New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-07
GOLF RIVALS TO MEET
Travis and Travers Fight Their
Way to Final Round.
KEEN MATCHES THE RULE
Herreshoff Plays Brilliant Long
Game, but Loses to Former
Champion.

Those OIdtime rivals. Walter J. Travis.
OF Garden City. and Jerome D. Travers, OF
Montclair, heroes of scores Of hard fought
battles. will meet again IN the final round
for chief honors in the invitation golf
tournament at Garden City to-day. They
worked their way to the final bracket yes
terday in a manner that gave their re-
spective admirers little cause for worry
Travers defeated W. r. SimOns and Fred
Herreshof. two Westbrook amateurs, In
successive matches. while the metropOli-
tan champion disposed OF L. A Hamilton,
of Englewood. and T. NJ. Sherman. OF
Utica. The decisive match to-day will be
at thirty-six holes
Travers had the harder row to hoe be-
cause of his meeting with Herreshon, who
was regarded as a possible winner OF the
tournament. This match carried a large
gallery, which was kept in a state OF I'M
certainty most of the time. While Travers
won by up and 2 to play. II looked at
one time if the far driving HerreshOff
might lower the coIors of the former ma
tional champion. Herreshoff was longer off
the tee but Travers more than Offset his
opponents greater distance by his wonder
fully accurate half iron approaches.
HerreshoH won the long fourth hole in a
perfect and the sixth in the same figures.
which made him 1 up, but Travers squared
accounts on the eighth green with a 1. and
turned for home l up by getting 3 at the
ninth. His second shot there stopped with
in a foot of the PIN and il made the third
time in succession that he had recorded a
at this hole. Another sample Of HERES
hOff's brilliant long game was furnished
at the JO0-yard thirteenth, which he reached
in two wonderful shots. He won that hole
in f. and was then 1 down but a stymie
robbed him of a chance to haIve the next
Herreshoff then made a hash of the if
teenth hole which was won by Travers.
who became dormie 3. A halve in at the
next left him a winner.
Travis always had the better of his argu-
ment with Sherman, and TO add 70 the
greater discomfort of the young man from
up the state the veteran laid him styInies.
Earlier in the day HerreshOff had all he
could do to defeat Robert c. Watson in a
match that was carried to the home green.
g. w. White, the promising schoolboy
player. and John NJ Ward survived for
the decisive match in the beaten eight
division. while F. Fl. Hoyt, OF Allston, and
E A Thomson, who belongs to both Lenox
and Garden City. will meet in the final of
the second sixteen.
Hoyt at last displayed something like
his true form in his seni-fnal tilt with
Gilman P. Tiffany. A homeward journey
of SO enabled Hoyt to square the match. so
that three extra holes were necessary be-
fore he finally managed to down the former
Hudson River champion.
The summary follows:
First sixteen second roundl-Fred Herreshoff
Westbrool. beat Robert Watson. Westbrook UP.
J. d. Travers, Montclair. beat W. r. Simons.
Westbrcck. up and 5 to play
T VI. Sherman. Utica, beat s ID. Bowers.
Brcoklawn. UP and to play.
W J. Travis, Garden City. beat l. A. Hamil-
ton Engewood. UP and to play.
Sen-l-fnal rOund-Travers beat HerreshoT, 8 VI
and to play: Travis beat Sherman. UP and
to play.
Second sixteen Second round)-E A Thomson
LenOx. beat George Watson. WestbroOk. Up
and 20 play
F c. Jennings Nassau. beat J. P. Knapp,
Garden City. up and to play
G. P. Tiffany, Powelton. beat W L. Hicks,
Nassau. up ard l play.
F. H. Hoyt, AlIston, beat William Watson
BatusrOi up and to play.
Semi-fnal round-ThOmson beat Jennings, VI
(19 hnIesI; Hoyt beat Tiffany, up (21 holes1
Beaten eight first sixteen FIRST round)-Jarnei
D. Foot. Apawarnis. beat ". r CieghOrn, Elk
wanok, up and TO play.
9. W. White, Oakland, beat F. W L Fuller
ton, Canoe Brook. UP and to play.
John NJ. Ward, Westbrook, beat NJ y. Buck
ner. Garden City, up and to play
W. W. Taylor. Ardsey, beat P. r Jennings.
Garden City. up and to play
Semi-fnal rOUnd-White beat Foot. up and
to play; Ward beat Taylor, uD and to