The New York herald., 1922-06-04
DYER TITLE WINNER
DESPITE 3 STYMIES
Upper Montclair Man Lays
Two-Wild Contributes
the Other.

Despite the fact that he laid himself
two stymies and was confronted with
a third contributed by his opponent
Frank w. Dyer of Upper Montclair
managed to win the amateur champion
ship title OF the New Jersey State Golf
Association at Norwood yesterday. He
defeated E. NJ. Wild of Baltusrol. 4 up
and to play in the thirty-six hole final.
Throughout the day Dyer furnished
golf Of the match play brand. combin-
ing a collection OF brilliant and indiffer-
ent holes, and 1t prevailed against Wild.
who, at no time, showed the golf OF
which he seemed capable. There was a
slackness which frequently left him ,in-
able to take advantage of openings.
caused by the slips of the other man.
Where Dyer did the work that prac-
tically won him the new title. was In the
morning. Winning the first two holes
and increasing that advantage to UP at
the turn. he assumed position from
which his opponent found 1t impossible
to assail with an attack persistent
enough to turn the tide.
Although he had a on his card going
out. Dyer made the first nine in 3s.
Wild had AZ. Coming back. the leader
did not go quite so we'll. but, at that.
retired for the intermisaon 8 UP, having
made the full round In 81 to Wild's 50.
Dyer's Work Rare.
By all odds the Incidents that must
ever loom prominently wherever this
final Is talked Of in days or. years to
come were the stymies that figured dur
ing the morning round. Rarely does II
happen that a man Is so fortunate as
to win a title after twice closing the
occurred at the short third. where he
had laid his tee shot on the green and
would have won with a 3 but for laying
himself stymie.
With an opponent so Indifferent Wild
possibly shed no tears when he laid
Dyer a stymie on the sixth green. In
cidentally II came at an opportune mo-
ment for the Baltusrol man, who had
twice been in trouble. In the rough on
his second and trap on his third. He
surely would have dropped further be-
hind but for the stymie that prevented
Dyer from getting his 5. ttn
Dyer's second amazing contribution
was at the sixteenth. Both made the
green on their thirds. Wild below the
hole and a trifle away. He ran his
approach putt stone dead few inches
short. All Dyer had to do was to
trickle close, being careful to be short.
Instead he apparently went for the
hole. missed, and, going past, brought
up back of Wild's ball. Dyer tried to
pitch over with a nibiick. but failed.
Although favored by fine weather in
the morning the players had not gone
far on their afternoon round before II
began to rain and they had that to con-
fap hA MI -
both had difficulty in keeping on the
course, Dyer in particular being off the
line.
II was getting into traps that caused
him to lose the fourth. eighth and ninth
holes. This would have entirely wiped
out his lead. had IL not been for the fact
that he had won the second hole. AS
II was, Dyer found himself only / up at
the turn and at that stage he appeared
to be slipping to defeat.
As Il turned out, however, the hopes
OF the Wild supporters were doomed to
he dashed. for the "far driver" from
Upper Montclair, taking himself In hand,
reeled off the next six holes In one un-
der par. At the 210 yard twelfth he
laid his tee shot to within five feet of
the pin. getting 2. That placed him 2
UP, and he made Il 3 up by sinking a
ten foot putt on the fourteenth green.
his opponent missing one of about the
same length.
Neither Good on Greens.
The match ended Mt the 1876 yard fif-
tecnth when Wild fell short on his tee
shot. Dyer was hole high in the rough,
but laid his next practically dead. Ex-
cept for two long puts by Dyer In the
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