New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-27
Metropolitan Team
RegaipS Lesley Cup
Eastern Golfers Lose the
Famous Trophy by a
Single Point.
ONCE MORE OUIMET
DEFEATS TRAVERS
Amateur Champions Margin 2
Up and / to Play-Kirkby
Also Among Losers.

For the seventh time IN ten yea Is
the Metropolitan COLI AssoI ~. ~
team won the Robert Lesley cup oy oSS
scsting the Massachusetts State. COLI
SSsociation forces 8 points to Z IN tne
decisive match on the links OF 'he D"i'-
usrol Golf Club yesterday. -
ALTHOUGH successful collectively: the
Afstropolitan team was unable to thank
- leaders, as both Jerome IraNets,
ana Oswald Kirkby we're numoereS
amonq the losers both morning Ahu
The ay in the ointment from q local
Standpoint came in the deieat o.
Trevers at the hands Of Francis Oul-
met the Woodlan golfer, VINO re-
Gently succeeded Travers as the ma
tionai amateur champion. IL was ~
the intercity series a year ago ~
Rrookline that Ouimet scored ms hIs'
viStory over the Jerseyman'
The Bostonian won more deelsNeiy
in the Championship final at Ekwanok
short time ago. In their tilt yester-
dav Ouimet had TO be content win d
. and / margin. 81, .Ao
plav began in the morning with the
,,s,sI foursones. Kirkby and Freo
fIorresbofT. leading of for the Metro,
nolitan. were opposed TO Oulmet ana
= II. Hoyt. From the outset the lOca,
nsir dispiayed a lack Of steadiness, ana
before long they we're down Later
on the match became all square
Onjmet was always long on the zee
snS Eben called upon to putt he rarely
made a mistake. One down. hiIADs
and Herreshof proceeded 10 nlaSs ~
hash of the thirteenth ana louI 49,
holes. although the latter Wou!.u nS' .
been halved had --irkby not nl'sSe" Z"
putt of less than tx tcet. .,,+osrtb
,,reen As he was walking toward the
elnb house Hoyt remarked that fran
c;s and he represented the yOuhSeS'
- oidost nlavers or the team. Al
tbouSb old enough to be the eham-
nior's father. Hoyt does not look H.
,-es the case the day before. lraN-
and Gilman Tiffany proved an uIl-
for4unate combination. lhey, "eLS
ay,,osej 10 John Anderson and ,: n
oterne. ard while the metSopoi. -
,.aifars made frequent mistakes Ipey
ID-c on tenaciously enough 70 carry
No contest to the home green -
inc match was really won ana Il lbs
a, fbr long sixteenth hole where ~
rs twice placed his partner IN tIOT pnS.
That squared tho contest ana Ine H.
tonians became up by winning l,iIe boie
seventeenth. A hall at th1 NM ,-.;opeys.
loft Anderson and Sterne the -,
1.hc three other MET" teams "9 II
~ Matches. Rov Webb and A. T.
-. Md a comfortable time az Tue
A .'.nnso of Perciyal Gilbert, the Mass
Ii'sntts contain. and II. H.. ilueL,
G.t. - the eighth hole, Meb6 droye
"G IaI7I triie wide and it lodged IN IH a'.
tS-ebes ~ a spruce tree some twenty
sII-t r,onaoed to win that hole, SaIu
,U;l5er "because they coui6h I'"
,,;ab enough to hit the ball Few
VIXEN ii came to the sih9IeSn 80
l,ncbeon there might just as wen iII i nat,.
toen only one match, so tar as WV 60, %t5
.ude OF the gallery was SSalS Fol.
prob,6Iv two thousand golIeIs iCf.
en- Cuimet and Travers ieIt
he first tee. ..,,rr,,,ce of
sis I'D trouble with his wooden Sluo III
SD mis- driving iron from neaiIy e.
- The distance lost IN cohSS-
ao ,roved handicap, especlallE
49,, onrosed 70 8 man BIKE Oulh'e'
..I,, e Grand wooden club player:
Tbc onlv really bad drive OF WhiSn
,ho cbaupion was guilty was pun ~,
80 bounds from the hrst lee' an" ~
r,;stake there enabled IraNers 70 ~,
,bst hole I'm 4. On the Seconu 10
Travers took puts an3 losl, O fa;,aJ
reoained the lead when Oul"'e' A"'
YorT,, dubbed his approach 20 me
eo,,rtb and overplayed the next green
;.tsles that cost him both those
toins and plsced him down. Oulmet ;
nolSs az, .r1proscb 10 the sixth only went
i I,9frae 90 mat the match again De-
came all square. -. -. ,,o,,ing
ao,,,,, > irving twelve-foOter for a NAH
- a. the seventh, but he PAID the
nera1tv when he used his driving TO"
from the next tee. The ball, not ma
;np ouise the necessary carry g0I ~
badly bunkered that he had trouOle lll
-ctting out at all 0uimet won sRaI
20 & and as the next was halved
IN 4 the champion turned for home ]
,,n lie wen. out in 40 to the
Onimet lost the tenth by driving int
tse water guarding the green. lheN
were all square again at that stage
Tbe twelfth was halved in after Jotf
wen had overapproached to the trap
MT oni1 ct won the next two holes II
~ His 8 at the fourteenth was 4
result of a 25-fOot putt.
Although outdriven many yards iron
the next tee Travers made a CRANE
second shot almost TO the green, ant
got a half in 4. This hole is 400 yards
long. That left 0uimet dormie g.
Travers won the 520-yard sixteenth
in a fine 4, and made a brave try t
win the seventeenth in 3, but his L
foot putt missed by hairs. breadth
4 half there in 4 left Cuimet the win
ner by . up and to play, The cham
pion had a for a IS.
FOURSOMLS.
METROPOLITAN. MASSACHUSETTS.
Kirkt,v- IIerreshOu.. Ouimet-Hoyt....,,
rTaverF Ii6any..... anderson Sterhe''''
Webb Hammer. I Wilder Gilbert.
Eeid-Douglas........ Tewbcsbury- Law
lCnCC.....,.........
Votal.............