New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-17
WHITE PAIRS WITH
BATTELL AND WINS
FOUR-BALL MATCH
Play Good Golf in Beating
Mcnamara and Collins
on Flushing Links.

As the result OF talk during the
Oakland tournament last week Bert
Battell, the Flushing professional, and
Gardiner W. White, an amateur OF the
same club, played q four-bsll match
yesterday against Thomas L. McNa-
mara, former metropolitan open cham
pion, paired with Willie Collins, the
Oakland pro" the match took place
over the nine-hole course of the Flush
ing Country Club, and Battell and
White emerged winners by up and 3
to play.
II may be said, however. tina. Nc
Namara and Collins never had played
the links, while Battell, after estab-
fishing a double round record Of 70 on
Saturday, registered a 70 In the match.
In the afternoon Mcnamara and p.
II. Moore, an Oakland amateur, paired
I'd against Collins and Theodore Casse-
beer, another amateur of the Bayside
organization, at Oakland. Mcnamara
and Moore won by up and to play
II was the first visit Of the erstwhile
metropolitan champion to Oakland, and
he declared he had not seen the equal
Of the greens this year. He also liked
the course. Mcnamara, by the way, Is
temporarily located in this city, and 1t
is not certain when he will return to
Boston, his home city.
The calendar this week Is full TO the
brim. Beginning to-day, the Eastern
interscholastic Championship will be
held at the Wykagyl Country Club,
near New Rochelle, and the tourns-
ment will continue for three days. On
Tuesday the final match for the WON
ems metropolitan team championship,
involving the teams from Tuxedo and
Englewood, is carde1 for the neutral
links OF the Arcola Country Club. On
Wednesday the semi-annual thirty-six
hole handicap OF the University Club
will be played over the links of the
Ardsley Club.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday
the annual invitation tournament OF
the Garden City Golf Club is on the
schedule, and ii may be said in passing
that some of the best players will be
seen in action. Because Of the fact
that IL is his home course, Walter j.
Travis is a power TO be reckoned with,
and such players as Maxwell K. Mars
ton, Philip V. G. Carter, the metropoli-
tan junior champion, who won the
chief cup at Oakland last week; James
c. Parrish, jr., Henry ]. Topping and
possibly Oswald Kirkby, the metropoli-
tan amateur title holder, will try con-
illusions with the veteran in his own
environment
On Thursday one OF those popular
one-day handicaps Of the Women's Net
ropolitan Golf Association is down for
decision at the Apswamis Club, while
on Friday something like q hundred
members of the Woollen Trade Golf
Association, new organization, will
compete for plenty of prizes at the
Essex County Country Club. Last year
these business men tried their luck at
Wykagyl for the first time and the day
was so stormy that only those Of stout
hearts dared the elements.
Something unusual Is scheduled for
Wednesday at the Greenwich Country
Club. Four professionals Of renown and
as many amateurs will appear In four
some competition. Walter c. Hagen,
national open champion, will give the
local golfers chance to see him in
action.
Fresh from his recent achievement on
the Pacific Coast, peculiar interest Is
attached to his appearance, and there
are many who consider him Amer
ica's greatest golfer at present. Mac
donald Smith, metropolitan open cham
pion; Alec Smith, former holder of both
national and metropolitan titles, and
Tom Mcnamara, erstwhile wearer OF the
metropolitan crown, will complete the
professional list
On the amateur side there are such
men as Jerome d. Travers, four times
national champion; Oswald Kirkby,
present metropolitan and New Jersey
champion: Fred Herreshof, once the
metropolitan champion, and Henry j.
Topping, Greenwich's leading golfer,
who was runner-up to Ouimet in the
French amateur championships last
wear at La Boulie. In the morning the
professionals will play four ball
match, the Smith brothers against
Hagen and Mcnamara, while in the
afternoon the amateurs will draw lots
for professional partners for two four
ball matches. /, will be great day for
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