New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-14
GOLF.
TRAVIS DEFEATS DOUGLAS AT ALLAN
TIC CITY WITH A HOLE TO SPARE.
ANXIETY FOR NEWS FROM BUFFALO RoBs
SPECTATORS OF MUCH ENJOYMENT


| a crucial day in the national golf championship.
Those veteran rivals. Travis and Douglas. about
| whom the entire tourney has centred, met IN the
i-final round and Travis In the same round
c. H. SeeIey of the Wee Burn Golf Club. OF
| Noroton. Conn.,, and Walter e. Egan. of Chicago
| Though lacking the interest of the other contest
| the result assumed Importance because Egan's
/ victory places Westerner In the hnals Tor the
1 first time since 1895 when Walter B. Smith, of the
Onwentsia Golf Club. of Chicago. was runner-up to
| Douglas. An incidental result of this ptting OF
| East and West has been TO stimulate an enthu-
| siasm which promised to fade when the outcome
| between Douglas and Travis known. 1t has
| aroused among the players here strong sectional
feeling, which Seeleys victory would have rendered
| impossible Though the Westerners do not go so
far as to claim the championship their assertion
| that Travis will find in Egan mastery oppo-
is borne out by the form of the young Chicago
| lad to-day. Though Seeley has overcome some OF
the strongest men of the country. including Travis
| himself. Egan by the surprising score of IL
| up and 10 to play.
Interesting as the final possibilities are. they
forgotten in the earlier hours Of the day In the
| more Immediate attention centrng in the Travis
| Douglas match. A year ago Travis and Douglas
in of the open contests OF the Atlantic
| City club and Douglas won. That meeting has
recalled by many who to-day's play, and the
opinion was freely expressed that the result would
be the same. So confident were the friends of the
former champion that when the morning
| round ended. and Travis up, many bets
made on Douglass victory. Certainly the champion
the score stood tie An extra hole was played.
and again the two broke even. 1t until
the thirty-eighth green reached that Travis
down the clinching l5-foot put that saved his
title. 1t a grand battle. admirably fought and
royalty
ANXIOUS FOR NEWS OF PRESIDENT.
But the alarming news from Buffalo took away
some of it's keenness for the onlookers. Early In
the day the press end of the piazza which had
been fitted up with through wires for the tourney
besieged with anxious inquirers and as each
bulletin received from the Milburn house IT
passed from mouth to mouth IN every quarter
of the links. Tonight Samuel Y. Heebner. OF the
executive committee sent word to the players
the various hotels that in the event of the Presi
dents death before morning the final round match
tomorrow will be postponed No date was fixed
but stated unofiically that the match would
not take place for three four weeks. The rumors
In the early morning. however not deemed
sufficient for deferring the days matches. and the
two pairs got away shortly after 10 o'clock.
The grounds in fine condition. but the
handicapping gale prevailed throughout the
play. It apparent after the start that
Douglas strong in his short game
he had been earlier in the week His approaching
| was particularly weak. Apparently his anxiety
| to get up to the hole led him overestimate the
| distance, and he repeatedly ran by when more
cautious approach would have given him the hole.
| Travis, too not safe in his putting
| usual, and seemed to feel the strain keenly
|
Starting out, each made the first nine holes I'm 80,
at which point the hole play tie. On
the inward journey. Travis gained lead of up.
and thus honors rested when tie went to
| luncheon. Starting in the afternoon. Travis
| bunkered on his drive. but both the green
| in each. missed easy puts. and the hole
haved in s. In going to the SIS yard second hole.
| Douglas had the longer ball. Both took driving
mashies for their seconds. and both were short.
Douglas overran the cup. while the more careful
md won in & to cha,
| pion was now up and gloom settled the elan
| o Douglas. Each was clubs length from the
| third hole in g. and both missed easy puts a
half in result
TRAVIS RIDDLES TWO PUTS
In going to the fourth. wee pitch and a put
| of 1872 yards. Douglas overapproached while the
| champion was five feet from the hole in the Ike
| and should have easily II his eye had been
good AS 1t was. he fddled away two puts and
| another naf In was the outcome. In facing
| the nth Douglas put his second n brassey into
| the long grass. but atoned for the error by a
beautiful pitch which laid the ball almost dead
| travis was short on the like. and Douglas won 8
to g. cutting the champions lead down to 2 up
| On the sixth Travis was too strong his ap-
| proach, while Douglas played the like dead Ira
! Wis then played back and missed he missed again
and gave up the hole. His lead had now melted TO
up. Apparently he had lost all power TO put
and while holding his fairly well on the long
game he was missing chance after chance on the
greens. But his judgment was still cool as was
shown by the way in which he negotiated the
deep sand bunker on the seventh. Instead of try
ing TO carry the pit. he played short while Travis
VINO attempted to carry II with brassey went
punging in. The mistake did not penaiize him g
heavily as he deserved for his third carried to
the green, where the hole halved in s. On the
eighth. the champions erratic putting was again
foot put for half In g. while Douglas was down
on the IKE and won This made the score ali
douglass favor, applauded enthusiastically
APPLAUSE BRACES TRAVIS
After this exhibition of feeling it was natural
that Travis should top his next drive but as Dour
las hit his second into the bunker the two were
quits on honors. Douglas made sizzling bra ssev
TO the green. and Travis haved in 5 Against the
wind on the tenth. Travis drove into the rough but
the ball was hole high and the approach within 81,
feet OF the cup. 1t should have been an easy one
for the champion. but usual. he missed the put
and Douglas got 1t. 8 TO s. The eleventh is a short
one. 156 yards, so that there nothing remark.
able about Douglass being six feet from the hole
on his second. Travis was up and out in g. but hi,
opponent trimmed the edge of the cup and needed q
stroke This made the score all even again
and Douglas never afterward got the lead. The
twelfth is one of the longest on the course-5O,
yards. Travis started by topping his brassey. but
had the good fortune bound clear OF the obsruc-
ton Douglas on the green on the odd while
Travis hole high with his brassey. On the
green Travis overpitched the cup and the hole was
divided in C. The 3l0-yard thirteenth was haved ir
T. neither player making any mistakes. On the four
teenth, another long one, the champion the
green in 3. and Douglas overpayed the like
halved, this time in 4. and the match was still al
square. The next was crucial one for the cham
most accurate going Douglas followed a shor,
drive by making the green. while Travis was dead