New-York tribune., 1912-04-21
TRAVIS HAS OLD MASTERY
Defeats DR.. Gardner in Final
C Round at Lakewood.
VETERAN IN SPLENDID FORM
Ekwanok Golfer in Difficulties
from Beginning and
Handicaps Self.

Holding the upper hand almost from the
start. Walter J. Travis, of Garden City
Long Island. had no trouble in defeating
DR.. c. II. Gardner. Of Ekwanok, UP ana
4 to play. in the decisive round Of the open
golf tournament at the Country Ciup' oi
Lakewood. yesterday. Travis won by . up
and to play. coming within an ace OF du-
nrcat,ns all of his earlier matches, which
were by and margin.
A good field started in the usual Satur-
day handicap, among those running down
especially for this being Findlsy ;. Doug
las and II. Nj Forest. IT so happened that
NJ J. Condor. of Wykagyl, was low hoth
vays. with a card of S0-6-H. He decided
10 take the net prize. thereby leaving For
est with an s. as the gross score winner
Douglas. who is out Of practice, got around
In s..
Although the programme called for the
final round to begin at . o'clock. it was
considerably after that hour when Gard
ner appeared at the first tee. The gallery
assembled as If expecting to see the ProVi-
dence golfer make matters interesting 'or
the veteran. who had been moving down
onponents IN tho earlier rounds with scarce
Iv an effort. Gardner hits low ball with
a long run after the flight, and, in most
instances. he made Travis play 'n' o"'
after the tee shot.
They halved the first hole In I. but Gard
ner's troubles began when his drive &c the
second a triAe sliced. found the trap. so
that fhe other. making no mistakes won
6 Al
topped TO the cross bunker and never had
chance thereafter: at the next he lost
because of puts.
Now 3 down 1t looked as If tho Ek"anoN
man was in for a severe trimming as
the others card TO that point showed All
a and gave no indication OF coming un-
steadiness At the fifth however travis
rave his opponent an opening by taking
three puts, Gardner winning 4 to .. Az
the sixth Travis's approach went over the
green. and taking his putter for the run
IN fou short some twelve feet on the
Ike Gardner got within foot OF the noie'
the bail laying Travis a half stymie. IN
attempting to put past TraVss pan NJ
the other into tho cup, so that Hdru"er vas
credited with the hole IN 3 to ..
He was then only down. ard AFTER ha.F-
ing the next two got badly bunkered al the
ninth, wasting two shots in the hazard ana
then lifting Travis was out IN AZ ana
STOOD IN At the eleventh he laid his
man stymie, winning there. At the thlr-
,eentb the Garden City man missed ten
foot put for 3. but won in after the
other had been bunkered. Although he got
trapped at the fourteenth, Travis laid his
ball out of the sand to within twenty feet
OF the flag and got halve in 4. which left
him a winner. The bye holes were not
played
In the morning Travis and Howard w.
Perrin agreed to keep their cards In a play
off of tie for the qualifying score prize.
Travis made an 50 while defeating {. n.
Phillips, OF Atlantic City. In the semi-final
round. At the same time Perrin was
struggling with Gardner. who finally de-
feated the Philadelphian by a and mar
gin. At the eighth hole, however, Perrin
momentarily forgot he was playing for the
medal and lifted mis- ball after Gardner had
won the hole with a long put But for
this Perrin would have had a good chance
The summary follows;
First sixteen (semi-hnal round)-walter J.
Travis Garden City. beat G. n. Phillips, At
lsntic City. 8 Up and to play; G. H. Gardner,
Ekwsnok. beat II. W. Perrin, Philadelphia, 2
Up and 10 play.
Final round-Travis beat Gardner, 3 UP and
4 to play.
Beaten eight (Serni- final round)-Percy Plat
Lakewood. beat W. W. Taylor, Ardsley, up
Rrice Dvans Rrae Burn, beat Z. 7. Allis, Har-
ward. UP and 10 play
Final round-Platt beat Evans. Up.
Second sixteen (semi-fnsl round>-George
Dixon. shinnecock beat S X. de Forest Lake
wood / up: L. ". Kemble, Philadelphia. beat
C. z. Van Vleck. Montclair 1 UP 10 holes).
Final heat-kemble beat Dixon, l up 09
hoesl.
Third sixteen (sem-hnal round)--A. Gregory,
Albany. beat c. p Eddy, Ridgewood. up; A.
W Westney, Atlantic City. beat II. :. Jennings
TvaifskiIl. up and to play
Final round-Gregory beat Westney, up and
20 play.
Fourth sixteen csemi-hnal round)-A. C. Pratt.
Montclair, beat ". A. Engeman, Nassau l up
10 holes); g. c. Stanley. Wyantenuck. beat y.
s. p. Randolph. sr.. Lakewood. . up and to
play.
Final round-Pratt beat Stanley by default