New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-15
Traxers Fails TO
Stop Hilton at Golf

followed. Hilton taking three puts on the
| fourth green. while Travers did likewise
at the short fifth The Montclair man was
| saved there when his try for laid the
Britisher stymie
As If IT were the easiest thing imaginable
Hilton laid a second shot close to the pin
at the seventh hole and won that in 3
stroke under par. The champion from
abroad gave his sorriest exhibition of the
day when he pulled into the deep trap TO
the left of the eighth green. oddly enough.
Iravers got there also on his tee shot. but
while Hilton required strokes to get out
lravers reached the green on his third
winning the hole in TO g. When Hilton
took puts on the ninth green Travers
got another life" and they halved in .,
each going out in 40
Poor judgment in putting cost Travers
the tenth hole, but Hilton outplayed him to
the thirteenth, which he got in a good ;.
Misjudging his distance Travers found the
| brook on his second shot 10 the four zenith,
after intending to play short. The penalty
stroke there cost him the hole and placed
him down The metropolitan champion
time. and the gallery vas cast in gloom.
The relentless Hilton continued his method
ical way and won the next two holes in
par figures. Travers taking 3 puts at the
fifteenth and slicing his drive az the next
Now . down. Travers did manage to win
a hole. the first since the eighth. by laying
mashie shot dead 10 the seventeenth and
getting down put for a after Hilton had
been wide on his approach and missed his
try for a ). halve in at the home
hole allowed Hilton 10 retire for luncheon.
4 up He came back in 81 to Traverss
q, so the cards read - 20 50 in his favor.
Alec, Smith, the Wykagyl professional,
who In years gone by played a great deal
with Travprs at Nassau, declared that the
metropolitan titleholder-s swing was all
amiss nothing like the old one.
Hope returned with a rush when 'Jer-
rom" won the first three holes right off tho
reel starting out in the afternoon. In each
instance Travers had the better approach.
the pitch at the third hole in particular be
ing a beauty. the ball coming 10 rest Lest
than two feet from the cup. Hilton missed
his try for a 4 there, but laid his opponent
half styrnie so taking no chances the
hole in 4. Three puts cost Travers a sixth
hole. At the seventh both went astray.
Travers hitting a spectator in the hand
with a wild slice. After a halve in
Travers aroused the gallery by holing
long put for . at the eighth and an
other one for a on the ninth green,
winning both holes, thereby placing him
only one down at the turn. Travers had
gone out in 81 TO 20 for the Briton, and it
did not look so bad for the American.
Four consecutive halves In IS fol-
lowed. one golfer striving 10 increase his
advantage and the other struggling as des-
perately TO cut it down, until finally
Travers. weakening under the Strain,
faltered on a short approach to the four
tenth green. thereby enabling Hilton to
; win in to 6.
Whatever hope Travers and the gallery
might have had Of pulling out the match'
vanished with Hiltons second shot 10 the
fifteenth hole. II came after pulled
drive 10 the rough Hilton had been in the
long grass only a few times during the
day. but he proved equal 10 the occasion by
LAYING q mashie shot stone dead over the
mounds. on the like Travers reached the
far edge Of the green, and after an inef-
fectval stab" for a three, picked up.
That made Hilton dormie 8, and the enc
came few moments later with halve IN
at the sixteenth As the contestants
shook hands the gallery applauded the
victor. but II was a half-hoarted effort. TOT
njne-tenths of those present had been
pulling hard for Jerry
As the thousands trudged over the half
mile Of intervening space between the SIX
tenth green and the clubhouse the cues
ton on nearly every ones lips seemed 10
be. How can they beat him meaning OIL
course Hilton.
n had been reasoned ont by many that
if Travs-- .orld not stop Hilton there was
LITTLE DIG. .rd Of any one else doing 50.
Tho veteran James y. Tying hit the nan
ON the head with the remark that TraVerS
allowed Hilton TO get too far away IN t'e
morning. thereby making r an almost m
possible task 10 pick up four holes I'D the
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