New-York tribune., 1922-04-08
.Fownes Loses
Close Match
At Pinehurst
Former Champion Beaten by
Robson, ] Up; Topping
Defeats Scofield, 3 and 2
By Ray Mccarthy

light. What between young sol1
..s,ds, and exciting matches, the
,..tsusn who are gathered for the
warth and South amateur champion
nv have enough gossip to talk about
my ~. rest OF the season. Before
.nv;nding tale that is stranger even
acton let US announce that
yaam usnrv ! Topping. Of the Greenwich
nsna;-v Club. and Philip X. Robson,
uppoebester. will meet in the final
ronnd Tomorrow for the championship.
Tonning defeated Mike Thomas, crack
sonthpaw golfer from Nashville, by
score Of ) and 2, while Roheson got
,be verdict over William e. Fownes jry
former national champion IN one OF
the most remarkable maiches ever
played in Pinehurst.. hooeson ana
Topping met in the hnais mere seven
~ ecandal concerns none other
..ar Michael Thomas. the southpsw
Tan,seeeean who has been the dark
torse n this meet and has shown ex-
ce,tional skill as a golf player. SO
,r.h so that the backers of Yates
Tonning and others were quite worried
=. Ike manner in which he was bowling
nyer opponents. When hostllitles were
suspended Yesterday Arthur Yates, the
medalist, was l up on Thomas, with
nine holes to be played
A Job for "Old Sleuth"
Yates, holding that advantage, looked
lita the winner. When Thomas re-
norted for his round this morning he
learned that somebody had broken into
the golf shop and had broken his driver,
his spoon and his mashie-niblick, the
most useful clubs in his bag. Doping
race horses, tossing ball games and hir-
ing football players have been known
TO take place. but this was some thing
new in sport.
Donald Ross. chairman of the com
mittee here and fine sportsman, was
highly indignant, and set to work to
repair Thomas's clubs as we'll as he
could. But the Tcnncsseean was forced
20 do battle against Yates with bor-
rowed clubs. Undaunted by that set
back, the sturdy Mike went out and
won his match by 2 up. 1t is only fair
to Yates to say that he. too, knowing
the circumstances, was laboring under
psychological handicap.
While sll this was taking place
Henry Topping was staging a wonder
fui comeback in making his way to the
semi-fnal round. Topping opposed E.
H. GCUlSiu III tUt ilOInlHR, ana, START
ing out at the ninth hole, was 8 down.
Three down is a considerable handicap
10 a fellow like Scofeld, who is a de-
mon at Pinehurst when golf is con-
cerned.
But Topping, one of the best match
players in the Metropolitan section,
came back with rush. Almost before
he knew what was happening Scofeld
found Topping right abreast with him.
scoGeld Prolongs the Issue
The pair went to the nineteenth hole,
where Topping got beautiful drive
and Scoheld topped his. Topping was
on the green with two perfect shots
and stood to win the match, but SEQ
field prolonged the issue by holing out
from of the green. Topping laced out
and another grand drive at the twenti-
eth hole, planted his second on the
green and then watched Scofield play
4 easily and won the match.
Then Fownes and Robson engaged in
struggle that will long be remem-
bered by those who followed the play
Both played the first hole poorly,
Fownes losing it when his third shot
struck tree and left him with a bad
lie, The Rochester lad then hit up q
pace which made the gallery dizzy. He
got birdie on the second hole,
being dead to the pin on his second
He holed q wenty-footer for another
birdie on the third. He grabbed an
other birdie 8 on the difficult fourth
when he got another birdie on the long
fifth hole everybody figured the match
was ended right there.
Fownes Plays Steadily
Fownes never let up. He plugged
along quietly and steadily. If he was
at all disconnected one could never
discern that from his actions. He won
the twelfth and the thirteenth and was
on the point Of squaring the match at
me fourteenth hole wen Robson, who
had his putter working miraculously
for half.
Then came the break. Fownes
nushed his tee shot off to the right at
me me next hole. His ball was lying on
5he fairway. however, and he had a
aecided edge after Robson sliced into
Trap. The latter made a good re-
every rrovery. reaching the edge of the green:
ffo@nes taking his mashie instead of
ms niblick, made sure to get over a
shght grass mound. with the result his
naii D ran thirty feet past the pin.
fownes ran his putt dead to the cup,
out Rooeson dropped his, giving him a
lead of up.
lne Oakmont star did we'll to get
ha!f on the next hole, when his shot
rom out of the woods struck the cup
ana enabled him to get his putt for
Hair-Rising Finish
fownes won the seventeenth with r.
good q, Robson pitching to trap at
tae night On the eighteenth both had
eood drives. Fownes smashed fine
tstassle shot to the green. while Robe
pn pushed his iron shot off to the
Gght. The Rochester player, from
nore than forty yards of the green,
IAN his ball up to within three feet
- the cup. And after Fownes had
pparely missed an eight-foot putt for
sse stepped up and holed the putt for
me victory. The cards were:
sobeson--
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!" 21' ..,...stt.s,sss- s-sss
The cards:
Topping
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Thomas-
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Inc summary:
CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION
'eeoNd rOund-W q Tornes tr Oak