New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-06
WINS AGAIN
Defeats Kirkby in Tournament
on Nassau Club Links.
PUTS OUT TRAVIS FIRST
Amateur Champion Maintains
Undisputed Sway on
the Links.

Maintaining the same high class golf
that has marked his efforts on the links
ever since tie amateur championship.
Fred Herreshoff. OF Westbrook, won the
Country Club yesterday He defeated
Oswald Kirkby, of Englewood, by score
Of up and to play in the decisive
round.
Earlier in the day HerreshoT added to
his reputation by eliminating Walter ].
Travis Of Garden City
Because he drove with a spoon Her.
reshoff gained a little on Travis off the
tee. but as a rule his second shots got
closer to the pin. The most surprising
thing. however. was the way Herreshoff
outputted the redoubtable golfer from Gar
den City. From the green's edge. or Just
off the putting circle, Herreshoff almost
invariably got closer to the hole than
Travis Out in 80. Herreshoff turned for
home 2 up. A little later he increased his
advantage TO up, and then looked an
easy winner. That was at the twelfth
where his drive would have gone out OF
boChds had 1t not been for lucky car
rom from tree. After that Travis got
a halve in I. Playing the thirteenth. four
teenth and fifteenth in par figures. Travis
promptly cut Herreshoffs lead down to
up, but the veteran got no nearer, for
Herreshoff won the seventeenth in a fine
and the match by and 1 margin.
Kirkby qualified for the final stage at
the expense of II. j. Topping. Of Green
witch. At the seventeenth the New Jersey
champion brought matters 10 a close by
running down a curling ten-foot put for
8. He defeated Topping by up and
to play
A little unsteadiness at the start placed
Hereshoff down In the first three holes
OF his match with Kirkby. Thereafter.
however, little criticism could be found
with the Westbrook mans golf. Kirkby
went out in 81 and the other in 80.
Herreshoff missed by a hairs
breadth at the tenth. so that Kirkby
managed to get a halve In 8. He found
the trap on a sliced iron shot to the
eleventh and lost that. Herreshon won
the twelfth in 4. squaring the match.
The wcstbrook man won the next hole
in when Kirkby overapproached into
the sand. and after halving the next Her
reshofr won the fifteenth with fine g..
bringing of his best put of the day. a
2-footer. Although Herreshoff got into
trouble going to No. 1s, he got lucky
halve when his opponent missed short
put halve In at the seventeenth
left Herreshoff q winner.
The summary follows:
First sixteen (semi-nnal round)--oswald
Greenwich. 2 up and TO play: Fred Her
reshon. Garden City, beat Walter J. Travis.
Fl final roundGHerreshon bea. Kirkby. up
Beaten eight Cnrst sixteen: serni-hnal
I0un 10 ' Nofris. Nassau. ! up; r. F. MuDdy.
Ardsiey, beat r. c. Jennings, Nassau. up.
Final round-Ward beat Mundy. up.
Second sixteen (semi-hnsi round)--C. y,
Mcdonald. National. beat James r. Hyde.
south Shore. 2 up; w. c. Lonsley Wanna
moisett. beat ]. B, C. Tappan, Nassau. 4 up
Final round--McDonaid beat Longley. up
Third sixteen (semi-nnai round)-J n.
tionaI 4 up and to play; II. r. Townsend
BaltusroL beat Or. n. f. Sprseue 1nwood.
up and ! TO play.
Final round--Stearns beat Townsend, z up
and 20 play
Fourth sixteen (semi-nnal round)-H. l.
Downey. Apawamis. beat r. B. Mcclellan.
Midland, 2 up; II. w. Maxwell. Nassau, beat
II. =. Lewis. Flushing. up.
Final round-Downey beat Maxwell. 8 up
and 2 10 play.
Fifth sixteen (semi-hnal round)--Dr NJ.
Carpenter. Oakland. beat p. r. Jennings.
Garden City, up and to PLAY: J. 4.
Stillman. National beat Clarence Dunning.
Nassau. 8 up and TO play.
Final round-Carpenter beat stillman. 3