The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
FINE NTERCITY GOLFlNG.
METROPOLITAN TEAM RETAINS
THE LESLEY CUP.
noston Halves tho singles. but Could Not
Handle the FOu Ball MAtches-Glose
Finishes the order OF the Day-HarVard
RODhOmOres Make q Good Flght.


PHILADELPHIA Oct. c7.-After a bully fight
the Metropolitan Golf Association team won
mt the Lesley ~interoity cup from the Massa-
Chusetts Golf Association team to-day oy
pto q at the Merton Cricket Club course lhe
New Workers won four Of the four ball matches
The impression spread that the ownership
Of the cup for the year depended on the Travis
sullivan and wilder-Briggs pairs They nm
Ished in tho dusk on "A green wedged ABOUT
bv spectators. all on tenterhooks OF anxiety
All held their breath az the four putted' the
r.Atter of dry leaves tossed by the brisk ana
chilly wind being the only sound, and when
Travis won the hole in q to 7 Tor the match
there we're the handbags and outbreaks OF
talk that follow n final. -.
As h turned out Graham and Rhett had
plucked their match from the IRE oy Winning
Lhp last three holes,
Roston scored first blood by Johnstone's
defeat Of Macdonald. Graham cancelled
this lead by beating Crocker. New YORK
later led by 2 to I. 3 to ? and then 4 To ). now
Templeton Briggs returned victor over Snlll-
van, which made the tally 4 all. There we're
but two matches out. Ward won one oil them
from KimbalI, on the seventeenth green.
leaving the hazards Of the contest dependent
on Chick and Findlay Douglas. The Bos-
tonIans stood dormie ?. but Douglas caught
him for a I on the seventeenth. They were
on the homo green in equal strokes. but
Chicks long approach was within a yaro OF the
nun. He got a 4 and gained the tie for Boston.
The onlookers folIowed the matches in
which Travers and Travis figured. Neither
Rcored very well, yet the two galleries chung
70 the national celebrities with the stead
fastness that the scent OF roses fingers IN the
had To 20 10 the home green to win. TINS
made the pugnacious happy who love a hight
ing match. Travis had as opponent Ihorp,
runnerup in the national championship oil
1893, which was a year before lraNls had ever
hit a golf ball. Travis had a fine start and
had 4 TO the good at the turn, gong out in 3s.
still 4 M at the twelfth. 1hoTp got back one
by winning the thirteenth in 3. They halVed
the fourteenth, Travis missing a short put Tor a
Thorp garnered up the next two. but
after haIving the seventeenth, where Travis
took an extra put on the home green and
Whittemore had Jerome Travers , down az
the turn, the NJ, q, A. champion doing ragged
putting thai Offset his good long game,
although the Bostonian laid him a Stlny on
the second. WhittemOre had a fine 3 D. the
2S6 yard ninth hole, TTaverA. by a brace OF
a.. had the match even at the eleventh,
WhittemoTe laid another stimy at the twelfth,
40 the best TrAyers could do was 10 hAlNe IN
@. Two more ~ and Travcrs stood 2 up, but
again squared on the sixteenth. They halyed
the seventeenth In I, When Iravers just saved
his bacon on the eighteenth. His long Drive
was so close 70 the first bunker that he had "a
Use an iron for his second. Both were on the
.Reen in 3. rravers getting his approach put
dead. while Whittemore took three puts.
The score for the singles: