The New York herald., 1922-07-01
BARNHILL TRIUMPHSI
IN ADJ GOLF FINAL
Beats Conklin Of New York
by 3 and 2 at COopers-
town Tourney.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

July weather here to-day. w. Roy Barn
hill beat e. w. Conklin In finals Of the
tournament held by the American Golf
Association of Advertising Interests. BY
a score OF 3 up and 2 to play.
The battle needed little advertising.
1t was one of the best ever fought In
the finals of any golf engagements
Both men made some amazing shots and
recoveries, and the exciting element OF
suspense was never lacking
Interest In this match had been brew
ing all during the week. It uncorked
itself to-day in flowing measure. This
uncorking, OF interest, extended into the
evening, when the association gave it's
annual banquet. at which events of the
week were gone over, green by green
and cup by cup This banquet was pre-
sided over by Keith Evans. and many
brilliant speeches were made and many
beautiful prizes presented.
AS matter of fact we never saw so
many prizes in one place. The table
which held them looked good deal
like the window display of some large
department store. AS nearly as we can
figure everybody present got some kind
of prize.
But to get back to the match. Barn
hill now registers from Des Mo.nes
Iowa, but most golfers around New
York will recognize him as the same
skillful wielder of the mashie and putter
who so often has played in tournaments
In almost every other vicinity. And he
has won many of them. AS we remem-
ber, he. was the winner of another ad-
yertising tournament held at Pinehprst
He is veteran with veterans coot-
ness under fire.
COnklin VIII Improve.
Conklin comes from somewhere up
around Gedney Farms and he, too. is
splendid golfer. In spite of his defeat
he proved it to-day. Some day he will
be an even better golfer than he is
how. All he needs is a little more ex-
perience. He has all the shots necessary
and he plays them beautifully.
Barnhill had a morning round OF rs,
while Conklin took an 81. In the after
noon round both men rlade rs. When
it is considered that the par for this
Cooperstown course is 70, and that at
the present time there has been so much
rain that a ball gets absolutely no rol!
and the greens are not in the best OF
condition. it may be seen that beth me-:
were going strong.
Barnhill was up at the end of the
morning round. AS a matter of fact he
was up at the end Of the first three
holes. Conlxlin who drives a ball longer
than year in prison. topped his tee
shot on both the first h Die and the third.
although at the latter he made beauti-
full recovery out of gulch, which scnle-
what resembles the Grand Canyon. IL
was here that the youngster showed his
! liz l,11a tG IN
yards in length and Conklin proceedec
to make it in a birdie 4.
No hen could have laid the little white
egg closer to the pin than Conklin did
on his third shot. He then proceeded
TO play the next five holes in par and
Barnhill had to get a birdie OH the
ninth to go to the turn all square.
If Conklin had lost that fourth hole
the match would probably have been a
walk away, but from there on 1t was a
first class battle. The tenth was halved
and then Conklin lost the eleventh ana
twelfth through a streak Of bad putting.
Both men had a chance for brides on
the thirteenth, but halved Il in par
Conlxlin won the fourteenth when Barn
hills putt for 5 rolled up to the cup,
looked In and decided to stay up in
the sunshine. From there on Barnhill
CAN'T in in par and finished the morn
| ing round UP, just as he had begun IL.
Last Trio Holes I'm Par.
In the afternoon Conklin tried des-
| perately to retrieve but BarnhilIs game
rose 10 meet that Of his opponent. How
| bitter was the battle may be judged
by the fact that no less than 10 holes
were halved before the match ended on
the sixteenth green. Barnhill played
the first six holes In one under par.
| Going at this rate he won the second
and the sixth. Conklin got one back at
the seventh with a par 4, but lost the
eighth From here on they tied all
holes UP to the thirteenth, which Conk-
lin won. The fourteenth was tied and
Conklin won the fifteenth. Both men
got IS on the sixteenth and the match
was over. Playing It out each made the
| last two holes in par.
| In the morning II was Barnhill's shor'
! game which won for him, buS in the
| afternoon he started to slug the pal
! from the tee and was generally 1us'
about as long on his drive as was his
hard hitting opponent. In the semi
| finals Barnhili had beaten Keith Evans
and Conklin had won from II. NJ. Alex
ander. Last year in this tournament
| Conklin was runner up TO Lee Maxwell
In the second sixteen Duncan Stewart
| came through the Ilndis III al 'NNi'iHr
struggle with w. Campbell. Stewart
had to 20 to the nineteenth green to win
In the finals for the beaten eight oi
the second flight were international ir
| character. c. c. Ronalds of Montreal
won from J. A Hull. up and to play
II Is thought that Mr.. Ronalds had q
little better liason, as he has eomethine
TO DO with the Canadian telephone com
ra nies and naturally could keep in bet
! ter touch with what was going on be
yond the trenches. Mr.. Hull Is, in our
| estimation, the most remarkable left'
! handed golfer we have ever seen. He
| drives a straight ball. which Is most un-
| usual for n southpaw and something
which even such noted lefthanders as
! Rube Goldberg and Bugs Baer never
1 have been able 20 accomplish. Even Ty
! Cobb is very apt to slice n golf ball "a
left field. and Babe Ruth himself is apt
TO hook one into the stand But Hull Is
| straight down the course. He would
! have had a much better chance to-day
/ if he had net somehow bent his left
handed putter. This caused the ball 10
avoid the cup often enough to throw this
international match to Canada.
There we're so many beaten eights
/ that they could have formed squads
enough to make up a couple Of bat
teries. and we couldn't keep track OF
/ all OF them. We do know. however. that
! A. L. Aldred, w. Ostrander and +. E
matches. What we consider even more
! important Is that MIR. Nixon, handl-
capped by having us as a partner. won
another match later in the afternoon.
This had nothing to do with the tourna-
| ,,ont ~ was "a priVae affair In which