The New York herald., 1922-06-08
His Rounds Of rs and 78
j, Best in Field of sc
ri, Starters.
DYER AND LEWIS SECOND
Golfers Find Lakewood Links
Difficult and Score Of
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" 172 Qualities.
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BY KERR N. PETRIE.

= LAKEWOOD, N. j.. June AFTER all
sswhat there is in a golf course. Since
.5the links OF the Lakewood Country
Club was remodeled about three. years
ago the best that has been made in
the spring and fall tournaments or
purely club competition has been an 81.
~ Linksmen had begun to talk of
Lakewood In an awed whisper. but
(, when the contestants in the metropoli-
& tan amateur championship unlim-
I bered their heavy artillery in the
thirty-six hole qualifying round to-day
athe records of these three lean years
I were brushed away.
HI Lakewood showed that 1t yields to
perfect golf just as does any other
course. Now the low mark stands at
73, for that was the card handed IN
by Thomas d. Armour of the West
chester -Bfltmore as a result OF MS
second journey around.
Notwithstanding this excellent round
Armour did not win the medal. He was
four strokes from IT, in fact. Tor he mad
81 as starter and his total of 1S7 was
bettered by three others. Jesse Sweetser
of Siwanoy led with 153 and Frank
Dyer of Upper Montclair, holder of the
New Jersey championship. tied Reginald
M. Lewis of Greenwich for second at 154.
Standing around the score board one
imagined this afternoon that he could
hear the voice of an ectoplasmic Walter
J. Travis lifting it's voice in incredulity.
Travis reconstructed the Lakewood
course and no doubt has been wondering
through these three years II he had been
guilty of one OF those super circuits
Drives never travelled so far as they did
to-day with such consistency since the
Garden City veteran directed the last
spadeful OF earth.
Approaches never so consistently
sought the mark.
where Did Grass Go TOT
There was the usual cry about the
putting, but it Is rather strange that
while in the morning the story was that
there was too much grass on the green's
it changed to the other extreme In the
afternoon. This, then, was the days
mystery Who stole the grass that was
there in the morning? 1t Is thought
that possibly Frank Barton's goat may
have had something to do with It,
There is a suspicion in the minds CT
some that while the contestants were
discussing puts and cold cuts In the
shade OF the pines some one got ABROAD
with a mower. 1t was what many asked
for. When they got it they did not seem
to like it so very much.
But these were in very small minor
I'M n
course as it stands now is there for the
EXPERT to do with whatever he likes.
There Is nothing to that story or this
being a run-up course" said one con-
testant. THE greens are fit to hold any
pitch that ever was invented"
The tournament began with an entry
of &C, probably the smallest field that
has started IN the Metropolitan since
golf was In its swaddling clothes. But
the field contained the class with only
one or two exceptions. fine struggle
1t was for the medal, too. even II II
probably was trifle easier to qualify
than is generally the case.
Lewis, finishing long after Sweetser
and Dyer had called 1t a day. had
chance to sew II UP. A and would
have done 1t. Two s. would have mads
It tie Like Sweetser. Lewis had been
around in the morning in 70. tying for
the honors of that round. and. incl
dentally, holding the course record for
the space of few brief hours.
Lewis Had n Chance.
Out in Al. Lewis settled down to play
beautiful golf incoming. He could have
made it easier for himself had he sunk
the eight foot putt for a at the fif-
teenth. He got the hole In par 3 and
when he scored another par on the six
teenth the medal looked to be as good
as won.
Then on the seventeenth he sliced hts
drive to the bunker behind the cemetery.
Getting clear. he undercut his approach
SO that II fell short of the green thirty
five yards. -Four on and two puts made
II a and left Lewis requiring his on
the eighteenth 10 win.
The trouble with him here was that he
took an iron for his second instead OF
a brassis, and by so doing laid his bali
short. His chip was fifteen feet wide
of the pin.
But all those who considered them
selves TO be In the hunt at the finish
really had TO thank a let down on the
part OF Sweetser. Jesse backed up his
fine morning IS by playing the first nine
OF the second round in &c. He was still
even fours starting the twelfth. but here
he pulled into the soft ground. played
out all right and then flubbed his thru.