone, sinew and muscle suffi-
-lent to make up for any SHORTCOMINGS
A powerful stroke Hale applied once
more. but this time his ball winged its
course across, the fairway. hoppel
through the fence, cleared the roadway
and one more fence and came to rest
among the pines beyond the profession
sols shop.
Square mt Home Green.
On some courses this shot would have
been out of bounds. There is no out of
. bounds at this particular spot SO Hale
had to play A fine shot he played, too
but at the last minute the ball turned off
the green and rolled under the bank
/. Meantime Walker, in trying to make the
. green, had hooked to a bunker. His
third came out OF the sand, hit the bank
of the green and left him ten foot putt
Tor 4.
/. Hale was strong on his fourth and
his fifth left the ball on the lip of the
7 cup. Walker had two for the hole &C
he putted cautiously and squared the
. match.
~ Despite the strain under which the
Z air must have been laboring, both
Grove magnifcently from the first tee
m the extra hole. Playing the odd on
he second. Walker misjudged the
trength Of the wind and laid his ball
yer the green. Hale took steady aim
and. Is already noted, put his ball
within a few feet still Walker was
not done. From beyond the mounds he
laid up inside" but Hale made no
mistake and by taking the hole in a
birdie 8. improved by at least one round
on his last years championship record.
'The card:
SiALE-
Out: 4555 as = go
out......... 4455 $50 5-42
In; .:.;...... s4 45454 a e-41-si
: Extra hoie--Hale, q; walker, 4.
While stubbornly fought, the match.
ss indicated by the cards, was not pro-
ductive of golf of the highest grade. The
heat and the strain no doubt were re-
sponsible.
E sweetser and Dyer.
In the other semi-final contest the
winner. Sweetser. was going at a IS
clip, but this was made possible only
saftar the first few holes had been left
behind. At the first both had three
puts for half in 8. Dyer lost the Sec
ond on a wide shot. but played a grand
shot TO the green from n bunker and got
4 an even half on the third. On the fourth
both tried to cut around the point Of
woods and paid the penalty Dyer got
his third. long iron to the green, and
won. Sweetser getting trapped.
Success for Dyer opened the second
hair. At the eleventh Sweetser recap-
\ turd this hole with n grand and sank
The card
swEETsER--
Out. ........... 5 34s4 4444 $50
3 DIVER
out....:........ 4444 4355 60
\ HfrWEETsETt-
IN. ........... 44455 5s44
y---R--
fn........... 35454 4444
TIE summaries:
IIHRD ROUND--Icsse sweetser Slwanov
beat u. G. Paul. Greenwich. g and 5: r. w
Dyer. Upper Montcar. beat Grant A. Pea
cock. Cherry Valley. I up: J. u. Hale I'm.
per Montclair, beat Henry j. Topping
Greenwich. md Q: A. l.. Walker tr
r{ichnond Counfv heaf A r rour,,. 60