New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-09
TIMELY BITS Of SPORT SHOWER BALKS GOLFERS
DoWnpour Interrupts Practice on
ApaWamiS Links.

Prospective champions had their practlce
rounds marred at Apawams yesterday by
a sudden downpour Of rain which caught
the players al various points about the
course. Clubs that had been cherished for
weeks In preparation for the champion
ship were completely soaked, and for the
neat hour or two the clubhouse was filled
with wet and disguised golfers. Tho most
promising round II the day. stopped by the
rain, was that Of r. NJ. Byers. tho former
national champion, who. playing with Her.
bert Strong. the club pro" had a total
Of IS fer the first fourteen holes. although
IT vas his first round. Among those who
were far from home when the rain began
To como down and had to seek the nearest
shelter were J. q. Anderson, IL. Kerr. g.
II. Croker. w. f. Shackelford and W. 6.
Carnegie. Tom MacNamara the young pro-
fessional. was also out on the course
What was regarded as the big match OF
the day was lucky enough to finish Just as
the rain began. Oswald Kirkby and Fred
Herreshofr ended the round on even terms
with Walter j. Travis and the national
champion. W. G. Fownes. jr. The match
began with four holes halved in par figures
but Travis and Fownes won the nth and
sixth with IS and had lead Of two holes
at the turn. Coming in the first five holes
were halved. but IIerreshof ran down a
put for 3 AT tho fifteenth. and Kirkby
won the seventeenth with q g. sduaring the
match Travis had n put 10 win the home
hole but missed. and the match ended all
square.
The evenness of the play was shown by
the cards, which read as follows:
Travis and Fownes:
Kir1,by and Herreshof:
out ............+ 5-36
Travis and Fownes:
In t, ;,.;;;...:::;.t 4-S7-7l
tn .............4 3 3 1911
Mason Phelps, the Western player.
turned up yesterday and began his first
round with the longest ball that has Yet
been driven from the first tee according
TO those who have been watching the vsr-
Gus players start. He was slightly off his
game In the morning and could get moth
ing better than an SO. but in the afternoon
he returned a 76 The card included OH
the eighth, which was balanced by on
the long ninth. Jerome Travers was also
on hand for his first practice over the
| championship course. and played WELL get
, ting a ~ in the morning and Is in the
afternoon. His second round was made in
a four ball match, with r. A. Day as his
partner against George Morse. the Yer
mont champion, and II. G. Parsons. The
J former national title holder won without
much difficulty. Morse went around in 70,
while both of the others had ST.
The best card Of the afternoon was turned
! In by wyatt A. Taylor. of Ardsey, who
! had a total Of r. He. too. was playing i'm
a four-ball match, and with his partner.
! o. G. Pickhardt. Of St Andrews, made the
! remarkable best ball score of 81 Three %
were included i'm the card, Pickhardt being
responsible for two of them. Their oppo-
nents. T. V. Birmingham and c. h. Wild
ner. both of Wykagyl, were hopelessly out
classed and were down At the end Of the
first nine holes, losing the match eventu-
/ ally.
Tho winning card follows:
o. ..... ........s ! : ! I & 81
Most of those who played were over 50,
though among those who got around in
less than that figure was j. ID. Foot the
Apawamis veteran, who made a good q.
one OF the most remarkable features re-
corded during the day was placed 10 the
credit OF H. w Perrin, of the Merton
Cricket club, who made the tenth. eleventh,
twelfth and thirteentli holes in 81 in the
course Of his morning round {. w Evans.
IT., has not been seen vet
In the second half OF their home-and-
home match for 81 600 side, Gilbert Mich
oils, tho wilmington Country club profes-
siona. broke even with J. J. McDermott.
the national open champion. Both had
| thirty-six hole scores of l49 but the match
goes 10 Nichols by virtue OF his lead OF
up gained during the first half OF the
match over the links of the Country Club
OF Atlantic CITY A couple of weeks ago