The New York herald., 1922-10-21
]. M. WARD REACHES
GOLF SEMI FINAL
Defeats r.. M. Lewis A. and 3
in the Piping Rock
Tourney.
By KERR N. PETRIE.

Had it been customary to reward in
dividual achievement in the opening
match play rounds of a golf tourna-
ment John Montgomery Ward OF base
ball fame would have carried off the
floral horseshoe or American beauty
basket yesterday for his work in the
first two rounds of the annual invita-
ton meeting of the Piping Rock Club.
IL was great day for Ward and con-
versely a rather poor one for the med
allst. c. Il. Van Week, Jr.. OF Lido.
Wnlle the latter went down both in
the regular and consolation divisions
Ward came right through to the semi
final. defeating c. S. Brown. Jr., of
Mount Kisco in the morning by single
hole margin and then taking the
measure of Reginald NJ Lewis in the
afternoon by the liberal margin of up
and 3 to play.
Old timers of the baseball world re-
member Ward as a man who used his
head on the diamond quite as much as
he used his arms or legs. This char
acterstic remains with him to-day as
he stars on the golf~linlls. Justice de-
mands that Brown be given credit for
making the Garden City nan extend
himself to the limit, but It is a fact
nevertheless that Ward did not seem to
have used up all his reserve of energy.
golf and generalshlp when he came out
to battle Lewis in the second eighteen
holes.
BY skipping Nassau. where Lewis
was hard put to it to qualify. one might
have been pardoned for selecting the
Greenwich man and former Connecti-
cut champion as the "logical' SEMI
finalist from this particular bracket.
But the last week or two Lewis has
been in the throes OF one of these FORM
upheavals which periodically visit links
men. His game has been uncertain.
particularly around the greens. and
every one who treads the links knows
that any one having any such trouble
Is counting diss ster when he crosses
the path of ]. NJ. Ward.
Ward Chips In at Eighth.
While it cannot be said that Lewis did
not play particularly raggedly In this
contest II Is also an undeniable truth
that he was not exactly on top of his
best game Giving his opponent too
much rope at the outset he found 1t a
difficult matter to tighten up when
Tightening was required. Then as not
invariably happens under such condi-
tons the breaks arrived in time 10
make the situation even more heart
br eak,ng. At the eighth Ward was well
off the green and Lewis was on with
his second. but when the pair had COM
pleted their mopping up and had moved
of to the next tee that eighth hole was
I'm the pocket of Ward. Moreover, the
Garden City man had birdie on his
card.
From away back on the fairway. per-
haps fifty yards off, Ward had Clipped
to the bottom of the cup. Lewis had
every right to feel that the odds were
with him until the third shots were
made. But once Wards mashie had
spoken there was nothing left but a
long stab for half Lewis made the
grandest try imaginable. The shot was
100 per cent perfect but for one vital
thing. And that one essential was the
break
1t is not often that luck favors both
sides at the same time. Fortune had
smiled at Ward. Now ii decided to
frown upon Lewis. The latter's ball hit
the back of the cup and in some miracu-
lous fashion rebounded back to lie on
the brink.
Ward Becomes 3 Up.
With this success Ward became up.
He also had taken the seventh. where
Lewis was bunkered on his approach,
At the sixth. the long hole, the Gar
den City representative had won with a
poor g. A half 1T the ninth loft Lewis
facing a deficit of three holes on the
last half of the course.
After some mutual welfare work In
the rough and a half at the tenth Ward
became 4 up with a par at the
eleventh. Lewis on this one was barely
clear of the roadway with his tee shot.
The twelfth was halved. but Lewis re-
covered a hole at the thirteenth, where