New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
An Approach by Travers
and q Put by
Tra Wis.

Chapter I
Master shots those made with telling effect at
crucial moments OF a match. the ones that
count most and live longest in the golfers memory
It has frequently been said possibly with more
truth than poetry. that the only shot that counts
in golf is the which finds the bottom Of the
cup, but that Is like the swimmer, who with one
last powerful stroke. reaches the shore in safety
That last combined sweep q the arms and kick Of
, the legs did the business, TO be sure. but they
would have awaited little had they not been pre-
ceoed by similar efforts. So It is with the ancient
game. While the shot that lands the BAH in the
hole is the one that settles all doubts, almost
equal credit sometimes more, belongs to the earlier
strokes that make the holins-out shot attainabe-
Apropos Of this approach by Jerome D
Travers the national champion, in his match with
j. O. Anderson during the Lesley cup competition
at Garden City last fall. After Anderson had been
dormie two. the Montcair expert won the seven
teenth and eighteenth holes and squared the match
which meant an extra hole. Travers hooked MS
drive and the ball lay in rough grass and high
weeds Moreover, he had to play over huge
mound 70 the green, which he couldn't even see.
let alone the flag. Travers selected a nibick. and
after the stroke, which tore up grass and sand in
\ cloud the ball sailed well over the mound and
dropped without any run some twenty feet from
the pin marvellous shot, especially as II
meant so much on this particular occasion Incl
dentally, it may have Disconnected Anderson. who
after q beautiful drive straight down the course
failed to hold the green on his approach, so that
the hole and the match went TO Travers. Before
Travers made his approach it was 20 to that
Anderson would win Had the champion not risen
To the occasion with the wonderful recovery and
the match gone the other way. it is possible the
Lesley cup would now be resting in Boston Instead
of New York.
There are times however. when the successful
execution Of these master strokes serves only TO
worry temporarily the opponent. case in point
was furnished In the match between IL Chandler
Fran and A L. White, both of Harvard in the
final round Of the intercollegiate championship
tournament at Myopa number OF years ago
Fean had pulled into the rough at the eleventh
hole and his position seemed hopeless. as the ball
Law I'm long grass with bush close at hand the
Westerner with of those rare strokes fer
which he was famous, carried the bunker 10 the
green had a put for ana won the hole In 1.
Later on White got even by holins an approach at
the seventeenth hole the thirty OF the match,
and 4 few moments later he defeated Egan Tor the
intercollegiate title. -,
OF an the puts made at the right lime ana
Mace so as TO save the day, that executed by
Walter J. Travis in his match with II. II. Wilder
during the national tournament at Garden city.
last September. probably has few equals IN the
history OF the game II was while they were
playing the seventeenth hole in the afternoon the
thirty-ifth of the match. Wilder was dorrnie tUo,
so that all he needed haIve to defeat the re-