New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
TRAVERS PLAYS LIKE
4 WIZARD OF LINKS.
Wins Metropolitan Golf Title
for the Fourth Time in
Seven Years.
OSWALD KIRKBY HIS VICTIM
onetine National Champion
Makes SO Few Mistakes
That Gallery Looks
On in Wonder,

p,avsrc golf that would not be denied.
,.r,r,o y Trav.ry. ~ the Upper Mont
.i,ir COUNTRY Cue. won the championship
., ,po Metropolitan Golf Association for
-. fo,-t. tim. IN seven years over the
Us NJ ,he BaI,usrol Golf club Yesterday.
H. defeated oswald kI~koy. Of Enslewood.
tv9u 7 and TO PLAY.
The golf PLAYED by this wizard Of the
Kinks W., pronounced the best ever seen
h, an amateur on this side Of the At
lart,c 50 accurate was Travers with his
irons and deadly on the greens that he
cave his opponent few openings
Under the circumstances. It = little Won
der tina: Kirkhv received an even worse
heating than a year ago at Garden City.
T. has long been said that Kjrkby can't
heat Travers. furthermore. that no one
Knows shat better than the Enslewood
record holder. Ue fought eanely for a
while. but as the other, with almost me-
chanical accuracy. kept getting the ball
down AT hole after hole IN par figures or
better. Kirkby lost heart With confidence
gone. the match soon became q rout SO
that by the time the morning round had
been completed Travers stood 10 Jess than
up
Never %. -- ''.''''' ''..'''
snip 'o'' ""'''''. .'"' .'~'' " wy
card IN a measure explains the situation.
1TaF''S 'e'''" OH '.'' '''"7t" -
S-'-odo Fa!"S III - 'N' par '''''~ ..' i'''
ING those Onward A'."S i''N'.S ..'1'' ".
one real r1istake-a pulled drive TO ;Fe
trees d N'' --'" i''' d.
took 3 ioE inc ''-N'h --''' lay ms i.'S "l
proach on ''e edE Oh '',' gre" !.', =
than twenty -"F- '''' '' Wv l..'', ~ '' ''.
3to cn'h TIE mole ana t''N no 'na.-''.'. '.S
approach a. mo second noe, '''"e "'''7'
PLAYED. was aton'l t-r n, .'hS P''' 80
iha' ne naive" '''- non. M d "a. 81. a..
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10 - ,,,,.. an, 81 hounds
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=. 49, ....,...... .r.. ba csr,a ,arl;
. -....-. 80, 49,. ?, fo~ -r, round
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.,......-.-- 49,. ,,... ael,s5 70
:, --- ....- go ,...,., GOLF .~ his life
~. - -. b. -bo,,15t he had where
-. ,.....---...5 ,ts. Z, ,,,ue+ have
ea...-..t - o. 49,,
IT.. ,,os. s,,-,~ie,re- mart NJ the whole
-,a,oh ,.os The ,,,,,.,,sI Iarq-h n Trayers' :
d-ty.s u tre rae, i, has baen customary
(o~ Li-Lh,. ~ gair from, twenty 10 thirty
,.s-ds ~, ---s,,ars o4f ,ha toe and This had
belnsd hin, a. tho lon- holes. In vester-
6ev,s watch bouAvAr T-svers made the
otber NAV The odd more than half the
time. and. of course. when IT came to the
APPROACHING and putting there could be
only one result.
When the PLAYERS got started, which was
en- hour late. BY the way. as Travers had
missed his train, several hundred persons,
Including many golfers Of prominence,
swung in behind the contestants. Among
those was Walter J. Travis, who kept in
company with the players for seven ho!es'
bur then dropped out, apparently having
1eooroe convinced As 10 the final outcome.
,r ,r.,.lo- vresi-
=. :. w heeler anu james i" -0''O'' 30
Rant md N-ice-Dresident Of the association,
@o;.1 o,-e on tho
respectively, kept an o'''0'0' ''' "
t,rocress Of the match but so smoothly dld
s,..r,..l;.,, o., that they had nothing 10 do
but look. admire and wonder.
After tho morning round, when the real
-. =. -. 90 +,- g Lirkby WAS con
EEdlN was oNcIr 90 4a' a. 49, NJ 1900