New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-04
CHAMPION BELOW FORM
Travers and Anderson Lose to
Kirkby and Smith.
BIG GALLERY SEES MATCH
Competitive Golf Season Near
ing End with Election
Day Contests.

Oswald Kirkby, OF Englewood. and Alec
Smith, the Wykagyl pro" Joined forces
in four-ball match against Jerome ID.
Travers. the national and metropolitan
amateur champion, and Tom Anderson
r.. the Oakmont professional, at the
Montclalr Golf Club yesterday, and the
first named pair won by score OF up
and to play at eighteen holes. Nothing
startling was accomplished, the success
full couple returning a best ball OF Il, a
score that Travers himself has beaten
many times.
with four such prominent opponents or
driver and iron gathered together 1t is
not surprising that large gallery turned
out. and included among those who
walked and shivered over the links were
a number Of New Workers. The touch OF
winter In the sharp wind doubtless af-
fected the players. Travers in particular
being off his game. Kirkby, however
made few mistakes, but when he did slip
a cog Smith generally came TO the res
cue. Anderson drove his usual long ball,
but, long as he was, the Western Penn
sylvania open champion did not have
neither length nor direction, and he also
topped two drives.
At the outset Kirkby took up the bur-
den for his side by getting down a long
put for a halve In 4 with Anderson at the
first hole winning the second In 4, where
Travers sliced a second shot out Of
bounds, and having No. 3 when Smith
fell trine green shy on the approach.
Both Travers and Anderson made hash
OF the long fourth, so that they became 2
down. a fine 9 by the Oakmont pro"
won the fifth hole for HIS side Anderson
got the 3. thanks to a great recovery
from the rough. the ball going almost into
the hole.
Up the hill 10 the seventh neither An
derson nor Travers could get 4, so that
they became 2 down again. Smith then
added TO the confusion Of the opposition
by winning the eighth hole In 3. A stead
Ter short game won No. for Travers
and his partner 30 that they turned for
home down. They had a best ball OF 40,
as against 81 for the others. Travers was
I'm trouble again at the tenth but Ander-
son got down a four-foot put for a halve
In 4. Over the Hill 10 the eleventh both
Smith and Kirkby drove the green, a
matter OF 235 yards, and it remained for
the Enslewood champion 10 save a halve
for his side when Smith took three puts.
Rirkby pulled his drive TO the woods at
the twelfth. and after falling TO get out
on his second shot picked up, depending
upon his partner. who responded to the
call by winning the hole I'm 8. Anderson
missed ten-foot try for a halve. After
all got SIS at the thirteenth. Klrkby in
creased the advantage of his side 20 up
by winning the fourteenth In g. Anderson
and the Upper MOntclair golfer missed
puts OF less than a yard there. That
left krkby and Smith dormie 4, and the
match was theirs with a halve I'm on
tho next green. Travers got the { for
HE side. getting home with a fine sec
ond shot after topping his drive. They
played out the bye holes, and Kirkby
brought the affair 10 close by running
down "A thirty-foJt put for a 4. That
put and the one he brought OF on the
first green were the best OF the day.
Approximsting Kirkby, 5 at the
twelfth, he got around In about 70. An
derson was about n. Smith IS, and Trav-
ers could not have got better than 81. II
can therefore be seen that the champion
was easily half stroke a hole of his
usual form. The best ball cards were as
follows: