New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-07
TRAVIS LOSES LONG BOUT,
Veteran Succumbs to White on
Forty.first Green.
vICTOR'S WONDERFUL WORK
Interscholastic Champion Plays
Neatest of Golf to Win Final
at Garden City.

Golf history was recorded at Garden city
whom Gardner w. White, the eighteen-ycar-
old interschoiastic champion. representing
tho Oakland Golf Club, defeated the re-
doubtsbIe Walter j. Travis. or the home
club on the forty-frst green in the decisive
match of the invitation tournament on the
links OF the Garden city COLI club yes
terdav. old golfers, who have been fol-
lowing the leading amateurs about for
many vcars. waxed enthusiastic over the
struggle and Charles B. Macdonald. who
has witnessed hundreds Of hard fought
matches both here and abroad, declared
he believed IL was the greatest match he
had ever seen
Aside from the fact Of his winning after
Eve extra holes, his success is the more
creditable when the uphill nature ~ hs
task il taken into consideration. Clearly
worried at the outset, White made mistake
after mistake until he found himself
down I'm six holes. II then looked IKE
runaway match for the Garden city Vet.
eran. but when White brought Off an eigh-
teen foot put for a halve in at the sey-
enth he seemed TO take heart. beautiful
iron shot close TO the pin at the eighth
enabled him to win that hole i'm 3.
From there on White displayed better
| brand of golf, and a one stage OF the morn
ing session he succeeded In reducing the
veterans advantage 10 single hole Ira
| Wis, however, shook the youngster of again.
and by winning the seventeenth and eigh.
teenth holes retired for luncheon with 4
lead OF up. The strokes at that stage
read 81 to So IN Travis's favor.
In the afternoon White dropped into his
most happy golfing vein, Keeling Off hole
after hole in par figures. He putted with
boldness that seemed littfe short ~ fool
! hardy, considering the keenness 81 the
green's, but he was hitting the ball with A
smooth and beautifully timed stroke that
got its just reward.
| So fast did the youngster travel that he
| actually became up at the sixth hole m
the afternoon Travis, however, won the
eighth. and as the ninth resulted in
halve in they turned for home all square
White, who had been going like a viii
! horse, made this outward journey in 81, As
against ~ FOR Travis.
! BY winning the tenth the veteran became
up again. and ne never trailed thereafter
until the boy won the seventeenth with
! fine T. That made White dormie, so all ~
needed al the home hole was a halve TO set.
/ tie matters Both made the edge Of the
green over the pond with their mashies.
! Travis being away He was some sixty
I feet short Of the pin
/ He knew he had 70 take chances. 50
| with characteristic boldness the former
champion hit the ball hard-amost too
! hard-but he had the line, and keeping a
! tue course all the way the sphere hit the
! back Of the cup with a bang. jumped up
several inches, and then coming down on
the edge of the cup fell In for >. The
gallery gaSped in wonder and then burst
! into roar Of applause. That meant an
! extra hole match unless White also got
2 He made fine try and his thirty footee
I stopped less than a foot from the hole
This sensational was enough TO rattle
| for the moment he always managed o.
save himself on the green series col
wonderful halves followed White had the
most TO do on every green, but he ran
down put after put, ranging from SIX 20
twenty feet. In this way they halyed the
thirty-seventh. thirty-eighth. thrty-ninta
and fortieth holes in 4. 3. and >. Both
/ got into trouble at the forty-hrst. but after
| they recovered in mastery fashion. White
ian down another six-footer for ( and
/ the match.