Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-16
TRAVIS GOLF PLAY
WINS GOLD MEDAL
Garden City Crack Leads Big
Championship Field on
the Home Links.

NEW YORK, September 1.-two hard
rounds of golf were played yesterday on
the Garden City Club links, being the
closing half of the medal -ay qualifying
round in the National championship tour
nament, followed in the afternoon by the
first match play test of the thirty-two
championship eligibles. 1t was a great
weeding-out day, and, although most of
the men who have been looming up
strongly as championship possibilities
are still in the running, the luck of the
draw and one or two unexpected finishes
retired two or three contestants from
whom better things were looked for.
Jerome D. Travers. the present title
holder; Walter D. Travis and f. NJ.
Byers, the last two eX-National cham
pions, are among the survivors for an
other days struggle. Findlay .. Doug
the afternoon after splendidly played
game by one hole by John NJ. Ward, the
old-time base ball player. The only
qualifer south of Mason and Dixon's line,
Nelson NJ. Whitney of New Orleans, and
the present southern champion, lost to
Max Behr of the Morris County Club by
two holes. The defeat of the Massachu-
setts champion, Thomas H. Fuller, by an
other Boston player, T. NJ. C!atiin, by the
high score of up and to play was one
Western Crack Beaten.
The young western champion, Mason
Phelps, was also beaten. Unfortunately
Mason and Kenneth Edwards, a seven
teen-year-old golfer from Chicago and one
Of the best Of the young set in the coun-
try, were drawn together for the opening
match play round. 1t was the hardest
fought game Of the day. Edward led by
one on the turn. Honors We're then even
on the home hole, and three additional
holes had to be played before Edwards
could claim the victory. H. II. Wilder,
the ex-Harvard champion, had a nine
teen-hole match with H. B. Mcfarland,
one Of the leading Quaker golfers.
Thomas NJ. Sherman, the Utica player
and a son of the republican vice presi-
Dental nominee, won his game. beating
H. J. Gee. former Princeton golfer, by
up and 2 to play.
The medal play honors were carried of
by that sturdy veteran of many a big
tournament. Walter ]. Travis, He played
the course in the morning in "a strokes,
putting decided cr1mp in old Col. Bogey
by defeating the latter's imaginary score
by single stroke. He played with Ken
meth Edwards, who had tied with Travis
for the best score on the first day, but
the westerner could do not better than So,
and Travis, with a total of 153 for the
thirty-six-hole medal play score, easily
won the gold medal for leading the big
field Next to him. but nine strokes away.
was Jerome D. Travers. Travis score of
IA, which is the best thus far made in the
tournament, is:
f Gut ':. ... : ! : : &C., s-$s
The result of the medal play round is
the dropping out of thirty-two of the
sixty-four who qualified the first day, but
Six men tied at III for the last four
places, and in the play-off the losers were
Hugo tombstone of Boston and H. c.
Fownes Of Pittsburg.
Carried Big Gallery.
The Travis-Sawyer game carried the
biggest gallery Of the afternoon. The lat
ter. a young but well seasoned golfer
was good match for the older man, and
although Travis led by two in the ninth,
Sawyer squared the game on the twelfth
and then on the fifteenth hole Travis
won the last two, Sawyer driving his ball
into the pond at the last hole. Their cards
were:
Travis out s4a g a-4s
Srsy,s nut, out. "a 2 3 I,s4
Sawyer, in...... 4 + g 543-S9
Travers had as his opponent F. R. Up
ton Of Baltusrol, and although hOnors
were even at the turn, the champion won
handily by 2 up and l to play. Douglas
and Ward had a grand match, but both
were frequently bunkered- Ward secured
lead of three holes at the thirteenth,
making the last hole in three, 513 yards,
from a 120-yard mashie approach. Doug
las then took winning streak, beginning
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