The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-18
FINE PLAY IN NATIONAL GOLF
FOUR NEW YORK AMATEURS IN
T0-DAY'S SEMI-FfNALS.
BY RS and FoWnes OF Pittsburg, sher-
man OF Utica and Cianln OF Boston
Losers In Third Round-Lower . ores
Are Made rs the Wind Decreases.

Are Made rs the Wind Decreases
To-day's semi-fnal In the amateur golf
championship at the Garden City Golf Clut
will be between players OF Metropolitar
Golf Association clubs. 1t IL the first time
this has occurred and technically the state.
ment may be questioned. for Herreshof.
although a Garden City Golf Club member
is entered from the Ekwanok Country Club.
The only sweep OF the sort on the books Ia
the semi-final OF 1905, w hich members OF the
Western Golf Association had to them
selves.
Travis aud Travers will he opponents
and Herreshoff will play Max Behr. There
was a stir breeze during the first half OF the
third round Yesterday. but II was calm In
the afternoon and the scoring better. There
was u critical md interested gallery
throughout the entire day. .
About 200 womsn walked In the wake OF
the players. and their criticisms and APP
plnuse showed they knew the game. Not
surprising this. for among the feminine
onlookers we're Mrs. f.. A. Nance, three
times champion of the Women S NJ. GA. Miss
Julia r.. Mix. Mrs. l.. W. Cauan, the Misses
Mills of Newport. Miss Manice. Miss Ruth
Cunning. Mrs. W. J. Travis and Miss Ira Wis.
Mrs. . W. Bird. Mrs, Ralph Cracknell. Mrs.
Nieoll F,oyd, Mss Leila Morris. Miss Morris,
i NOR 'G nrs. n Perry Msf Il. Rus hnsh b%S@' Mr !. H HesGh .
Peters, Miss, Peters, Miss Buick. Miss Floyd.
h Mdsdd E!s' sn G %9s. a. W. E. s Ra,sy sp'ou'' Mrs.
TO the turn 10 the morning the Travis
and sherman match was a procession;
N rr tna s sfeppsd out On f In from. a AZ the s 8 sati
With az. Tor sherman failed on a two foot
put for the half. Against the head wind
/ inn tho third Uraan With hiG anTnpd hlti
sherman and his ball brought up In The
rough past the green ,b.v Both played mas Sbs
given a : 9tteeshh; Sherman no doubt. ~ nav
sh en shs r p%}Isa ,his sse oaS z inpPssr a : ,9 SSs
and did not hole better than Z. Both were
f ffse greer On 'h &c the siri hslf rr IN . s sliced saf II.
q S : sa'' s "a sS.St%%4 h. % v aa sxs ff SSs
Sherman had : 80 ysrd drive for the
seventh; but he did not hit the he's, second S;n5 quite 9
third, but sherman. oveIplayed the like
man man had fIs e m SsS e s6s DO b 3 : had Of to 9b saf ace
proachest to the eighth green and, won again
in &. Approaching to the ninth Sherman
was only on the edge. but Travis was within
mound. sherman had his 1 neatly. al
though he had Q longish. put for u. as the
FIRST put was short, Then playing one
OF two, Travis putted out for ;. He was
) UP and IS to the turn. =,
Now there was a turn IN the tide, and
but for a calamity on the home green that
the green Sherman would have been home
In az or 20. He won the tenth. eleventh
and twelfth. getting a 3 there very cleyerly;
The play brought out he destinations OF
the green. There was. a following wind
and Sherman overdrove into the trap, while
Ira Wis was on the green with a slice that
right' He trickled over it with a put, but
did not hole from six feet on the next. Sher-
man pitched from the trap with force enough
hiiiiocE to within Ave feet OF the hole, into
which sherman popped 1t for 3 with q bulls
eye shot.
get a half in on The th%irtesntb. good enough
for II Is rar, and he lost the fourteenth.
green. r%eeained the loss for sherman
rough on his second, They halved the
sixteenth. hut Sherman became 3 down
by slieing his second for the seventeenth
while Travis had the pei Of T.
Poor luck governed both drives over the
pond to the home green. Travis was In
she N SHERMAN 1rsR S dRsr ca RE 'a &c tie & the %os sFf se:
yond It. sand flew for nine strokes before
The bah scared out n sherman gave up
the hole after havip hs, demonstrated his
getting out in , and down in 3 lie did IS
Sherman had pluck enough left. but he
could never catch Travis. who was out In
the afternoon In 81 He ran down q twenty
foot put for ( on the seventh and putted
from the side OF the mound for a 3 on the
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