The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-26
TRAVIS BEATEN BY TRAVERS.
SURPRISES IN THE FOX HILLS
GOLF MATCHES.
Byers Falls Before Rhett and Ward Beaten
by Knapp-Seely Scoring In Low Fig.
ures-seni.Ftna OF the Metropolitan
Association Championship To-day.

| II any one noticed red, smoky blaze down
| Staten Island way last night. it was not bon
| fire of Iraviss longshafted clubs. Although
beaten by 7 and 0 in the Metropolitan Golf
Association championship yesterday. the
| greatest catastrophe in the tournament career
of the famous amateur. Travis laid the blame
| mostly on his putting.
| Every visitor and player at the Fox Hills
| Golf Club was loud In praise OF the course
and enthusiastic over the sequence Of notable
matches. In the morning }. NJ. Rhett. bull
dog in tenacty and capable of very brilliant
rolf. went out in 80 with E.. NJ Byers and was
&up at the turn. Byers went out In a. and did
not win until the tenth. where he had a 4.
Rhett had 4 on the 5bs.yard thirteenth hole
by getting down four foot put. and won out
by and 3.
Travis in the morning met a newcomer
at tournaments in T. V. Birmingham. who
led him BY a hole at the turn. both going out
In a. Travis came In with 81. but did not
catch Birmingham until the fourteenth hole.
finally winning by 2 and l. birmingham
took 40 to come homo in. Travers. who beat
Dunning BY and 8. went out In So and then
had 4, 5, S. S.
Travers had the honor with Travis in the
afternoon, and began with a screamer, but the
latter fooled and only sent the ball fifty or
sixty yards The drives were about even
from the second tee. but Travers had TO play
the odd. He made the green. but Travis
overran 1t slightly. using longshafted
rnashle. he was short in pitching back.
Playing the third. Travis sliced his drive into
long grass and could not reach the green
on his second This meant three holes for
Trayers Travis had lost two by poor drives
and one BY slack work with his longshafted
mashie.
the fourth, but Iravers stole the hole by
put from the edge of the green Having
inc short hole three puts cost Travis the
sixth: Playing the seventh r twenty-hyy,e,
up. They halved the next two. although
fravers was op. Of bounds On his drive for
cost Travis the next three holes. which settled
i The long driver gave Travis always too
fourth drive, and the long lnashie completed
the dcmorsi!za,iSn q his game 40 rssy
Ra ior T ias and 4. si for Travs
The summaries:
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bs 'u Psy Fox Hls By os up and 10 play
second Round-Travers beat Travis; By up
; s p.y s:s; F S.s 1ss' PRs and
play KNAPP bee, Ward by up ana 3 70 play;
nam bee. Watson: * Sp q holes'; psrfidrs beat
S' PT.sd sy up sne p
Be- o.s Up by sns 20 py =
B.ttenon beat John. Smith. BY default; Y BIZ.
EaSba. e s.s' n.od y
Howard j Gee beat Marshall Whitlstch. b. up
and 70 play: c. A. punning beat O. f. Gillette
D'ThTi sixteenth. Firs, Ropnd.-H. watser. Fo1
and to play:AE Barron Dobbs Ferry, beat George
= T!sI1: Mount va!poS; ny Up sad e pay;
&c. EST is:, 4 Bgs 81 f'
6; sss: E, &, f b.s.
F Fsso A: e. Is
Maddox bea, KirE. BY up and 40 play Arms
'I FoHr Sees Ss1 rr.,
Short Hills beat George F. Armstrong. Fox Hills
By up and to play d. Foote. Rye. hca, G. \.
Powell, Batusrol. beat ". Harris; New YORK; by
2 up and to play: 4. +. Switzerland. Fox Hills.
beat J; l.; Taylor, Newburgh, by default G.
by up and 10 play: Capt T. n. Horn. Y. S. A..
BROOKLYN. beat J. r. Turner. New York. By, up
W b. Houghton. Fox Hills. beat ". G. iioopla.
Fox Hllls. BY ;, up J. /. TAYLOR, Brooklyn beat
Second hound Foote beat Ennever; BY up
and 70 play; Richards oes, Horn, by 3 un and TO
play Houghton beat Taylor. by up.
There were twenty-eght entries in the
eighteen hole handicap of the Advertising
Mems Golf Club, held yesterday at the Mont
clair Golf Clublin The winners Of gross score
man. So Paul A. Harrison and ": p. Mofatt.
So The net prizes were won by Frank Pres
brey, 81, So. 4. q Brownell. 90 l4-s5;
G s: Cox. IS. SO: and Y. c. Free man, $.
latter tie. The BOBBY prizes. for the highest
gross Scores were won by W. Ray Gardiner.
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