The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-27

The second day Of the golf tourna-
ment was not a day at all until about
noon. For all practical purposes to the
golfer it might as we'll have been mid
night and he might far better have
stayed in his little white bed and in
sleep gained additional strength and
endurance for the contest as the fog
was so dense that it was in possible to
see at distance of fifty yards. The
pine trees loomed Zip gigantic i'm size
through their blanket like swathings,
and the disconsolate golfers wandered
round losing themselves in the dull
gray mist and wondering why some
smart person had not invented a phos-
phorescent ball which could be dis
tinguished from the ell pervading
chaos. There was something extreme
ly depressing about that fog and It
made the visitors think of various
somebodies they had left at home who
would be comfort if they were here
and had a tendency to cause all the
icstless golfers to sit down by the fire
and tell ghost stories more suited to
All Hallow's eve than the great day of
tournament.
At about half past eleven the sun
began to dispel the gloom and the play
ers started off. 1t is q wonder that
| some OF them or some Of the eager
spectators haven't been killed for in
that fog it was impossible to see where
ball would land or to dodge it's track
! If it happened to go wild. In many
| respects the rounds of Wednesday and
yesterday were q game Of blindman s
buff, but splendid golf mas been played
Notwithstanding the disadvantages.
Notwithstanding the disadvantages.
BOTH PLAYED WE'LL
Much interest centere1 in Mr. Travis
and his contest with A. u. Huntington
| 1t was one of the most beautiful
matches ever seen on any links. Both
played magniGicently. 1t was such an
even game that they halved the four
tsenth hole but after that Mr.. Hunting.
! ton began to lose. The round was won
| by Mr.. Travis by two strokes only
! Today he will play with Mr.. Blair IN
! the semi-fnals while Captain Brooks
! plays against Mr.. Taylor. With all
due Difference to the excellent game
! put up by the latter it is confidently
expected that the finals tomorrow will
be between Mr.. Travis and the popular
captain of the Scranton golf team II
| good wishes and the utmost anxiety
on the rflrt of a multitude of friends
can help John Brooks to win ther,
| Will be no doubt that the County clul
cup will be kept at home. Scranton
people are generally very polite to Wis
itors but much as they admire Mr.
Travis and marvel at his fine playing
the majority will not be incorsolablC
if he is defeated.
Mr.. Travis is a man of fine rhysiuu,
and face whose firmly set lines indl
cate determination seldom so evident
He probably possesses all outfit OF NOR
cut glass and silver than the most for
tunate bride beneath the grade oc {
princess. He gathered in spoils las
year to the amount of fifty or NOR
cups and when it remembered tina
cup means anything from a plail
two handled affair on an ebony stand
ard, to a gloritied punch bowl, or a re
splendent repOusse tankard two o
three feet high the attractiveness O
the Travis treasure vaults may be i'm
agined.
LOCAL PLAYERS OUT
In the first round Yesterday thre,
Scranton men fell down. They Wer,
Messrs. Shafer, II. r. Brooks and w. ]
Torrey. But four local players, Messrs
L. ii. watkins, ]. II. Brooks, Jane
Blair, il, and r. c. Fuller Won TIL
result of the championship first rounc
was as follows: Kilmer defeated w. ]
Torrey up, 2 to play; Travis defeated
Huntington 2 up; Blair defeated Youn.
4up, to play; Johnson defeated Wood
ruff / up; j. II. Brooks defeated Love
land up, to play; f. C. Fuller de
teated II. c. Shafer up, to play
Taylor defeated Weed up. to play
Watkins defeated r, r. Brooks up,
to play.
In the third round yesterday after
noon, Travis defeated Kilmer up,
to play; Blair defeated Johnson 2 up,
to play; Brooks defeated Fuller 4 up.
to play; Taylor defeated Watkins III
2 to play
The consolation match was also deep
ly interesting.
Mr.. j. II. TOrrey won by default, hi
opponent, Mr. Farnham, of Wilkes
Barre, being unable to play owing t
a business engagement which detaine
him at home.
Parsons defeated Turner up, 4
play; Hudnut defeated Storrs / up o
the nineteenth hole; Law Watkins Dc
feated G, w. S. Fuller 9 up, s to play
Greene defeated Jermyn l up; Hun
defeated Platt up. to play; Kirk
patrick defeated S. II. Kingsbury ul
to play; Price defeated Atherton M
! to play.
THIRD ROUND SUMMARY.