New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-05
TRAVIS MISSES A MEDAL
Kirkby Breaks the Sequence on
Garden City Links.
HEIRESS-LOVE OFF HIS GAME
Metropolitan Golf Champion
Fails to Qualify IN
First Sixteen.

r-v.-s hole matches. coupled WIN ''S
.,I,-A ~ champion 20 auaity IN '"e
o., division. lent zest to the oPei.,-
r,,,,Ss ~ ,hA invitation tournament on ''e
-, -, Che Garden City Golf Cluo yes
- ~. unfortunate title holder was
- +,.~-esbo~. who won the metropon-
tan championship last spring aI -
60. /, yesterdays testing rouno ne
-sovired ninety-two strokes which i"'S9'''
The first sixteen by a narrow margin
Oswald kirby the record hoiuer' IIo.,
z rlewood. broke through the sequence ~
successes for Walter J. Travis in the quar-
,fving round by leading the field Win
score of g. beating the Garden CITY wl1aru
-. O e+roke Altogether Il was BAD DAY
~ fovoYites for among others 20 lana III
,Ao second sixteen were Percy r. Pyne' or
r,-,,ce.or. n former intercollegiate chan-
MON: Clifford A. Dunning, one OF the pest
:, ,pa Nassau set: A. w. Tillinghast. a
rhDadslphia leader and Robert {. Wat
srr. ~ Westbrook.
The trials % ths veteran Charles y.
Mcdonald. who won the national title III
,qs were even more acute. as he iaHed
% 40 better than the third sixteen. with
. score 4 o. Most OF Macdonald's trouble
oecu--eS az the home hole. where he topped
four consecutive tee shots into the pond
ard then capped the climax by cvercriving
10 Green % the trenchlike hazard on the
tsr side The answer was eleven strokes
t,~ hole that should be made in three.
Gardiner White. of Oakland. the inter
E bolssti. champion. PLAYED with Travis
in the qualifying round. and had Il not
t,rsr Il
have rrsbod Kirkby for low score honors.
White had sevens at the tenth and home
holes. Ills finish was also accentuated
with two shots al the fishes
There vas tie for last place in the first
sixteen between F. T Rogers. OF Baltusrol;
r G.. Carroll. OF Greenwich, J. 2. Knapp
~ Garden city. and TiilinGhast. all OF whom
had scores Of o.. In the play-oT Rogers got
i'm with n the first hole.
The match OF the day resulted from the
meeting o. Kirkbv and Donald McKellar
~ Midland in the first round Starting
ont. McKeIar developed a weird streak Of
putting. missing wee ones on the FIRST sec
onI. fourth and seventh greens, so that
Ki-kov. though playing only fair Golt him.
SELF was enabled 20 turn for home with
the seemingly winning advantage Of up.
Thereafter McKellar settled down and
tcsan 20 play IN something like the form
ha showed toward the latter part OF last
season lie PICKED Up hole after hole and
finally squared the match on the home
green. Kirkbv then rose 20 the occasion
by winning the extra hole In beautiful
g. IL stroke under par The EngleWood
man drove remarkably long balls, most OF
DIS tee shots comparing favorably with
IIerrcsnofs best.
That it was an or day for the usually
INC. 0dical Travis became apparent 10 al
vncn ". \. Buckner had the former cham
0.ou down az the turn. Travis had taken
g. % 90 ont. seven strokes more than MS
morning effort. Starting home, however,
Travis won three straight holes rom
Ruc'-nar and thereafter always had com
r0aud of the situation finally winning by a
e. and margin.
u the second set Herresnoff only de-
tcdfed W r. SlmOus OF Dyker Meadow.
on zinc seventeenth green, while Tillinghast
Lad 90 20 am extra hole IN order 20 elimi-
nate Knapp
Tie summary follows.