The sun., 1908-05-08
START OF GOLF JOURNEYS
STORM 4 FACTOR on THE GAR
DEN CITY COURSE.


Travis Makes q Wonderfully Good Score on
Hls Home Ilnks-Amateur Champion
Only Qualincs After Te-New Hazards
Puzzle VlsltOrs-Play at Washington.
There we're never such sheets Of water
falling or Draw gusts Of wind blowing across
the Garden City OOlf Club course as through
out Yesterday. Yet forty-four players I'm
ished In the qualifying round Of the sprinR
tournament that begins the seasons open
gOlhng in New York State. There we're
eighty-one entries, but many who came to
play preferred to sit dry and cozy by the
Are The others went about with ransoaked
eyes and blundered through the scoring
round, Worse than wet or gales was the
sudden drop In the temperature. for In their
light attire the golfers we're soon rs s6ivery
az the proverbial aspen leaf. Fred Here's
holf, for instance, who wore little but silk
shirt and thin flannel trousers, went to tho
sixth two under fves. Then he began to
chill, so that he could not hold the clubs, and
after ar &. two 0s, a 10 and an II, Herreshoh
finished wish IA Tillinghast and Turner
wore i1RCkintOshes while Robbins had over
shoes strapped on in gaiter rashion.
The one man not disconnected was Walter
j. Travis. lie Is more familiar with the
Garden city course than any golfer, probably
has ever been with any golf links In the world,
IL n 1rayis's creation sand Cn the tees he did
not have TO look ahead but only TO calculate
the force Of the storm, while strangers had TO
wine their eyes and try to pierce the blind
ing rain TO locate the hazards To be on ones
own course has been said abroad TO be worth
five strokes In eighteen holes, but Travis
played In a form to shatter this tradition, for
with an ~ he lead the next figure by ifteeu
strokes Travis did not feel the full force OF
the storm until about the ninth hole and the
cold did not faze him. Going ont he was
over par on the total, but euuaed il on the
first, second and ninth, while he beat par
a stroke on the sixth. Tn the inward iou rney.
although the stress Of weather was more
severe. Travis was but 5 over par lie tied
the standard on the tenth, thirteenth. six
tenth and seventeenth missing a ? on the
home green after driving in the teeth OF the
storm to within eight feet OF the pin. Trayis's
card
Out. ......-....A 3565 4s5 4-4:
...,....i 5 ) 5 4-t2-A
.Seely fought the gales as a pilot steers a
ship aud finished with a sturdy %. II is hard
to note the dOlngs Of the others next IN
line. Eight or ten craCkajacks, including
the amateur champion IraVers, came In
trembling with cold and with cards away
above their true game, while others OF the
we'll wrapped no, old fogy ploddng sort re-
turned cards within five or six OF their sunny
day golf and we're for the initial time ranked
In the first sixteen. But the match play
Weoded them ont, while to-day with fair /
weather the cracks will have forgotten their
cold feet. To keep things going the COM
mitt ee has added cups for each beaten sixteen,
the first rounds 10 be played this morning.
Trayers az iO6 was one OF nine tied for !
four places in the first sixteen lie got in |
With the only on the frs green Of sCyen |
and Barker had Withdrawn. The plsyor I
went to the third green and finally y. N. |
the Rev. DR. johnson and TllinR- |
hasl qualified with Travers. Fred Here shot !,
sixteen. llc, then matched with FOgarty |
TO say" another WcttiHg aud lost, going home |
saddfr but az dry ~ cork
Nhlllatch won the qualifying round last .
year with ~ on another stormy day, but the |
rain was not Of the freezing kind An Incl /
dent va, that AT the third hole the caddie |
for Jay = Jones Of the Crescent handed his /
employer the bag Of clubs
j uuit here, said the boy. No more |
swimming tor mine,'
Jones broke On At the sixth and followed /
j, u. &. 1appan and Howard Maxwell, IT.. |
who had given up at the twelfth, back to the /
'llDnOll~ts IltN gOl lllIO lTN tiOlIeS ana sAI I
At the windows with sOaic WhO had not dared |
10 60 out a. all. among them =. ", Kendall, |
y ". Anthony, W B Wheeler of Bridgeport, |
4. ". .leWett. Bert Allen and H. /. Hubbell, !
mud ChCered each arriving pair. The caddie /
boys were ~ brave ~ the bOldest golfer and /
few OF them even went home TO change be- /
tween the rounds. The golfers we're short /
Of extra clothing, a. rGle, and all the odd |
rousers and coats IN the place we're loaned 1
out before luncheon.
The only bright edge 10 the clouds. re- |
marked llubbell is hat the wind can I blow
the sand from our hunker- !
he dripping UlayrrS greeted their awaiting /
critics with the jOv Of sailors saved from 4.
n wreck y here should he Towel with .
every haudshake, was Bert Allen : COM
mclt after a few OF these meetings. W. &.
{ aruegle was so close TO the open fire that 4
friend told him 10 be careful.
Don't mind me. cried Carnegie who had |
just arrived from hls golf island IN Fer
nandma, Fla. I'm 80 wet could sit on the
Goals.
Nfter calling for the book To read the casual
VatcT rides Robbins decided not 10 pav
IN the afternoon. 50 did not return the card
that would have got him into the first sixteen.
! he storm was most fierce in che afternoon
and II would have been a popular move IN
have postponed the urltch play vi hiCh could
have been done without jeopardy 10 the |
Ionrnamcnt by cutting down he finals 10
eighteen holes from thirtv-siV. Four of
be green commiiter we're on hand, Travis.
Melen Nuhhsl and Robbins The latter
urged the pO't ROnement as a compliment
.O he visitors aud To save them from further
hardship Mellen seemed 10 think the same
but Travis aud Huhbel held out for tlrr letter
VI the schedule There was no vote taken, |
bni merely y discussion on the point II |
good fellowship had prevailed there would !
have been great clearing ont 10 the hotel
,nd trains, with everybody happy TO get
lnder cover
As II was. Smith dcfaultcd IN Sporord on
he hfth green. He won four Of the FIVE
holes, remarked GCrrilt Smith. so | said,
cts stop" Others who did not leave the
NJ all were Barnes, leTrrshOf,
'rll and the two Jennings ln other words,
lis Of sixteen matches were defahltrd. Rat
erson played with his overcoat on. and this
made il easy for Hunt, who was as wet as
houRh beyond the breakers a. COnry Island |
travis went home for luncheon and returned
OOking ~ smooth rs though he had been
ubhod with oil. His opponent, The Rey Dr |
.nnnIrN LluL - LLnl Ira VIZ hul Ill nn.A |