The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-12

MAX MARSTON DISPLAYS
SOME UNBEATABLE GOLF
Disposes of Champion Kirkby and Farley, Advancing
to Meet Roy Webb To-day for New
Jersey Championship.

WEST ORANGE. y. j.. June 11.-Max
Marston and Roy Webb came through
successfully In the Jersey golf cham
pionship at the Essex County Country
Club to-day, and earned the right to
meet in the thirty-eix hole final to-
morrow. Both are golfers who have had
much tournament experience. but both
are newcomers In the role Of ~fnallsts
for so important n title as the New
Jersey championship.
The vagaries Of the draw made two
Of the morning matches to-day over
hadov the semi-finals, an unusual con-
dillon OF Affairs. The biggest match Of
all proved to be that between Marston
and Oswald Kirkby. the defending
champion. played this morning. Not
only did Marston beat the champion by
. up and 8 TO play. but while doing so
played the best golf seen thus far in
the tourney, When the match ended on
the thirteenth green Marston was 60
Ing 80 we'll that he decided to play ous
the bye holes. and justified the decision
BY completing the round In IL. A bail
mat went out OF bounds at the eleventh
was his only serious mistake. Kirkby
was not ut his best. but ever II he had
been would have had n hard job In
Keeping on level terms with Marston.
At the u Marston. who was out in
SO. was up, SO Kirkby's chances were
just about gone at the half way point.
He lasted four holes longer and then
on the bye holes played better gol,
than he had been playing while the
match was still on.
The other star match in the morning
was that between Roy Webb and Max
Behr. Although Behr played some good
golf II was not good enough for the &C.
casion, and after leading almost from
the start Webb Won by . up and 1 to
play.
In the semi-finals in the afternoon
Marston found himself opposed to Carl
IL. Farley OF Upper Montclair. the golfer
who put out Maurice Risley yesterday
afternoon. As Farley had disposed OF
Chester Maxwell. the young Trenton
golfer, In a match that went to the home
green this morning 1t did not seem UNI
likely that he would make Marston
hustle to win. 1t so happened. however.
that Marston vas ready to begin just
where he had left of in the morning.
and playing Just as well as In the
kirkby match went out in IS and turned
for home 4 NJ. Marston won by ) up and
4 to play, although at the eleventh he
islthst' ibS ila'l Iliil IllSNth' VI hIlNllE
out OF bounds. This time Marston did
not play out the bye holes, hut saved
his strength for to-morrow's long strug-
gle.
Webb's semi-fnal opponent was T.. u
Schley OF Morris County and Schley put
up n surprisingly good resistance. Both
went out In 3s and Webb was only l w
at the turn. lie might have been . up
but for n stymle ut the sixth. Another
stymie at the eleventh cost Webb Il
nance 10 win that hole. but after
falvlng the twelfth he won the next two
and was 8 up. Then 1t was Schley's
turn. Tit Morris County golfer played
the next I'VE faultlessly, getting n I Mt
the fifteenth and a 3 at the sixteenth.
thereby winning both holes. With his
lead reduced to one hole Webb bestirred
himself on the li0 yard seventeenth and
just missed boiling out his tee shot, the