New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
LOSER WAS AHEAD
AT HALFWAY HOME
Big Gallery Follows the PAIR
Around Nassau Country
Clubs Course.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.

Nald hlrhOy, OF LnSic"NVN' W"
eighteenth annual metropolitan goli
championship by defeating his oppo-
Lent. 5 up and to play, on the links
Of the Nassau Country Club, at Glen
Cove. yesterday.
Each man had previously won the title
Kirkby in 1914 and Herreshof in 1910.
and each man was set upon repeating.
Ferreshoff made brave fight 10 come
home with the honors, and played so
consistently in the morning that ne
was able 10 retire for luncheon with
/ tie dangerous lead Of two holes.
Many of those who followed the
playcis every step of the way IN the
first half of the match believed that
Herreshof. veteran tournament con-
tender that he is, would regain the
championship he had set his heart
Kirkby had been failing 70 get ms
short puts down regularly IN the
morning and did not seem able 10 use
the wood with his customary success
topping his tee shots several times
and clubbing iron shots that are ordl-
rarily brought off in faultless style,
Herreshoff was out in 10 for the
fist half, while kirkby needed one
more. not particularly fast gong for
sLch as they.
But in the afternoon kirkby was at
his best No longer did he make mis-
takes with his driver and ms IRON
and he found the hole with more reg
clarity on the long puts. But 1t was
on his long approaches that the Ne"
jersey State champion flashed IN
bIillIance.
Some Clean Play.
With the green anywhere within 2OV
Yards range the hole never seemed 20
be safe from Kirkby's deadly midiron.
spoon or brassie. Not once, but hall
dozen times was the gallery moved TO
applause when the new champion laid
these shots within fifteen or twenty
feet of the cup. Il must have been DIS
heartening to Herreshoff to see hirkoy
ball sail along high in air, strike tnt
green with thud, and come TO RESI-
always inside his own shots.
But the Garden City golfer stuca
doggedly to his task. After being .
down at the twelfth. with his opponent
lettering par all the way, Herreshoii
made his last bid. and cut down klrkoy
I lead to a lone hole, winning the thir-
teenth and fourteenth, and threaten
ing Oswald's supremacy.
After this Herreshotf faltered, hay-
ing made his fight, and lost the long
: fifteenth by hooking his drive into the
rough in front of hIgn bunker ana
then slamming the ball so deeply into
tho side of the grass mound that all
/ that remained to do was TO PICK II OUT
D ., L0l 10 "
( The next was halved, although Her
reshoff might have won had ne nov
I pulled his drive TO the bunker; then
/ Kirkbv won the seventeenth in par
q 4 and shook hands with tte man who
had made a valiant effort to come all
/ the way back. and failed by the slight
est of margins.
The sun did not shine at any time
during the course of the match yester-
B day. although once or twice IN the al
ternoon it almost broke through. But
/ the weather was great improvement
over what had been served up during
the earlier part Of the week, and gal
/ lery of more than four hundred turned
+ out 10 see the final struggle for the
/ title.
Among those who made the double
| circuit of the links were Mrs. Airkoy
and Mrs. Herreshof. They watched the
match with conflicting emotions. When
! her husband pulled drive 70 the rough
B or failed on a short approach Mrs.
| Herreshof showed her sympathy un-
consciously. Ii was the same with Mrs.
Kirkby when her husband made errors
on almost certain shots.
: Walter ]. Travis. Reginald VI. Lewis,
who had been defeated earlier in the
week BY Kirkby, and John VI. Ward,
who has battled with the best Of them,
were others who followed the tide OF
/ battle. Travis, holder Of t. title until
| Kirkby sank his final putt, had picked
/ the latter TO win, while Ward thought
/ that Herreshofr would come forth a
victor il he could gain an early lead.
The Deadly Snapshot.
The usual array of camera men got
in their deadly work on the tnalists
Just before Herreshoff and his oppo-
nent went 70 the first tee. and then the
match was on, the gallery forming a
( lane through which the players sent
their first drives.
Kirkby got away long, soaring ball
straight down the centre, but HERES
/ hoff topped and the ball skipped
through the rough for abou. eighty
yards. In trying to get out the Garden
City man only got into the bunker, and
was still short Of the green on his
third.
Kirkby in the mean time was max
ing no mistakes. He laid his approach
10 within ten feet Of the pin. missed
his first putt and took a to his oppo.
nent's g.
The second was half, but HERES
hofr squared the match after Kirkby
had pulled his drive 10 the rough and
sliced his second behind the big oak
tree in the farway, laying himself a
stymie.
The fourth was halved in (, after
each had taken three puts The fifth
was another for Kirkby, although both
he and Herreshoff had landed in trou-
BILE. The latter needed an extra putt,
however.
The sixth, 47s yards. should have
gone 20 the Englewood man. FOR with
two splendid shots he reached the
green but Herreshof laid him dead
stymie and won the hole in 10 ..
Fred pulled of twenty-foot curling
putt for a 3 on the seventh and won
that hole. but Kirkby squared accounts
at the pend hole eighth. when his op-
ponent failed on a short putt. Again
aid Herreshof 20 into the lead when
Kirkby missed d three-footer on the
ninth.
Hslved These Three.
They halved the next three in par
figures. On the thirteenth II looked
easy for Herreshoff, for Kirkby dubbed
his first two shots; but once on the
green he sank long putt, whereas