New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-18
roTTR GOLFERS SURVIVE
AVIS BEATS SHERMAN.
r,orers. Herreshof and Behr also
Hin IN amateur Tourney.

- golfers from the metropolitan olscrlc1
- their way 10 the semi-fnal round or the
.,.,onal amateur championship tournament a ue
nalo-- Cs+v links yesterday. They were Jerome
GsI-S- of Montciair the title holder; Walter
y - .. the home club; Fred Herreshon- OF
: T-+v and EkSsnok. and Max Behr. OF
s5al1e' r,,-,1tv. They viii meet as named in the
e,aI round to-day
-. a. the first instance in the history OF the
lH America that New Workers. have had
gam -o-,nlete monopoly in the seri-fnsi stage
- -,-x5vors are men Of class. ana, with the pos
INC --.ent5ou OF Behr, al possess national repu-
slao --svis has won the title no less than
'SUO- .as while in 1904 Herreshof figured as
thle N H Chandler Egan, and Behr was
rDlIe- - 10 Travers in the last two View Jersey
championships 49,. -; s,., round
.x,ense Of W. c. Fownes. jr-, one of the
" - ~ the Pfttsburg set For time dur
80 morning the men hung together winning
."s e,.,-nateIy, q state OF affairs due more to
- - I.v On the part Of the champion rather than
- ,,-7lfsncy by Fownes. The formers driving
50 o+ satisfactory. and his old mentor, Alec
- the Nassau professional who watched the
ais that Trayers was picking his club up
100 straight
-. General thing however, Travers kept out OF
-. an his drives, and as the match progressed
80 zane became so deadly to give the
.r..-s MAYER little chance to make up
= --onnd After turning for home up in the
- Travers increased his advantage to up
=. n0rpe green. After luncheon the title holder
- oT hole after hole in par figures. his only
~. icing pulled second 10 trouble at the seventh.
=. boe costing him q six AS II was he went out
:. &c and z little later won by up and TO play.
,-ss-Iv every one showed keen interest in the
.,h between z NJ. Byers. champion in 1896, and
IT.--asho4 Always having the better long game.
+I.--esbor enjoyed q decided advantage after the
5-,vs although ragged start cost him the first
-, holes. They stood all square st the fifteen.
-. 45s-reshoc won the next three holes with
80 enabling him 10 retire for the midday re-
cess ID.
The recess by the way. proved longer than usual
14s--eshof waited around the clubhouse impa-
,sntly for the Plttsburg man, who finally ap-
.s-a5 about $50. There was look the New
Workers face which boded good for the other.
and 50 it turned out. Herresho1 proved relent-
less foe. using MS head as well his clubs and
never once allowing his man TO win hole The
soundness CT his judgment was apparent at the
start when he used his iron the tee TO give
bin his favorite distance for the approach
One Of the most spectacular flashes seen at Gar
den CITY this week marked Herreshoffs progress
70 the 5Je-yard fourth hole After Byers had
-lave5 short OF the road with iron his sec
ons the local crack followed up a Z5o-yard drive
With an equally long second straight TO the green,
enabling him 10 get the hole in without the sem
tlance Ct an effort
Again. al the seventh. HerTeshoff displayed skill
-.o-4lv Of seasoned professional His second
mad II been On the line, would have reached the
r-een although the hole IS 543 yards, the longest
On The course. As II was the ball brought up in
tran Byers's second found the rough consid-
srsblv further from the hole than the other man 8
hall but the 1905 champion laid beauty out OF the
trouble 10 within eight feet Of the pin Herreshoh
--o-nutlv duplicated this the like, his bali STOP
ping about the same distance away bSe0s OIOusn g. ~
- -. ut for q 4 vhereupon Herreshof calmly
rsn his down for haIve-
F5er-eshor reached the turn in 81. a stroke uhoer
rsr. He had not made single mistake gong OUT
and another par ct the tenth left him winner
n, Q III and 70 play. Their CARDS were