Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-23
HERRESHOFF OUT
OF MET TOURNEY
Marc McMichael, Jersey Golfer,
Takes Measure of Oak
land Winner.
TRAvERs is IMPROVING

Two match rounds were played In
the Metropolitan golf championship
at Fox Hills yesterday Eight remain
in the fight for the title.
The most notable surprise was the
defeat of Fred Herreshoff in the first
round. The winner of the Oakland
tournament of last week was beaten
by Marc MeMichael, of Yountakah.
The Jersey player took the match by
one up, only to be beaten later by
Chisholm Beach.
Gardiner White was another crack
to fall by the wayside. After Win
ming his morning match from H. Y.
Gaines. who qualified in second place,
White fell a victim to l.. P. Gwyer,
of Siwanoy, by 3 to 2 margin.
PLAYING better golf as he went along
the champion, Jerome ID. TraVers'
won both his matches handily. His
opponent in the first round was Ham
ilton X. Kerr, South Shore, who was
a semi fnalist in the last national
championship. Travers put Kerr out
of it by up and 2 to play. Later
Travers defeated Sammy" Graham
of Greenwich, by 5 up and to play
oswald Kirkby., the New Jersey
champion, eliminated two formidable
players. The first was Max Marston,
the new intereholastic champion, who
was beaten by 3 up and to play.
The Jersey champions second victim
was B. T. Allen, a local player
Playing in the third sixteen. Walter
j. Travers was beaten one up in the
afternoon round by J. Devereux Lord,
the Brooklyn champion. The odd
man" was still troubled by his
wrenched knee.
A variety of competitions and many
prizes we're provided for the first
tournament of the season for the
Metropolitan Advertising Golf Asso-
citation over the links of the Hacken-
sack Golf Club yesterday. This affair
was to have been held last week, but
was postponed. Four-ball foursomes
were the order in the early part OF
the day and resulted in tie between
George Burd and DE- L. Hedger on
one side and Lee w. Maxwell and
John FL. Hawley on the other, each
pair with best ball of So 1t was de-
termined to settle the tie by means
of another eighteen hole circuit, and
the result was that each pair returned
a 70. 1t was then that the commit
tee decided to toss a coin, and Burd
and Hedger were the winners.
Returning a gross score of "a, Mrs.
A. S. Rossin, of the home club, cap
tured the gross prize in the one-day
of the Woman's Metro
oolitan Golf Association over the links
Of the Century Club yesterday. Her
handicap of five gave her net of SO.
which was also low for this prize, but
as she could not take both the net
award went to Miss Grace Farrelly,
Of Englewood, whose card read 100,
$780, About thirty women started.
In the afternoon there was a driving
contest, which was won by Mrs. Will
lam Chilvers, of Dunwoodie. Three
tries from the tee were allowed, and
Mrs. Chilvers made distances of 1877,
I76 and 1913 yards for total of 531.
The annual Middle Atlantic Golf
A Association tournament began on the
links of the Columbia Country Club,
near Washington, yesterday. Walcott
and DIN Maccammez, of
the Chevy Chase Club, with cards of
Is, tied for the qualification trophy.
B. Warren Cochran, of Baltimore,
was third. with so. The team trophy
was won by the Chevy Chase Club.
T. L. Mcnamara, of Boston, yes
terday broke the tie for the Massa
ehusetts open golf championship and
won the title by defeating M. J.
Brady, of Wollaston, on the links of
the Brae Burn Country Club.
History repeated itself at the Hunt
ingdon Valley Country Club, Noble,
yesterday in the semi-final round of
the women's individual golf cham
pionship of Philadelphia, when Mrs.
Ronald II. Barlow and Miss Edith
Noblit won their matches. and quail
fed for the final round. In 1909 Mrs.
Barlow and Miss Noblit met each
other in the final round at the SPRING
haven Country Club and Miss Noblit
won a memora bde victory on the nine
teenth hole.