New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-27
WIZARD OF GOLF BEATEN
Travis Goes Down Before Brown
After Four Extra Holes.
WHITE DEFEATS DOUGLAS
Travers Puts Tiffany Out in
Play for Metropolitan
Championship.

The mighty fell during the frst and sec
ond match play rounds of the metropolitan
championship tournament on the links OF
the Morris County Golf Club yesterday
When the smoke of battle had cleared
away those old warriors. Walter j. Travis
the title holder, and Findlay s. Douglas
the erstwhile champion, had been forced &c
capitulate. Douglas succumbed 10 the ac-
curacy of Gardner White the new inter
scholastic champion, while Travis only
gave way to {. H. Brown, the Hudson
River Golf Association champion. after a
protracted match that required four extra
holes.
In addition to the winners mentioned.
others to survive the day were Jerome ID.
Travers, of Montclar. who beat Gilman P.
Tiffany. the gold medaiist, in the afternoon;
Fred Herreshoff, of Westbrook: Max Behr,
the New Jersey champion; John NJ. Ward,
of Garden City; Z. NJ. Wild, of Crawford.
and A F. Hammer, the Staten Island
champion.
The large gallery which trooped out in
the afternoon was treated to a double en-
tertainment, as the Travers-Tiffany match
Immediately preceded the one between
Travis and Brown. Because of the ten
Witness. few believed he would be able to
take the measure of the redoubtable Gar
den City veteran. Travis. however, showed
that he was human by slicing his opening
drive out of bounds. which cost him the
first hole. He Immediately squared &C
counts with A fine at the second, and
then went along in good figures. so that
going 10 the eighth hole he stood l up.
pementing this with at the ninth, a
stroke under par, the Hudson River cham
pion turned for home up. Both had gone
out in 81
There was never any doubt of the out
come of the tenth hole, where Travis drove
the green and won it in 8. Browns drive
had been sliced to the rough, and he took
five. A fine at the eleventh made Travis
up, and later by winning the sixteenth
hole, the veteran became dormie .. With
two short holes remaining, Browns chances
Of pulling the match out Of the fire seemed
slim enough, but the young man from
Yonkers showed commendabie nerve by
winning both in perfect IS, Travis taking
IS. That squared the match, and sent the
pair tc the nineteenth green.
They halved the first extra hole in T. but
lot TO do when his drive over the punch
bowl barely reached the edge of the green.
He laid his second some three yards short
of the pin. while Brown on the like got
much closer Travis trimmed the cup on his
try for g. and the ball came to rest so
close to the edge that Brown did not dare
to go for the hole for fear of knocking
his opponents ball in. consequently Brown
PLAYED TO one side and contented himself
with halve in 4,
Good drives and approaches to the third
green left each a chance for 8. but they
missed their puts, and another halve in
resulted. Over the railroad to the fourth
hole, which proved to be the decisive one
Of the match, both got good drives. bu.
Travis pulled his second shot to the rough
while Brown made the edge Of the green
on the like. Travis recovered well and
laid his fourth shot stone dead. After his
approach Brown had a put of about eight
feet TO win the hole and match. which he
brought off with q GOODNESS that would
have done credit to Travis himself even in
his palmiest days. The cards read as fol
lows: