New-York tribune., 1908-09-15
SHARE GOLFING HON0RS
rR4VIS ON HIS GAME.
Eduards Equals Score of Veteran in
First Qualifying Round.

r-- 7 Travis. of Garden City. and Kenneth
- p,,yaras Of Chicago shared the honors with
.,-ss OF 7s in the first eighteen-hoie ouahryins
- ~ The amateur golf championship tournament
- links Of the Garden City Golf Club yester-
- Closely following the leaders were Jerome
- -r.vers of Montclar, the title holder, and Find
IS Douglas OF Nassau, a former champion. with
SO each.
ont of ths 145 original entries 1s1 players ap-
-aared ST the first tee, and Of these 122 returned
-,s According TO the conditions the best sixty
sour nlayers in the first testing round qualified to
,,t,1ue on for another eighteen holes to-day.
vr4., the last card had been returned there were
s,even payers with OF 81 tied for the last
.aren places In the play-oY George T. Brokaw
Of the home club; c. NJ. Hall, Of Midland: A C.
scuJlv. Of Chicago. and Robert Weir. Of Whining
.nn dropped by the wayside.
The most prominent amateurs eliminated were
Robert Abbott Of Plainfeld. a former intercoIle-
etate champion who could not keep out of trouble
and took o. and Addison Stiwell of Midlothian
The latter needed e9 a striking reversal OF form
from his practice rounds under so all last week
While the cards averaged rather high this fact
was satisfactorily explained by the presence of a
strong wind and the peculiar positions OF some of
The holes. For instance. the second fifth and
seventeenth greens the pin placed uncornfort-
ably close 10 hazards. Even Travis criticised this
as did several members Of the executive committee
The argument is that medal round is exacting
enough in itself without compelling man TO play
circus shots when approaching.
In getting his 79 Travis played rather in and out
golf for him. The veteran got in trouble no fewer
than nine times, but saved himself On the outward
Journey by remarkable putting. On the fourth
arh sixth seventh and eighth green's he holed his
first put all Of which enabled the Garden City man
10 reach the turn in IS Coming home his short
game became more human. he actually took
extra puts on three greens.
On the other hand. Edwards played more con-
sistently. The Westerner had 6's at the long
est Two holes of the course. the seventh and thr-
teenth. A rather exceptional at the eighth en-
abled him 10 go in 80, and he came within an
zee Of bringing of a 3O-footer on the home green
fora2
Aside from taking three puts on four green's
jerome Travers made only three uistakes-a sliced
second shot to the trap going to the seventh
Wild drive from the eighth tee and topped drive
al the tenth.
IN getting his 50 Douglas gave himself good
deal to do with 6s at the fourth and ninth holes,
ana under the circumstances did well to reach the
tlrn in Il His homeward journey of go might
easily have been saved a stroke. the Scot took 4
al the home mole.
The home hole. by the way. proved the Waterloo
for more than one promising player. This was par
ticulsrly with Marshall whitlatch the Dvker
Meadow crack, whose tee shot landed him in the
trap the left Of the green His fourth effort with
the nihIick sent the ball flying out TO a bad lie
over near the first tee, and in playing back the
ball was trapped again, this time in the deep
bunker known as the Eden after the stream
back Of the eleventh green at St. Andrews Scot
land Several more shots were wasted in the depths
Of the hazard. so that he finally holed out in I5
giving him total or tie round of l0, when he
really should have had an 50 or a 90
p " WfittemOre. the Brookline crack who
piayed with Edwards, had exactly the same score
as The chicago man for sixteen holes but fell
DOWN with at the seventeenth and a at the
home hole. He also had his troubles in the Eden
FRED HerreshOf. The New York player entered
from the Ekwanok Country Club. went round in
S and did not get lower because of ragged put
ing confined with sliced drive and tumble at
The NTH. sliced second at the seventh and a
topped drive at the eighth.
Warren h Wood, the Western crack who did SO
wen in the championship at Cleveland last year,
had to be content with So Mason Phelps. the West
ern fiue holder. did better with ST. while Nelson
whitney, champion Of the Southern Golf Associa-
uoh' barely stayed il with an even 80 E NJ
byers' The 15 title holder. had the same score
Inc most prominent absentee Of the original en-
Tanls was Charles Seely. the metropolitan title
holder, while Walter K. Whgham of Prestwicx.
Scotland, the only foreign player in the tourna-
me1I failed 70 hand in his card.
The scores follow: