New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-28
TRAvERS BACK IN FORM
Reaches Final Round with Her.
reshoff for Golf Title.
WHITE MAKES GOOD FIGHT
Max Behr and Wild Go Down
Before Onetime National
Champion.

ptonshfp tournament over the Morris Couh-
ty links yesterday, and as result Will
meet In the decisive test for the title to-day
This makes the second year In succession
that Herreshor has reached the hnai
round At Apawamis last May he lost 70
Walter J. Travis after stirring match-
Travers removed from his path during
yesterdays struggle that clever amateur
Max Behr, holder of the New Jersey utie'
and E. NJ Wild. the Crawford pounsster
who has been steadily working his way
toward the top.
Herreshoff In the early hours caught Z.
H. Brown, champion of the Hudson River
Golf Association. in one Of his Indifferent
moods. with the result that Herreshon won
as he pleased. Later the Westbrook
man clashed with Gardner White, and as
IL realizing that danger lurked in the play
of the brilliant interscholastic champion ne
rose to the occasion and played such IRE
s,sttble golf that the Cutler School boy was
forced to succumb on the fifteenth green
Although 'Behr in his previous work dur
ing the tournament had been going fairly
we'll. IL not better than Travers. few be-
lieved that the Morris County man would
be able to take the former champions
measure They pointed to the fact that on
four previous occasions, when these TWO
men met, Travers had always decisiveiy
beaten the former Yale man. ard they
argued rightly that Behr would be unable
to shake of the old hoodoo. Throughout
the match neither man displayed his hest
FORM and in the early stages both showed
lamentabie weakness on the green's
Behr missed easy puts on the first ana
third green's, while Travers had lapses OF
a similar nature at the second. fourth ana
fifth holes On the last named green
Travers, after missing yard put for the
hole, laid his man dead stynie. but with
rare skill Behr negotiated the shot with
the aid Of a mashie and the hole was
ha;ved in s.
Another bright spot in this rather com
monplace match was the recovery of Travers
going to the ninth hole. After wild drive,
which almost went out Of bounds, Travers
found himself In an awkward position in
the rough so close to the woods as TO
make 1t impossible for him to see the green
The only shot 70 play was slice, and the
Montclair wizard brought it of with deadly
precision, the ball describing a graceful
curve and sailing around the bend into the
punchbowl green so that he was left with
ten-foot put for 8.
AS Behr had taken two more because Of
being bunkered on his drive, Travers took
no chances. and contented himself with
winning the hole in 4. That placed him
8 up at the turn, and when he won
the next hole in and the eleventh in 4
the match was at his mercy He finally de-
feated Behr up and TO play.
In the mean time Herreshon had been
taking Charley Brown into camp. The
latter showed none of that determination
IL IL lay-
before, when ne defeated Walter j. Travis
In fact. Herreshoff, although dong nothing
exceptional in the scoring line. always had
the match we'll in hand. Brown. wild
from the tee, kept getting into all kinds Of
difficulties. from which successful recov-
cries were wellnigh impossible. Herreshon
turned for home up and won by 8 and
margin.
John Ward, although playing at the top
of his game had the misfortune TO meet
White in one OF those brilliant veins for
which youthful ''phenons'' are sometimes
famous Even after winning the first two
holes Ward found himself down at the
seventh. and when White won the next in
fine 8 the best the Garden City man could
do was to turn for home down After the
second hole the pace set by White would
have done credit to Vardon or a Braid.
as the boys figures for the outward jour-
ney were 90, a stroke less than Wards.
Coming home White continued the good
work. getting a at the twelfth and win
ming the match by UP and to play.
In the other morning match E NJ. Wild,
of Crawford. appeared at his best against
A. F. Hammer. the Staten Island cham
pion- In fact. Wild played so well. making
the round In t. that his admirers had
visions of seeing the former Crawford
schoolboy defeat Travers later In the day.
When the pair met. however. there was a
far different story to tell. Travers began
by winning the second and 5hird holes In
each. and although he allowed his oppo-
nent to draw level because of weak putting
on the sixth and seventh green's. the hopes
of Wild were speedily dashed, as Travers
then cut loose and won six consecutive
holes right off the reel, and the match by s
up and to play.
Herreshoff went out so fast against
White that the Cutler lad was fortunate to
get halves. let alone win holes. The only
one he did win in the early stages was the
fourth, where Herreshon took a 5. Out In
IS, HerreshoT turned for home up and
although he lost the tenth. where White
drove the green and got a 8, the West
brook man won the eleventh In a par T.
making him again UP. They halved the
next three holes. but the fifteenth went to
Herreshoff in to s. both men getting out
of bounds. Their wildness at this hole was
in measure due toSa violent storm that
broke over the links about that time. That
terminated the match. and, even with his
Z. Herreshoff's card for the fifteen holes
showed only two worse than As.
Coincident with the match play rounds in
the various divisions was a four-ball COM
petition during the afternoon. Teams from
Iwenty-odd clubs entered. and when the
last card had been returned Walter j.
Travis and John Ward. representing Gar
with best ball of u. The summaries
follow:
Championship (third round)-G W. White
Oakland beat John NJ. Ward, Garden City up
and to play. Fred Herreshon westbrook. beat
C. H. Brown. Saeghill. UP and 10 play:
Jerome d Travers. Montelair, bea, Max Behr.
Morris County, up and to play: e. NJ Wild
Crawford beat A F. Hammer. Fox Hills, 3 up
and to play.
and to play; Travers beat Wild, g up ana &
10 play.
Beaten sixteen (second round)-Robert Wat,
son. Westbrook. beat Findiay s. Douglas Mas
sau. up and TO play. Oswald Kirkby EnSle-
and to play w. Lessito1 MoSTss COUNT, up
beat s b Bowers. Brookiawn q up and = -
play: Floyd Spencer, Forest I'M. beat James
A. Tyns; Raitusrol. up and to play.
Seminal round-Kirkhy beat Watson 4 I'm
and 70 play: Letchford beat Spencer 1 IN
Third sixteen tsemi-nnai round)-E p Roiser,