The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-01
TRAVIS WINS MATCH
IN BRILLIANT STYLE
Close and Exciting Contest, Fownes Not Losing
Out Until 21st Green Many Other Hard
Fought Battles During Day
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Ispecial to The Times Dispatch.l !,
Pinehurst. y. c., March Sl.--Walterl
J. Travis, of Garden City, and w. C |
Fownes, IT.. Of Oakmont, friendly ri |
walls in many hard-fou2ht battles, met
again In this afternoons second round
of the tenth annual United North and
South amateur golf championship. and
as usual the battle waged fast and
furious, and not until the twenty first
green was reached did the smoke clear,
and the Garden City expert claim
the brilliant victory. 1t was case of
give and take on the way out, the
score being one up in favor of NJ.
increased the lead to two up. but the
twelfth green.
An alternate win and lose on tbs
thirteenth and fourteenth, and halves
on the fifteenth and sixteenth kept
the big gallery in suspense. win in
two on the short seventeenth. shift
ing odds in favor of Mr.. Travis. only
to see the pendulum swing back again,
when Mr.. Fownes took the eighteenth
in four to five. The nineteenth and
twentieth holes were hIlved, in par
fours, and the gallery waited around
the twentyflst tee for tho final test.
The Pittsburger's drive was slightly
pulled. and his iron missed the green.
Travis's drive was tritie short, but
straight down the course. and his iron
made the green. Fowness approach
ran past the hole. and Travis played
safe.
Fownes made a try for a half,
missed. and Travis went down in four
Fownes was outdriving his opponent
at all stages of the contest, but
Travis irons We're deadly, and his put
ting ''uncanny."
The cards:
Travis-5, A, 4, A. 5, 3, 6. 5, So
Travis-4, ). S, 4, 6, 8, 4, 2. 5-3S-77.
Ftwnes-5, 4. 8, 10, 4. 3, 4. 3. 4--35-7s.
Travts--4. A. 4. Fownes--4, 4. 8.
OTHER Brilliant Contests.
In addition to the Travis Fownes
match. many other brilliant contests
claimed attention.
Walter Fairbanks. the Colorado
champion, and John Sweeney, of the
Detroit Country Club, fought it out
to the nineteenth hole, where Fair
banks won. At the turn the Detroit
player was five down. but he won
every hole from the twelfth to the
halved the eighteenth Colonel j. F..
Smith, OF the Wilmington Country
Club. won an extra hole match from
W. r. West, of philadelphia, in which
the players We're never more than
hole apart, and the majority halves.
In other divisions, beside the cham
pionship, play was equally fast. with
a twenty-hole match between T.. NJ
Hunt, of Gloucester, and w. v. Phil
lips, of Lansdowne and q nineteen
hole between DR.. II. A. Roark, of Brae
burn, and r. w. Wisar, of Lansdowne.
In the third a nineteon-hole match be-
tween j. NJ. Hodson, of Ardsey, and
C. D. Ward, of Colonial. in the fourth,
and similar contests between W. r..
stall, of Brockton. and G. Z. Johonnot,
of Buffalo, and Henry c. Fownes H.,
of Pittsburg (who is bur thirteen
years of agel, and Robert E'oote, OF
New Haven, in the fifth.
Allan Lard, of Chevy Chase, twice
winner OF the championship, and c. b.
Fownes, of Oakmont, played a fast
match, The Chevy Chase player was
two down at the turn, but he evencd
the match on the fifteenth The six
tenth went TO Fownes, tile seven
teenth to Lard. and twelve-foot
English" putt, round a stymie, decided
IL III MI. I4aIu IdNoE on the nome
green,
Summary OF Days riay.
a summary of to-days match play
rounds follow;
Championship cup or first division:
First rotnd--W. II, Tuckernan, Chevy
| Chase, beat Z, S. Parmelee, New Ha-
Ven Country, and 8; Col, j, Y,
Smith. Wilmington, beat w, r. West,
Philadelphia, | up lo holes); Walter
Fairbanks, Denver, beat John swee-
ney, Detroit | up Go holes); j II,
| Gardner Midlothian, beat Wolcutt
| Tuckermat, Chevy Chase, S and q,
Allan, Lard, Chevy Chase, beat Henry
/, G. Fownes. Oakmont, and q: @. b,
| FoWnes, Oakmont beat III, IL, Cutler,
| Blue Mound, by default w G. Fownes,
] Jr., Oakmont, beat W, a, Knight, ST.
! Augustine, 5 and 8 W, j. Travis,
| Garden City, beat C. West Talnter,
\ Lakewood, S and /,
Second round ruckermaa boat
/ Smith, 4 and 8 Gardner beat Fair
hanks, 8 and .; Lard beat G. b.,
Fowncs, ! up' Travis beat ". G,
Fownes, Ar, 4 UP (al holesl.
Z Consolation: First gound---West beat