New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
TRAVIS WITHOUT A MEDAL
Garden City Man Fails to Get a
Prize at Lakewood.
w. w. TAYLOR THE WINNER
Ardsley Golfer Carries Of Hon
ors, Defeating Veteran in
the Final Round.

1t remained for Wyatt W. Taylor of
Ardsley. TO put the finishing touch to
series Of tournament surprises by defeat
ing Walter j. Travis. the redoubtable car
den CITY golfer. in the final round Of the
open meeting at the Country Club Of Lake
wood yesterday. Taylor beat Travis up.
incidentally. this makes one of the few
tournaments in which he has taken part
this season that Travis failed to WIN
prize.
TAYLOR won because he played good goit'
the kind that won the medal ana iate'
carried him TO the final round OF the Aros-
lev invitation affair last summer where ne
lost TO Gardiner w White NO faut couiu
he found with Traviss golf. as in the maj
match Yesterday he made the round in 49,
the best he had during the tournament
In the morning Taylor began auspiciousN
by downing his clubmate, r. r. MnnoE' Wy
IN and 4 to play, the same margin lnd'
had separated Taylor from MS TWO Pe
xious victims. Mundy was OF win Ms
uooden clubs and for that matter la!loI
was also a trihe wild. but when they ar
r,rad at the green Taylor got his puts
aovn and Mundy missed. The winner
r.ocbed the turn in 43, as against 10 Tor
Npndv on the tenth green Mundy missed
+. mt for a 2. and at the eleventh another
.,ort ona for Q Taylor laid his man
.,vuie on the thirteenth green, otherwise
H,xd,, would have won there. The match
ended at the fourteenth.
In the meantime Travis had been taking
r p Endicott one of the younger Allan
e. CIV plavers into camp. Endicott held
his man for the first FIVE holes, or until ne
rsn,e IN grief in trap at No. 6, where
three shots were wasted in the SAND
Travis won the ninth in 5, went out In 80
and turned for home up. He then prac-
ticsllv sewed up the match by winning the
two water holes in each Whatever
chances Endicott had of prolonging the al
fair vanished on the ifteenth green Where
Travis unfeelingly laid him stymie
The best golf of the tournament resulted
in the meeting of Travis and Taylor in the
decisive match Barely has such deadly
putting on the part of two players been
seen as that displayed by Taylor ana
and Travis. especially on the outward
holes. Neither man gave anything away
five holes it was not due to poor putting
At the third his approach fell tribe green
shv. while at No 3 the Garden City man
pulled a drive to the trap.
An illustration of the quality of the short
game being handed out appeared at the
sixth hole Their approaches left the two
balls on the green. Taylors being some
thirty feet from the cup and Travis's
AT.,gl. he
prise Of the gallery, the Ardsley man ran
dow the long one for 8. Travis made no
conf ent whatsoever, and his face was as
eApn ssionless as a wooden Indian. He
merely walked up to his ball, looked the
line over carefully and then Sank the
put for a halve. This hole is 80 yards.
A few moments later Travis brought off
a heart breaker from just off the edge or
the seventh green for another three-spot,
and it won the hole, though Taylor made
bold try for his long put. This left the
Ardsley man l up going to the eighth.
Up TO that time the pace had been UNI
naturally fast, the card showing Taylor
] under as and the other even. Taylor
made hash Of the long ninth, slicing
drive TO the trap. and after getting out we'll
experimenting this with two more indiffer-
Cnt shots As Travis made no mistakes
the hole was his in 10 6, both going out
in IS. practically par figures.
Although Travis laid his man a half
stymie on the tenth green, Taylor putted
beautifully and won in 8, when the other
missed short one. They halved the next
four holes in par figures, both narrowly
missing tries for 3's at the twelfth, thir-
teenth and fourteenth. At the fifteenth
Travis fell short Of the flag on his APP
proach Taylor being over The Ardsley
man then ran down the put and won in 3.
That made him up. and a halve in at
the sixteenth left him dormie two.
Travis won the seventeenth where his
opponent pulled to the rough. To the
home hole Taylor got fine drive, fully
$50 yards straight down the course, where
as the other pulled TO the long grass
Travis fell short Of the bunker on his
eecond and failed TO make the green on
his third shot Taylor pulled his second
20 the rough, but mashie got him home
on the next and the hole was his in
- & He had "a for the round.
ILL