The New York herald., 1922-07-16
SIZZLING FINISH ON
GREENWICH LINKS
Reggie Lewis, 4 Down, Starts
With Ace at Ninth and
Wins 8 and 1.
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Special Dispatch to THE Nrw YoHK HERALp.
GRppNwIcH, Conn. july l5.-Tfe
golfing seismograph at auld St. Andrews
must have been quivering fearfifiy this
st. Swithin's Day, Up here at the
Country Club there were some remark
able disturbances. For instance. there
was a hole made In one by Reggie Lewis
in his match against Dwight Partridge,
whom he beat by a score Of 2 and In
the final of the annual Invitation tour
nament. thas giving the complete ras-
berry to the guests of the occasion.
This Lewis had the dell in him, As the
Scots say, for just previous to wipntnG
the piece of bric-a-prac he had de-
molished none other than Hen" Top
ping. who Is the present owner Of. the
North and South crown.
1t was not eatirely unexpected TINT
the man from Bedford who last weeNi
won the Invitation event at the EN-
gineers Club would hardly go the ronte.
as he has been bit rusty In tournament
experience, after long fayoff and. fur
thermore, this Reggie" person is a very
sassy golfer when he gets. ali steamed
up. But no one ever entertained the
thought that Topping would be swals
lowed up by such a score as B and ana
win only one hole. That was one OF the
most amazing things that has happened
on the Greenwich links In many moon.
In fact, Hem can't remember when any
one treated him IN such rough fashion
since he first learned the correct stanco
on the tee.
That wasn't all however. Sam Gra=
ham, the demon Of extra hole matches;
fell by the wayside In the semi-final
round when the setting was all ar
ranged to make II an old hone week
end for the members who were doing
the entertaining. According to Hoyie
or St. Andrew or whoever else invented
the so-called royal and ancient game,
Sam should have breezed In on the pit,
but there always Is that lurking Jinx
Of the medal winner never being able
to come through to the top when the
hole to hole play begins. Sam refused
to upset tradition. but he tried his best
to make it one of those extra hole
matches which have been SO character
istic of his career on the links He man
aged to carry it along to the home hole.
but had slipped a cog on the way along
and was beaten by the score of up or
down. whichever way you may take 1t.
A Hole i'm One.
But to get back to that hole In zone
Lewis had been trailing along i'm iack-
adaisical way on the outward stretch >of
the final and the first thing he knew me
found himself four down at the eighth
hole That looked like curtains for the
Greenwich golfer. Partridge had flown
straight to the pin in par figures on all
except the 4o5 yard fifth. where he
p1,f n ha m
and took one over the perfect figures
But he had nullified this with a birdie at
the third.
Then the deluge.
Lewis unsheathcd his trusty mashie
on the short ninth hole. which measures
from tee to cup 165 yards, and he
plunked the ball right into the hole. 1t
didn't go In on the fly like that miracu-
lous shot we have read about at Skohie-
II just Rugged the green all the way and
lolled In with little Impetus to spare.
This very unusual method of prsA
cedure apparently fiabbergasted the
man from Bedford and inspired the
player who took Chick Evans along y
merry siege Of A holes In the national
championship at Roslyn two years ago.
Reggie just knocked the stuffing out
of all conservative golf for the rest OF
the way. He made his last ten holes
in "a strokes and there IL no golfer in
the world who Is very likely to beat
that kind Of going. especially on these
links. Naturally he won the ninth with
his ace and before Partridge could re-
cover his breath he had lost the next
four. The visitor managed to halve
the fourteenth. but Lewis blazed along
at a mighty pace and took the I'M
teenth in par and the seventeenth with
birdie to settle the argument.