The New York herald., 1922-06-28
Score 655 to DartmOuth's
664 Over Garden City
Links.
YALE IN THIRD PLACE
One Point Separates Harvard
and Williams at Halfway
Mark.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

BY KERR N. PETRIE.
While the goal of all rightly ordered
human endeavor must ever be up
ward. there Is this drawba about
planting the standard on the roof of
the world-it is something of job to
get the old rag back there again once
the avalanche has carried away the
camp.
Some such thought must have been
drilling through the minds of the In
tercollegiate Golf Association officials
yesterday at Garden City as they
mustered the forces for the annual
spring drive against the individual
and team titles. Considered strictly
on its merits. the field was a good one
and there were stars enough to light
the way for the gallery and all con-
cerned over the well known Long
Island links. And yet, compared with
last years tourney at Greenwich, the
event was rather drab looking.
This has to be ADMITTED. and more
over it was not altogether traceable
TO the dismal brand of weather which
dropped in for the inaugural strokes.
To begin with. one rather missed such
stalwarts of last year, as Jesse Sweet
ser, J. Simpson Dean and A L. Walker,
Jr. Scott Of Yale and one or two others.
Then the Drake University team from
Iowa, which made such a sudden and
desperate lunge at the honors. was
absent. And above all, one missed tho
green-blue blazers" and briar pipes of
the Cambridge University players, those
jolly Cantabs who came all the way
from England to inject an International
flavor into the tournament at Green
witch.
Rude knepper I'm Lead.
Rudolph e. Knepper Of Princeton, who
year ago was out trying for the
Western championship and going
through to the final of that event in
cidentally, Is doing his best to push
the championship back to it's old stand
ard. But Rudie is only one IL mighty
good one. 1t does seem that the team
"ec't at0 sfhS yo0A hoS 0AVRPSa OAA Quiec
a bit. 4rf9T
Again, this Is by no means saying that
the standard Is low. 1t only suffers in
comparison
And the scores, ah, the scores
There are no Ills. 72s and 73s, which
were so rife ~at Greenwich. But, then
the venue this time is Garden City. and
with all due respects to Greenwich. there
is some little difference between the two
courses. 4
Only five cards bettered so for the
first thirty-six holes and the lowest
round was u, made in the morning by
a. p. Boyd Of Dartmouth, and in the
afternoon by the Lakewood spring win
ner and Gould cup holder, r. L. Wint-
ringer OF Princeton. Only one player
broke so twice and knepper was the
hero of that rare feat.
The play saw the beginning of the
seventy-two hole contest for the team
championship Each college was allowed
to enter six players and from these the
low four will count for the champion
ship. Princeton with $50 leads at the
halfway notch, Dartmouth. the holders.
being second with 664 and Yale third
with 673. Knepper. Wintringer, Sparks
and Carruth are the quartet who carried
the Tiger out in front on the first day.
il is quite possible. however, that F. E.
Knepper may take hand before the
finish to-day He Is only four strokes
behind Carruth. and this despite bad
81 in the morning.
TftIcholders Are Second.
Dartmouth was best served by Boyd.
Hanlon. Rice and Taft. One Of the
Green's players. A. Gunnison. dropped
out in the afternoon after carding a "a
in the morning, but +. Sheehy is still
carrying on. eight strokes behind Taft.
Sheehy was I'm line with an 81, but failed
TO keep NY with the parade In the after
noon. when he had a "a.
Next to Knepper I'm the individual scor-
ing. which does not count save for the
team championship. was Boyd OF Dart
mouth. Only two strokes separated him
from Knepper. Wntringers afternoon
n brought him down to 159. while
James c. Ward OF Williams, who was
runner up two years ago for the indi-
vidual championship, finished his thirty
six holes in 160.
The two rounds to be played to-day
will qualify the players for the individ-
ual championship.
Heavy rains hampered the players
from time TO time. and In addition there
was an element OF danger caused by the
electric storms which bombarded the
well known .welkin. Several players,
among them Ward OF Williams returned
from the afternoon round and reported
that they had barely escaped electrocu-
tion during one OF the storms. Most of
the party players and caddies had ex-
perienced the sensation ofs a sizable
shock, while Ward had his umbrella
knocked out of his hand.