New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
IRAVERS AGAIN A VICTOR
Wins Four-BalI Match Paired
with Smith at ApaWamlS.
KIRKBY AND NICHOLS LOSE
Amateur and PRO" Golf Like a
Well oiled Machine, to
Delight of Gallery.

c7sss told in the four-ball golf compeu-
,,on when Jerome D. Travers, amateur and
Alec Smith, professional. won this affair
Nth a best ball of GA over the links OF the
,nswarnis Club yesterday. They won by
.,s comfortable margin Of four strokes
ovsr oswald Kirkby, the New Jersey cham
Non and GIL Nichols, winner OF the NJ
r. A. open title a year ago.
u ! Topping and Fred Mcleod got
,hjrd place with 60, while George Barnes
srd Jack Hobens landed in fourth place
NTH q card Of 10. The money AWARDS OF
che professionals were $50, S6O $40 and so.
plate went to the successful amateurs.
The gallery lost no time in picking out
the real attraction when the Travers-Smith
and Kirkby- Nichols combinations went
away together. Only once on the enure
,ound did the metropolitan amateur cham
MON and Smith fall down together, and
that occurred right at the start, when they
failed TO get better than flves at the hrst
hole. Both the drives, a trihe sliced, lett
their balls in the rough, and neither got
home on his second. Thereafter those two
worked like a we'll oiled machine, either
the pro OF the dlLlANCNA A-S''Ao
casion with a hole in par or better.
For concerted steadiness and team work
Travers and Smith had everything their
avn wav. though the far driving Nichols
suppbed the real fireworks when ne over
played the fourteenth green WIN d 49,
and a mashie. The merit OF TINS ieH. mo-
ne the better appreciated Wheh II -
membered that the hole is 90 saIes .O-e
Nichols drove about 800 yaros' anu A'' -,
ordinary mortal there was sun sooo
brsssie shot left TO get nome. Nlchoiis'
ton-a,sr has a way Of annihilating space
with any club. Playing the same hoie
Alec Smith. who drove a slighter' shorter
hall than Nichols, took orassie LOT MS
second and was also overplayed on the
green. Both got the hole in four IraVers
scored the first birdie" for his side when
he halved the third hole in three with
Kirkby. Smith followed suit at the tourth
green with another three-spot. thanks 10
a 0-foot downhill putt
Trsvers kept up the good work with
two at the short fifth, his tee shot leaving
the ball scarcely more than CLUB S length
from the pin. The amateur metropolitan
champion missed an easy putt for nVe al
the ninth, but it mattered nothing as
smith ran down longer one for hVe'
which gave them best ball of 30 out two
strokes better than the opposing pair
Another Of those rare downhill puts cal
eulated TO a nicely, enabled Smith TO gain
another stroke at the tenth, where he got
three. An had tours IT the eleventh.
though Travers deserved the most credit
as he got his after penalty stroke from
drive which landed his ball I'm the brook.
Smith had threes at the twelfth and thir-
tenth and Travers ar the sixteenth ana
home holes. all Of which enabled the pair
"a come home in 81. Both Of the pros
were around in about 70, the amateurs TAX
ing In the neighborhood of 75 though 1t is
impossible to say just what they would
have had, for they picked I'D at the four
tenth and Trsvers also lifted after pulling
his drive to a trap going to the seven
tenth.
The best ball cards Of the leaders as wen
as the individual scores Of Smith and Mich
els, follow: