New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-04
TRAVERS At TOP SPEED
Plays Golf of Highest Grade in
New Jersey Final.
KIRKBY is BEATEN AGAIN
Montclair Golfer Recaptures
State Title by Impressive
Display of Skill.

Playing golf OF quality seldom eXhio-
ited ny an amateur on this side, of the At
iantic. Jerome y. Trayers. representing the
Upper Montcair Country Clue. defeated
Oswald Kjrk5y. of Englewood. ny the score
OF up and "a play, N the thirty-siX
hole final round IT the New Jersey State
championship tournament on the inks Of
the Englew God Country club yesterday.
Only a week ago Travers, with l<irkby for
The victim won the metropolitan title at
Garden city all Of which causes the mind
70 turn back 10 that memorable year. 1901
when this redoubtabe scifer Gained the
triple crown--ne tional METROPOLITAN on !
Now Jersey.
Although mono questioned tho ability Of
Travers when right, few believed lie had
II in him to come back" to the rnre de-
gree shown yesterday. After the match
Travers said
~ told you chaps ! was PLAYING as wen
a. evcr. but you wouldn't believe it.
consider the golf played last week At
Garden city and again here as fine as
ever played in my life
While not quite a. long off the tee as
his opponent. TraVers got far enough so
that the slight advantage In the EngleWood
mans favor made nc material difference
when it came to making the second shot
Whether using driving iron, mashie or
ugcer. II was all the same 10 jerry, who
generally had both direction and distance
calculated TO a nicely. Most cf his ap-
proaches we're laid up with a back SPIN
admired BY all. ye; attained by so few. Inc
brilIiancy Of his golf may he the better
understood when II Is said that at I'VE
holes on the morning round 1ravers got
s. stroke under par.
Ills only real lapse during the cary
round was at the fourth hole, where ne
heele6 two drives out Of bounds ODDLY
enough Kirkby also had one bail out a.
the same place. The EnElewooh reCoio
holder generally kept on the course put AS
all long PLAYERS are bound to % ne t"' OH
the line now and again. and when MS Do"
dId Nnd the rough II almost invar'ao'F
cost him the hole. NirHoY's Rot "ih's
good. was not brilliant Again = some pay
or. he is Irresistible. but with lr@VNrS
tor an opponent 1T seems 30 oe o'1e'-
ent story
Par for the course is rs. and Trave's'
with rounds Of 70 and 7S. beat this d
stroke on the day. krkpy t4s 'or '''
double round would have Won nme'ce"
times out of twenty. In the 'args saneIS
wss Vincent r Trsvers father OF ''e
ebampion. The elder Travers was ha'urai-
" pleased at his sons showing
ing the morning round Travers always
had the upper hand. Kirkby neeal, auep'
c,ouslv by winning the first hole IN 10
s. but Travers returned the conpi'lnoi''
=, the next. LAYING al approach deao. ihey
were all square at the turn inc suoAe'
reading ~ 10 SO in Kirkbys faVor'
Trsvers practically won the match p'
winning the last three holes OF the r'oth
ing round. as IL enabled him 10 reure io'
luncheon with lead Of mp. lie 'r'eoe 'i'e
round i'm - as against 70 for kirkoy'
\ gallery of several hundred people
swung i'm behind the men when they lei'
tho first tee i'm the afternoon. IraVers got
into trouble from a pulled drive pu' ho
managed to recover and get naive III
four. They divided the next two hoieS w
rar figures. but Travers lost the iourti
when he sliced his drive 20 the roush'
Travers also made a hash OF the IONS
sixth. getting trapped on his drive h'rK-
by Won in ) 10 s.
Tbev haIved the next three holes, leaving
Trsvers two up at the turn. Kirkby puiieu
his drive from the tenth 10 the rough anu
getting bunkered on his next, lost the hoie'
Trsvers getting four and becoming three
up again. Halves were recorded at tne
eleventh and twelfth, but Travers won me
thirteenth, Kirkby slicing TO the rough,
as In the morning. The finish came when
Trovers ran down a thirty-foot put for A
sensational three at the fourteenth, there
nv winnins the hole and the match oy
Tbev plsyed out the bye holes, Travers
getting IL to the others "a. The card
VAS as follows