New-York tribune., 1907-04-19
GOLFERS OPEN SEASON.
WHITLATCH LEADS FIELD
I'raUis and IraUers Behind HIM
IN Garden Citg TOURNEY.

With Walter ]. Travis and Jerome d. TTavers In
the field Marshall Whitlatch. OF the MOntclair
Golf Club. had the honor OF winning the gold
medal for the best gross score in the qualifying
round OF the annual invitation tournament OF the
Garden City Golf Club yesterday. on the opening
Of the season In the metropolitan district. Whit
latch made an IS. a creditable score. Travis.
Charles B. Macdonald and Travers followed, two
strokes away
The high scoring was excusabls because OF the
gale OF wind which swept across the course and
the keen greens. that had become as slippery as
glass under constant rolling Add to this the fact
that there was Just enough sharpness in the wind
to nip the fingers and something Of an idea can
be CLEANED OF the trying conditions under which
the players Iabored.
The field. which numbered sixty-odd starters out
of eighty entries. was high class In addition to
those mentioned some Of the others to play were:
James G. BallersOn, winner OF the Atlantic City
tournament last fall; Robsrt Weir. OF Wilmington
the Lakewood winner: A w. Tillnghast one Of
the strongest OF tho Philadelphia set; Arden NJ
Robbins. Harold A. Sands. James N. Rhett. Jasper
Lynch and Max Behr.
The last named. together with Weir 3. C. Fuller.
the Apawamis captain; p r. Jennings. c. West
Tainter and Chadwick Sawyer. tied for last place
IN the first sixteen with score OF S. The play-Ofr
%as %che o t ~ sd Tgs s 6fs Gan o
acting as referee. Fuller was the lucky man. Hs
s4 Ga the sar sf for ha ths
he needed a I. the result Of wild tee shot sYo.
He complained Of cold hands, and said that this
handicapped him in driving. His card ran as
follows:
Gr' IN 5sSS5Ss S5ss
Travers was among the first 70 finish his medal
round, and when his score Of 80 was posted on the
board there seemed to be some question about the
metropolitan champion qualifying in the first six
teen He little dreamed that his card was destined
to be among the best. Had he not taken four puts
easily y have led the the feidi he does not play any,
is cold. however.
In the first match play round Trayers drew
Spotty'' Bowers. of BTOOklawn, one OF the tourna-
ment regulars. The former had little dilicTlty in
winning by up and to play. Travers. on the
other hand. had a hard time dispoSinS OF Rhett.
The latter got a bad start and picked up before
reaching the first green. but he squared the match
A SO-foot put for a won the afth hole for the
Dyker Meadow man. but Travis managed 20 turn
for home 1 up. After being down Rhett picked
up hole by running down another long put on tne
sixteenth green stymie prevented him from
winning the seventeenth.
stood dormie. He has the reputation Of rarely
losing the home hole. but the veteran was lucky
TO lay his opponent another stymie, and conse-
Whitlatch was deadly with his irons in his match
with e. NJ Hall, and had no trouble IN winning
by up and TO play Sands showed good form
against Tiinghast. and defeated the Philadelphia
p W. Kendall the Staten Island champion. was
off his game and made only tha third sixteen He
The conditions called for two sixteens but at the
eleventh hour the club decided TO put up a cup for
third sixteen. H. ]. Whigham, a former national
played with Macdonald.
The former got a rather poor start. and. being
first and second eights failed to hole out on one
of the green's He really went around in 100. good
enough to get in the second division had he not
Nearly an the players spoke In high praise Of the
course, which in Their opinion has been improved
by the changes. The scores follow: