The New York herald., 1922-07-01
TITLE IS BETWEEN
PURPLE AND GREEN
Secor Causes Upset at Garden
City by Beating r. E.
Knepper.
ALSO DEFEATS D. JONES
Boyd Eliminates j. G. Ward,
Williams and ID. Williams,
Harvard.
By KERR N. PETRIE.


Fighting with his back to the wall
on behalf of the badly outnumbered
Williams College forces, z. B. Secor
knocked prognostication and finely
drawn calculation higher than kite
yesterday on the Garden City links
in the intercollegiate golf champion
ship and came through to the thirty
six hole final in the upper half Of the
y bracket as the opponent of A. p. Boyd
of Dartmouth.
Boyd, who first defeated ]. c. Ward
of Williams by and 1 and then D.
Williams Of Harvard 4 and 3 as his
days work, was logical finalist from
the first. 1t was felt that If he got
away with Ward in the third round
yesterday morning he would be doing
something worth while. Such a feat
:, was expected of him just the same
But up In the other half of the draw
Secor could not be pictured as a finalist
oven by the greatest stretch of imagina-
ton. The player who did stand out in
that direction was Rudie E. Knepper
- who last year took Chick Evans to the
thirty-sixth hole in the Western cham
pionship final Knepper probably could
defeat Secor six times out of seven.
That is granted even by Secor. but the
> fact remains that in the third round this
WilliamJ - representative eliminated
Knepper and II it was only by the odd
hole it was sufficient unto the day both
for victor and vanquished.
: That sent Secor into the semi-final
against Durham Jones of Harvard and
the former came through by up and 1
to play.
Princeton and Yale Fall.
With fifteen of the thirty-two quail
fiers between them 1t was rather odd to
find Princeton and Yale failing to get a
man through as far as the semi-final.
Princeton spreadeagled the field in the
team championship and placed seven
men in the draw for the first round. Yale
had eight. BY the time the champion
a ship had gone as far as the third round
-Knepper and Sparks were carrying on
for Princeton while J. Bush alone repre-
sented Yale. Another round and all
three were sitting under the trees watch
! ing the others drive off for the after
noon round.
The defeat of Knepper was the sur
prise and upset of the tournament. just
/, las Secor is the blue ribbon dark horse.
The Williams man has not the brilliant
golf of Knepper, but he has a placid,
imperturable disposition that counts for
much in match play. That he is also
something Of an iceberg physically he
demonstrated by playing around in a
coat and brown fedora hat while most
of the others were wishing that the
~ of m Qaf f,1a al
Them to affect something lighter than
the orthodox summer raiment of the
links.
Y But despite the hat and the coat
and the further fact that he comes from
Toledo Secor came through to the de-
y'cisive thirty-six hole test and now some
sof those less successful are wondering
IF that coat and hat mean more to him
than horseshoes or rabbits feet.
Knepper Is Eliminated.
Knepper admitted after his match
with Secor that he had fallen upon one
of those days when it Is impossible to
take the game seriously. The fact that
Secor had taken 81 and 80, seventeen
strokes more than the Princeton man.
for the qualifying round, may have had
' some bearing on Knepper's mental at
.titude. Rudie went loafing along, turn
ing all even with Secor at 43 each.
Secor became up at the eleventh, then
Knepper took the twelfth with a birdie
2. At the fourteenth Secor played a re-
markable shot after stymying himself.
With Kneppers rubber case on the lip
i, of the cup and his own at an awkward
distance Secor hoped his ball upon that
Of his opponent and then into the hole
for a half.
Knepper then and there should have
buckled on his fighting armor. Prob
~ Ao f,s,t tha~ Jfea,- nod h,y hp
way Secor played the fifteenth. Knepper
had this one in 5 to 6. Then came
,Secor's rally. and when Knepper tried
TO respond he found fate dealing him
out two execrable fairway lies. That
was on the sixteenth and seventeenth.
where Secor first squared and then
forged ahead. dormie 1. On the home
hole Secor got half in 3. and so Knep-
- per. the favorite, went out
Boyd and Ward were having a ding
dong match at this time. Ward began
with a hooked drive and lost the first
hole, and he had also TO yield the Sec
ond. where Boyd laid his tee shot within
eight feet and sank the putt for a
birdie. Ward was never ahead. but he
made a game struggle and Boyd after
wards admitted that he didn't know
yhat the outcome would have been had
he not dropped his eight foot putt at
the fourteenth. That putt was for a
by this time and miss by Boyd would
4 have squared the match. Boyd held on,
however, and became dormie at the six
teenth.
w Boyd Reaches the Final.
Seven holes OF the semi-final were
over before Boyd began to assert him
self against Williams of Harvard, but
the latter played the eighth and ninth
badly and the Dartmouth star turned
Q UP. Williams got the twelfth, but
made mistakes at the thirteenth. four
teenth and fifteenth that lost him these
three in a row. That left Boyd victor
by UP and to play.
= Secor got away TO an excellent start
with a in his afternoon match against
,Jones Of Harvard He lost his advan-
,tage at the third, forged ahead again
.at the fourth and was caught once more
at the seventh. Jones then took turn
in the lead, but the match was back
ito all square again at the turn.
The summary:
THIRD ROUND.
IL. y. secor, Williams. beat II. f. Kncpper
Princeton, l up.
u. Jones. Harvard, beat J. Bush Yale. 4
40 Williams, Harvard. beat w. Il. Sparks,
. Princeton, and 2.
IA r. Boyd. Dartmouth, beat j. c. Ward
williams and !.
HEMI-FTNAT.