New-York tribune., 1900-05-27


golf championship of the metropolitan district and
for which 80 many able players have been strug-
Cling in the last week. yesterday at Mas
sau by Walter j Travis, of the Garden City Golf
Club who beat the previous holder, Hartman
up and 2 to play.
This trophy Is competed for each year until won
three times by the same player, when 1t becomes
his TO keep Hartman got II last year by defeat
ing Reginald Brooks. but Hartman d year ago
and Hartman yesterday were two very different
men He was brilliant, for Hartman is always
that but Travis accurate and persistent and
as so often happens in golf the steader man won
1t is not always that tournament tests the
qualities OF man the way this one has done
The weather was caDricious as a schoolgirl
one moment smiling the next black with rain and
to complete the gamut Of conditions a bowling gale
swept the in the morning play yesterday
Through it all Travis played the even con-
sistent game, and when he forged to the front in
the afternoon not a man begrudged the victory.
1t was a grand contest. admirably fought and
royalty won. The forenoon was sunny and bright
and except for the wind ideal for golfng. The men
late in starting. and it almost Il o'clock
when they faced the tee. Travis first on the
grounds, and put N a half hour in practice. Harri-
drove from his country home Wheat
ley Hills. accompanied by his wife, who was one of
most enthusiastic hackers. In the toss up Har-
riman the honor and the match began. He
drove low, straight ball, which fifteen yards
short Of Travs's ball and for the odd chose driver
with which he sliced badly into the long grass. He
hole haIved in s.
The wind by this time blowing with terrific
force, and his endeavor to carry against 1t
Hartman pressed and topped. Travis following
with similar error. Hartman found the bunker
his second, and needed two 10 get out With
his fifth he scarcely reached the spot Travis had
made with his second. so that the latter had little
difficulty in taking the hole in to 9. With the
gale still against them Travis got short ball
the third hole, while Hartman again sliced into
the long grass and made scarcely sixty yards with
his iron Meanwhile Travis had played his brassey
into the bunker. Hartman then made grand iron
shot TO the green, while Travis fddled away two
strokes in the bunker and another TO reach
the green With this against him, Travis gave up
the hole, which approximated in Harrimans
favor at TO Z
Now for the first time, the players had the wind
at their back, and Travis made the OF it, get
ting fifteen yards the better OF his opponent in
drives. At the green Hartman laid a half-styuie,
which Travis failed to clear, and the hole was
halved in s. Still, with the wind in their favor.
they drove for the fifth hole Travis again getting
the best OF 1t by thirty yards. Harrtmans second
shot reached the mound and bounded over. Travis
drove to the far edge of the green. while Hartman
short sclatfing his mashie. Travis overran.
and Hartman playing the odd, down for
half in 8
The wind helped them the journey to the
sixth tee. Travis dead in and down IN
TO 5. Now they turned and faced the gale Travis
drove within a few yards of the hole, while
Hartman reached the slope. Travis missed his
put but down with his next stroke and won
at to Coming to the eighth Hartman sue
ceeded in cutting down Travis's lead to up but
after that Travis had things pretty much his own
way. Playing for the ninth, Hartman made
mess Of his tee shot and topped his second. Travis
made a good drive but missed his second. though
he the green in g. Hartman in
but failed go down, and Travis, who had
easy put in a par 4. This made Travis up
a the turn, the cards reading:
I,zI-. Travis ;:........-.....-.....s "a
Hartman lost the tenth but halved the eleventh
in 3. and lost again the thirteenth and four
tecnth. leaving him six down. Then he gave a
which he won in rafting succession, to the great
delight OF the onlookers. On the home hole Travis
made par 3, giving him a lead of up Il the con-
clusion Of the morning half The cards:
Hartman ...-........-......6 5 s 40
With the desperation Of anticipated defeat Har-
riman opened the afternoon round by taking the
first hole 1 TO 5. The second halVed in s, and
then Travis won two more. both a par t. and
was up Hartman got the next the sixth was
halved, the seventh went TO Travis in a perfect g.
They split the eighth IN 8 and then Hartman took
another, this time AZ to >. 1t fast play. but
all through II Travis held himself well in hand.
himself with merely holding his Facing the
tenth for the nn3l race hOmeward Hartman scored
again, but Travis eVened matters with the next.
which he won at TO ,. Hartman got the twelfth
and fourteenth halving the intermediate hole but
his squirt was unaVajling. Travis scored the ff-
teenth. and as the halved he won by 3
UP and = to play. The cards:
a 3 4 Z 4