New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
KEEN BATTLE At GOLF
uorreshoH Beats Travers for
Metropolitan Title.
BRILLIANT PLAYING RULES
roetbrook Wizard, in Wonder
ful Form, Takes Early Lead
and Wins.

.-,o..;nr Jerome ID. Travers, Of Montclair.
.,5 70 play in the tfirty-six hole
round over the Norris County links
l..-sax The westbrook man gained an
s,.rtage of ! Up at the end Of the morn
ing round
:. was q battle OF the masters, first one and
- tl,e other bringing off a brilliant shot.
,-.o~.gnc with a rush. Herreshoff had his
-, fintoed early in the fray, and il could
=. no well otherwise, considering that the
1T-es+hrook crack went out in the remark
- er,,res Of 3s. Against such weird golf
- that Travers found himself down at
&c turn, and he was fortunate it was no
more.
.o-+ 70 overcome the others advantage, and
series OF brilliant shots actually got
-4,h.n one hole of his rival when the pair
-..,ras for luncheon. In the afternoon the
Grain seemed TO tell on Travers, who found
!. i,,nossihle to bring the shots off with
bic accustomed deadnness.
,,-bough still sterling golfer. Travers is
s-ot the Travers of old He lacks the finesse
,ritb the short approach that was one Of
t,s hest Shots in the halcyon days. With
.Ls half irons Herreshoff also had the bet
Ter direction
lTrarers arrived late. and when he did ap-
near the large gallery felt relieved. Moth
,,e happened at the first hole, which was
balyed in !, but better approach by
t5erreshoff enabled him to win the second
n 5. neither man having made the green
an his drives Under ordinary circum-
Stances Travers would have won tbs third
hole. as he drove the green, a matter Of ga
ed IA l,T.s
l5erreshoff from an awkward lie in a pit,
The result of a sliced drive, Laid his second
scarcely more than a clubs length from
the flag and then holed the put, thereby
getting halve in 3.
more deadly chip shot off the fifth
sraen enabled Herreshoff to win that hole
in a par 1. thereby becoming 3 up Travers
then showed some Of his oldtime form by
bringing of thirty-foot put from the
edge Of the sixth green for a 3 and win
ming the hole One of the new traps on the
course was responsible for Travers losing
the seventh hole, as his long drive, a trif7e
off the line. found the depths of this pit
The hall lay in such an awkward position
that ne had to play at right angles from
tho hole and his niblick shot, far too lusty,
nearly got him into trouble on the other
side of the fairway. From there Travers
again got trapped in the 6eep hazard In
front Of the green. so that after that
comedy Of errors il was easy for Herreshof
to win the hole IN TO 6:
A heeled second shot that failed TO reach
its desired destination cost Travers the
eighth hole, which Herreshoff won in an
other par l. Now UP, the Westbrook man
nroceeded 10 add 20 his rivals discomfort
bv laying a beautiful iron shot into the
punch bowl green at the ninth and then
running down the put for 8, stroke
under par. Travers never had a chance
there. as his second shot found the trap TO
the LEFT, and his recovery was poor. Par
for the outward journey is IS, yet HERES
hot's card was two strokes better. Trav-
ers had &C.
With an advantage of up so early in
the game. Herreshoff's stock rose in leaps
and bounds, and Il really did look as II
the Montclair golfer was hopelessly out OF
# The tide turned for a while, however,
and by winning the tenth. eleventh and
twelfth holes in 3 I, 5, two strokes better
than par. Travers found himself only /
down going 10 the thirteenth. Here he be-
came q tr1ie ragged, topping his second
shot and losing the hole He also made
hash OF the long fifteenth, which HERES
hoff won in TO Z, so that the Westbrook
man again stood Up. One of those deadly
aashie approaches left Travers with a six
foot pat for at the sixteenth. Her
deshon made his first bad mistake at that
hole. where he heeled his approach to the
railroad track out OF bounds Travers won
the nole in 70 5 A beautiful iron shot to
the short seventeenth hole enabled Travers
10 win that in TO 3, and he came within
an ace Of squaring accounts on the home
green where he missed a three-foot put
for a s. which would have won the hole.
As il was il was halved in 4, so that Her
reshof finished the morning session l up
Despite Travers's occasional mistakes, the
Montclair man got around in u, only two
strokes more than his opponent, and the
way he handled himself throughout the
homeward journey led the gallery to look
for some more Of the same brand IN The
afternoon
Neither man found Il within his power 10
keep up the pace on the second journey
around the links. but IL the scoring was
rif" higher than In the earlier golflng
hours the golf was as interesting, because
OF the exceptional shots which both men
brought of from time TO time. After max
ing hash Of the second hole, where he
drove out OF bounds and then hit tree on
his next, Travers saved himself at the
thrd by q grand recovery. He began play
Ing the hole like q loser, topping his drive
Out finished by curling q ten-foot put
around his opponents ball, which LAID hlin
dead stymie. il was one Of those master
ssrokes, and the gallery applauded with
Rusto Travers, after q beautiful drive
made mess Of the fifth hole, slicing his
second shot to the long grass and after
Playing out clear across the green COM
peted The chapter of blunders with three
weak puts so that the hole went TO Here
.Shof IN ; 20 :. That made the Westbrook
man up, and he made It 4 a few moments
-sler by winning the fifth hole In par l.
lfaFers was just off the green on the sec
ono shot but he failed utterly to put sny
JACK spin on the chip approach, so OH
'eleLt from the days Of yore.
n wild second shot one Of the few he
vas guilty OF during the day, got HERE
9noH badly trapped at the seventh hole,
which Travers won IN to G. After halving
me eighth HerreshoT again outplayed his
man TO the ninth and won the hole in to
making him again / up. the same ad-
'aH'aee he enjoyed at that point in the
corning The strokes read IS to q Ia
iator II HerreshoH
11aFers managed 20 get halve in at
14t tenth By dropping a wonderfully accu-
cue put His opponents ball lay on the
-p oi The cup and directly in his path
touch II would have meant disaster. but
BAH slipped by by a HAIR
Ieacth. Dame Fortune vas with him at