The New York herald., 1922-11-01
GUARANTY TRUST
GOLF MEET WINNER
Emerges From Mass of Figures
Victor in Bankers Tour
ney at Rye.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

| AS the saying has 1t. there is a rea
| son for everything. The reason that tn
Bankers Athletic League restraints 1t:
golfing ambitions until the fag end o.
| the season Is not far to seek IL one i
merely standing on the outside looking
| in. They see a good dealsof humanity
these men of high finance, and the.
| probably feel that after staggering
through superheated golf season gol
pr ofessionals, secretaries, scoreboarC
keepers, caddies, officials and so forth
are entitled to some consideration
Hence the reason for selecting date
within a couple of months of Christ
mas. They reason, probably, that II
! these officials take to the woods the
club won't notice is so much as 1t would
il 1t happened when the bullfrogs are
! beginning to croak down by the pond.
This morning there will be rollcall
at the Westchester-Blltmor Country
Club and the chances are that only a
handful will answer the summons. Quite
possibly Cuthbert Butchart. Tommy Ar
mour. Jimmy Ball and J. C. Punderford
will be missing. hiding away somewhere
in the wilderness or sitting each In
lonesome majesty and happy seclusion
In rowboat in the middle OF Long
Island Sound.
Last night. and long before the bank
ers had settled their argument and de-
cided the destination of the various
cups. the nerves of the gentlemen In
question were showing signs of break
ing under the strain. Never in their
lives had the Westchester-B -Biltmore Of
ficials been subjected to such barrage
Of figures. Any one could tell that the
golfers thronging the links out there at
Rye yesterday were bankers. No other
group of men could possibly pile up the
numerals with such utter disdain for
their health. Least of all could any
others dissect such mass Of minus and
plus markings, that ran into the hun
dreds, and then turn around calmly and
say who or which had won.
The bankers did all this iand then
went home AMI slept soundly, it is be-
lieved. But In their wake they left q
pile of human debris that may require
weeks of quiet and rest to repair.
And the way these men OF high ffpance
pitched into each other was sight for
sore eyes. Every year out in Bergen
county there is a team match in which
every man In a certain position on his
team plays the men who occupy the
corresponding position on the other
sides. However, that is child's play COM
pared-to the bankers tournament. There
usually are about half dozen teams
engaged. In the event at the Westches-
ter-Biltmore there were seventeen and.
of course, the head bookkeepers had to
wait until all the divisions and battal-
ions had come off the links before they
could go to work.
Ultimately It was announced that the
quintet OF the Guaranty Trust Company
had kicked the pea green stuffings out
of all other contenders for the team
championship. but this is n case where
the word of those in authority will have
to be accepted at its face value. No
mere outsider unacquarhted with figures
as they are known to Wall Street could
hope to dispute the list as II was turned
out like so much ticker tape.
The Guaranty Trust team consisted OF
d. Boardman, manager; Charles II.
Sabin, chairman of the board; G. r.
Parker, vice-president: c. NJ. Marvin,
assistant secretary, and A. II. Jones,
assistant vice-president, and together
they rolled up 431 points, "a more than
fell to the lot OF the toiling Equitable
Trust Company. Others were mere back
numbers. although the first nine were
plus. Then came a list of eight clubs
in the minus column. the last OF them
the Manufacturers Trust Company, no
less than $40 in the hole.
G. r. Parker 1t was who swung the
heavy bludgeon for the victors. He
either played fineS golf or found soft
picking because at No. on his team
he came in with a row OF scalps that
in the aggregate looked like block OF
Mexican Pete when they bring in seven
teen new oil bearing wells. while the
neighbors are taking out salt water
The summary