New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
Knkby, of Englewood,
Wins GoHmg Crown

Herreshoff needed three, and the hole
was halved in 5.
Both landed in the trap az the four
teenth but the Garden City man got
out we'll and won il, ( 20 s.
The fifteenth was hslved. but Kirkby
won the next, when Herreshof was in
the bunker. The seventeenth was a
half. On the home hole Fred won after
Kirkby failed TO sink a fifteen-foot
putt.
When the afternoon round began the
gallery had been augmented material
~, with the women poisoning forth
for the first time in picturesque sweat
ers and up-to-date hats. Two caddie
masters, bearing white flags on poles,
held the ever-pressing gallery IN re-
straint, and the picture was an at
tractve one as the crowd trooped
along in the wake Of the players.
Started Poorly.
Kirkby topped his drive and HERES
hof went 70 the rough on the right;
but on his second the Englewood man
got of splendid 5rassie, straight on
the pin, and the ball rolled up on the
green and only twenty-five feet from
the cup. He ran down the long putt
for 3, one under par.
The second also went TO kirkby, and
the third saw both IN L. stroke under
Far each time.
1t was a wonderful pace, and HERES
hoff could not stand against IL. The
short fourth was halved in g. leaving
Kirkby l up.
The fifth was hslved in a par S. and
AZ the sixth Herreshoff drove into a
trap and dubbed his second, needing
another to reach the green. kirkby,
n aking no mistakes, got a par and
was up.
The last three holes going out wore
halved in one under par, with HERES
hof lighting grimly 10 hold Kirkby IN
check. On the seventh green he sank
forty-foot putt, and the gallery ap-
plauded loudly.
On the eighth HerreshoT was short
en- his tee shot. whereas Hirkby was
we'll on the green; but Fred ,sld bis
approach from the rough dead 20 the
hole and got his hall.
Herreshoff hooked his drive 20 the
rough at the ninth. but slashed the bell
out in brilliant style with treIr -ndoas
backspin. Il lay fifteen feet swaJ from
the cup. Kirkby's ball was alIA.st the
same distance off, and after the dis
lance had been measured with TIE flag
stick Herreshof ran his down. and
then Kirkby sank his. The New Jersey
champion had gone out in IS strokes.
four under par, and Herreshof was 3s
a; the turn.
HerreshoT in Trap.
The tenth was another half in 3.
and. on the eleventh. Herreshof got
into u deep trap on his drive and was
barely out from a hanging lie on his
second. needing one more 10 reach the
edge Of the green kirkby made a
wonderful second with a brassie, and
the ball dropped fifteen feet from the
pin. He won, TO D.
The twelfth was halved in par fig
Ties, but Herreshoff became only two
down AT the thirteenth when he got (.
Kirkby was in the trap 10 the left OF
the green on his second, and had TO
take FIVE for the hole.
TIE gallery was roofing hard for
Fied when he won the short four
teenth, after having to bring or a diff
cult putt over ridge, with the hole
forty feet away. He stopped beside
! the cup and had 3 TO kifkby's four,
and was only one down.
The spectators groaned in sympathy
when Herreshof found the trap on mis-
second and picked up at the fifteenth.
They halyed the sixteenth in par and
then Kirkby was crowned champion
when he Won the seventeenth in
par 4.