The New York herald., 1921-05-15
OSWALD KIRKBY IS
GOLF FINAL VICTOR
Defeats 4. III. HOyt, Z and ),
on Garden City
Links.
w. j. TRAVIS COMES BACK
Veteran Takes Gross Prize
With 70, Jerome Travers
Getting an 30.
By KERR N. PETRIE.


amateur golf champion, set his house
In order for the forthcoming M. @. A.
title event due in about three weeks
at Garden City by annexing the honors
of the annual invitation tournament
on that links yesterday Kirkby, who
had been experiencing difficulty in get
ting the puts to drop, made few
experiments and apparently found the
missing touch. In any event he was
good enough to defeat Henry j. Top
ping of Greenwich in the semi final
by and 2, and later on to take Frank
Fl. Hoyt Of the Engineers into camp In
the last round by z up and to play.
Hoyt, who used to be pillar of Bos-
short for the job that he was asked to
tackle in the afternoon. although In the
semi-flnai it was long enough to dispose
of Malcolm Stevenson of Meadowbrook,
the player who had caused the one big
upset Of the tournament by eliminating
Gardiner w. White Hoyt won by and
l, but he found Kirkby a horse of an
entirely different color. The Englewood
star this time played the first nine
holes even with the par or 81, and this
kind of golf was good enough to put
Hoyt no less than down.
Added to his short drive Hoyt found
considerable difficulty on the green's
and. with Kirkby playing smoothly. the
Engineers expert was soon in deep
water. On the first hole he half topped
his approach and overran into the long
grass, and at the next he required an
extra putt Kirkby was in no mood to
allow such liberties, so at this early
stage of the contest he was 2 up.
Hoyt scrambled out of an ugly situ-
alton at the third, after a short drive, by
virtue of a eleek second that hoped
trap and enabled him to halve. He got
a half on missed putt by his opponent
at the fourth after topping his second
into a bunker. At the fifth he saved
himself by laying up long approach
reasonably close, after barely clearing
the rough on his drive.
Kfrkby Takes Upper Hand.
Then once more Kirkby assumed the
upper hand. with the result that as the
match left the ninth green the former
metropolitan champion was six to the
good. he having taken four in row.
Hoyt was buukered and over the
green at the sixth. and on the next two
he missed a putt. kirkby had Wild
pun into the bushes at the eighth, but
he recovered cleverly and in the long
run holed a good putt for his par 4. At
the ninth he hoed a ten foot putt for a
birdie g.
Starting back the play was even but
not particularly brilliant Two halves
stroke each over par brought the match
to the twelfth, where Iloyt seemed in
line TO win his first hole of the match
when he ran his second close. kirkby
left himself five feet short. but on this
round ne was simply refusing to make
two mistakes hand running. He holed
the putt and left his opponent without
a single grain Of comfort.
At the thirteenth the match came to
a conclusion. Hoyt being short all the
way. and although he made good
fourth to the green Kirlsby had him
heater all the way by a stroke. The
card of the latch:
Kirkby--
Out ....-....... ; 4 . I S-S'
In .+..-.--...-.. o > . .
Hoyt-
Out .............5 40 4-~44
In .............+. > =
Kirkby and Topping had a very indf-
ferent beginning to their match, the first
hole being halved in two over par and
the second in one over par. From that
point there was little wrong with the
play of the pair as far as the ninth.
although nothing transpired that was
calculated to cause any excitement in
the gallery save that everything in the
outgoing nine was halved.
Both played the first half in AZ. Start
ing back KirlSby began 10 run away from
his opponent. taking the tenth in 4, the
eleventh In a poor because of some
wild play on the part of the Greenwich
man, and the twelfth in 2 He became
up at the fourteenth. and finally took
the match by and 2.
w. j. Travis "Comcs BACK.
Seldom indeed Is II that the medal
play handicap gets so much attention as
did this one at Garden city. In fact. II
almost eclipsed the final for interest.
this on account of the fact that Walter
j. Travis took occasion to administer a
rebuff to his critics. who have been rail-
ing about his position in the two stroke
handicap column OF the Metropolitan
Golf Association ratings by running Off
with the gross medal ~lth total of 10
But Travis was not all the attraction.
Jerome Travers had come over from Up
per Montclair in company with William
Keehie, lne new Jersey champion, to
Timber up for the metropolitan cham
pionship. and although il IL some time
since Jerome tried Garden City he was
right on the heels OF his old time rival
with a card of 80. Reekle also finished
at so.
Travis was out In 41 and back in 3s.
while after going out in Al Jerome re-
qured one more than the Garden City
veteran coming back. As Travis has
handicap Of and Travers OF g. the pair
finished equal on the net.
Reeke had a fine chance 10 land the
honors. but after taking 3S for the first
nine he useed up ~ coming back
ReelNe. like Travis. IL a two man on
the NJ. @. a. handicap list. Travis's card
follows:
Gu' out ...........t 3ssass9 al 70
The summary:
First sixteen. Semi Final-oswald Kirkby.
Englewood. beat Henry >. Topping, Green
vich, and 2. Frank ~. IIoyt, Engineers.
boat Malcolm Stevenson Meadow brook, 2
and I,
Final-Kirkby beat Hoyt. ! and &
Beaten Eight OF First Sixteen, Semi Final
-. q. Mcmahon. Jr.. Sleepy Hollow. beat
George a. Dixon. Jr.. National. and 2
Stearns, Jr.. Nassau, 2 and /.
Fnal-white beat Mcmahon, and 4
Second Sixteen. Semi -Ftnal-Grnnt Pea.
cock Cherry Valley, beat w. r. Ladd. Rock
City. beat g. N Peacock. Apawamis, A.
and 2.
Final-Bourne beat Peacock, and
Third sixteen Semi-Finnl-w w peu
Cherry Valley, beat Harold Rowe. Cherry
VALLEY. and q A. q. Grerson pellacIalre
heat n NJ r. Cburctt DakIa 4 ,,u