New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-08
TRAVERS CAPTURES
JERSEY GOLF TITLE
Plays Uphill Game and Just
Noses Out Kirkby in the
Final Round.
RAIN A SERIOUS HANDICAP
Englewood Golfer in Lead by
Three Holes When Storm
Breaks and Completely
Confuses Him

Coming up from behind. Jerome d.
Travers. OF Upper Montclair national
and metropolitan amateur golf champion
once again won the New Jersey state
championship by defeating oswald kin
by. of Englewood. up and ! TO play, in
the thirty-six-hole final round over the
links OF the Baltusrol Golf Clgb ycster-
day This was the fourth time Travers
has won the title. Last year AT Atlantic
city Kirk5y vanluiSh"d the Upper Mont
clair crack and became the champion
Early in tho day il looked as IL kirkhy
would repeat. for he Wor the first three
holes without difficulty Frequent visits
10 the traps. missed puts and indifferent
approaches by each marked the early
rounds Travers won only one hole gong
out. that being the eight. where he holed
n mashie shot from distance OF fifteen
yards. Kirkbv stood up al The turn.
While each man showed flashes Of brill
fancy on the inward journey. neither one
was on hts game. Nirkhy missed puts
with frequency and Travers seemed 70
be wholly unable to get his hall off the
Tee satisfactorily By the time The th'r-
teenth was reached Kirkby had increased
his advantage TO up, and bocame MP
at the next when TraverS topped MS
drive. got bunkered ON his second and
missed a put The fifteenth went TO
Travers when Kirkby made hash of it,
and the sixteenth was won by Kirkby
when Travers conceded the hole. after
being trapped on his second shot. TraverS
took the next. and. a. the eighteenth was
halved. Kirkby was up at the end cf
the morning round.
Both men improved materially in the
afternoon. Kirkby was up at the third
when Travers was short on his drive. The
national champion then began 20 get in
his fine work. and. Keeling off the next
four holes in par figures. reduced his op-
ponents advantage to up, and by MAX
ing the eighth in squared the match y
missed put at the ninth permitted kirkoy
10 reach the turn up.
The oldtime resourcefulness Of Travers
and his happy faculty Of never admitting
that he IS beaten stood him in good stead
during the remainder Of the match HAD
IL not been for occasional visits 20 traps,
from which he invariably covered well
Travers might have done even better A
sample OF his game in the afternoon may
he obtained from the fact that his drive
al the twelfth landed in the bunker, and
his recovery was so good that he was
within six feet OF the pin on his second.
He ran down the put for a to Kirkby s
par 4.
Two halved holes followed. then
heavy thunderstorm, which had been
threatening for an hour or more, broke
loose and drenched the players and gal
lery alike. Kirkby found II simply I'm
possible TO play in the deluge. while
Travers. keeping strictly on his game,
won the next three holes and the cham
pionship. His principal lapse was at the
sixteenth, where he required :. but this
was excusable IN view Of the fact that
when he putted the water splashed up in
front OF the ball Krkhy made a hash
OF the hole by getting his second into
the brook and was unable 10 get out