New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-24
Uvly T|LTS At GOLF
TnverS, Douglas. Kirkby and
. Travis Among the Survivors.
MANY EXTRA HOLE MATCHES
BIC Field Weeded Out in Play for
Title of the Metropolitan
Association.

Association.
c,irrlus extra hole matches and others
mat stopped with unexpected ahruptness
lent variety to the second days play in the
,ta,ropoltan Golf Association champion
vim tournament at BaltusrOl yesterday
roron1e D. Travers. the title holder. played
IKE the champion that he Is throughout
-. dav. beating Arden NJ. Robbins In the
,,orrins and smothering II. O. Parsons IN
,he afternoon. Others TO survive the two
,ounds we're Findlay s Douglas. Walter j.
Travis and Oswald I<irkby.
The early hours were marked by the
animation Of two possibilities, r. NJ. Wild,
the Crawford record holder, and Gardiner
u White. Of Oakland. Although the lat
,,r,s golf has not been as good this spring
es last. the Long Island amateur has been
snoN.ing signs Of coming back He was
,,.,ted against Wyatt w Taylor. Of Ards
low in tho first round, but lost through
Jagged. long game, the department that
ted been working the smoothest the day
ltfore Even So White did not lower his
,olors until the match had been carried to
four extra holes.
Wild lost 10 Gilman r. Tiffany. 1t was
The third meeting of these two in less Than
week The Crawford player beat the
former Hudson River Golf Association
,bampiou in the interassociaton match last
SATURDAY and led him in the testing round
m Wednesday, but yesterday Tiffany turned
The tables ~ the comparatively small
margin Of MP. Wild got worse as the
Gay advanced.
Although not playing exactly like cham
tVc
10th his matches. In tho morning J. NJ
Rhett. Of Dyker Meadow. managed TO carry
the battle to the seventeenth green, hut
after luncheon c. L. Van Week, ir, Of the
hcre club. had no such luck, Travis bring
irr the match to a close on the thirteenth
green.
Robert e. Watson. the United states
Golf Association secretary. won both his
matches by comfortable margins. first de-
fsating e. Z. Van Week, sr. The last
named kept his opponent guessing for
time. as he laid Watson two stymIes in
~. first six holes. Later on Watson had
IN meet his cousin, William Watson, and
the secretary won by a and margin.
which was the same rs in the earlier con
test
PLAYING AGAINST Parsons in the afternoon
TrdNerS
Al the 5oO-yard fourth hole he supple
rented two long shots, with an approach
that left him less than six feet from the
fag, and he promptly sank the put tor
The only hole Parsons won was the
sixth, where lie laid a full iron shot close
IN the pin and got 2 3 This hole is $50
Yards long. out in 50. Travers turned for
. home NJ. and only three more holes were
fvc IL
twelfth green. The bye holes were not
thought Of, as the men wanted to watch
the last stages Of other matches.
Kirkby never had 10 extend himself 10
take the measure Of Alfred Morrel, Of
Arcola in the morning. The first named
vent out I'm Il. where he stood up, and
by Keeling off the next four holes IN
stroke better than As, he was winner on
the thirteenth green. Tn the afternoon
Kirkbv had 20 take on his clubmate, F. NJ.
Barnes They have played together for
Years and know each others game. on
TINS occasion, however, Kirkby was en-
tirely too brilliant, going out in So where
he stood up. He also had fine at the
fourth hole He won by up and TO play
Two Of the morning matches were car
ried TO extra holes. The first had Sinclair
and Archie Reid as the contestants. the
most spectacular shot Of the match came
when Sinclair laid his approach stone dead
at the extra hole. Until Sinclair MADE
that shot Reid was sweet on his chances
a. with his two fine ticks the ST. An
drevs golfer had made tho green's edge
matter Of $50 yards. So deadly was SIN
clair's third shot that 1t came within an
ace OF going into the cup FOR d keid
couldn't get his 4. which meant the end OF
his championship aspirations for another
year
Even more protracted was the match be-
tween Wyatt w. Taylor and Gardner
White. After scrambling through in the
qualifying ro.nd, White felt that II nc
could only get his puts going properly lie
would be worth living again, as the rest
q hts game had never been better. over
night the Oakland crack got an inspiration
declaring that he had Strengthened out the
putting.
But It's a difficult matter to keep all
parts Of the average human golf machine
working in harmony. AS Whites work on
the greens improved his driving fell away,
and It was mainly an errauc long
game that brought about his downfall. ~
the end Of an up and down round they
found themselves all square, Taylor haV-
Ing thrown away the home hole after his
opponent pulled a drive 10 the woods.
With ordinary luck White would have
brought the match to close at the nine
tcenth. but a stymie came to tho rescue
OF the Ardsley man. Again. after Shced
second shot 10 a trap White had chance
70 win. but his opponent stole a nave
by getting down a fifteen foot put. 1t was
1syOr's opportunity TO WIN AT me snort
third. where he drove the green. White in
he mean time having laid a Wild mashle
shot to the edge Of the trap. TAYLOR, how
ever took three puts, so mat II was
have in /. To the long fourth both found
The wide hazard IN front OF the green buJ
faint hearted putting overlook White and
Taylor won the hole in TO - and the
match
Sinclair had his second extra hole match
Of the day when he tackled "Spotty" Bow
ers in The afternoon. The Brooklawn man
Is driving longer ball than ever, and al
though he professed 10 be dissatisfied with
his putting. he didn't lose many opportunl-
ties on the green's. After hanging togetncr
most Of the way the pair found themselves
al square standing on the seventeenth tee.
Sinclair drove into the brook there ana
nlolck shot out of that hazard landed ms
bali clear across into the water that sep
\ sIates the seventeenth and sixteenth fair
Ways That, Of course, cost him the hole,
I making Bowers dormic one. After me
estraight drive Bowers fubbed his approach
Into the trap guarding the home green, thus
f-fnabhng the Baltusrol man 70 square the
, 9natch. They halved the first two extra
SHINES when Sinclair, after driving the green
al the short third, brought off hne put
Tor two, thereby winning the match.
70 The summary follows:
Championship (irst roundD-Maurice Malloy.
Gsfden city, heat j. 4. Tying. Baltusrol, up
s snd . 10 play. W. W Taylor, Ardsiey beat
Gardiner W. White. Oakland, up (22 holes;
Gilman p. TIFFANY, Powe!ton, beat T. NJ. wild,