New-York tribune., 1907-04-21
HARD FIGHT AT GOLF.
TRAVIS BEATS TRATERS.
Veteran Player Wins Brilliant Mutch
ON ThHtE eighth Green.

T, one of tho greatest golf matches ever played
betu-een amateurs in this country Walter J. Travis
S.faa-ed Jerome q Travers the thirty-eighth
,reen in the final round Of the invitation tourna-
,oant Of the Garden City Golf Club Yesterday
Travis has not lost thirty-sX hole match in
tournament since 1899. He occasionally loses at
eiebteen holes. but at the double circuit his ma
chineIise game invariably down the opposi-
ZION Yesterdays match Illustration Of
,bis as the Metropolitan champion not only fin
ished the morning round / up. but later on in
creased the advantage to three holes At that
stage Travis began playing q grand uphill game.
At critical times Els judgment OF distance
markabe. When no did the veteran brought
into play his wonderful powers of recovery that
have pulled him out of so many tight places
As a matter Of fact, both men made shots that
will lnger long in the memory Of the gallery. one
Of these occurred in the third hole of the morning
round. Travers, who stood ! down, having lost the
second hole. sliced his drive from the third tee
10 q gravel pathway. From an awkward stance
The Montclar youth brought off a wonderful shot
with his iron 10 within fifteen feet Of the pin and
then supplemented this by running down the put
FOR S-a stroke under par.
That squared the match. and the next four holes
were halved in par figures A sclaffed drive by
Travis from the eighth tee enabled Travers TO
win that hole in T. and he turned for home l up.
He went oul in a capital So. TO 40 for his oppo-
nent.
AT this point the wind. which had been steadily
increasing, reached the velocity OF q gale. Both
won and lost holes. and then they finished with
five consecutive halves, Travers getting ST. TO 50
for Travis
To start the afternoon round. which was followed
BY a much larger gallery. Travis squared the
match with a 4 at the FIRST hole. a wild tee shot
into the pit cost the Garden City man the next
hole. and he also made hash of the long fourth
hole which went Travers in 10 6 This made
the Metropolitan champion up and his stock
rose still higher when he won the next hole
About thar time the Travis rOoters began
10 weaken but they soon took heart weak
putting cost the Montclalr player the sixth hole,
and Travis then won the 5i3-yard seventh in a
On the ninth green Travis laid his opponent a
stymie. The bah was on the lip of the cup. and
knocked his opponents ball in. This squared the
match. Travis had gone out in 80, 10 - for the
Travis assumed the lead by winning the eleventh
hole, only 10 have Travers square matters again.
with / al the fourteenth. An overapprOach cost
10 go Travers used a cleel from the seventeent6
used wood. and the extra distance gained enabled
ever. but Travers did likewise after an overap-
pToach. making the match all square.
come still in doubt. Both second shots 10 the first
extra hole were works of art The object was 10
make the green, but short OF the pin. so as 10 be
able 70 put against the wind After each had made
a half stymie, but just as the Montclair man was
about 20 put a particularly strong gust of wind
biz helps' remarked a Travere admirer under his
breath; The Montclair player then holed his put.
The match terminated in a spectacular manner.
or the next green Travis a trihe strong off
the tee. and oVerran the green 10 the sand trap
Travis laid his drive within twenty feet Of the pin
drive, and i looked all over. The veteran, how
ever. found his bali lying well in the hazard and
he proceeded 10 lay il up with his nfbick TO with
in ward Of the hole.
"wonderful,' exclaimed some. Lucky said
others. There was certain element Of luck
have the happy lie ne did in the trap fOr had the
bail been foot closer 10 the bank the shot de-
ecribed would have been well uign impossible
Trayers then played tile like There was one Of
those peculiar unduations between his han and
tire hole, ana. he said afterward he thought II
would ne impossible 70 lay the bail dead. so ne
went for gobble- He missed by a hairs breadth
and overTan about ward. The two balls al
most the same distance from the cup. TTaVeTs be-
ing slightly away. He putted and missed. where
upon Travis holed out thereby turning wlFat a few
moments before locked Ike certain defeat into a
brilliant victory. Their cards We're: