New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
FOUR HANDED GOLF TIE
TraUers, Onc-Time Cham piOn, Be
hind Leaders at MOntClair.

No records were broken in the eighteenth hole
qualifying round Of the invitation tournament which
began yesterday the links of the MontcIair
Golf Club, may be judged by the fact that so
was the best returned. at which four players
ted-R. r. Upton. jr. of BaltusroI winner Of the
recent Morris County tournament: John NJ Ward
of Westbrook; Oscar Woodward and w B. Brem-
ner, both of the home club. The best Jerome d.
Travers. a former national champion, could get
was an So
Before the start the veteran professional Tom
Anderson. who prides himself the condition Of
the green's. ventured the prediction that so would
not be beaten. He gave a reason that the cold
wind which whisted the hills would bother a
good many. He also added with a wink Some of
the holes are longer than they seem" There can
be no doubt that score. for the sly old fox had
placed the discs far back possible on all
the tees
The first of the SOS to be returned was credited
to Upton, who began ndifferentIy with a 6 at the
first hole His the fourth was none too good
but this hole is $50 yards long and uphill Further
more. the wind was dead ahead yesterday. so that
SIS and rs were quite common. Anyhow, Upton
reached the turn in q. and then played along
steadily for SS back He misjudged his approach
to the home hole and took ), which prevented him
from getting a 70. Woodward's card read much the
same as UptOn's-i2 out and IS back-while Brem-
ner went out in Al, with at the fourth. He
returned in 80. and had he not missed a ten-foot
put on the home green would have had 7s
II was late when Ward started and he did not
lose anything by the delay. as much Of the strength
of the wind had diminished. Years ago Ward was
a member at MOntclair, and the way he started
out showed that he was quite at home the keen
greens. He went out in Il and returned in 80. the
card showing nothing than 6.
Travers needed practice than anything
else, but, even so, at time it looked as il he
would get we'll inside of so. After taking Al out he
started home at fast pace. only slip up with
four puts the fourteenth green. He supple
mented this by taking Z for the fifteenth, the
result of pulled drive out of bounds and second
shot that got him into difficulty c. Z. Van
Week, jr., who played with Travers. drove beau
tifully but putted like a child. In practice
rounds the Yale baseball pitcher had been getting
well down in the 70's. but he only managed
to tie with two others for last place in the first
sixteen. with a score of IS, while his father, de
spite lame wrist. qualified handily,
Not few of the seventy y-odd starters picked up
after getting into all sorts of trouble. Among
these was G. b. Adams of BaltusroI who in at
tempting to get his ball from a lie among rocks
broke two clubs. That settled Adams far as
this tournament concerned. The draw for the
round the chief division resulted as follows:
Travers Allen. MarstOn VS.. Kirby, Donohue
Upton Earnshaw Brown. Lapham VS.
Ward. Woodward Reid Van Week, ST., VS.
BremneT, Millar winner of tie
fOur-ball match during the afternoon that at
tracted considerable attention had Travers and
Van Week jr., as partners against Upton and
1Om Anderson, jr., the professional who did so
we'll in the recent open tournament at BroOkIine
Upton and Anderson won by up and 2 TO play
getting best ball of 75 The best individual effort
UptOns 70. Anderson was handicapped by
having 10 play with strange clubs. while Travers
played at about the same pace as in the morning
The scores in the qualifying round were as fol-
lows: