The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Takes Chief Trophy in Annual
Invitation Event by
5 and 8. ~
GARDINER WHITE LOSES
Metropolitan Champion, Like
+. @. Newton, Goes Down in
Semi-Final.
ny KDaR N. rETRIE.


champion brilliantly and rather unex-
pectedly In the semi-final round, Don
NJ. Parker Of the home organization
allowed the honors of the annual invi-
tation tournament Of the Garden City
Golf Club to get away from him yes
terday. The golfer who remained un-
beaten at the conclusion Of the two
days Of match play was r. A. Lyme Of
Oakmont. Pittsburgh. winner last year
Of the championship OF western Penn
sylvania. and declared by some to be
next to w. c. Fownes. Jr, in that dis
trict.
Lyme defeated +. c. Newton of
Brookline, captain of the Massachu-
setts Lesley cup team. In the morning
play by and 2, and in the final he
trounced Parker by s and 8. There
can be no sainsaying the Pittsburgh
er's record, and yet it did seem to
those watching his play In tho final
that he was q little fortunate In hav-
ing no sitter opposition offered him
than that which Parker gave.
After his brilliant string of victories
which brought into camp r.. N. Wool
worth. John N. Stearns and then White.
Parker suffered slump that threw the
machinery Of his game all out OF order.
He realized the trouble too late. for on
the first eight holes or so he was taking
the club back so fast that his actions
reminded one OF q gate swinging in the
wind. Over this part of the route Don
and the fairway were as bitter enemies.
while the forecaddies who were marking
the rubber cores with red flags usually
were darting in and out of tho shrub
berry like huge fireflies.
Back Wing Causes Trouble.
Along about the ninth hole Parker
noticed what he was doing ana by cut
ting down the speed Of his back swing
he began TO set the ball OH the fairway.
BY that time II was almost too late for
Lyme was then 8 up and playing confi-
who gets lead of three holes more be-
cause Of the Weakness of his opponent
rather than on account Of his own brill
lance.
So industriously had Parker ploughed
the stubble that he found himself driv-
ing for the ninth hole with a for so,
That Is not Parker's game OF course.
However. that swift and almost reck-
less back swing had transformed the
Garden City stylist from a first sixteen
man into "A fifth division consolationist.
AS showing the depths to which such q
malady as beset him will sometimes
Avou artu n, m
representative made only three pars In
the course Of fifteen holes.
A strong and troublesome wind may
have had something to do with this
state OF affairs. of course. but not
enough to account for the utter break
down Of Parker's fine game. 1t was
just one of those unexplainab BILE seizures.
A man ranked second to w. c. Fownes
should have taken almost every hole
from Parker. Instead Lyme did his fair
share OF bunslng, 1t began at the
first when. after Parker had pulled u
the rough and hashed around bit. the
Pittsburgh man dropped his ball weakly
into the bunker by way Of showing his
sympathy. Lyme won taht hole In
poor five.
On the second Lyme overplayed the
green into the trap and only got half
through styinie. He had three puts
on the third green and. driving for the
fourth. he topped into the long grass
At the fifth the eventual winner sliced
Into the long grass but got a four through
some fine recovery work. He was in
the rough on a slice at the sixth. or
would have been had the rough at that
particular point not been ground under
repair"
Lyme here had the benefit of very
crude ruling. for instead of being told to
drop his ball not nearer the hole he
received permission to return to the
fairway. The distance thus saved. not
to mention the difference between . lie
out on the velvel-like fairway and the
rough. enabled Lyme to reach the green
with his second and thereby win the
hole.