New-York tribune., 1912-04-20
TRAVIS HAS HIS REVENGE
WYATT Taylor Beaten in First
Round of Lakewood Golf.
WIZARD IN BRILLIANT FORM
Two Extra Hole Matches En-
liven Contests, Crump and
Gardner Winning.

man up and to play in t}ae first round
n, the open golf tournament at tho Coun-
,rv Club of Lakewood yesterday. The
Garden City wizard had the same fine
brand Of golf on tap that carried him so
successfully through large fields in the
South short time ago. AS for Taylor, 1t
may be said that this player has as yet
bsen unable TO get within a third Of his 1911
form.
The best Taylor could do was to halve
an occasional hole with his opponent and
even when apparent openings presented
themselves as result of a momentary
sin on Traviss part the last named in
yariably made amends with a rare recov-
cry. Cases in point were at the third and
seventh holes Travis getting trapped at
both. vet managing to win one and halve
the other. BY going out in 40 he stood
up and then supplementing string OF
four 3's the GardeI City man finished the
match on the thirteenth green. His drive
there, a matter Of 24o yards, came to rest
,carcely ten feet from the flag.
After luncheon Travis took on H. V.
Gaines. Of Wykagyl. Here again the golf
was all one e-sided, Travis winning as easily
as before. This time however, he finished
out "a bye holes, and continuing on WIN
ont a slip the veteran did the inward nine
IN sS. figures that made it possible to laugh
even at par. The total of 10 is the pest
,een at the course In the pines IN lohs
while. and considering that strong WIN
Was blowing the feat is all the more praise
worthy The card was as follows:
Walter J. Travis Garden City:
out fS :.:.:........s .........:s ! 3 8 5 3 : Ess-7,
Two extra-hole matches marked the first
round. The most protracted Of these re-
suited in the meeting of George A. Crump'
Of Philade elphia. and Percy Platt the Lake
uood golfer who won the Van Cortlandt
Park tournament last season. Always long
off the tee. Platt had an advantage in drlV-
ing. but he frittered away many opportunl-
ties on the greens. After they had finished
the round all square Platt had fine op-
portunity to win the match at the nine
teenth. when his opponent got into trouble.
The Lakewood man promptly took three
nuts so that they halved the hole in 5.
Conditions were reversed at the next, where
Platt lost a shot in a trap, but stole
halve by laying an approach dead Platt
missed another put on the twenty-nrs'
green and lost the match
The other tilt that went more than the
regulation eighteen holes was between c.
H. Gardner, OF Ekwanok and c. e. Turner,
OF Midland The first named, as a result
of playing a good deal in the South. Is on
his game at present. but even so he had
all he could DO to dispose of the Midland
golfer on the nineteenth green. Later In
the day Gardner found NJ. J. Condor. OF
wYtcasyl, an equally stubborn opponent.
but once again the Ekwanok man proved
equal to the occasion, winning by l up.
The spectacular shot OF the day went to
the credit of the veteran, George T. Arm
strong who found himself bracketed with
q. c. Stanley the Wyantenuck golfer. Al
though the evergreen George was unable
10 make much progress against the in
tercollegiate champion, he at least had the
satisfaction OF popping in nibhck shot
for a at the first water hole, as the
tenth IS called. Armstrong had pulled his
tee shot over near the eleventh tee, ana
from an awkward stance in the rough he
shot the robber core out like bird. 1t
struck the green a few feet short OF the
pin and. taking one bound, dove plump into
the hole.
Howard W. Perrin, Philadelphias hope,
did all that was required of him, beating
the Harvard captain, +. p. Allis in the
morning by a and l margin, and then
dsposing of II. ]. Topping, the Greenwich
man. who called attention 10 himself by
recently defeating Chick" Evans at PIE
hurst. While not playing as brilliantly as
Travis, Perrin would easily have been under
so had he finished the bye holes in either
OF his matches.
The other survivor OF the day was c. \.
Phillips, one Of the all-year'round players.
Phillips beat George Crump in the after
noon in match carried 10 the home green.
This leaves Phillips to play Travis in one
half Of the semi-fnal round this morning
and Perrin and Gardner in the other.
In the second sixteen S. X. de Forest
came through on the upper side after an
up-and-down match with his clubmate F.
A. Potts. The veteran c. f. Van Week also
PLAYED at the top of his game. After
dropping into beaten eight set Taylor had
his troubles downing f. j. Ridgeway In
a twenty-hole match.
The summary follows:
First sixteen Crrst round)-C y. Phillips. At
lsntlc City, beat V. G. Iongley, wannamctsett'
UP and 3 10 play; q. A. Crump. Philadelphia
hat Percy Plat LakeWOSs SS. up II R,dsWay hPss
Montclair. up and to play; Walter J. Travis,
Garden city, beat W. W. Taylor Ardsley. sup up
p P; Anis, Harvard, 2 up and ! to play; H. ID. D.
Topping, Pinehurst. beat A. NJ Reed Ekwanok'
up and 10 play; G; II. GardneT EkwsnoK'
beat C. e. Turner Midland, l UP Q9 holes; M'
J. Condor Wykagyl beat Brice Evans, Brae
Burn. up and TO play. u,.
Second round--Phillips beat Crump, up;
Travis beat Gaines, up and 20 play; Perrin
beat Topping. up and 10 play; Gardner beat
Beaten eight (frst sixteenJ-Platt beat Long
ley, up: Taylor beat Ridgway up 90 holes);
y. p. Allls beat Reed. up and TO play;
Evans beat Turner. up and Z 70 play.
Second sixteen (irst TOundb-F. a. Potts Lake
wood. beat G. w. Harmon, Wyksgyl, up and /
10 play; S. X DE Forest Lakewood beat +. Il.
Bartlett. Dunwoodie, up and 2 to play; George
Atlantic City. up and 8 to play; +. II. Mccall.
Atlantic City, beat p. S. y. Randolph, lr, Lake.
wood. up, 7. p. Endlcott, Atlantic City, beat
Mon,elair beat 6. l.. Tappin. Garden City ! up
20 holes; ". X Gillett. WykagyI. beat +. :.
P6aS:pbIs PSsSn %yaasy Ssat IA Hayes w. w. AtSS haao
City, up and 10 play.
Second round-De Forest beat Potts. up;
pixon beat Mccall. up and 8 TO play; Van
bic rt.as beat Gillett. up 1S holss'. - ,u.,,,
and 70 play c. T.. E5dy. Ridgewoo1, beat ..
Clark. Dunwoodie, up and TO play; 4.
c1ty cc1IesoTy; ~ Albany beat d = , White AdsIalo
~ood, beat ;. Y. RamaGe. oil city up and
Play j. y. 9, Tappan. Nassau. beat w. r.
r.;Isfsn ro;slehan,y. Deal; up and 70 play; II. r.
Z up and 10 play: A. w. Westney, Atlantic
c1sy beat A. f. Whitney. Lakewood up.
and . TO play Gregory beat Camovito. j up d9
nolesl: Palmer beat Tspran 2 up: Westney beat
Fourth sHteen 4 snd spS, 70 piSS %Surd-A G. Pratt
3 5',n'ci,air ~ beat g y. nriszi. Wykagyl up and