New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-13
WOOD LEADS GOLF FIELD
travis One Stroke Away in Test
ing Round for Title.
DARKNESS ENDS THE PLAY
National Champion Unable to
Finish. as Big Field Blocks
the Course.

Boston. sert. 12-Ni:h ene 40 which
q. chicago. led the field In The eighteen
.oe Qualifying round IN the national golf
5,s-.,1io:lshir tournament at the Country
.-r,.r B-ookI-re. today. Walter !. Travis
q. Garden City. finished second. only a
st-ohe away.
A The present writing IL IS impossible to
SC with exaclness VINO did and who did
rrt qualify because darkness put an end
n further play while tWenty-six contest
sr.s we're stIl on the course. They were
allowed 20 discontinue by an order of the
executive committee and they will resume
x-are -hey eft of al 80 o clock to-ror-
rca morning
- Il now stands out % The 203 starters
eeveu cot around in better than 50 strokes
ard siz-y-eighr in s. or better, with four
-.eu led a. the last named figure for the
last [our places
=: IL quite possible. however, that those
~-ho returned 5. VIII DC eliminated. as
s-norg me twenty-six 10 ne heard from are
Robert A Gardner. the title holder; Albert
Seeke-. ne intercollegiate champion: Rob-
a. a. Watson. q Westbrook, and T p
Fuue-. \ former Massachusetts leader.
vas The Indifferent showing Of II. Chandler
Eea7. The national champion IN 1903 and
az He took fo-ty-five TO go out getting
f7-o TIE rough f-oTn many OF MS tee shots
A. the ninth h got into q ditch and
bunker and p little late- dro- two balls
ou- Of bounds q the eleventh. His second
s7ot 10 the nom hole brought Up against
8 tree 0ey-rc the -reu- but h. managed
n lSeEg-.
To.I T. ~ ally enough. had no hard
luck ta-e 70 offc-. although with better
Putting NJ Nigh. easily have recorded
- a he - n anc seventh holes After
- - --@ turn the Ffon5evood golfer made
~ rnfs-a-ses. coming back in So This in
ended . a. the short sixteenth hole.
where 10 brought of q fifteen-foot put
WOOD reached the seminal round Of the
rational tournament at Euclid in l961.
where 10 lost 70 Travis on the home green
Woods card to-day read as follows.
7s--en r T7ot- 90
n. .. .-...-.-.....-...5 . ; SIS
Travis. because Of good start. should
have Led the fefd- He went out in IS. but
thereafter the veterans putting went
wrong He took three puts on as many
greens 4 good four a. the home hole gave
Travis z . as follows
alter --s--S. Garden FIr--
eg- t ; : : ; : 30 20
Fred F+er~eschof the metropolitan chain
rler. started loosely dropping puts on the
first and second greens but thereafter he
se---e6 down and got q useful 3, a stroke
worse than e. II. Byers, of Allegheny, the
-aas ----= holder and Y O. Fownes. j--, Of
uaknonr. -ne Pennsylvania champion Z.
81 Wild. rh4 crawford golfer, PLAYED con-
-.z-e--Iv and reeIed of : 3, ~ did Archie
REID az s. andrews. the Hudson River
champion
REID PLAYED with tire much talked Of
.Chfrk~ Evans. VINO proved disappoinr-
uenr He aiaEs al his full shots with a
r-'l. and according 10 Travis this is bound
20 prove The downfall Of the Edgewater
vau-Esre- Where Evans was most at
fault today vas i'm putting After taking
q. - = out. EvsnS zane back well for IS.
serriuE an 8
Max Behr, the New Jersey champion.
came To grief a. the fifteenth hole. when he
r.os On This prevented MIN from get
ING better than $. and places him with
LEs- ~ The anxious seat. Robert A Gard
nzr -Ee title holder. has three more holes
10 1lsv IN Tie morning. and II ne makes no
mistakes he should qualify handiIy with
's-o1- - The scores Of s. or better follow: