Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-25
Alec Smith and Birmingham
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Best Ball a II.
BY STRAIGHT DRIVE.

W. ONDERS in the form of record
W breaking golf were the order OF
= s.,.3l the day In the four-ba+l match
at the Deal Golf and Country Club yes
terday, and the members OF the CRUZ
were almost ~dumfounded with amaze
ment to see the ease with which the
professionals and amateurs reeled OIL
the holes in par or better on their here
tofore d~ificult course, where a 7S or 80
was regarded as exceptionally n go
ing.
The four-balL competition was an all
day AFFAIR, although only OF elgnleen
holes. Only eight couples took advan-
tage of the morning. however, as IL
proved TO be almost exclusively an art
ernoon competition. @ sf}s s.ssls
AS a stiff pace of a par "a for the
best ball had been set in the morning
by w. Hanley. the New Haven Coun-
try Club professional, and ]. 7. Giles
pie, of Deal. every pair that started
out in the afternoon were fully aware
that they had to beat the par Of the
course to. win. s.-fss3 5as
Good Pairs.
There were many good. pairs, n the
gallery had a hard time selecting the
matches they felt would give them the
finest display of perfect golf, The match
which carried the largest gallery was
that in which David Hunter, the Essex
County Country Club professional, and
Jerome D.. Travers, Upper Montclair
Country Club, a former national ama-
teur champion, played against Jack
Hobens and Oswald Kirkby, Englewood
Golf Club, but they did not see the best
golf by any means, although 1t was by
no means bad, as they each had a best
bali Of 76.
Those who followed Alec Smith, the
Wykagyl Country Club professional. on
general principles. partly on account OF
his being the present national open
champion, and chiefly on accoun OF
his having played the most consistent
golf of the last three days of three
rounds of the course, each In 70, were
the most fortunate, as they witnessed
the BEST golf of their lives, although
few of them had ever seen his amateur
partner play golf before. Alec, how
ever, knew what he was doing when he
selected 7. ". Birmingham, the club
champion of the Wykagyl Country
Club. who seldom plays in golf tourna-
outside his club. They had
played together on manyeoccasions on
their home course and Alec knew well
the value the young golfer would be to
him. and thus it proved, as Berming-
ham won four of the first nine holes.
Alec won two and the other three were
halyed. This nerved the open champion
up to his best efforts and on h home-
ward tourney he won the first four
holes in rapid succession. getting q 2
on the thirteenth. y.
After halving the win of the four
teenth with Birmingham Smith won
the fifteenth and sixteenth. Berming-
ham missed a short, easy put for a
three on the seventeenth hole, the ball
hanging on the rim Of the cup, and
the pair of them halved the hole in 4.
The eighteenth hole was won by
Bermingham in 4. and they won the
competition with a best bail of II, and
it would have been 70 had It not been
for Bermingham's misfortune on the
seventeenth green. AS Ii was they
went out In 81 and returned In 81,
Smith winning 8 of the holes, Ber-