New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-30
CALL HALT IN TOURNEY
Travis and Ward Unable to Fin
iSh Golf Match.
LATE STARTS THE REASON
Darkness Stops Play at the
Eighteenth Hole, with
the Pair Even.

foot, hamDeTed the progress OF Ile oPSii
golf tournament continued on the links
Of the Country club Of Lakewood yester-
day. AS a result It was found necessary
because of darkness 10 call halt in two
matches, one being the second round
meeting between Walter !. Travis, OF
Garden City, and his clubmaute, John NJ.
Ward. Throughout the second round the
pair kept well together, and after Ward
won the second hole Travis squared ac-
counts at the fourth by laying his man
a stymie.
Going to the sixteenth Travis stood one
up. but Ward won the seventeenth so
that with a hole to play the pair were
all even 1t was so dark that neither
man could see fifty yards away and upon
appealing to the committee consent was
obtained to let the finish go over until
this morning. It was a most unusual
thing to do and would never have been
necessary If all the morning matches
had been started on time.
In the meatimc, Fred Herrcshoff lad
been playing sound golf and won both his
matches. defeating Chisholm Beach, OF
Fox Hills, the New York Athletic CID
champion, in the morning and Percy
Platt. the qualification leader after
luncheon. In the early stages OF MS
match with Beach, it looked for time
as II the winner Of the tournaments at
tho National links and Nassau was In
for trouncing. Beach started off W!:h
fours and negotiating the long outward
Journey in 20 turned for home up, but
Herreshon wore his man down coming
back and finally won by up and , 10
play.
Travis had his troubles m disposinG Of
James G. Patterson, OF the home CLUB.
The first named was up at the turn,
going out in A. but Patterson with a
three and two at the tenth and eleventh
holes, respectively, promptly squared the
match. Travis won the twelfth i'm three,
laying an approach shot up dead, but a
four by Patterson at the fifteenth leveltd
matters again. Patterson had hard luck
at the next. where his ball moved wn@n
he was i'm the act Of swinging for a
brassie shot, with the result thaJ 1t went
off at right angles 50 that the hole cost
him a seven. lie was one down then
and Travis won by one up when the last
two holes were halved. Travis went
round in 81 to Batterson's Sc.
Realizing the need for prompt action
after luncheon, Herreshoff and Plat lost
no time in getting together. Both are eA-
tremely long drivers. but in yesterday
tilt the advantage rested almost entirely
with the former metropolitan champion.
Furthermore, Herreshoff developed put
ting streak, and on two greens, the first
and thirteenth, where he stole halves
Herreshoff brought of puts of at least
twenty feet.
The green's, all Of which had been swept
clear of snow, were in fairly good condl-
ton. Herreshof stood 1 up at the turn,
having gone out in a. Coins TO the SIX
teenth he stood up, but Plat ruined
whatever chances he might have had OF
the agony by getting bunkere"'
so that Herreshon won the hole ana the
match by and margin.
In surviving the two rounds Redue.d
played steady golf first disposins oil II. >.
Burket. of Inverness, and later j. t.
Faber. OF the Richmond County Country
CLUB. ara lhothil4S S-0N''' ""'
oyer II J. Topping after the long driver
from Greenwich had been mp at the
eighth hole. There viii be- the usual nan
dicap to-day
The summary follows.
.-t v.,r... q Travis.
Fllst sixteen NHS, lo'l''y 1.,,.r.,,5 4 nix,
Garden Clty' StaI '' ii55.,51.il %lnrrri.,ir heat
Mood, up. H. =. Ns'''I rrT 4 a. NAV.
II. r BurheU, inverness, Z" .p -. g., III.
J. T.. Fabcr ldehmond COUNT, - 49, -, n
Forest Midland up anu J. 10 pc, ~
CUurUy Fox HIS, beat y. = 'ilotItCss 80
I up and 10 play. Fred hyrre-hoH, Nations.
beat Chisholm Beach, Fox HIS 3 up and 10
yaw,er BalusrOl by default. +. &. Jennings
Nassau. beat ). G.. Alabon, Ardsiey, , up
.Iohn Nj Ward, Garden city, beat H. ). Top
ping Greenwich, up and . g. play.
SsIo1d round Travis vs. ward all suudr"
on seventeenth unfinished. Erdi,ld lrHt
Iysbrr . uu and ! To play. COnrOy beat Jen
uirgs > uu. Hrrrrshor beat Plat. 3 mp AMI .
SeSord sixteen 6Hrst rouudp-M T. FcareN,
,glUty beat f. van Syhalek. Rich
u1nuI ,rnuUfv M and ] TO play, =. Is ua
Forest IaE,Vood beat W. = Leeds, Fox Hills.
4 mn and ? 10 play. W T. Hcm, Richmond
CountV. heat 4. y Fowler d., ST. Andrews, !
sTntt PIMA isIphia 4 no and 90 play, A {.
,,au,yitn Inattached beat A. 4. Roth. Man
80, ~ grd m . plg,.. 4 " Brand lake
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