The sun., 1899-07-29
TRAVIS BEATEN BY RIPLEY.
BOSTON GOLFER WINS THE PREsI-
DENTS cur At SHIHHECOCk.

DUBLIN GULFEh WINS THE PhEbI-
DENIS cur At SHINNECOCk.
Luck Favors the Left-Handed Expert OF the
Oakley Club-Oakiand Mans Display IL
Disappointing Consolation
Cup-Peconio Trophy Won by Nash.
SOUTHAMPTON. July 2S.-Bue skies are what
the golfers strode under to- day at Shinnecock
Hills. evidence enough that the weather was
ideal. In tho balmy breezes from the south
all thoughts OF the downpour and drenchings
OF Tuesday were forgotten. yet 1t cannot be
said that the improved weather helped the
golfng. In the final between Walter J. Travis
and A. NJ. Ripley for the great event OF the
week this deterioration was most marked,
To those who have followed and admired
Travis in his triumphant progress at other
links. to-days display was most disappointing.
Time and again. when playing the like and
only yard between his ball and tho hole. he
would weaken in the most painful manner and
fail to bring of his shot. Although Ripley
was proclaimed the winner by . w
and l to play. the result Is absolutely
barren regards the standard OF the
Bostonians play. Contrary to orthodox
tencts. Ripley plays left handed and moreover.
violates all traditions relating to style and fin
ish. His sole strength is from the tee. for
while his style is deplorable. he succeeds in
the homo green in the morning. he over-carricd
the disk by 20 yards although assisted by a fol-
lowing wind, Yet when asked to bring Off an
approach Of somo forty yards or more, he
would invariably make mess OF things.
That Travis should have won Is beyond dis
putc. and nothing except an extraordinary
combination OF lucky circumstances enabled
Ripley to carry away the cup. This is the first
time that the trophy has not been won by n
PLAYER entitled to take rank with the first
class. Last year it was captured by Harry
Hollins, Jr.. one OF the finest players
in this country. while in the previous
year the victor was James ID. Tying who was
then at the top of his game. 1t is impossible
to say that to-day's match was stimulating
one. 1t lacked 60 and dash. as time and again.
when Travis's friends expected him to win out
n hole. he failed to do and only gained an
indifferent half. 1t was far from championship
golf on the Oakland mans part. as he was
quite third worse than at Onwentsia. while
Ripley was undoubtedly above himself.
Starting off in the morning Travis played the
first seven holes with only one mistake, the
miss OF n short put at the first hole. which
enabled Ripley to halve in 3. AT the third hole
Ripley topped and pulled his drive into the
rough grass so that it cost him g. Going
to the eighth Travis. after getting into
the railroad from the tee. had to be
content with a Z to his opponents
,. The last hole Of the round. however. was
secured by Travis by the aid OF n brilliant ,.
making him ! up turning for home. The
tenth was halved in g. Travis losing a chance
on the green. Going to the eleventh Travis's
second was trapped by the bunker. which cost
him the hole in to 3. Going to the
next two holes Dame Fortune bestowed her
sweetest smiles on Ripley. as with certain
a -, l.
ceeded in laying Travis stimie on each green
were halvcd BY the aid OF n brilliant Travis
won the fourteenth hole, which made the Oak
land crack again ! up. The remaining holes
in this round were halved. thanks to two puts
at the sixteenth and seventeenth holes from
the edge Of each green on the part Cf Ripley.
In the afternoon the players were followed
by large and enthusias'ie -GaIery' The
the i,rst green, ,rlqying the third hole Ripley
| This squared the match. To the next hole
Tays bs Rh I'd b pu wnsh saye Kp
EVER s .'S was s only m % as he pull pulled his
tee shot to the neighborhood of the NJ
tenth green, Travis sGuaring matters in
the sixth h lie. as he sclafTed his drive into the
railroad. This made Travis ! up in, to <.
| reach the seventh green. and he won the hole
!nn4 to .; Then the men were again al square.
Traviss good drive being punished by a
wretchcd lie Sloveny pay marked the prog
| rcss to the mint h. which Travis won by u to Z.
A halyed hole in q followed. each approach
! ing ndifferently. Then came half in 3. one
! below bogie TO the twelfth Ripley overdrove
| the hole. and. laying hls approach put
| stone dead he won tn" hole in 3 to and squared
the match again Rinlry's long game told go
! ing to the thirteenth. Travis's drive being pun
ished hv n poor, hanging lie; As a result
! Ripley won tn" hole In TO u and was NJ. To
| the fourteenth Ripley in paving the odd some
| thirty yards from I'll" hole topped badly. but by
! great luck his bail ran to within four feet Of
the disk. Travis on the like was fartoo strong.
| and half in 6 was the hest either could do. 4
brilliant I, however. from Travis at the fifteenth
! again squared the match. Playing the Sixtecnt h
the proximity Of two women in runahout un-
/ uuestiOuaIly affected Travis as he was about
, to drive as he sclaffcd badly and Just got over
| tho bunker. Before Ripley drove. however, tho
/ Greens Committee ordered the conveyance and
| its occupants, away. When on The green and
| playing the like, Ripley laid Travis an i'm
| possible stIme. and it was the Bostonians' hole
| In > to u. Driving the seventeenth green Rip
! lev was down in 9. while Travis needed 1,
| which gave the match to Ripley.
! As for the other matches. +. G. Havcmeyor.
tn" phenomenally long driver won byn m and
| X to play from De l.ancey Nicol for the Con-
ISOLATION Cup, The score:
| HIyemcyor..5 = 4 = 6--45
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