New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19
METROPOLITAN Golfers Find Jersey
Rivals Hard to Beat.

Metropolitan golfers scored over those
+ ON New Jersey in the first interassoci-
alton golf match on the links Of the Raltus-
rol Golf club yesterday. There was little
- hras about however. as the final score
cad s to in favor Of tho Metropolitan
Golf Association. Four-hall contests were
hcld in the morning and singles after lunch
con. 81 the four-ball style The MetropoIi-
tan Association gained a slight advantage
at three matches to two.
Roy Webb was substituted for {. r. Ean
Week on the Jersey team in the afternoon.
Al interest in the latter hours centred IN
tho tilt between jerome Travers, tho Metro
politan and Now Jersey title holder and
Walter j. Travis OF Garden City. Trarers.
who represented the state, won bv score
Of up and : 10 play, going out in 40,
where he stood 5 up
II had been the plan Of oswald kirkhy,
the New Jersey captain. to head his team
Gsainst Travis, but objections were raised
o. the ground that Travors as champion
should head the team. kTkby wanted 10
play Travis hut he Yielded gracefully, and
then went IN and handed Gardiner w.
" hite trimming. He ended the match
on the fifteenth green out In 80, kirkby q
ca I'd for the inward holes showed only on"
over fours Robert Watson won for tho
Metropolitan Golf Association al the OK
pense Of &. J. sullivan 10y score OF up
and to play. \ great recovery out Of a
bunker at the home hole enabled i. \.
Hammer TO beat Wallace Sinclair bT IN.
After il was all over the opposing sides
sat down 10 dinner in company with the
executive committees Of both associations.
All hands voted interassociation contests a
great idea and there is little doubt that they
will become annual affairs.
Attention IN the carly hours centred In
the four-ball clash between Travis and Tiff
fany, representing the Metropolitan Golf
Association, and Travers and Max Behr.
For a time neither side succeeded In gain
ing an advantage. for although Tifany
Was all a: sea sometimes topping and
sometimes "pouffinE" up his drives his
PARTNER kept stead and halvcd the first
TWO holes with Trsvers and the third with
Behr
All four found trouble al the next. III
fanny topping the pond and the others
slicing to the sand. Travis showed IN"
best head work. being content TO play ou'
with never a thought OF distance, and by
playing the hole perfectly thereafter no
won it in . to 8. both Behr and the cham
plon fading away completely in the wide
hazard guarding the green
Metropotan's advantage OF up proved
shortlived Behr squaring the match by
laying his approach dead TO No. o They
halved the sixth after which Travers
flashed to the fore. winning the long sew
enth in a good and the next in 4, the
others failing to get homo on their seconds.
That made Little Jersey up, but Cp-the-
River Tiffany displayed All interest in the
affair by laying a spoon shot TO within a
climbs length of the pin al the lS0yard
ninth and winning it In .. AS a result the
New jersey couple turned Tor home only !
UP. the best-ball cards showing 80 for both
sides.
Class made itself manifest throughout
the homeward Journey. After Travers had
underplaycd his approach 10 the pond
guarding the island green both Behr and
Travis pitched over safely, Behr being
away. The local player then ran in 81
foot put and seemingly had the hole III
his pocket" but Travis promptly holed A
2O-footer for a halve in 3. Up the hill to the
eleventh Travis once more came to the fore
with a deadly mashie. so close TO the nag
as 10 enable him to get another D. The
match was level then, and nothing OF mo-
ment happened uptil Travis won the NJ
teenth in five after being trapped on MS
second shot He got his five. thanks to a
SO-foot put from the edge OF the green
despite the fact that No. 10 IL regarded as
the poorest green on the course
III. fnllnulc.