New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-25
YOUTH SCORES ON UNKS|
Kirkby Defeats Travis in Brill
liant Golf Match.
VETERAN MAKES A RECORD
Turns in Gard of Sixty eight for
Morning Round with
Graham.

Youth scored over mature years once
again when. In the final round OF inc
Apawamis Club invitation golf tourna
ment Yesterday. Oswald Kirkby. OF hnsie-
wood, defeated Walter j. Travis. OF Gar
den City, by Up and l TO play inis
makes the second time within Few weeks
that Kirkby has taken the measure OF
the veteran. go
p,,d,av Douelas showed that he still
has a few good rounds on tap by winrine
gross and net score prizes in the eighteen
hole medal play handicap with card OF
75-2-73. In the final round OF the beaten
eight set Gardiner w. White OF Oakland
defeated p. II. McAdoo, OF Ardsley' by
UP.
Earlier I'm the day Travis further ADDED
10 his reputation by turning the course
IN the remarkable figures OF 6s at the OK
rense Of s J. Graham. the former Green
wich champion. opposed 10 that uncanny
mace. Graham did well not 10 be beaten
more than up and 4 to play. Travis neg
,ected to put out on couple OF greens
where his ball lay dead consequently his
6 cannot go as record. His round was
made as follows:
95Sp''........... "a : ! 3 =. s-5t
In the meantime Kirkby disposed Of ROD
ert Hunter Of Midlothian. The intercol-
legiate champion was off his mashie and
also putted indiferently, so that kirkoy
had no trouble in winning by up and to
play.
That cleared the way for the final be-
tween Travis and Kirkby. and an oIdtlme
gallery swarmed along as the players LETT
the first tee. The drives that they got were
fair sample Of nearly all Of their suose-
ouent efforts with wood. but In this In
stance the Englewood mans thirty-yard
advantage was discounted by the fact that
his ball a trife sliced. found the rough
From there he failed to get hold OF the
ball with his mashe. so that Travis won
the hole i'm TO 8.
Although always longer. Kirkby's bril-
liant game could not be said 10 have given
him a winning advantage at any parucu-
lar hole except the fourteenth. When II
came TO putting. one was practically as
good as the other Travis ran down
couple of long ones as he almost always
does but he also missed two short ones,
whereas Kirkby never needed more than
two on green.
After losing the first hole the Engle-
wood man quickly drew level when Travis
underplayed his approach up the hill TO the
second Three halves followed. although
in getting his even division in three at the
short fifth Travis had to make master
full recovery from the rough where he had
pulled his tee shot
So long was Kirkby's drive 10 No. Z
that the ball found a resting place in
the bunker guarding the green. II seemed
a cruel penalty for So-yard ball as
straigh, as the crow flies. Out of the
sand. however. Kirkby made the green,
but it awaited nothing. for it was there
that Travis brought off the first OF his
long puts for a three.
Now one M. II looked as if Travis would
draw still further away when Kirby
topped his second shot from the rough at
the seventh The Englewood champion re-
covered quickly. and by getting down a
ten-foot put stole" halve in l. Travis
missed a shorter put trying for O.
Mistakes were few, and Travis's first real
bIunder came when he topped his second
shot going to the ninth. Kirkby. however,
failed TO take advantage Of the opening for
he went wide on his third. After that they
halved in 6. although Kirkby missed hve-
foot put to win the hole. That left Travis
one ny at the turn, the strokes reading 90
10 81 IN his favor.
Kirkby won the tenth by laying his sec
cnd with a mashie dead. whereas Travis
made a hash Of this hole. skyins his drive
and topping the next shot. They were then
all square. and Kirkby became up for the
first time in the match when he won the
twelfth in 9, Travis's drive finding the
bunker.
A stymie helped Kirkby get a halve in
at the thirteenth, but d wonderful display
of length and accuracy enabled him to win
the 54S-yard fourteenth. He drove so far
that he managed TO get practically 10 the
green on his second shot. Travis made the
green on his third. using wood. and what
ever chance he had of getting halve
vanished when Kirkby's chip shot laid him
d stymie. The Englewood mans ball was
scarcely eighteen inches from the cup.
Travis stuck TO his guns and won the IF
tenth, thanks to fine g. He brought of
d put of twenty feet there, but kirkDy
missed his by hairs breadth. Now only
] down, Travis drove a straight ball TO the
sixteenth somewhat short of the green
Kirkby sliced hole high. the ball bringing
up in the rough between two traps. From
there he Clipped TO within a clubs Length
OF the pin and won the hole In 3 TO !
Travis missing his six-footer for halve
That made Kirkby dormie ., and ne settled
matters with halve in . at the long seven
teenth after overplaying his third shot TO {
trap lie made ten-foot put for his .
whereas Travis missed a shorter one for
Finishing the bye hole. Kirkby got Il tC