New-York tribune., 1911-04-21
TRAVIS WIZARD OF OLD
Makes Golf History in Play Over
The Lakewood Links.
SETS RECORD FOR COURSE
Randolph Makes Hole IN one
Stroke and Herresh0ff Wins
Cold Medal.

Although hampered by rain and "lnd ana
soft turf. the golfers competing In the IN
vitation tournament which began on the
links Of the Country Club OF bakewooo
Yesterday accomplished fea,s Of brilliancy
that will live long in memory. Most spec
tacular was the making of hole III one
stroke by F. $. p. Randolph. jr., OF the
home club. while equally unusual were t"o
consecutive twos on the part or waiter d.
Travis. Later in the day the Garden 'Hy
wizard caused another ripple Of excitement
bv setting new amateur record Tor the
course. returning a score Of %.
With all this going on, tho fact that Freu
Herreshoff. # Garden city, the metropoii-
tan champion. won the medal in the quah-
fying round. with score Of So passed al
most unnotlced Herreshor had oswald
Eirkby. the Englewood record holder, TOT
q mariner and as n violent rainstorrl was
hurting across the links during the carry
hours neither expected to do much In the
scoring line. Both kept clear OF the traps
bu, thev had no luck on the greens. BY
going out IN 42 and back In 80 the metro
pol!tan title holder beat his partner
stroke each way The medal card read as
follows:
Fred Hcrreshcff. Garden city:
out out ..........ss 9 ! J IS 50
Because Of the storm the comElittee cut
down the testing round from thhty-slX 10
eighteen holes. brH as II cleared up AFTER
luncheon most of the players got in
double round anyway Randolph. VINO
made a hole in one stroke, did the trick at
the 1i0-yard tenth hole. His mashe sho'
dropped the ball less than foot from 'he
pin. and it just had force enough 10 reach
the cup. where IL rested against the stan
When the latter was removed the ball sank
n the bottom Of the hole. This is the nrst
time in years that a hole has been made IN
q single stroke during n tournament round.
Randolph. who is only schoolboy has
bosn uIaving at Lakewood for several
years. He got around in sO-good enough
to qualify for the first sixteen. HIS partner
was James Barber, OF Englewood.
Travis got his brace of twos by running
down good puts on the tenth and eleventh
areens. The first was a matter Of only four
feet. and the next about twice that length.
II was the first time In his long career as
golfer that Travis had ever had two rs IN
succession With that great start on the
inward round. he might have had low
score. but he made mess of the last three
holes.
II was while engaged in four-tall match
that Travis came into his own. With Os-
wald Kirkby as a partner he reeled OFF the
long holes on the outward journey without
a slip. reaching the turn i'm 36, or two
rfrO hoc q
failed to get better than at the wee elev-
enth hole. where he took in the morning.
After that. however. tho onetime cham
nion here and abroad played Ike ma
chine finishing in g.
The 70 for the round was two strokes
better than the previous amateur record
for the links, held Jointly by Herreshon ana
H. NJ Forrest IT also equalled the profess
sional mark set by Willie Norton. the clubs
professional. Travis and kirkby defeated
Albert Swords, of Morris County. and Nor
ton by up and 3 to play. The best ball
of the winning pair was 50, Swords help
ing Travis with a at the eleventh hole.
The new record card read as follows:
" j. Travis. Garden city:
2a' 2fy' .............4 ..........4t ! Z ! ! s-$$ff7o 81
Dr. A. T. Haight. OF Wykagyl. surprised
himself by getting the 40o-yard home hole
I'm 3. but even so he had to be content with
qualifying in the third sixteen. The draw
for the first round IN the chief division was
as follows:
Phillips VS.. Ifochster. Vanderpool VS..
Travis. Swords VS.. Lynch: Condor We.
Kirkby; Mabon vs.. Camovito; Randolph VS..
,t,ttb,.. w X Gillatt "a HerreShoff. Platt
vs. Stanley.
The last named has followed UP his sue
cess in the seniors tournament b. qualify
ing in the first sixteen, all Of which shows
that he is playing better than ever.
In the club competition the WykaSyl
team Of four Won the prize with a total of
35g, seven strokes better than Lakewood,
tire second team.
The scores were as follows:
ErDsT SIXTEEN