New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-08
VEST LEADS AT GOLF
TRAVIS and SHERMAN
HOPE OF EAST.
Triple Tie in Qualifying Round
for the National amateur
Cham pionship.


wheaton. H. Sept Two Fasteners ond four
teen players from Western clubs remain TO fight II
out FOR the national amateur golf championship
tho result ~ to-days play in the national tourna-
ment the links Of the Chicago Golf Club.
The Fasteners are the seasoned old campaigner,
Walter j. Travis. Of Garden City, who disposed of
Fred Heweshoff, Of Ekwanok, after a sensational
nneteen-hoe match. and Thomas -. sherman, of
Utica. X. Y. son Of Vice President Sherman, who
heat A. " Tnnghast, Of Philadelphia, ! up. in
nineteen holes
The Mesterners who remain include Charles
Evans, jr-. the Western champion; II. Chandler
EFan. former national champion; n i. Sawyer
ana Mason Phelps former Western champions
and Warren X Wood and Paul and Robert Hunter.
The luck Of the draw. which fen heavily
the East to-day, viii NOW down the Western con-
tostants tomorrow Paul Hunter, who to-day
eggallod the course record Of =, made by Norman
p Hunter. The Englshman, when the team Of
English amateurs toured the United States in 1903,
VIII meet Ned Sawyer. II. Chandler Egan viii be
paired with Warren *. Wood. while Evans viii
play A. Stlwel. OF Midlothian.
The draw was kind 20 sherman and Travis in
that II did not place them IN the same half.
Should they 80 through successfully they viii not
come together until the final round Sherman, how
ever, II he wins Tomorrow may have to meet II.
Chandler Egan, who is now playing in the form
that won the national championship for him twice,
Warren X. Wood.
Sensational play marked the day, not only in the
concluding half Of the qualifying round this morn
ing, but in the first round OF match play this
afternoon, which only eighteen holes
Three Of the afternoon matches went extra holes.
Tom Sherman and A. ". Tillnghast each made
a medal score Of e, and were all even at the
eighteenth green, but sherman won the extra hole
wiki perfect four
The match that attracted the gallery was the
struggle between ". J. Travis and Fred Herreshof.
Tie swarthy veteran nearly broke his opponents
heart the first hole Travis dubbed his brassy
sh9r badly after pretty shot, ana Herreshon
responded with beautiful long iron shot nearly TO
tie bunker.
wide bladed, rusty driving iron and slammed at
The ball When ii stopped il was the green,
thirty feet beyond the hole. Then he down the
put. Herreshoff missed his.
Travis again took the lead at the seventh hole
When Herreshon drove his tee shot out Of bounds
and Increased il al the ninth when the young New
Workers ban found the bunker. twelve-foot put
on the eleventh made Travis up.
He was up at the fifteenth also but with only
half needed TO give-fim the match he lost three
holes straight by bad drives, and Herreshon
squared accounts on the home green. Then Travis
rose 10 the emergency and won the extra hole
His third shot, pitch Of about seventy-hVe yards
hu the rag and stopped within eight inches of the
cup. HeTeshon missed twenty-foot put for a
half and for the third time this year Travis
marked up a victory against his younger opponent
The cards were as follows:
Walter j. Travis, Garden City:
% 29' . ........:..:s &sS-7s
Flsa Herreshoa. EkWanok:
2 q . ,,..........5 +&sd-77
triple tie for first place in the qualifying round
kept The interest alive in the early hours When all
The cards had been posted was found that Charles
Evans, jr. Of Exmoor the Western champion:
Robert GaT32er. of Hnsdale the Yale pole vaulter
and Thomas n. Sherman, OF Utica son Of the Vice
President, We're exactly even, with a total OF ISL
1Ees .- fT7a bo1
they Ril play OF and decide the possession Of the
gold mccall that goes with the honor
In getting into this deadlock to-day Gardner had
to 20 round ia -, two strokes better than Sher-
man and three under Evans. who had led the
Held yesterday with a. Although missing the
lie by a margin of two strokes d. r. Sawyer,
the former Western titlehoder. had the distinction
O. making the best single round The Wheaton
man covered the difficult outward journey in IS
and finishing with 81, got Y. thereby equaIling
TIE amateur record for The resrranged links His
card read follows:
Gu ....... ....-.............s &ss-7a
In getting his - Gardner made both halves Of the
circuit n q, while Sherman had IS each way. Al
ways long driver, Sherman developed brilliant
saort same to-day which largely explains a
n1ka-is string of four threes beginning at the
egatl hole
As ID rule, The scores in the qualifying round
hae were considerably lower than year ago at
SsFcel City. when the cards We're rather the
Algl side "A year ago Travis led the field with
rounds " - and "a for l53 While this compares
.svo-ahly with the figures OF those IN the present
upe ue il must also be remembered that at Gar
Gel C1E q wide margin Of nine strokes separated
he first and second scores.
A. Wheaton to-day there twelve contest
ants with scores of 162 or better. By comparison
VITA l-s work Of year ago, Travis showed up
almost poorly ia this Mornings medal round
as BE- ct yesterday. The Metropolitan champion
fr.H Ef1f ram iG
ieEllg fHr-e puts each four greens going out.
A a1r9u 10 ihis, he nat thes side OF the bunker
guarding the ninth green, that he had TO be
content W,l 81 for the outward journey. BY driV-
M into lUe pond ga front Of the short tenth hole
he veteran did not help matters any, but there
@le he sfeadied down, and by finishing the last
| lst boz 70 managed 10 return an even So
| MEDAL PLAY SUMMARY.