Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-24
TRAVERS SCORES
DOUBLE RECORD
Makes Fox Hill Course in 70
and II in MetrOpOl-
itan Tourney.
TO PLAY HAMMER TODAY

Jerome d. Travers and A. F. Kam-
mer will meet today in the thirty
six-hole final round for the Metro
politan golf championship, at FOX
Hills, and if Travers puts up the KIND
of game that he displayed yesterday
there will be little doubt of his sue
cess.
The first nine holes were fun OF
spectacular play, such as twenty
foot putt for at the fifth, and
try for a that trimmed the cup on
the long sixth. Travers reached the
turn !. SO, four strokes under par
and was 6 up on Beach. Coming
in the same kind of golf gladdened
the big gallery. and the match war
officially over at the thirteenth,
where Travers won by Z up and to
play. As it was, he made 70, the
best previous score being 70. The
record-breaIzfng card follows:
Out .......44 34254 3 4-33
In ..............4 "A 8 4 3 4 5-S7-70
Matched against Oswald Kirkby, in
the serni-f1nal round, Travers played
morning. This time he was out IN
IS and had three up on Kirlzby at the
turn, and came home in 81 for total
of 70.
Willie Norton. the famous golf
player, has again assumed his duties
as the professional at the Deal Golf
Clubs course. He returned yester-
day from the South, and will be at
all meets throughout the season.
Deal has a remarkably long and in
teresting program of events for the
season, and some lively competition
is looked for.
The second day of play in the an
nual tournament of the Middle At
lantic Golf Association was marred
yesterday by a heavy downpour the
course at the Columbia Country Club
resembling a collection of small lakes.
Despite the weather, some interesting
matches were played. particularly
that between Allan Lard, of Chevy
Chase. and B. K. Corkran, of the
Baltimore Country Club. Both Lard
and Corkran had won their morning
withsno great difficulty, and
were primed for the afternoon event.
Corkran meets w. C. Ballantyne, of
the Columbia Country Club, in the
semi-finals today. E. P. Brooke Ban
nockburn, winner of last years tour
nament, but who only qualified for
the second sixteen this year, met de-
~ ho, Ii. - ~
of Chevy Chase, Freeman winning
1 up.
Pawling School golfers visited
Princeton yesterday and succeeded in
halving team match with the COL
legians, to 3. Opposed to Philip
Carter. former interscholastic cham
pion, was John N. Stearns, Sd, runner
up for the intercollegiate title last
year. They finished all square. The
summary:
Pawling-Philip Carter. 0: F. K.
Robeson, 8; John Lummis, 0; e. P.
Grier, o. Total, 8.
Princeton-John N. Stearns, Sd, 0;
L. M. Washburn. 0; L. Douglas, 8; S.
Roberts, o. Total, 3.
So
BY holing a seventy-foot approach
from the rough beyond the first green
at the Woodland Golf Club yesterday.
C. W. Broker, of New York, got into
the seni-finals for the Woodland cup.
Broker and n. W. Dean, of Oakley,
finished their round all even. Going
to the extra hole Dean was four feet
from the cup on his third stroke,
while Broker overapproached and
his ball lay in a difficult position He
took hard swing with a mashie and
lifted the ball clearly upon the green
and into the cup. Dean missed his
putt for four, and lost the match.
Mrs. Ronald H. Barlow, of the
Merton Cricket Club retained her title
as women's individual golf champion
of Philadelphia by winning the final
match played yesterday from Miss
Edith Noblit, of the Wilmington
Country Club. by up and to play.
The match was played on the links
of the Huntingdon Valley Country
Club. AS the result of Mrs. Barlow's
victory the big silver loving cup will
go back to the Merton Club trophy
room.