Evening star., 1901-12-13
Golf Champion travis Set Right by
Garden City Club.
IS NOT FAVORED BYHORGANIZAqIoH
Whitney Won Nearly 100000
on English Tdrf Last Season.
B A S E BAL Il NOTE

With a view to putting an end to the
charges regarding Travis connection with
the Garden City Golf Club, the board Of
governors of that organization has issued
a statement declaring that the amateur
champion enjoys his membership precisely
on the same grounds with every other
member of the club 1t is the first official
notice that the Garden City club has taken
of the matter, and, according to ex-Justice
Horace Russell, the president, its purpose
is to place the club on record in defense of
Mr.. Travis rather than to indicate that the
charges were considered worthy of such ac-
ton.
s'I think" said Judge Russell, in referring
to the matter yesterday in New York. that
the standing of the men composing the
board ought to be enough to put an end
to these silly rumors. You need not call it
an investigation. That wasn't necessary.
We know that Mr.. Travis connection with
the club Is entirely regular, and that he
receives no exemptions of any kind"
At the meeting in Judge Russell's Office
in New York, at which the minutes were
adopted, there were present. besides the
president, George l.. Hubbell, secretary;
William NJ Baldwin, treasurer; Thomas L..
Manson, jr.; Bruce Price, Deyereux En-
met George +. Crane and Willard P.
Ward. The resolutions. which were unani-
mously made a part of the minutes, We're
as follows:
.'This being the first meeting of the board
of governors since the early spring, and the
attention of the board being called to the
charge made by Caspar Whitney, to the
effect that the connection of Walter j.
Travis with the Garden City Golf Club was
'discreditable, and the attention of the
board further being called to the corre-
spondence between Mr.. Travis and Mr..
Lawrence. in which it appears that a ru-
NOR has been circulated to the effect that
Mr.. Travis is or has been exempted by the
Garden City club from dues and obligations
imposed upon other members, and this ru-
NOR being presumably the foundation of
Caspar Whitney's charge, the board unani-
mously resolve and record that there is no
foundation whatever for the charge Of Cas-
par Whitney that the connection of Mr..
Travis with the Garden City Golf Club is
discreditable but the same is false and
baseless; and the rumor that Mr.. Travis
Is, or has been, exempted from any dues,
charges or obligations is entirely without
foundation.
Mr.. Travis became a member of the club
upon the payment of an initiation fee and
dues, like every one else, and has always
paid all charges on exactly the same foot
ing as every other member of the club.
There has never been Suggestion by him,
or any one else. that he should be treated
differently" Ia ali
''The story undoubtedly had its origin. -
said Judge Russell, sin the resignation of
Mr.. Travis from the Oakland Golf Club.
Naturally, the club regretted the loss of
such a prominent member, and it is easy
to understand how. some of the Oakland
players may have attributed it to a more
favorable membership at Garden City. AS
matter of fact, Mr.. Travis is not a man
to ask or expect membership in a club on
any different terms from other members
Garden City is better course than oak
land, and Mr.. Travis liked it well enough
to join the club. That iseail there is to II -