Evening star., 1909-05-15
TRAVIS IN FINE FORM
Covers Course at Chevy Chase
Club in 73 Strokes.
LARD LEFT WAY BEHIND
Ex-C Champion Plays Almost Perfect
Golf, With One Bad Putt.
OPPONENT NOT AT HIS BEST
Ratified by Photographers, But Re-
covers and Does Not Allow
Increase of Lead.
OPPONENT NOT AT HIS BEST

Walter Travis. Garden City, had run
away match with Allan Lard, Chevy
Chase, in the first round for the principal
cup this forenoon.
Travis was at the top Of his game, play
ing the first nine holes in 36, getting a
2 at the ninth with fffteen-foot putt
and 4 at the seventh. He came home
also in 81.
Travis was on the green's in perfect golf
nearly every time and had numerous puts
for 5, but did not need to extend him
self at any stage of the match. Just to
show that he is about as deadly as ever
on his short game. Travis ran down sew
eral long puts when he could afford to
spare stroke.
His only poor putt was at the first hole.
which he trimmed for 4 and lost In D..
Travis played practically perfect golf,
with superb approaches and unerring ac-
curacy on the green's.
Allan Lard played decidedly below his
game of the past two days and practi-
cally lost all chance of winning long be-
fore the first half OF the match was fin
ished. His driving from a number of
tees was bad and got him into trouble
repeatedly.
was unable to make up for his inaccura-
cies once he gave Travis the slightest ad-
vantage.
How the Game Was Played.
Lard managed to win two of the first
four holes before Travis got down to his
best game. Lard was of in the grass in
two on the second and overran ten feet
on his third, taking to Travis a.
Lard topped his drive to the bunker
for the third and took to reach the
green, losing In another to 4. Travis
was over the ridge of the top OF the green
evened up the match.
Going to the sixth Lard drove behind
cedar trees to the right, got well on the
green in A. but could not negotiate a tif-
Lard drove to the grass on the right, for
the next hole. and jumped the bunker to
the grass again on his second, he halved
the sixth in 4.
At this stage of the game, with Lard 1
down. a pho ographer from local even
ing paper but:ed in on Lard and did his
best to disconcert him by rattling his ap-
paratus and swapping pictures. He in
sisted on getting picture Of Lard as he
was swinging his club.
AS a consequence Lard drove badly from
tie seventh tee and took 3 to reach the
green ard :: more to get down. Travis
reached the green in and finished in 4.
Lard was 2 down starting the eighth.
and he went from bad to worse, due i'm
an important degree to the photographer
getting on his nerves. To make matters
worse for Lard his opponent played re-
markable golf for the next eight holes,
all Of which Travis won in 3 under AS,
far figures being 3cc.
BY the time Lard had finished the fif-
teenth hole and was 10 down he had got
the nervousness out of his system and
managed to halve the last three holes,
SO that he was still 10 down at the COM
pletion of the first round in the finals.
Both Lard and Travis played the seven
teenth In 4 by getting long puts over
ten feet.
The score follows:
Travis:
In .............. 44443 } 5 5 4 437-73
Lard:
Out ............. . 8 ~.
In .. 5 6 s ) 4 g ) 4 1850
1t is practically impossible for Lard to
make any headway over ex-Champion
Travis in this afternoons round. and the
first cup is as well as already won by the
old master al the game of golf. His score
of 73 also undoubtedly wins Travis the
handicap prize
other Match Scores.
In the first round of the finals for the
second eight, A. 8. Mattingly, Columbia.
had lead of three at the eighteenth hole
and probably will finish winner of the
cup offered for the second eight.
In the semi-finals of the first sixteen
E. D. Adams beat S. Ellis one up in
twenty holes. r. f. g. Carlisle beat II.
V. Sanford one up In nineteent holes.
Adams and Carlisle meet in the finals
this afternoon.
A. Carter. Chevy Chase, beat l.. Gourlay.
Garden City. one up in the semi-finals
among the second sixteen. H. NJ. Hoyt,
San Francisco beat C. l.. Frailey, Chevy
Chase, eight up and seven to play. Par
ker and Hoyt meet in the finals this after
noon.
In the semi-finals Of the third sixteenth,
Col. D. F. Downing. Chevy Chase. beat
Gen. T. HI. Barry. Chevy Chase. two up.
H. B. Davidson, Chevy Chase, beat j. NJ.
Stoddard, Columbia, one up. winning the
hole after Stoddard was four down at
the eleventh hole. Downey and Davidson
meet In the finals this afternoon
In the semi-finals of the fourth six
teenth, W. c. Thatcher beat V. Kauff-
mann four up and three to play. j. E.
Ditson beat A. w. Dunn one up In nine
teen holes. Ditson and Thatcher will play
in the finals this afternoon.