New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-25
EngIewood Player Looks
Winner in Two Big
Tournaments.
WITH CHAMPION AWAY
PATH SHOULD BE EASY
Hilton Gives Views of English
Golfers on Impending
American Invasion.

the hope - adding the British amateur
GOLF championship TO his triple crown,
which will make il necessary for him
to allow his metropolitan and New Jer-
sey titles TO 60 by the board. oswald
Kirkby. Of Englewood, will make the
most Of his opportunities. In fact, like
the schoolboy. he will adopt the motto
Seize the day
Travers nearly always has proved the
stumbling block to Kirkby in his quest
for metropolitan and New Jersey honors,
and il is only hy overcoming the re-
daub.able Jerry" at Atlantic city in
1912 that Kirkby became champion Of
New Jersey. Thus FAR Travers alone has
prevented KirHby from being the metro
poli,an amateur champion.
For the last three years in succession
il was Travers who eliminated kirkhy
from the running At Garden CITY IN
1871 TraVers defeated the far-driNinS
EnglcwCod man up and to play III
the thirty-six-hole final round At Bal
tusrol in 1912 Travers was successful
over Kirkby i'm the decisive test by
and margin. Last summer at FOX
Hills Travers eliminated kirk5y IN the
seminal round. being up.
II will be recalled that Travers de-
feated Kirkhy i'm the hnal round of the
New Jersey championship last June at
Baltusrol in u binding thunderstorm
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always has been the Nemesis of kirkp!'
With Travers out of the country now
over. IL would seem that Kirkby has
great opportunity before him. and that
he intends to seize ii is shown by the
announcement Of his intention TO play
more golf this year than ever. Last sea
son he did little on the links. and as
result his showing was rather INDIFFERENT
With Kirkby on his game, there seems
10 be no one In the district who could
stop his progress in the metropolitan.
Fnelewood will be the scene of action.
and Kirkbv is on home ground. In fact
he eats il alive" OF course, there Is
Walter ]. Travis TO be counted on but
at that Travis could hardly be expected
10 cope with the younger man at Engle-
wood.
As Travis is a resident of Garden City.
he IS ineligible TO compete in the New
Jersey championship, and as result
there will not be even this formidable
PLAYER TO arrest the fight of the Engle-
wood man. no matter where the New
Jersey State Golf Association sends its
tournament Thus ii is evident that Kirk
by is about due to accomplish one of his
ambitions in life, that of being twice
champion. and one of these titles being
the metropolitan amateur.
Harold H. Hilton. the amateur cham
pion of Great Britain and winner OF the
American title in 1911. writes Interestingly
on the forthcoming American invasion
Hilton declares that the coming season
promises TO be memorable because of
the visit Of jerome d. Travers, Francis
Ouimet Fred Herreshoff and Heinrich
Schmidt to England in May.
1T is now a matter of nearly ten years
since the first serious attack was made
by American amateur golf upon our own
particular championship" says Hilton.
ITO our CONSERVATION, that attack proved
IN every way successful-at least from
an American point Of view. Mr.. Walter
j. Travis, by the aid Of unvaTying stcadi-
ness and almost hendish brilliancy on the
putting greens, worked his way through
the whole Of the feet of British amateurs.
and, In thus accomplishing what ninety
nine out of every hundred homebred golf
ers considered almost beyond the bounds
Of possibility, struck grievous blow at
our national pride and prestige.
I'VE have never quite got over the
debacle of 1904 at Sandwich. 1t was a
sad and. moreover. entirely unexpected
blow. which severely wounded our sus-
capabilities. as in those days we lived in
the somewhat egotistical belief that not
only was British golf supreme, but that
IL would remain supreme for many years
TO come. 1t would not be idle TO say that
the main feeling which pervaded the
minds OF not only British golfers but Of
those. moreover, interested in British
athletics was more akin TO the feeling Of
humiliation than anything else.
THAT i'm the season OF 1911 we succeed
ed I'm squaring the ledger. so TO speak. in
relation 10 the international golhng ac-
count between Great Britain and Amer
lea was naturally a source of consider
able qualification TO British golfers. In a
manner it served TO wipe out the stain
on our escutcheon, which dated from 1904
and with the victory OF an English player
(Hlton HIMSELF at Apawams in 1911 the
two great golfing nations may now he
said 10 stand on an equality. and at Sand
witch in May next il is up TO our amateur
eXponents OF the game TO withstand the
assault OF the strongest contingent Of
American amateurs that has ever crossed
the Atlantic in search OF British honors."
The general tenor OF the press COM
ment on the other side is along similar
lines. Column after column appears with
regularity anent the coming OF the Amer
leans. and almost with one accord they
declare that only the presence OF Charles
Evans. jr.. who is popular in Britain. is
required TO make the invasion" as COM
pete in its golhng representation as could
be obtained
There is, moreover, evidence that the
welcome OF the Americans will be most
hearty. AS Hilton says, Whatever may
be the measure OF success or non success
OF the American amateurs, they will be
assured OF a hearty welcome and their
presence at Sandwich in May will as
suredly do much 10 maintain and foster
the friendly spirit of rivalry which has
gradually been growing up between the