New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
TyuUeYS and MnYSt0u
Triumph at Vykagyz
Beat Kirkby and Anderson
! Up in War Fund
Match

~. announcement that the four
,ou match between jerome D. Travers
- Max R. Manton against Oswald
v,-hv and John C.. Anderson would
+. nlsyed Saturday at the Wykagyl
r.untry Club and also at the Dun
voodis Country Club on Sunday, evil
.,tIy caused the golfng public to re-
s.rd the Wykagyl schedule as a mis-
AZ. Instead of large crowd being
- hand to see the match, there was
LARGELY more than a corporaPs guard
ss-sssnt when the four experts drove
Of from the first tee.
All the members who played over the
.onrse. however, bought badges, and
the majority Of them Joined the gal
Nv from time to time. There were
several hundred people in the gallery
at the finish The proceeds went to
coming wounded.
II was we'll played match from
ssrt to finish and was won by Travers
and Marston by | up.
Anderson and Klrkby had trihe the
better of it going out, as Anderson
Won the first hole and al the others
were halved until the ninth hole, when
Trayers squared the match.
Travers Starts Poorly
They all got long drives from the
tvst tee. but Travers pulled his ball off
n trap in the left and took 3 for
the green. all the others getting on in
~ Anderson won the hole in par 4,
the others taking 5. Playing the sec
cnd hole Trayers was over the green IN
tina sand trap on his second and was
the only one who failed TO get the hole
The third hole of $50 yards was we'll
rIavad Anderson had the shortest
Dive. but was over the green in the
.eueh OF his brassey shot He pitched
ont dead to the hole and halved 1t IN
plsying the fourth hole Anderson
drove into & side trap, but his other
shots were all good and he halyed it in
5 With the others. It IS 42o-yard
hole. all uphill, and hard hole to get
in par 4.
the tricky sixth hole of l22 yards was
haved in ? BY. Travers and Anderson
the former sinking twenty foot putt.
Kirkby and Marston both had trouble
on this hole. Kirkby overplayed the
green, while Marston went into the
deep trap on the approach and IN pitch-
inc out went clean over the green into
the trap on the other side
The seventh is another tricky hole or
1s0 yards, eli carry.
Match Square at Turn
Tb.v all reached the green in safety
and the hole was halved IN par 8 ny
Anderson and Marston. The eighth is
an elbow hole of AS yards and it was
halved in par by Anderson. klrkby
and Travers The ninth of 4o1 yards
is also an elbow hole and it was won
By Travers, who was almost hole high
in but in the rough. He pitched out
on the green and ran down putt tor
1, one stroke under par. This made
the match all square at the turn.
Anderson went out in So and Travers
in 30, the other two being 80.
They all got the PIG yards tenth hole
In 8. and the eleventh hole Of ASP yards
was won II to A, par being 5.
Trayers and Marston each got 3 and
Anderson and Kirkby were each down
In 4.
The twelfth hole of 467 yards was
halved BY al hands in the par OF 5.
Kirkby was over the green in 2 and
Marston On it IN ?, while Travers and
Honors were again even at the thlr-
tenth hole, as Anderson and Kirkby
each got 8, winning the hole one
stroke under par Anderson deserved
credit, as his drive was in the long
grass to the right snort Of the green
and DE pitched dead to the hoe. They
each took for the fourteenth hoe,
but in playing the fifteenth Travers
drove into the woods out Of bounds
and let Marston fight it out with
Anderson and KlrAby. lie halvcd with
Kirkby
The sixteenth hole was won in par
by Marston, and as the next two holes
were halved in par, the match ended
with Iravers and Marston the victors
By up.
The best-ball score was as follows:
Anderson and kirkby:
4 4 z 3 4 SIS
Aarstun and Travers:
S = "a Ls5
Anderson and kirkby:
I 5 4 q 6-37-7z
Aarston and Travers:
8 5 q 4 5-3e-71