The New York herald., 1922-05-19
FourSome Play Decides
Match at Morris County
New Jersey, Leader in Singles,
Scores 27 and Long Island
\ 10 Points.
ny KERR n. PETRIE.

Coming with a rush in the afternoon
soursomes after running second to New
Jersey in the morning singles, westches-
ter won the triangular team golf match
yesterday on the Morris County Golf
Club links with a grand total OF 80
points. The margin of victory was 3
points. New Jersey finishing with to-
tai of 27 after leading the singles 21
to Is. The Long Island side, last in
the forenoon play remained in that
position to the bitter end, adding 6
points to its total gatheref In the man
to man play and coming out of the
fray with an aggregate OF 10.
Besides the rain. which worked so In
dustriously that in the afternoon 1t had
the putting greens on some OF the holes
contestants had difficulty deciding which
to aim at. the feature of the contest
was the smashing work of the West
chester troupe in the foursome. With
a triangular contest on their hands this
year the officials had the big problem
Of the doubles" to wrestle with. Az
the conditions Of the match necessi-
tated "sixsomes' in the afternoon, It was
decided finally to avoid pitfalls of six
single rubber core between them. play
ing alternate strokes according to the
regulation Scotch foursome idea.
This may have upset New jersey. In
any event they won only two matches
against Westchester and no better than
broke even at four all with Long Island
Westchester, on the other hand. ap-
peared to be dismayed neither by the
weather nor the playing arrangement
n hnv mi To- hi nd q
Lee Maxwelfs merry men took both
opposing sides into camp for a to. 2
score, and by go doing completely
turned the tables ON the New JerseyiteA
New Jersey Suffers slump.
Frank W. Dyer and j. e. Hale. the
long driving pair from Upper Montclair,
took a point from r. A. Haight and
Grant Peacock. but the Westchester pair
held them at bay over the eighteen hole
route and beat them on the playofS
That was the start Of the New Jersey
debacle. F. F. Turrell or Morris County
and Maurice Rsley of Atlantic City beat
the strong pair consisting of T. d. Ar
mour and ]. S. Worthington, while W.
r. Donahue Of Shackamaxon and II. Y.
Barrow of Baltusrol accounted for Basil
Harris of Apawnmis and Ray Thompson
of the Westchester-Biltmo That. how
ever was the end OF New Jerseys sue
cess In htat direction. and. with Vest
chester pitching into Long Island just 8
Justify, the issue soon was placed beyond
doubt.
Despite the heavy going there were
many bright features during the morn
ing round when the players were on
their own. Jess w. Sweetser OF Ardsley
and Siwanoy had another field day of 1t.
beating Gardiner w. White, the metro
politan champion, and !, and Jerome
ID. Travers, the New Jersey leader, and
3. White also won from Travers, who
played we'll in spots. but was hampered
by a lame back. As White has his lacer-
ated aid still weak wrist to nurse along,
ne, like Jerome, took a rest In the after
noon.
Sweetser who had played around In
T2 the previous day. to win the gross
prize in the informal tournament given
by the Morris County club, made 76
this time. White was 70 and Travers 81.
Another rs was served up by Il. NJ.
Wild of Baltusrol. who had the satisfac-
tion of defeating the former Western
champion, d. Il. Sawyer. Donald Nc
Kellar. runner up In the Long Island
championship. also fell before that same
card.
There were several extra hole matches,
naturally, but nothing quite like the
contest between A. d. Swords OF Morris
County and Richard Jon>a the young
PLAYER from Westchester Hills. Jones
finally won on the twenty-fifth hole.