New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-05
TRAVERS TOO MUCH
FOR TRAVIS IN GOLF
Waldo. Who Put Out Hilton,
Fails to Hold the Pace
and Meets Defeat.
PAUL HUNTER HIS MASTER
England Still Has Chance to
Win the Title, as Norman
Hunter Wins an Up
hill Match


Wheaton. H.. sept. Although Tar
from their familiar stamping grounds. the
Eastern golfers are making brave
showing in the national amateur cham
pionShip as three OF the eight winners
to-day in tournament progressing on
the Inks Of the Chicago Golf Club. rep
resent clubs along ghe Atlantic seaboard.
The Eastern survivors are jerome d.
Travers. or Upper AIor1clair. Hamilton
h Kerr. Of Ekwanok. and Heinrich
Schmidt or WOrCestAr. or the other
hand the Chicago section remains well
represented in Mason Phelps and Paul
Hunter. OF Midlothian. Chick Evans
OF Edgewater. and Warren X Wood. Of
Homewood. The eighth man 90 remain
on velvet is Norman r Hunter the
dashing Scot. who Piled a match out Of
the Ere to-day after ending the morning
round down 70 ". p. smith. OF Phils-
delphis
As the situation now stands the con
testants will clash In the third round
n1-moTrow az follows
Phelps ". Travers. Paul Hunter VS..
Kerr. Evans vs. Schmidt, and Wood VS.
Norman Hunter
IL VII be seen thaE while the odds an
pear greatly IN favor OF the ultimate sue
cess Of an American. there stil fingers
the possibility OF Norman Hunter accom-
phshinE what Hilton came here TO do.
The elimination Of Charles Gilbert
Waldo. jr. or the Brooklawn Country
club. Hntons conoueror Of yesterday;
the tilt between Travers and Walter j.
Travis. the removal OF ". C. Fownes. jr.
and the brilliant golf by Evans and Kerr
were the brightest spots IN the pisy 20
DAY.
Despite the fact that Trsvers and
Travis were Fasteners. this pair OF for
r7er national champions were followed hF
4 lzrge gallery throughout the day. Onv
year ago IN the championship az Ana
vans -Jerry" downed Travis In the nrst
round Their match to-day was keen
from start 10 finish. the veteran being M
On several Occa stons. but the metropoh-
TAR rtleholder finally won by and 4
margin Throughout the morning round
neither seemed 90 be az the TOD o. his
game. but thanks 70 remarkable powers
or the low side.
Travis mace q weah start taking -hree
strokes 10 reach the green. and supple
nenting these with as many puts. so that
mis- opponent was enabled 10 win the hole
in 10 6. Al the fourth jerome got bunk
cred from the tee. bat even with that
penalty he wouid have halved the hole
had the Garden City man not brought on
a long put That squared the match. A
fine recovery from a pulled drive close 20
the fence enabled Trsvers 70 naive me
fifth IT. 4 and II looked as # the next
would see an equal division ln :. after
the approaches which left Travis about
thirty-fve feet short and his opponent a
similar distance beyond the nas. The
veteran then brought gasp from the
gallery by sinking the long one Tor a e
This hole is 565 yards
At the eighth Travis won another when
the Upper Montciair golfer sliced 20 the
rough The snort ninth saw Travis hrst
IN the water and then in the rough. with
The result that the hole was gift for
Travery. who turned for home 3 down.
several times thereafter Travis got into
difficulties or the tee. but then managed
20 regain the stroke lost by getting down
IN one put. There was an exception 20
This At the seventeenth. however where
ne missed a four-footer. which placed him
down They Ealved the home hole. 50
shst Travers retired for luncheon with
The slight advantage OF 4 up.
setting out in the afternoon, Trsvers
became a wild horse. Keeling of mole
after hole IN par figures. For time
Travis held the Metropolitan Golf As
ISOLATION champion. but beginning wiki
The sixth -Travers won four straight
hoieS he was out in q. three strokes
under par That MADE him up. Travis
hung on gsmely. but could not carry the
match past the seventeenth green. the
rhfr1y-hfth OF the match.
The csrds were as follows.