The sun., 1900-07-07
GOLF CHAMPION PUT OUT.
HARTMAN BEATEN BY DOUGLAS IN
AMATEUR EVENT AT GARDEN CITY.

Travis Defeats Lockwood. the English Player
Of the Allston Clab-Spiendid SCORING In
spite OF the Excessive Heat-Home e br ed
and Scotchman for Final-On Other Links
Asin every amateur championship Of the T.
s. q. A. since the first in 1895. foreign-trained
player will meet homebred in the final round.
which will be decided to-day over the links Of the
Garden City Golf Club. Last year the tinallsts
were Findlay 8, Douglas and II. NJ Hartman.
and. for the only time on record. the homebred
won. This time Douglas will play Walter J.
Travis The latter is the NJ q. A. champion as
Hartman was when he met Douglas, and all
his clubmates Of Garden City and Oakland are
eager to see him follow the precedent by scor-
Ing the double event. Travis has twice
reached the semi finals in the amateur cham
plonship. In 1903 he was put out by Douglas by
sup ana to play. and last year Douglas also
beat him. but only by . up and to play.
There are two parties on the Inks each con-
fdent their choice will win Douglass friends
point to the past championships as an indica-
ton OF how to-day's match will end. Travi>'s
following assert that his game this year Is far
ahead OF his former golf. and. Us proof that
Douglas will not have the better OF II, they
recall the final OF the open tournament OF the
Atlantic City Country Club. In April when. IN
tho sighteen-hols match. Travis won by 4 UP
and to play, The men have played the
most brilliant golf Of the week and there "a only
little to choose between their scores in degree
Of excellence.
There was great turnout Of golfers to watch
the play In the semi-hnals. Tho weather was
intensely hot and most Of tho men were forced
TO don their coats to be comfortable. A
thunder storm Just before the start cooled tho
cir in the afternoon and improved tho course.
which soaked up the rain like sponge. for It
had been too hard and the putting green's too
fast to hold a p tched-up approach that did not
have a back-cut Douglas used q driver
through the green, or. when the lies were too
risky. he depended on iron In the fnA Of the
amateur championship lat year Hartman yut
Douglas out by up and to play. but yester-
holder. e' wa ''N N'' '''''' ~ >"' '"'-
Hartman topped the first drive, to tho dismay
OF his friends In the gallery. and Douglas had
the first hole in I to g. He also won the second
IN a par 3. Hartman beng u stroke more. A
bali bal. IN followed Then Douglas lost the
pan made no mistakes The drives were good
from the fifth tee. but each took two more 10
make the green: Hartman ran down put for
delight OF Mrs. Hartman, who With Mrs.W But
Ter Duncan, Jr., and Mrs O.W. Bird was looking
on. Hartman had the count In to 8. Douglas
Ro. M and added thSs one 10 his
score, In to s. They haved the seventh In 4
Douglas was on the .ss-ysrd eight-hols IN 2 and
feature being Harriman's approach put. from
tie edge OF the long grass.
Now came two phenomenal holes for Douglas.
Getting to the green on both the tenth and the
each. beating par stroke on each hole. Har-
rman had a on each; This made Douglas l
up. but he was not to long enjoy the pride of
twelfth tee, to permit Travis and Lockwood to
hole out. This made Douglas nervous and he
topped the drive, Hartman winning in tto 5.
las sliced his second shot into the trap bunker
On the next green, the fourteenth. Douglas lost
G chance ram and Hartman won in Z to s
Aided by wonderfully good second shot,
Douglas made the fifteenth green, Hartman
being short on the like and overrlayins the
sixteenth. where Douglas was bunkered on a
long second shot, and Hartman lost a stroke
BY pulling his second into long grass, was
halyed hal n, ins M Mperiectt& & won the sev.pteen,h
Of the green on his second, and making fine
approach with the mashie he hoied out on the
next SsS Th0 fsd been
pond hole in 4. leaving Douglas i up on the
The afternoon began with half In 4, bu.
getting his approach put dead The third hole
was recorded As a half in s. Now Douglas
made & greet play keaoRns to within short
drives. he laid the ball from mashis
had a !. Hartman, who had drove only 10
holes. each in a par !. followed, and no golf
could have been better. Playing the eighth
Douglas was in the road before the green on
his second, Hartman Icing short on the like. |
Both were on IN 8. but Douglas needed three
puts and Hartman had the hole. To tho turn
Douglas had taken Ss and Hartman 40 strokes |
The amateur champion was now down and
his friends wore long faces.
The tenth hole was marked by Hartman pull |
ing his drive into the rough grass. while Doug
las sent on a. splendid ball Playing out Harri-
n splendid shot. Douglas used an iron for his |
second, but sliced into the rough Of the course. |
He made the green rs by by fine recovery and they
Douglas in 4 to 5, Hartman taking three |
to the green, Facing the twelfth hole both |
sliced their drives into the rough. Douglas.
mans approach was too strong and II did not |
hold the green. This settled matters for Doug |
las had the hole In toe. He was now up and |
The play for the thirteenth hole bristled with |
incidents Douglas sliced the drive. but Harri- |
man sent of Q screamer He made splendid |
third. through poor lie, he failed to get an iron
shot away. II took Douglas 70 make the |
green. Hartman. who had overplayed into |
the sand bunker. got out nicely and he had an |
easy put Tor a g. but Douglas laid him a stimio. |
With two for the hole Hartman played around |
H. but he failed TO make the foot put necessary |
TO complete the circuit and they halved in7
The fourteenth was won in fine style By Bar-
riman, In ITO 5. for Douglas pulled his drive |
into the rough. But from, the fifteenth tee |
Douglas had the better Of the drives aud was
hole high in ?, while Hartman sliced his second. |
He holed out In s. leaving to Douglas siI-foot |
put up hill to win. which he ran down In easy
style. This made Douglas the victor by up |