New-York tribune., 1910-10-09
MORE LAURELS FOR TRAVIS
Beats John M. Ward in Final
Match at Nassau.
VETERAN IN RARE FORM
Former Champion Returns Card
Showing Even Fours for
the Round.

cor,aplefed another Killing wnen ne ~oih
TIE Invitation tournament at the Nassau
Country Club Yesterday. He defeated Johh
NJ Ward clubmate. by and margin
81 the final round and carried away the
chief CUP in consequence This, coupled
with the low score medal corralleo on
Thursday. gave Travis the plums of the
meeting
toRnsn1an of the former metropolitan
champion. Donald McKellar. who repre-
sents the Midland Club. won the beaten
eight cup in the first sixteen. defeating
James n Foot. of Apawamis. and w l.
Hicks. OF Nassau, In successive matches
The eighteen hole medal play handicap re-
suited in favor Of S. w Trawick, one OF
the home set. with a card OF ss-1s-7l
when the fun began In the morning the
gallery paid attention 10 the semi-final tilt
between Ward and Gardiner W. White. Of
Oakland They last met In the metropoli-
tan championship tournament, when hon
o.s rested with White. but IL required only
z few shots Yesterday 10 convince the close
observers that the interscholastic title
holder was off his game He began by
hadlv misjudging the distance 10 the frs.
hole against the wind and fell far short.
Thereafter from several tees White got
his shots away with just enough slice 10
place him al q disadvantage, especially as
Ward was unusually lengthy with wood.
When il came TO quitting White also let
several chances slip by. Going 10 the sew
enth hole an odd incident happened to the
Oakland golfer. His drive. trif1e sliced,
found the edge of the shallow trep. The
han rested on q ridge OF sand. and il looked
IS II White would have no trouble in get
ting TO the green on HIS next He purposely
struck 3 trihe behind the ball, but as the
ilade Of the nfblick descended the sphere
sank as II by magic. On closer inspection
j. was found in a mole hole several inches
below the surface. White tried TO get il
cut but after three Intellectual efforts he
picked I'D.
Even with all his trouble White found
himself only down n the turn. the strokes
reading 40 10 q in Wards favor. From
fhere On White was always the under dog,
Fnd the match terminated on the fifteenth
green. The bye holes were played out, as
Nard wanted his score 10 count in the
handicap. lie got an 50.
In The mean time Travis was merely
lreezing along in his match with A. E
Jones the Nassau left handed player, who
did exceedingly VII 10 get as far as the
seini-firal round in the tournament AS
Jones said himself he was beaten before
they started. At any rate, Travis never
lost hole. going out in IS and winning
b., : I'd and 8 TO play. The bye holes were
not played, but for the thirteen holes the
veterans card showed even IS.
from q scoring point of view. Travis's
work against Ward in the decisive match
was one Of the best seen at Nassau in
,cars Under the circumstances it might
seem nothing out Of the way for Ward TO
be eliminated to the tune of and 2, yet
+ is safe 10 say without fear OF contradic-
ton that. with the exception OF putting,
Ward did as well as his opponene.
on the first. second, ninth and eleventh
greens Wards weak short game made his
admirers groan. Had he not taken three
Puts ar those points he would have been
up instead of ! down going to the twelfth,
and as he won the thirteenth in 3 he would
have been up there instead OF all even.
There were the little ifs that stood in
the way OF a Ward victory. On the other
hand Travis was a wizard When he did
make q mistake with one club he usually
rose 10 the occasion sufficiently to make a
rnaeterful recovery
When The pair reached the turn the
the last named stood 1 up. AS was previ-
ouslv mentioned, the match was even at
the thirteenth, where Ward surprised him
self by holing a put from the green's edge
for a. ,. From there on he played poorly,
snd Travis took the next three holes and
The match He finished out the bye holes
in par T. and got q fine y for the round
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