New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
TRAVIS BEATS TRAVERS
Goifing Wizard Wins Chief Cup
on Garden City Links.
KEEN FIGHT TO THE END
Match Is Carried to the Home
Green to Delight Of Big
Gallery.

IN another OF those sterling matches
which almost invariably result when Wal
ter Travis and Jerome D. Travers come
together the former again came on
with flying colors by winning from the
Montelair expert to the tune Of up IN the
thfrty-six hole final round Of the invita-
ton tournament at the Garden City Golf
Club yesterday 1t was a battle Of the
masters from start to finish. and will live
long IN the memory Of the great gallery
which followed throughout the day.
These rivals had not ciashed since the
seni-hnal round Of the national amateur
championship tournament over the same
green In 1903, when Travers finished up
The victory OF the veteran yesterday.
therefore. was in the nature of sweet re-
venge. Comparing the play Of these re-
doubtahle experts with their golf OF two
years ago, 1t must be said that neither
showed anv Improvement. and II one was
TO Judge solely by the figures recorded on
the card yesterdays golf fell far below
the former mark. In justice TO the play
ers II can be said that the course has been
stifened UP considerably since then. and
there was also a battling wind Of half a
gales strength to bother the men.
From strictly competitive point Of view
esting IN the extreme, first one, then the
other, showing IN front. Travis was up on
two different occasions going out, while
Travers at one time had an advantage OF
2 up. Later on he lost this, but by winning
the home hole retired for luncheon l up
After rushing away like wild horse and
winning three out of the first four holes
In the afternoon, making him up on the
day, Travis lost his advantage, so that the
match stood level at the seventh. There
after Travis was either up or square until
he settled matters by annexlng another
hole to his credit on the home green.
In an all-day match so close as 10 carry
the contestants to the home green, it could
not be said that much of a margin sepa-
rated winner from loser. Both men played
brilliantly at times while az other stages
of the match their mistake. were quite
glaring. Besides the gale IN the early
hours. the positions OF the holes have been
changed. SO that the course presented
somewhat different proposition than during
the two preceding days. Neither man ap-
peared at his best in putting. but what
long ones were dropped, especially in the
morning. were credited TO Travis. Through
out the early hours there was little to
choose between the pair IN driving but
after luncheon Travcrs, who seemed TO
drop into his old swing. generally had the
better OF the long game from fifteen to
twenty yards.
Never before in the history OF competi-
tive golf at Garden City had gallery wit
messed such a remarkable start that
made by Travis in the afternoon, when he
won the first hole in g. thanks to a fine
approach supplemented by a twelve-foot
put that looked good all the way. legiti-
mate at the short second and another
dazzling "3-spot at the third, where
he brought off a twenty-five footer. AS If
not content with this. the veteran laid his
third shot out Of the road dead to the pin
at the fourth hole. and won that In T.
Here were four holes in succession made in
thirteen strokes. two better than par.
All this time Travers had been playing
perfect golf himself, getting at the
first halying the second in 3, getting
at the third and at the fourth,
and to be 2 down so soon after begin
ming the afternoon session I up was dis
concerting enough to have 'rattled' almost
any one On the contrary, the former ma
tionaI champion only gritted his teeth and
played the harder. His efforts IN this di-
rection were not fruitless, as he succeeded
in squaring the match at the seventh,
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and topping his second shot going to the
long seventh.
Thereafter the contestants were never
more than hole apart, though Travis was
either I up or level all the time. They
won and lost holes until the twelfth,
neither man appearing TO have any ad-
vantage over the other, but at the points
in question Travers displayed poor judg-
ment Both played short OF the trap with
their irons because of the strong head
winds. Travis failed to get near the pin
on his approach, the ball rolling behind
one of the volcano-like mounds which ap
pear on this green. On the ]jAss TTaVers
essayed a low shot which failed to hold as
it struck the green and ran over behind
another hummock, bur in such q position
as to make 1t a physical inpossibi1ity for
him to lay the next shot dead. His at
tempts AT putting were so weak that 1t
was easy for Travis to win the hole in
to s.
From there on Travers seemed to play
with less vim, for he was plainly tired.
He got a halve at the long thirteenth
luckily, whea. his opponent missed put,
and again att the fourteenth, after top
ping his drive to the road Travis missed
another put on the fourteenth green which
he should have holed. A fine downfill ten
foot put by Travers won him the fifteenth
hole and squared the match, but he be-
came wild in direction going to the six
teenth and lost that hole when Travis
got l. Going to the seventeenth hole
Travers was just short of the green on
his second, but failed utterly to get any
where near the flag on his little approach
and was lucky 10 get a haIve in 5.
That made Travis dorrnie, and the end
soon came when Travers overdrove the
home green, the ball lodging in the deep
trap on the far side. After an Intellectual
effort to get out on his first stroke, Trav-
ers picked up, thereby cOnceding the hole
and the match to his opponent. The card
read as follows:
Travis out ........% 5 5 5745 5-t3
Travers out...-..-.5 4 4-2
Travis in......-...5 8 3 4 4 5-42-5
Travers in........5 5 S-4O-S2
Travis out ...3 4 5 4 5-3s
Travcrs out.......4 4 80
Travis ln..........4 { S 3-l-T9-164
Travers in........5 5-45-s4-I66
In the final round for the beaten eight
cup of the first sixteen. John NJ. Ward
of Westbrook. got going IN something like
his best form and defeated G.. W. White
OF Oakland. by up and 10 play. while
In the second sixteen F II. HOyt. OF AIis-