New-York tribune., 1910-08-25
Racing Il Lawn Tennis 4 Baseball = Trottlng
GOLFERS IN KEEN PLAY
Smith and Birmingham Win
Best Ball Competition.
CHAMPIONS MEET FOR FRAY
Preliminary to Championship
Tourney Brings Out
Strong Field.

History repeated itself when Alec Smith.
national and metropolitan open title hold
e.. and 7 Y. Birmingham won the best
hail competition, the preliminary TO the an
nlaI open championship tournament of the
Metropolitan Golf Association. over the
links Of the Deal Golf and Country Club
yesterday. This time the Wykagyl pair
had 3 score of al 1t was & stroke better
than the combined efforts OF Tom McNam-
ara. the Boston homebred. and W. D. Van
slerpool. of Morris County, secretary Of the
Metropolitan Association.
There was more class in yesterdays met
ropolitan curtain raiser than ever before
No matter which way one turned he
brushed against d champion, past or pres
ert among the pros in addition to the
redoubtabIe sandy Smith, were Fred
Mcleod. VIII Anderson and George sar-
gent ali erstwIile national title holders.
Besides these were the far driving Gil Mich
oils. Of Wilmington: Jack HObens. Of Ensle-
wood. Isaac Mackie, of Fox Hills; Dave
Hunter Of Essex County; II. II. Barker, of
Garden city. and the two sturdy Irish
American lads J ] NcDermott and Tom
NcNa-lara- McDernott. il VIII be renlera-
ha-eG. figured IN a triple tie for first place
n The recent national open.
- far as the amateurs were concerned.
-hss division included jerome n Travers,
-s-io7al champion in 1907 and 1905: John VI.
ws-d, Of Garden City, the Shinnecock win
-e-. Donald Mcclellan. OF Midland; F r
7-7ro-. IT, Of Baltusrol; Oswald hirkby-
Y = Ta16erpool. J. F Stanley. jr.. and
Allen. The entries Of Allen, Upton
.-5 Mcnamara were accepted yesterday
~ the open championship, thereby N
r-eas-~z the total 10 -
70
@el5 Smith and Birmingham worked to-
,..-e- Cd, -,erfec-ior 4 glance At their
r-5 reveals The steadiest kind OF golf,
-7,----r- v-o-se than fves appearing any
---,.-e birmingham did his work nobly,
canning n ne rescue on no less than I'VE
cc~ssfo-s-sr The first, fourth. sixth. ninth
.-5 eighteenth holes. where he had fours,
e-oerr a. the sixth. which h made IN
-h-ea HIS fou-s At the second and the
-4rt7 -ere better than par Neither man
- zo4-- ANYTHING exceptional in the way
=. mrs although Smith brought off several
-e- zr5 twelve footers. He holed sooo
m 4o- t7-o at the short thirteenth The
ra-d -es6 as follows
e--.rh au- Cunningham,
or II 3 81
Considering the fact that Mcnamara and
AzTTt-e-Cp0i 1zQ Ii--h - eF---i tito --e-4-0
.n-e thew did remarkably well TO get sec
t.-5 -lzce with 4 =. This pair reached the
.r-r n 3 and came home in So but TO do
-ris they had 70 get IS al the last two
1oIee Jerome Travers and Dave Hunter,
tie Essex County -'I.-o,' maqe a fair show
'rE. getting = best bail Of IS. the same As
-ra F5o1ens- kirzbT combination with whom
--ev played Had Travers and Kirby been
Ta-1ners they would have had best ball
Of -.
40 less than four couples ted for third
r-5 fourth prizes with scores of "a These
Included George Sargent and !. Z Kelley.
r57e Of the Deal committeeman. who did
himself proud by running down = =e-foot
II, from the ej=e Of the home green for
. Otherwise his side would have had
- becontert with q -
Several OF the professionals we're saddlGd
-v--h Indifferent partners, which explains
rrei- comparatively poor showing There
-ss VII Anderson. for instance, who had
and nUmfer Of S, al OF which
a-alled nothing. as ne picked Up at the
twelfth hole after getting in the brook, an
unfortunate act considering that his part
-e-. who had found the depths Of the mari
Iit also lifted Mcleod and E 9. Frazer,
OF Ire home club. finished il the IS group,
@hich. by the way, was NcLeod's own
score
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