New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-26
TRAVERS HOLDS TITLE.
OUTPLAYS T. S. DOUGLAS.
Wins Easy Victory for Metropolitan
Golf Cham Di0nShip.

DEFENDED his title Yesterday in the 36-hole fina
round Of the championship tournament of the
Metropolitan Golf Association on the links Of
the Nassau Country Club 10y defeating Findlay
:. Douglas Of the home club. by up and a to
play
Travers Won because he played the sounder
golf especially on The short game. As a rule
Douglas had the longer hall off the tee, but the
few Yards thus gained awaited little as Travers
generally got nearer the pin on the second shot.
On the greens Douglas was cratic occasionally
bringing off q long put. but more often taking
three TO get down.
Tor time during the morning round there
was little 10 choose between the pair. but when
Douglas retired for luncheon 4 down his
friends were about ready 10 give up alb hope.
There we're times during the day when both men
GO into long grass and bunkers, but a rule
these penalties did not prove severe. The traps
At Nassau are TOO shallow to bother a good golfer
erd then The balls generally lie we'll on the hard
sand
Although on paper the match appears most
Gre sided affair il MAS really much more inter-
esttns than the score would indicate. Al times
both men extrlcated themselves in a manner
that brought applause from the gallery
The first incident out Of the ordinary was at
the second hole in the morning when Douglas
brought Of q put from the edge Of the green for
uphill TrsTers topped his drives from the first
two tees but thereafter little fault could he
found with his drives He did all his driving
with his hTsssie. and that explains why he was
not getting his usual distance
The poorest tee shot by Douglas was going to
the thirc. and the mistake cost him the hole
Although Douglas got par going to the 4o5-
yard fifth hole, il did not help as the Metro
poitan champion ran down a twenty-foot put
for Poor direction on his second shot cost
the Scot the sixth hole. but he recovered the
iost ground few moments later with a 5 at
the short circus hole A pulled tee shot gave
Travers too much 10 DO
The poorest PLAYED hoEe Of the match was the
eighth where both made mistakes. Douglas sIic-
6 ing his drive and Travers topping his second
shot into the bunker. Douglas then refused an
easy chance for halve in 3 by taking three puts
A haive in al the ninth left Travers up at
the turn, their cards showing 81 each.
il Is worthy Of comment that only two of
these holes going out-the first and the ninth
we're halved. Both men played the real game.
They went for everything, and in that way never
allowed interest TO lag.
After a halve in at the tenth Travers won
the eleventh in an unexpected way. LAYING his
second shot from the sand trap close TO the hin
and getting 2 8 Douglas should have at leas,
A Wild approach lost the Scot the twelfth. and
b. appeared 10 be out Of it al the next, when
his drive found the trap and his second shot the
rough He stole halve in 4, however by bring
ing of 4 tvenry-foot put
Luck. said some. Maybe II was but /
Travers had his share at the next hole when he !
got have in > after pulling his drive out Of |
bounds Probably the champions most brill /
isnt recovery was at the fifteenth. after he had
ouned his second shot 10 the bunker. This is
enc Of The hardest bunkers on the course tn get |
our Of Yet Travers laid his third shot within
fifteen feet Of the flag and holed his put for T. /
fhs vas all Douglas. who had played the hole /
perfectly. could get
By missing yard put on the sixteenth green |
Travers lost that hole. but he won the seven
feenth and eighteenth, thanks to feeble putting !
on Douglass part. The cards showed a score Of |
a for Travers as against an even so for the |
other
large gallery assembled for the continual |
lion Of the match in the afternoon Among !
those seen on The course were q number Of for
mer title holders. They included Charles B.
Macdonald 4. ] Whigham and Walter ].
Travis
=! think ! viii play better this round" re-
marked Travers. shortly before starting out
He proved a good prophet. as the first nine holes
were reeled off in &c. absolutely par figures
douglas began well by winning the first hole
III beautiful g. but thereafter he could not
e'sna me killing pace set by the young man
non Aontclar Second shots long and true
Followed by deadly approach puts. marked his
Nofk a. practically every hole. Every time
douglas made the slightest mistake it meant a
IN This way he lost the second. fourth eftl,
sho sixth, which made him down He cor
" hote BY bringing off a 25-footer for a 2
~ ~; ing eighth green bur he promptly let haIve
game S' q" wan slioIt
m, me cards read % for Travers and 40 for
-sieS they halyed the tenth in ;, but three
puts or the eleventh green SERTED The forr,e
as@ohsl ana metropolitan title holder. as Trav-
es go , Their cards we're;