New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-24
TRAVIS AT OLD TRICKS
Wins Opening Golf Tourney of
Year at Lakewood.
HEIRESS-LOVE FIGHTS HARD
Carries Match to Home Green.
but Finally Loses by
One Up.

In a nerve racking match that required
the fun eighteen holes Walter J. Travis.
OF Garden City. the metropolitan golf
champion. defeated Fred Herreshor. OF
cup Of the open tournament on the links
OF the Country Club Of Lakewood yester-
day The margin in the veterans favor
was only ! up. but it suficed to wipe
out the HerreshoT victory over the same
course last fall.
Even a harder match than the final
for the principal cup was that between
". Y. Conover. OF Deal. and Brice Evans
the long driver from Brae Burn, in the
beaten eight division. They were all square
al the eighteenth. but Conover gained the
day after two extra holes. Other protract-
cd matches marked the final rounds in the
second and third sixteens. wherein the GIL
lett farR- shOne. W. X. Gillett won the
second cup at the expense of Harry ALI
sopp. of Forest Hill, the twentieth
green. while G. r. Gflett won in the third
division over Morris Malloy. OF Garden
City. this match requiring three extra
holes.
Coincident with the match rounds in
medal play handicap won by N. J. Condor.
Of wykagyl. with 76-7-ss. Travis won
gross score honors with a T. made in his
morning match with Howard F. Whitney.
OF Nassau. u this contest Travis went
out in y and turned for home up He
won the eleventh hole in >. but this fash
OF brill,ancy was put in the shade a few
moments later. when Whitney hOled an
q -a-1~ ~r-,1F4
hole
Continuing his faultless golf. Travis set
tied Inc match on the seventeenth green
by a and l margin. His only slip was
q al the home hole. but even at that he
came home IN q, which al that time was
the best ever made for the homeward
Journey at Lakewood Oddly enough, only
an hour or so later J. F. Stanley. IT,. OF
Newark. while playing in the handicap.
also came home in %. getting IS for the
round He took 46 10 60 out because Of
one bad hole
Herreshon in earning his place in the
anal bracket did so at the expense Of
Fgndlay Douglas the man whom Here
shon defeated in the same round OF the
fall tournament over the Lakewood course.
HerreshoT began well. and as Douglas was
a bit ragged at the start the Westbrook
man won three out Of the first four holes.
out in - 20 his opponents 4S. Herreshof
turned for home 8 up. and thereafter he
never failed 70 show the way. When
Douglas won the seventeenth hole in the
Nassau man stood only 1 down. and he
stu had a chance, hut Herreshoff outplayed
him 10 the home hole. getting a 4 70 Doug
lass = and winning the match by . I'D.
Herreshof went around in =, 10 y for the
Scot
A large gallery turned out for the final
between Travis and Herreshof. Specula-
ton was rife as 70 the outcome. one ap-
parently having as many supporters as the
other. Both started like schcoIboys. HERE
shorf topped his drive 20 the road. got
out badly and found the bunker on his
third on his part Travis badly pulled
his tee shot behind a small tree. and had
70 PLAY out short. The metropolitan
champion. however. reached the green on
his third. and won the hole easily IL > as
He-reshoT could not DO better than :.
Thereafter neither man could gain an adj
vantage over the other until the ninth.
which Herreshoff won II 70 s. scuaring
the match. Although the intermediate holes
were al halved. both had chances which
were thrown away. Herresh0ff went out in
-. a stroke more than his opponent. Com
ing home they halved the tenth and
eleventh in threes. the twelfth IN a par 4.
but Travis stole" the thirteenth in by
bringing Of a thirty-fooJ put. Herreshof
squared accounts at the next hole, which he
won IN 10 the others J.
From there until the eighteenth a success
sion OF halves resulted. Both pulled their
drives into the rough going 10 the home
hole and Travis. showing excellent judg-
n.ent. PLAYED out short Of the green with
an iron. Her-eshoT. taking a long chance
selected g brassie in the hope Of getting
home ia . he topped the ball. and fol-
lowed this by topping his third shot into the
bunker which effectuaIlv killed his chances.
Travis winning the hole IN 20 and the
match by 1 up. The champion came home
ia 30 ana completed the round in r. three
strokes better than his opponent. The card
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