The New York herald., 1922-05-07
PRINCETON GOLFER
WINS AT LAKEWOOD
Wintringer Overcomes 4 Hole
Lead and Beats Parrish.
One Up.
BY KERR n. PETpIE.

1 courageousiy and steadfastly up the
long. long trail OF adversely, r. L. Win
tringer. the Tiger golf captain. carried
the Princeton colors to the top of the
hill in the final of the Lakewood Clubs
| annual spring tournament to-day wher
all signs warned of an expected ava
lanche
! Wintringer was down at the fnti
tc James {. Parrish. Jr., OF the Nationa
Links. but making light of such handi'
cap, he kept battling onward, emerging
victorious at length on the home greer
by the margin of single hole.
This was Princeton's day on the links
! without a shadow of doubt. In thu
morning semi-final wintringer breezet
| ir with the surprise of the tournament
| overthrowing the favorite. Fred k
Knight Of Atlantic City. by up and
| to play.
| All the way around it was an upset
| since DIR. II. V. Garrity OF Asbury Park
whose fine play had presaged his ap
pearance in the final. also lost by the
odd hole to Parrish
Tiger Had Putting Touch.
Wintringer's putting was the feature
! Of the match in which knight received
| his quietus. The Princeton captain
dropped four or five staggering puts
which spiked completely the guns oi
| the Atlantic City star. 1t looked at the
| q "a
ringer had expended all Of his ammu
milton in that early battle. His Ions
game was in tangle and he KEEP
| missing puts, but after Parrish hat
shot home a fifteen footer for o 2 OF
the firth green, Wintringer began u
| And the range. He won the sixth whef
| Parrish visited a trap on his SECOND
shot, and similar opportunity thu
Tiger leader seized at the eighth
On the first incoming hole Wintringel
brought the disadvantage back to one
Parrish was going shakily row ane
Wintringer went right after bis man
| A series Of poorly hit shots and a missed
putt by Parrish brought the accounts
to evens on the eleventh Two hole.
further on Wintringer took the lead, and
he made II 2 up when he sank an
eighteen foot putt al the fifteenth
Cutting the dog leg corner at th'
sixteenth too fine. Wintringer put hi
ball out of bounds. His next dropped
| into bunker. but he got half IL
| five. Parrish playing wide from thu
tee and taking three to get home.
| A Good Brassie Shot.
From the seventeenth tee Parrisl
| again was wide, this time with slice
However. he placed a good brassie sho
close to the green, pitched up an
holed a ten foot putt to keep the mate
going. Wintringer. meantime, had gon
over with his second.
A sliced drive looked as IL it Nigh
topple wintringer on the home hole
His ball flew across the roadway, bu
he got an iron on 1t and sent II wei
down to the green. Parrish pulled hi
brassie secondSto trap. but pitched ou
magnificently and then hit the cur
1t was a game effort. but futile. Wint
| ringer still had a yard putt to hole
| but he made no bones about 1t. halvin
in and taking the match by one ur
This gave the Princeton captain tn
honor of being the first to have hi
name inscribed on the Gould cup.
The card of the final:
out. G . . 80 81
out......... 3 3 4 8 ae 4 80
In. .......... SO 8 . . 5 5-42-s
| PARRISH
In........ 81 5 6 Q 5-45-s
Wintringer's putter came early ins
the picture in the semi-fnai, for tn
Princetonian holed ten footer on tn
pivot green to take the lead after botl
ne and knight had failed TO carry ~
green in two. Two halves followed
then Wintringer made IL up at tn
| fourth, somewhat luckily. Knight ha'
| sliced to a trap from the tee, but Wint
ringer sQuandered the advantage b.
under clubbing his second shot and owe
playing his chip. Knight now held
slight advantage, but took three putt
to two by his opponent.
From a trap on the fifth Knight lai'
I'D what looked like a life saver. bu
he failed to hold his putt. vital slir
since Wintringer had made the plateau
from the tee and was down I'm the regu
lation two puts for his par 3.
Gallery Apprehensive.
Considerable apprehension now be
came manifest among the Philadelphia
and Atlantic City contingent in the gal
iery. Outwardly, however. only optimism
was apparent 'Nintringer had no righ
to be doing this to the knight OF th'
links and for Fred matters soon woulC
rlend.
There appeared to be good deal o
| logic In this when Wintringer got him
self into a bad putting position on tn
sixth. and so doing dropped hcle o
his lead. Another fash OF JOY hit th'
faces OF knights admirers when the lat
ter pitched his approach to within tel
feet OF the seventh cup and Wintringeri
ball broke thirty feet to the left over {
| ridge.
Then the fates took hand.
Wintringer holed and Knight missed
and instead OF being only up it wa
again 3.
Three puts by the Princetonian OF
the eighth gave Knight an opening upoI
which he eargerly pounced for a>par 4
Another success followed at the ninth
and the oasis in the desert was in sight
No more than a mirage this proved q
be. Wintringer missed a six foot put
to win the tenth. but he dropped
twenty footer TO take the next.
Knight pulled himself out OF bat
predicament on a mound shot at th'
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