The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-22
STRONG FIELD LEFT
FOR MET GOLF TITLE
kirkhy and Travis, Favorites,
Win Two Matches, One at
Nineteenth Hole.
ODD ARGUMENT COMES Up
Van Weeks Ball Falls in Cup
After kirkby Holes Out
Winning Putt.
ODD ARGUMENT COMES UP

-NbbhWOObs - may Gls-NA SNIbllN
and well balanced last eight 10 20 into
the third round tomorrow morning was
tho result OF the two match rounds played
to-day in the Metropolitan amateur golf
tournament ut the Engle-
wood Country Club. The two favorltes.
Oswald Kirkby of the homo club In
the upper bracket and Walter J. Travis
OF Garden city In the lower. are the out
standing figures in the list OF survivors.
but every one OF the six others Is man
who Is capable OF causing an upset by de-
throning one OF the stars.
In addition to the two mentioned the
members OF the last eight are Max Mars
ton. Baltusrol; Findlay S. Douglas. Apa-
wants: Gilman p Tiffany. Powelton.
Percy Piatt, New York; Roy ID. Webb,
Englewood. and George T. Brokaw. Gar
den City. The draw brings them to-
gether tomorrow in tho following or
der: Kirkby VS.. Marston, Douglas We.
Tiffany. Plat vs. Travis and Webb vs..
Brokaw. Each morning match should be
a good one.
The main interest to-day was centred
in the work Of Travis and Kirkby. as they
worked their way through tho first two
rounds In the morning Kirkby seemed
to have little the better OF II when
their play was compared, for he was out
in 81 and beat his opponent. H. +. Rein
mund, clubmate, by up ana 10
play, while Travis was having more or
less OF an uphill struggle against j M.
Rhett, another Garden City man. Rhett
won the first two holes and was ! up
At the turn, but Travis managed to win
out by up and to play.
In the afternoon both were pro-
vided with better known opponents, and
as n result the golf played was better
Travis did a little better work than DID
Kirkby. Gardiner w. White was matched
against the Garden City veteran. and al
though he won by up and 2 to play
Travis had to play good golf TO DO IL.
His card for the round showed an APP
proximated 80. 3i--73. and he admitted
after the match was over that he might
have done better II he had needed to. He
was playing to win the match ana that
was ALL he said.
Kirkby played c. r. Van Week Jr., OF
Baltusrol and rather to his own surprise
had to 40 an extra hole 10 win Inc
match was all square at the sixteenth.
van Week made a wretched tee shot on
the seventeenth and lost the hole. Kirby
Incoming dormie The home hole should
have settled the match, but after over
playing the green with his Iron and recov-
erlng so we'll that he laid the ball prac-
ticsiIy dead. Kirkby missed the easy pun
! for 8. Van Week, who had driven with
| a spoon held the green and was down IN
! 8 for win.
! on the extra hole an incident occurred
! that caused a great deal of discussion
! among players. spectators and offciais
| Van Weeks putt for a hung on the NY
OF the cup and after looking the GROUND
over carefully, Kirkby holed his shoTei
putt for a 4, which won the match. h'
stopped down to take his ball out OF th'
cup and as he withdrew MS manu. var
Weeks ball tumbled In
The question as 20 whether the Hal
tusrol mans ball fell in because the grass
Welded, or because Kirkby touched II,
once arose Klrkby thought that he nae
caused the ball to drop in. but Van Vieei
was OF the opinion that II had been NOV
ing Imperceptbly all the time and that n
was entitled TO his T. The oncia!s preseh
were divided in their opinion, but as sooi
as he saw that the discussion was tskin'
serious turn, Van Week, like goo
sportsman. Insisted that kirkby take IN
hole. II give II up now anyway, he saIo
The usual number of upsets occurre
during the day and several golfers o
prominence were eliminated from the lis
Of championship possibilities In the mrs
round Hamilton Kerr was beaten by Va
runner up for the Metropolitan title las
year. found Roy Webb too much for HIN
After a close match Webb won by
single hole. A., II.
Dwight Partridge. who tied wit
Kirkby for second place In the quarry
ing round, won his match this mornint
!. but was beaten this afternoon by Georg
Brokaw. who won by 2 up and to pla!
: In addition to the play in the champion
shin division, two match rounds wer
nlayed to-day In the third and fourth si'
teens and the beaten sixteen or the nr'
: thirty-two played of one match roun
this afternoon. The summaries:
chsmP!Gnship Dyisloni t riT'' n Foq Rsi,
:; Week. Jr'. Baltusrol., beat Hamilton
Kerr GTeeSwsh "P Fa q Is NJ ao Hsn"O1
Baitusro up GO holes, Max 81 4 h MsrstS
Pnsu:rS beat u TesFiss b Jp FOX His be
!; A. X. Robbins, Garden city; 8 and :; Fin y.
: lay s. Douglas, Apawsmis. beat Oliver re
TIr Ma'i PGssl alnh Beat aH benton. sea-
dale and 4 ,nN,0I ba SSssau Ens' ss;
hpasa anis and s Pefsy Plat; New so 20
Gof es Gardner sn'I W wSits FiS:hns be
James r, Hyde. South shore; up; w
Garden cry R ssS' w.S 81 f ESsswae
: beat 4. r. Hammer. Fox Hills, ! up r.
:, Conrov, Fox Hills, heat chlsholm beas
FOX Hills, 2 up; George r Brokaw cara
y city, beat @. Kohler Ridgswooa ;,s eng q,
Second Roun6--Kirkby beat Van Week
u I'M Us holes): Marston beat Richmond
= and g. Douglas beat Hitchcock ana
b. Tinany beat Barnes, and FIau DC
:, Nundy 4 and 2: Travis beat White, ana
u webb beat conroy, and q broNaw be
j. Partridge, and L., , yo,. y.
q Beaten sixteen, First Ropnd--kerr De
y dsfault' Robbins beat Perrin, up, Bent
Is hear Dunning, 2 up; Rice beat Downey,
n INA 1. HYDE beat Rhett by default, kai
mer beat Beach, and j; koh'er beat ga
r0!Trhird sixteen. First Round-E. p, Rose
National, beat s. Nellie. Englewood, !
- r snare. Engiewood, beat 4; W, Maine, }
lie beat ". W. .Pell Nassau by Getault
n Lord, Haworth, beat W 7. CHENEY Plsl
u AN Reid. ST. Andrews, by default; r.
" Walton National, beat A, y. Milligan, ~
ly ,usrol | up w. Purcell. New YORK. %
10 Gp Eddy Arcola, s and 8; 4, 7. Palm
., Fox Hills, beat A. Emsbury 3D. Engle"o'
lg second Round-snare beat Rogers. a
" Lard beat Sayre, . and |; watson be
ne steiner. and A. Purcell beat ralher
. Fourth sixteen, First Round-H. ~ Co
u i,uulevuod beat +. Barton, Dyker Meado
Z and 2; II. T.. whitney, Nassau beat C.
= Macdonald, National, I and =; A. G, TRAY
nd itnriewood beat A l.. Norris, kockawi
and ?. W L. Pierce Jr., Englewood, b'
c. o. ComstoclS, sleepy hol,9w, ! up j.
Tyng BAltusrol. beat G. V, MeserOle, Eng
i'"e 49, .. "a v Gaines Wykagyl b,