The New York herald., 1922-05-13
Donald McKellar and II. w,
Maxwell, Jr., to Play Off
for Title.
by KERR N. PETRIE.


Basking in the iImelight OF fame that
on Thursday morning seemed certain to
be reserved for pair Of the higher ups
on the Metropolitan Golf Associations
annual handicap list. Donald Mcclellan
of North Hampstead and Howard Max
we'll, Jr., of Nassau yesterday AFTERNOON
found themselves smilinglv arranging
for the thirty-six hole meetsAg at Lido
which is to determine the FIRST cham
pionship of the Long Island Golf Asso-
citation.
Since golf was first played it is doubt
full If there has been such thorough
shaking up in any title gathering as has
occurred in this first canter Of the Long
Islanders. With Gardiner W. White, the
Metropolitan champion, and the runner
Up of last year, Grant A. Peacock, in the
chase, not to mention perhaps another
half dozen tournament regulors of re-
nown. no one would have given more
than passing thought to the pair who
were still undefeated at the end of the
semi-final round yesterday. The upsets
began with the qualifying round. when
White. Peacock. John M. Ward. John N.
Stearns, Jr., Alfred S. Bourne. James c.
Parrish. Jr., and others faileo to make
the championship division. They con-
tinued right through every round of the
match play Tn the second round A. c.
Gregson of Belleclaire, tho medalist.
took a tumble, and later in the day
Gregson's conqueror. Hamilton X. Kerr
Of Garden City, went sp~awling in the
dust just as it began to look az IL this
player had drawn the brass ring.
The peculiarity of this particular
tourney is that while so many low ham
fstpa s..t- Al
card the final is left in the custody of
one player who has seven stroke rat
ing on the Metropolitan rating and
another who has no rating at all. Max
well gets the seen strokes. AS for
Mcclellan, he appears to have been neg
lected for several years by the NJ. G.. A.
This may be the fault Of his club or.
again. simply because he has furnished
nothing of recent years that could be
presented to the handicapperS. 1t does
seem. however, that Donald ghould be in
the seven stroke notch at least. Pos
sibly both he and his opponent of to-day
could stand stroke less.
Winners In Close Matches.
The aiibis and the introductons over
it is now permissible to say something
for the golf OF the pair who have
knocked the ''grandoldope." as it mas
been called, into the proverbial cooked
hat Obviously there must be some lit
tie degree of merit In the game OF
player who goes through to the final OF
the championship of Long Island. And
bestowing honors where these are due,
both Maxwell and McKellar have worked
their way around the bewhiskered Lido
links while the stormy winds did blow.
not because they carried a larger load
~ oh e1ant. <.s< ala H. III
tournament. but simply on their golf
and on their nerve.
As proving the spirit of Maxwell when
1t came to the pinch, this player against
young Carl Timpson OF Rockaway Hunt
another of the newly discovered comers.
was 2 down with to play. Unless a
player has the will to win that is about
the time to throw up the sponge. Max
well had no sponge and lot OF viii
power. Such being the case he annexed
the fifteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
and allowed half at the sixteenth only
because Timpson sank a long putt.
These three successes and half on the
last four holes left the Nassau entrant
with the match by the odd hole.
While McKellar's case was slightly
different it also contained that eie -nent
of dash toward the finish. He and
Kerr went on battling the bunkers to
an even match on the first nine. Smrt-
ing the homeward half McKellar threw
his golfing machine into high speed
with the result that he ran off with the
tenth, eleventh and twelfth. couple
of brides aiding. Having failed to i'm
prove upon that position Kerr passed
out of the picture four holes further
afield.
There were two extra hole matches
in the morning round, Kerr beating
Gregson in the nineteenth and McKellar
taking Don M. Parker OF Garden City
into camp on the third extra green.
Timpson won 4 and 2 from DR.. N. E.
Spragu the conqueror of F. II. Hoyt.
while Maxwell eliminated Morton l..