Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-06
THE BIG -FOUR PLAY TODAY.
Progress of the Golf Tourney at Gar.
den City.

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| By singular coincidence. in which the
| luck of the draw had a great deal to do.
three of the four semi-final survivors for
| the amateur golf championship of the
| United States, who earned those honorable
positions last year, are in the same place
! this season. The contest yesterday at Gar
den City, L. l., for national golf honors was
| characterized by wonderful golf. probably
| better, on the whole. than has been seen in
any of the previous annual events and
| those who will meet IN the semi-final round
| today are Walter ]. Travis and A. G. Lock-
wood, the Bostonian, while the other pair
will be the present champion, Herbert M
| Hartman. and Findlay s. Douglas.
Charles Hitchcock, IT., the Yale cham
| pion; John Reid, jr., Yale graduate last
year and former champion; John Stuart Of
| Princeton and Harry Hollins. the Cutler
School lad, all went down before the vet
Grams, but to their credit it should be said
| that each played game that in the ma
| jority of tournaments would have won.
Lockwood is the youngest of the four. He
and John Reid had the sensational match
| of the day, the game being strung out at
| a nerve-breaking pace until forty holes had
been played. At the end of the morning
round Lockwood led by one hole. The af-
ternoon round proved the greatest excite
ment, although the scores were not SO 10"
as some of the other matches Reid put
forth his best golf. but could not tie the
game until the thirteenth hole was fin
ished. On the seventeenth hole Lockwood
| led by one, but he lost his chance to win by
sending his ball into the pond for the last
hole, Reid hitting the disk on his drive
Then three holes were halved and Reid lost
the next and the match by a drive into the
bunker and another shot in the long grass
Travis played the fiercest kind of golf in
the morning against Hitchcock. He broke
| all records by making the first nine holes
in thrty-fve strokes. three strokes under
DOGGY, while Hitchcock with forty strokes
was five holes down. Travis had four
threes in his card He made the seventh
hole. $40 yards, in that figure, favored by
luck and his trusty midiron, from a sixty
foot pitch to the hole. With four strokes
for a new record, Travis drove into the road
for the home hole, and then made two mis-
cradle shots in getting out He needed g,
giving him a total of seventy-nine for the
round, and Douglas record of seventy eight
still stands. Travis held the lead persist
emily in the afternoon. and won by six up
and five to play.
Findlay Douglas administered the heav-
lest defeat Of the day to the plucky Prince
ton golfer. John Stuart. beating the latter
by up and eight to pay. Percy Pyne, jr.,
the intercollegiate champion from Prince
ton, caddied for Stuart, and Douglas had
his professional coach, Jack Harrison.
Douglas played every shot with his Gus
| tomary and accuracy. After hal wing
the long fourth hole. 502 yards, in five,
Stuart made daShlng squirt. winning the
next three in four, three and four, respect
| lively, the last two being d stroke under
| DOGGY, par golf. He stood one up on the
! seventh green, but that his limit, for
Douglas won the next two. and increased
| his lead to four at the end of the round
Stuart made ludicrous exhibit on the
| home hole. driving three balls into the pond
from iron shot.
| In the afternoon Douglas played DOGGY
| golf. and on the first and fourth holes made
| drives of fully 240 yards Stuart made a
| star put Of forty feet the fifth hole for
| four. but 1t only halved the hole.
The summary of the match play round is:
| Amateur championship-Third round
Walter J. Travis. Garden City, beat Charles
Hitchcock, jr., Point Judith. six up and five
| to play; A. G. Lockwood. Alston, beat John
| Reid, jr.. ST. Andrews. one up Qorty
| holes): Finday s. Douglas, Fairfield, beat
John Stuart, Princeton, nine up and eight
| to play; Herbert M Hartman, Meadow
Brook. beat Harry Hollins, Westbrook
| five up and three to play.
While the golf was Of a high order, the
crowd on the links was noticeably small
| In fact, the customary throng that made
| the big events at Morristown and Chicago
| such delightful social events, imparting a
certain viyacity to the days sport, have
been unseen at Garden City, and thus far
| 1t is the Quetest and least animated ma
tional golf event ever held In America.