New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-26
GOLF
DOUGLAS BEATEN BY KENNADAY A,
NASSAU.
TRAVIS AND HARTMAN THE SURVIVORS FOR
THE METROPOLITAN CHAMPIONSHIP
TO-DAY's HANDICAP.

Home bred golfng skill in the ascendency at
Nassau yesterday, Finday 8 Douglas. the young
Scottish player who two years ago held the anna
teur championship Of the United States. beaten
In the third round of the metropolitan champion
ship by Allan Kennaday. of Montclair. Curiously
enough, the result almost an exact repetition
OF the ex-champions fate in the same tournament
at Garden City year At that time Douglas
was put out by Reginald Brooks, a man who was
practically unknown on local links. and who had
never before appeared in an open tournament.
kennaday, like Brooks, made his first trial in the
present championship. and, more curious STILL it
was Hartman who defeated him in the way
that Brooks was beaten year ago
1t was a crucial day. Watson the Westbrook
crack. went down before Travis; Graham of Pat
erson' succumbed to Hartman; Seeey lost to
MOTHS, who was in turn put out by Travis and
at the end Travis and Hartman were the only
survivors, They to meet to-day for the cham
pionship title Douglas upset all calculations by
his unexpected overthrow 1t cannot be said that
hehnaday won through any lapse in form the
part OF the ex-champion. 1t contest between
the old and the schools"
To Douglas golf is a game that he has known
and played since wee laddie" Long before he
came to this country he was known of Eng
lands stanchest golfers, and not many years ago
he heid the captaincy of Old st. Andrews Univer-
sity. kennaday, on the other hand never handled
d cluo until two years ago. But the way he han
died them yesterday proves him to be a golfer
whose development means sleepess nights
Tor the other cracks. His GOODNESS under trying
conditions his ability to seize favorable openings
MS absolute imperturba bty his accuracy and
speed all combined to make his game of n
usual brilliancy
1t was a dismal outlook that greeted the hud-
ling crowd Of contestants yesterday morning A
cold driving rain swept over the course, drench-
ing the players to the skin and making the greens
Slow and dead. The sandy Long Island soil can do
wonders in absorbing moisture. but it was hardly
equal to the task of providing for all that fell
yesterday. To add to the discouragng aspect
there was scarcely a handful of onlookers when
the start was made. and the cracks trailed along
unattended by any gallery" Those who did have
the hardihood to tramp the water soaked course
were well repaid for the discomfort. Travis and
Watson were regarded the pair of the day.
as upon the outcome of that match believed
to rest one of the coveted places in the semi
finals. But when the rumor was carried to the lit
tie group of spectators following these two men
that kennaday would in all probab ity defeat
Douglas they scurried across the greens to con-
firm the news, and the others practically de-
serted
Douglas and Kennaday had been the first pair
away, and though the latter had given some evil
dence of brilliancy in the earlier rounds proba bly,
not man on the grounds considered his victory
within the range of possibility To be sure. Doug
las has been beaten several times this season. and
once or twice by men regarded as his interiors in
style but that the veteran of so many champion
ships should fall before unknown shock
for which prepared.
On the opening hole both got away capital drives.
and with their second shots just short of the
green Both missed their puts, however. and a
half in resulted. Douglas forged ahead the
next hole. which measures $50 yards. taking it on
Kennadays failure to hole a short put Douglas got
the third also and il began to look if the
champion would have walkever. Facing the
fourth Douglas landed the side of the bunker,
but with a clever iron shot he cleared the diff
Guilty nicely and reached the green. Kennaday
shot
bunker but after overpitching the green he fddled
away three strokes in trying to down, and prac-
tically presented the hole to Douglas 5 to g.
Douglas
par for the fifth gave Douglas a handsome
lead and when the long 445-yard sixth hole was
garded the match good won. But it just
at this critical period that Kennaday showed his
true stamina. Unruffled by the odds against him.
ne coolly took the seventh in a boyle g. and though
he had for the next and halved the ninth in 6.
II apparently made difference in his nerve. With
Douglas up at the turn. Kennaday began a brill
liant run, in which he won the tenth. twelfth, thr-
squaring the score. Perhaps one more
prised than Douglas himself, who up this time
had been playing with the Steadiness of anticipa
success. y sizzling brassey which carried the green
gave kennaday the fifteenth, and when the
two were haved Douglas face face with
defeat On the home hole the ex-champion. just
when the mistake proved most costly hooked into
cut. That settled things far as he
cerned, for kennaday who had played screaming
drive reached the hole in par and the
match by up. The cards: