Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-04
CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF,
Travis Defeats Watson and Sixteen
Contestants Drop OUT.

Travis Defeats Watson and Sixteen
Contestants Drop Out.
Sixteen OF the thirty-two golfers who
qualified Monday for amateur championship
honors found themselves outside the charm
ed circle yesterday afternoon when the first
match play competition was finished on
the Garden City. L. l.. links. In those who
dropped out no severe shocks to goifing
predictions were experienced, except, pos
sibly in the case Of Robert c. Watson. jr..
the young Westbrook crack, who has de-
veloped this season a beautifully finished
and steady style.
watson had a large number Of friends
on the links. and they tramped faithfully
In his wake twice over the long 6, 134-yard
to many that the two leaders in Mondays
medal play round, Travis and Watson,
should be drawn together early in the
tournament. The top-notchers have to
come together sooner or later. however, and
the Travfs-Watson match added just that
excitement to the games necessary to round
out the championship element in the tour
nament In the afternoon close to 800
persons followed the game, and they saw
some grand golf. although not so brilliant
as characterized the morning round. Travis
won on the thirty-fifth green by up and
l to play.
A weaker man than Watson would have
felt defeat in his bones when the after
noon round began, but the Westbrook
d
he is. and on the first seven holes he cut
the lead down to one. Excitement fairly
boiled, in fgurative sense. for the mo-
nOtonous silence that hovers over a golf
match Is often fearfully depressing to
typical sport. Travis advanced to a lead
Of two by a remarkable on the tenth
green. 344 yards. Watson cut in to one
on the fourteenth. On the sixteenth he
lost an apparent chance to win the hole
from a poor put, and Travis, hitting Wat
sons ball, luckily carromed off into the
hole.
The friends Of Allan Kennaday. the Mont
clair golfer. who jumped so prominently to
the front in the Metropolitan championship,
were slightly Jared to find that E. NJ.
Byers. one Of Ya!e's ablest golfers. won the
match by one hole. 1t was the closest OF
the day. and the game was a hot one
throughout. for at the end of the morning
round honors were even.
Herbert M. Hartman, the presept cham
pionship holder, had to fight for his vic
tory. for Louis Livingston. jr., another
member of Westbrook's brilliant young
ter1e, played a game that was not easy to
morning, but finally won by up and to
play.
Harriman's SO in the afternoon for the
first nine holes establishes a record for
that distance. 1t is three strokes under
DOGGY, and shows that Hartman has not
lost his championship grip.
Harry Ho,lins, jr-. the interscholastic
champion, had a stiff match with Tiffany
Richardson of Harvard. before the former
could win by two holes.
AS result of the days play the western
representatives have moved as far east as
Cleveland and Scranton. represented, re-
spectively. by T. s. Becharth and John H
| Brooks The defeat of Stuart Stickney by
William McCawley of Philadelphia removed
| the last far-westerner from the event. ].
G. Thorpe lost the tie-off for the last place,
but the other two Bostonians. A. G. Lock-
| wood and Quincy Shaw, won their games.
| Lockwood defeating A. L. Norris of Dykes
| Meadow by up and 3 to play Findiay
| Douglas put Reginald Brooks out of the
race by ) up and to play, while James A.
Tying and ]. G. Averell Of Harvard won
| their matches