New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-04
HILTON OUT ON LINKS
Plays in Big Four.Ball Match
Over ApaWamis Course.
TEAMS WITH HERRESHOFF
Honors Easy in Stubbornly
Fought Contest Against
Travis and Kirkby.

match on the links or the ApaWdTiS Ciuo
yesterday Harold II. Hilton, amateur
golf champion OF Great Britain, teamed up
with Fred Herreshoff against Walter J.
Travis and Oswald Kirkby. but so stub
borny did they fight it out that it was
case Of al square az the end of the thirty
six holes
A brilliant long game, supplemented ~
sound approaching and putting enabled
Kirkby 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 Herreshor
proved unsteady off the tee, especially go
Ing out At the end OF the first round the
best ball totals read y 10 IS in favor Of
Travis and Kirkby and II gave these
players a lead Of up. During the inter
mission a number Of wagers were made
that Hilton and Herreshoff would win the
afternoon round. This proved to be the
case. and had Herreshoff not missed puts
on the fifteenth and home greens, they
would have won out on the day.
Rarely in this everybody for himself
age has such large gallery been seen on
a metropolitan district course. There were
probably a thousand people on hand when
the stars drove off on their second round.
Included among the interested onlookers
were +. : Wheeler, president Of the Met
ronoitan Golf Association. Daniel Chaun-
cev. p former chief executive Of the United
States Golf AssocisL ton. G. NJ Hamilton
an erstwhile tournament winner; Garry
Adams. Or. Carl Martin, John NJ. Ward
Simeon Ford and James D. Foot.
When II came time for the opening drives
Hilton threw lifelong custom 10 the WINDS
by discarding his coat He had some Tear
that IT might affect his game, possibly
causing him to overswing, but it did not
seem 70. In order to save the regular tee
for the championship the old driving tee
below was used yesterday. Hilton began
by pulling his drive to the rough, and from
there he reached a trap 10 the left Of the
green. A third shot still left him short.
but from there he made the gallery gasp by
holing with a mashie for T. Il was a case
OF As all around.
Herreshoff got in one OF his oldtime
"'swipes" by nearly driving the third green,
but the best he could get was T. Travis
broke the sequence of halves by winning
tho fourth hole in 4, the others putting
weakly At the seventh Kirkby drove close
10 500 yards, the ball rolling well into the
gorge From No. Herreshod topped a
drive. but then laid fine niblick shot dead
to the pin and got a 3, good enough to win
the hole. \ superior Ions game enabled
Kirkby TO win the 60O-yard ninth in D. lie
was almost in the brook on his second shot
with a spoon. That enabled Kirkby and
Travis 10 turn for home up.
iIerreshoT won the tenth in T. but on the
next green Kirkby ran down a twenty-five
foot put for q 8. At the thirteenth both
Kirkby and HerreshCn drove into traps
hole high Hilton drove the sixteenth green
and got a halve in 3 for his side while az
the long seventeenth Kirkby, after almost
getting home in >, won with a (. HerreshoR
lost his ball with a sliced second. on the
home green Hilton lost a chance 10 haive
the hole for his by taking three puts.
In the afternoon Herreshof became a
Wild horse. and had he been able 20 back
10 a fine long game with reasonably steady
putting his round would have been eX-
ceptional lie had a six-foot put for 3
al the FIRST hole, which he missed. At the
third Herreshoffs approach left him dead,
50 that the there was only child's play.
Hilton had q rare approach 10 the fourth,
and his ten-foot effort for failed by a
hairs breadth
A at the eighth for Herreshoff and a
great 4 for Hilton at the 60O-yard ninth
, enabled this team TO square the match.
Tierreshon went out in 81. Coming back
Travis ard Kirkby became 1 UP at the
tenth. where the opposition missed their
puts. Hilton had one Of about a yard. but
mud on the ball caused il TO turn of. They
got the match level at the twelfth, and
thereafter il was p succession of halves,
though Herrssh06 missed q tvo-footer for
on the fifteenth green and an eight
iyoter 10 win the home hole in s.
With the usual approximations the scores
Tor Tho individuals favored IIrkby who had
a total Of 150 for the day This v.cs
stroke better than Hilton while HerrSsho0,
was credited with 1873. Travis got $50. lie
failed TO get going in anything like his
usual stride and by comparison with the
others his driving seemed unusually short.
There is q four-ball match ON at Apa-
waris to-day. in which Herreshon and
>irlby will play Travis and Albert ScckeL
the Western champion. Seckel arrived a.
the course yesterday and got round in so.
The cards in yesterday match were as
follows:
BEST BALI.-MoRNING ROUND.
Travis and Kirby
}s .. .-......s : 1888 g.; "a
Hilton and Hcueshon
2 IY .. ........tt z 1875 SIS
BEST BALL-ATTERNooN ROUND.
Travis 1ui Kirby
ont % LII. - 3 ! 1915 : - tits
Hilton AND Herreshod