The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-13
DOWN TO FOUR NOW
AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP BE-
TWEEN TRAVIS, DOUGLASS,
EGAN AND SEELEY
FINAL ROUND ON SATURDAY
Today Travis Meets Douglas and
Egan 4-eets Seeley, the Win
ners Playing or To-
morrow.

& ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept 12-The
premier golfer, Travis, former Champion
Douglass. Egan, the Western expert, and
Seeley, OF New York, are the only con-
testants in the tournament for the anna
teur championship of the United States
GolI association, now in progress on the
links OF the Atlantic City Golf club at
Mortified, near here These men won
their matches in the third round of play
today, and each one had to do his very
best to gain the victory Tomorrow
Travis will meet Douglass and Egan will
measure strokes with Seeley, and on
Saturday the great battle for the cham
pionship between the winners of the
matches will take place.
Although today's exhibition of golf was
good, 1t did not, taking it as a whole,
come up to the brilliant play of the day
before. There was a strange reversal of
form SHOWN by several of the golfers,
notably Travis. In the morning round
ne played like a second rater, and was
tnree down for eighteen holes In the
afternoon, however, he took a decided
brace, soon had the game all square and
won in fine style with up and TO play.
Douglass also showed inferior golf for a
time in the morning play, but quickly re-
covered himself and won up with 2 to
play, which proved to be the widest mar
gin OF victory of any of the four con-
tests. Egan captured his match onIy
after going the limit of Sc holes The
FORMER intercollegiate champion, Percy
Pyne II, gave him a hard rub. and
might have won but for bad one YARD
put at the seventeenth green In the af-
ternoon. On his way to the eighteenth
ne got into bunker and lost his chance
to either win or halve the hole.
LockWood's brilliant work of Yesterday
lenueo TO attract much attention to his
Iila1ch today with Seeley, the steady
eoiier from New York. These PLAYERS
Teen hoies and great battle was looked
ior IN the afternoon. Seely soon after
the second round started began to plav
at the top OF his game, and although
LOCKWOOD displayed fine golf he could
not quite match Seely, and lost the
cnance to enter the Sem-finalS by a score
OF down with l to play
For a championship event the galleries
small
The weather was fine, although quite a
SUN breeze blew over the course. The
wind at timea bothered the players, but
towards the late afternoon it diminished
Suflclently to make the conditions ideal
for golfing. The course was pronounced
by experts as Just right
Travis and Percy Jennings, of New
1oFk, were the nrSt pair to tee Off this
morning, and before they had gon. ia r
it was seen that Travis was back of his
game. Both his short and his long game
were off color. If he made a good drive
he would spoil it by a bad approach, and
If he pulled or topped his first stroke, he
seemed to be unable to recover the lost
ground. He won the second hole, 346
yards, in four; halved the third, and lost
the fourth, fifth sixth, seventh and
eighth to Jennings, who was playing well
inn he aI1o ~,
ninth and eleventh holes, which made
him two down, but lost the next. AT the
end of the mornings. play he was still
three to the bad. At the beginning of the
afternoons play he showed marked i'm
provement. AT the third hole Jennings
was still three up, but after this Travis
set the pace. He squared matters at the
sixth hole and from there to the finish
was never headed, winning by 8 up, with
to play. Jennings work, today stamps
him a golfer of considerable ability and
he was heartily congratulated on his
consistent golf. The score of this match