The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-09
WHITE BEATEN BY
JERSEY CHAMPION
Dyer Puts Nassau Man Out
of Running in Second
Round.
ARMOUR SURPRISED TOO
Bows to Walker After Scoring
Over Lewis in the Morn
ing Feature.
ARMOUR SURPRISED TOO
ny KERR n. PETRIE.

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LAKEWOOD. n. j., June S.-A we'll
known golfer by the name of Gardiner
w. White has lost all faith in the SUI
perstitions of sport. White began de-
Tending his metropolitan amateur golf
championship yesterday on the links
of the Lakewood Country Club. On
that day he bought a book of script,
and on looking this over found that it
was No IS.
There has been so much said for
and against his bakers dozen down
the ages that Gardiner there and then
decided that he would pay close at
tention. After the, qualifying round
he discovered that he was No. Is on
the list, and when the draw was made
he still was thirteenth man.
I'm playing lunches in this tourna-
yrent." remarked White when he had
concluded the recital of mysterious COM
binations Of thirteens to his friends.
But. isn't it fact that thirteen is
supposed to be an unlucky number"
returned the champion.
But II there is any little good that
smiles benignly upon those who pick the
mystic number 10 it must have de-
serted White to-day. The Nassau man
went down the second round. beaten
but not disgraced. but defeated decisively
enough for all that by Frank W. Dyer
of Upper Montclair. who only last week
won the State championship of New
Jersey. Nor was White the only cas-
ualty of importance.
Armour Also Is Beaten.
Thrown into a particularly hot corner
of the draw. Thomas d. Armour of the
-Biltmore Country Club also
passed out in the second round. bowling
to A. l.. Walker. Jr.. of Richmond
county. and that. too. after Armour had
supplemented his recorc score In the
Qualifying round by winning the feature
match OF the. morning from Reginald
nj. Lewis OF Greenwich by a margin OF
2 up.
passed the torch to bear on high on
Lakewood fields are James Sweetser of
Siwanoy, d. c. Paul of Greenwich.
Grant A. Peacock OF Cherry Valley.
Frank w. Dyer Of Upper Montclair.
1n the upper half of the draw and
j. z. Hale. Upper Montclair. Henry
j. Topping. Greenwich. NJ. S. Bourne,
Garden City, and M. L. Walker,
r.. of Richmond county. supporting the
lower half of the bracket. From this
group will come the champion. for it is
the thin line that has survived the as
saults and shocks of two splendid
rounds.
Heroes all, these eight winners deserve
to be treated with all due respect. Still,
and to be brutally frank. there are only
about three OF this group that look to be
solidly straddled on the rock whirling
the two edged sword about their heads
and these three are Sweetser, Dyer and
Walker.
Dyer Looks Like winner.
Although 1t is bound to be a battle
Dyer should account for Peacock in the
morning. which would leave him for the
semi-fnal and a likely match with
Sweetser II the dope runs true. And so,
too, should Walker be a winner over
Bourne after the way he has been play
ing. Golfers. OF course, have their feel
ings and sometimes bit of admiration
for their own game, which leads them
10 see things differently. However, that
Is just about how II looks from the side
lines.
As for the other third round match
this morning, IL Is almost a question as
TO whether one likes the pastures of
New Jersey better than those OF Con-
nec;cut. Upper Montclair and Green
wich can toss a coin or an insult or
whatever they choose at each other and
keep on throwing them until the returns
come in. Eddie Hale and Henry J.
Topping are the two players dlsputing
the other semi-fnal place. 1t is a good
party bet.
Sweetser may not have been down to
carry the gallery at any time during
the day. but this lad has so much golf
in him that he just had to waste IL on
the desert air. the birds or the bees or
the flowers when the enthusiasts in their
INFINITE wisdom 20 or to see what they
take to be the giants battle locked.
Here's n Dark Horse.
In this tournament sweetser FUND
that there Is at least one dark horse
that had been grossly overlooked. This
prancing steed goes by the name OF Fred
p. Richardson OF Morris County, and
while any one within twenty miles of
4hViiiStoWH Will dIllrn tnat u. u. plays
the shots as II TO the manor born. il is
difficult to convince a gallery that a man
who never has been near TO cham
pionshp title has the right to even a
brief hearing when there are matches
agoing such as that OF Armour and
Lewis In the morning or the Walker.
Armour or Dyer-White. which were
staged as tidbits Of the afternoon
Not even when Richardson overthrow
Hamilton X. Kerr Of Garden City IN the
morning and scored a rs to boot did the
gallery feel that Fred had any right to
its company.
Added respect for him there WIS. OF
course. but then the gods have way OF
playing with their intended victims.
That as was to be the balm which Rich.
ardson would have 10 rub into his
wounds after Sweetser got through with
him.
Morris County may well be proud OF
the battle--not the morning one against
Kerr. but that which Richardson gave
.Sweetser. For Jesse. the pride OF West
chester. actually was forced to play a
al to beat his opponent by and I. n a.
too. with a stymie In II at the seven
teenth. Swoetser went out in rs and
he did not have a single hole to show
for IL.
A lost him the tenth and there
was the Siwanoy star on his way to
equal this hard Lakewood par OF II, J
down facing the eleventh. on this one