New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
.KIRKBY CAPTURES
AMATEUR GOLF TITLE
Becomes the Metropolitan
Champion, Defeating
Travis in Finals.
VETERAN STRUGGLES
GAMELY BUT VAINLY
Winners Long Driving, Helped by
Some Deadly Putting, Brings
Victory.

After knocking at the door for several
years Oswald Kirkby, OF Englewooo'
placed his name on the list OF metropoli-
tan amateur golf champions yesterday by
defeating Walter j. Travis. OF Garden
City, up and to play in the thirty-six-
hole decisive test over the links or the
Englewood Country Club.
Ever since the vote last winter AWARDED
this tournament TO the Englewood Club
students OF form have shown leaning
toward Kirkby. for with Jerome Travers
and Fred Herreshoff abroad 1t was gem
orally conceded that Travis was the only
golfer left likely 20 present much opposi-
ton to the tall Englewood record-ho!der.
Travis did lead Kirkby by two strokes
for the medal in the qualifying round
so that the four-day effort of the veteran
was not entirely in vain.
Always outdriving his rival, kirkoy
gained a distinct advantage at a number
of the holes that leaned to the Ions SIDE.
Frequently he would be able to use
midlron for the second shot, whereas
Travis, from fifteen to twenty-five yards
back. would be compelled to take WOOL
Occasionally one or the other would slip
I'D on short putt, but, as rule, the
putting was steady
The uncertainties OF the game were
Illustrated at the outset OF the match'
when Travis, after barely carrying the
brook on his second shot. brought OF
long putt and won the hole in g. I'M
medately thereafter the tide turred IN
favor of the home champion. who won
three holes In succession. He was
trife lucky at No 4. where he got ouh-
kered on his second shot, but managed
TO supplement a good recovery with a
deadly putt for 4. Travis, who had
reached the green on his second shot,
took three puts and lost the hole.
BY the time the pair reached the turn
Kirkby had been unable to Increase his
advantage of up, the strokes reading
81 to 80 in his favor. The Englewood man
came within an ace of being the victim
of peculiar rub of the green While
playing the thirteenth hole.
Just as he made his approach putt
panama hat volplaned from the upper
story Of one of the men in the gallery
and came within few inches OF settling
over the rubber core. No harm was DONE
however, and they halved the hole In D.
Kirkby would have ended the morning
round up had he not missed a short
putt on the home green. He made the
round in "A to Travis's IS.
Travis for a starter failed to clear the
brook on his approach to No. /. and, los
ing that hole, became down on the day
It looked then as If Kirkby might win
by a wide margin, but he lost the next
three holes, two because OF Indifferent
approaches, though at the 40O-yard third
Travis won with a fine 3. bringing on
25-foot putt
When Travis missed two-foot putt
on the ninth green he found himself
down. The next three holes were halved'
but at the thirteenth both men found
trouble. Kirkby made fine recovery
from behind a tree by bringing OF neat
slice and reaching the green. At the NJ
tenth Travis negotiated stymie in hne
style. but when he made hash OF the
seventeenth his last chance vanished. The
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