Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-08
TRAVIS FINDS FORM
Breaks "H0odoo" lowering
Over Him in Golf Play.
LEADS IN MORNING ROUND
Looked Upon as Winner in This
Afternoons Play.
YESTERDAYS SCORES IMPROVE
Egan Makes a Runaway Match in
Game With Wood-Results at
End Of Morning.

CHICAGO GOLF CLUB. Wheaton. ILL.,.
September s.-Apparently Walter J.
Travis. the veteran of scores of hard
fought golf matches, has broken the
"hoodoo" which lowered over him IN
matches with w. C. Fownes, jr., of
Pittsburg.
Twice in national golf tournaments
Travis. at the top of his game. has
bumped into the Oakmont golfer with
disastrous results. but today he finished
3 up at the end of the morning round
of eighteen holes in the second round
of match play foB the national amateur
golf championship.
The way he played the last six holes
of the match indicated that the veteran
has got into his golfing form and that
he would win the game this afternoon.
In 1905 at Wheaton Fownes defeated
Travis in an extra hole match. Again
in 1907 at Cleveland. the Pittsburger
took the "old mans" measure, although
he had to run down a thirty-foot putt
for three on the twentieth green to do
1t.
Fownes was one up at the end Of
the ninth hole this morning, but Travis
squared the match at the eleventh with
a clever four. He played the last nine
holes in thirty-six, while Fonwnes took
forty-one.
The best score Of the morning was made
by d. E. Sawyer, former western cham
all week. Sawyer finished the first
eighteen holes, 3 up. on r. e. Hunter of
Midlothian, going out in SO and coming in
in 80, a total Of "a.
Play in Second Round.
Play in the second round of the national
amateur golf championship tournament
was started here today, and there were
excellent prospects OF close. contests and
battles were ended.
The brilliant scores Of yesterday were
a marked improvement over the indiffer-
ent work of the opening day of the tour
ney. and it was confidently expected to-
day would surpass its predecessors.
The results at the end of the morning
round Of eighteen holes were as follows:
Mason Phelps. Midlothian. up on w.
P. Schatz. Wharton. Phelps medal
score, 81, 1916: Schatz. 40. 1870.
Albert seckel, Riverside, l up on T. M.
4oIsa~7o: sherman's. ss-42-s1.
L. H. Reinking. Wheaton. and Robert
Gardner. Hinsdale, all square. Reinkfng' s
medal score. 41-37-78; Gardeners. Al
37-18
D. E. Sawyer. Wheaton. 3 up on r. r.
Hunter, Midlothian. sawyer's medal
score. @--ss-74: Hunters. 41-ss-77.
H. Chandler Egan. Exmoor. up on
Warren K. Wood. Homewood. .Egan's
medal score, 37-4O-77; Woods. Al
38-D
Charles Evans, jr.. Edgewater. 2 up on
A. Stillwell, Midlothian. Evans medal
score, asst; Stillwelrs 42-36-1S.
Second Round Of Championship.
D. E. Sawyer of wheaton and r. E.
Hunter, Midlothian. we're the first to drive
Off this morning in the second round of
the national golf championship. Sawyer
was looked upon as winner and finished
first. 0 holes up. with a medal score of
SO. Hunter was IL.
Bob Gardner, the Yale pole vaulter. was
1 up at the turn on L. H. Reinking OF
Wheaton.
Tom Sherman Of Utica and Albert
Seckel, runner-up in the western cham
pionship, had a ding-dong match. Seek
ell was up at the sixth hole, but the
fastener squared the match at the ninth.
HIS medal score was 80. SeckePs was
40 Former Champion H. Chandler Egan
made a runaway match of his game with
Warren X. Wood, the Homewood play
err. He was four up at the turn, after
running down a 15-foot putt for 2 on
the ninth. Wood missed a number Of
short puts. Egan's score going out was
81 and Woods Al.
Charles Evans. jr.. the western cham
pion, could do no more than hold A. Still
we'll of Midlothian even for the first nine
holes.