Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-04
HILTON OUT ON LINKS
Plays in Big Four-BaII Match
Over ApaWamis Course.
TEAMS WITH HEIRESS-LOVE
Honors Easy in Stubbornly Fought
Contest Against Travis
and Kirkby.

NEW YORK. September f.-Honors
were easy in the big four-ba' i match on
he links of the .Apawima Club yester-
day. Harold II. Hilton. amateur golf
champion Of Great Britain, teamed up
with Fred Herreshoff against Walter J.
Travis and Oswald kirkby. bat so stub
hornly did they fight it out that it was
case of all squares at the end OF the
thirt&-six holes
\ brilliant long game. supplemented by
sound approaching and putting, enabled
kirkbE to carry off the honors in the
morning. Not being in his happiest put
ting vein, Hilton allowed several opportu-
mites to slip away, while Herreshoff
proved unsteady off the tee, especially
going out. Vt the end of the first round
the best ball totals read - to - in favor
OF Travis and kirkby. and it gave these
players a lead of :; up. During the inter
mission a number OF wagers We're made
that Hilton and Herreshof would win the
afternoon round This proved to he the
case. and had Ietreshoff not missed puts
on tine fifteenth and home green's they
would have won out on the day
Rarely in this everybody-for- himself
sge has such large gallery been seen
on metropolitan district course There
were probab bly, thousand people on hand
when the stars drove off on their second
round. Included among the interested
onlookers were +. S. Wheeler, president
or the Metropolitan Golf Associa ton
Daniel thauncey, a former chief eyec,-
tive Of the United States Golf Associa
ZION: g. NJ. Hamilton. an erstwhi,e tour
nsment winner; Garry Adams Or. carl
Martin. John II. Ward Simeon Ford and
James II. Foot.
Sensational Recovery.
when IT came time for the opening
drives Hilton threw lifelong custom Ia
the winds by discarding his coat He
Aad some fear that it might affect his
game, possibly causing him to overswins.
nut IT did not seem to. In order to save
TIE regular tee for the championship. the
oid driving tee below was used Yesterday.
Hilton began by pulling his drive TO the
rough. and from there he reached a tran
TO the left of the green \ third shot
still left him short. but from there he
made the gallery gasp by hollng with a
mashie for 4. 1t was a case of As all
around.
iferreshon got in one of his old -time
sWipes by nearly driving the third
green, but the best he could get was l.
travis broke the sequence of halves by
winning the fourth hole in 4. the others
idtting weakly. At the seventh kerkby
Grove close to 200 yards. the ball rolling
"ell into the gorge. From No. HERES
hoff topped drive. but then laid a fine
hlhilck shot dead to the pin and got =,
good enough to win the hole. superior
fong game enabled kirkby 10 win the 600
Yard ninth in =. He was almost in the
l,rook on his second shot with a spoon.
That enabled kirkby and Travis to turn
or home up.
iIerreshof' won the tenth in 4, but on
the next green kirkby ran down a twenty
'vc foot piltt for :. At the thirteenth
both hirkby and Herreshoff drove into
traps hole high. Hilton drove the six
teenth green and got a have in : for his
SIDE. while at the long seventeenth Kirk
ny. after almost getting home In =. won
with :. Herreshoff lost his ball with
sliced second. On the home green Hilton
lost chance TO halve the hole for his
10y taking three puts