The morning journal-courier., 1908-05-09
TRAVIS THE WINNER
Fine Golf Played by Two Stars, Travers Short Game Caus-
 ing His Defeat,

Garden City, N, Y., May s.-ENery one came to the Garden City Golf clubs course prepared for rain and q chilly round this morning, but al- though the skies were gloomy there was no downfall The course had dried out
 pretty we'll and the first matches played in low scoring. Last spring Travis beat Travers after thirty-elght holes in the final of this tournament af-
 ter one of the greatest matches on
 record, but through the luck of the
 draw they met this morning in the
 first round.
 The other matches for the first cup
 were between c. II. Seely, former Con
 nectcut champion, and E. A. Thomp-
 son, the racquet player; C. A. Spofford
 and A. w. Tillinghast of Philadelphia
 and Chad Sawyer and c. F. T. McCann
 The national amateur champion
 Travers, well pleased his friends by
 his work against Travis. Both Travis
 and Travers topped their first drives.
 the balls stopping close together after fShlDpllE ONtI tnC DhlihSi' iIVy iSaNH-t t
 ed the green with Irons and halved in
 four, Travis having the most to do in
 putting Travis drove to the back of
 the short second ground, the hole be-
 ing l35 yards, but Travers was on
 nicely and won, to 4. A too-strong
 second carried him into long grass be-
 yond the third green, and Travis gain- | I11 st ,,,k t,, tA
 match.
 On the 5OO-yard fourth hole Travers
 displayed a form worthy of national
 champion. He made the green with
 drive, brassey and iron, while Travis
 needed drive and two, brassey shots.
 Then the amateur champion outputted
 Travis and won in to 6. Playing theI
 fifth, Travis had the better drive, but
 muffed his mashie to the bunker, need-I
 Ing another pitch to reach the green.
 He nearly ran down a long putt for 4, but it would have done no good, as|
 Travers holed in three. This made thol amateur champion 2 up. Facing the| many troubles before the sixth tee, Travers used a cleek 10 be sure of di-| rection, showing that he was putting| head work Into his game. while Travis ] used wood but sliced. Travers won in| |. to 6. Travers' approach to the seventh , dropped in a soft spot, the ball losing It's roll and lump of mud sticking td| 2 1t. Travers couldn't putt true when thus handicapped. and Travis had the| hole in 5 to 6. Better putting also won [ the eight hole for Travis. { to 5. and , he was but down. Approaching thd a ninth green, Travis lay well, but Travj
 CTS overran one of the new big mounds| f After two tries at the freak hill wlth} i. out getting over 1t, Travers lifted. Thii s made the match all square. They halvl ed the. tenth in 1. {. Playing the eleventh, Travis got intd !. one of his own deep trap hazards od e the left corner of the green from z s pulledn brassey. Travers also pulled ', his second shot, but was not bunkered n It is an undulation green, and theJ
 halved in 5. The freak hummocks vol : the twelfth for Travis, as they had oi| h the ninth, his drive to the green bel e Ing on the safe. and Travers on thI e wrong, side of the hill. Travis won @ 8 and was up. Lack of condition no | e began to affect the champions gamd s Travis was going strong, and won th| ). thirteenth in 6 to 6. If Travis won the match from Traver{ d by up and to pay. The card was: d Travis: 2. Out :, ..4 4 6 5 6 5 4-42 X .- In :. .... 8 8 5 4 4-39-a r. Travers: e Out :. 5 5 53 6 5 8-2 Ie In .. ....4 5 5 6 5 S41--S le In the other matches for the first GU le c. H. Seely beat E. A. Thompson, ,A 'r and 5 to play; c. A. Spofford beat 70 w. Tilllnghast, up and to play, ar d Chad Sawyer beat P. H. Jennings |,
 and to play.