Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-27
.OU|MET HUMBLES
TRAvERS IN MATCH
Open Golf Tourney Hero Adds
to His Laurels at
BrOOkline.


BROOKLINE, Mass, Sept. IL
Francis Ouimet, Americas national
open golf title-holder, added to his
recent laurels yesterday by vanquish-
ing Jerome D. Travers. the national
amateur champion. Their match
went twenty holes.
Ouimet's victory marked a clean
sweep for the players of the Boston
district against those of New York
in the singles division of the prelimi-
nary tie for the Lesley cup. New
York had won three times out of five
foursomes matches in the forenoon,
and the intercity score for the day
was Boston II, New York g. The
local team will meet the Philadelphia
team, the present holders of the cup,
in the final round today.
A gallery of one thousand persons
spread over the links of the Country
Club after the Ouimet-Travers match,
to the entire neglect of the other nine
matches and became SO overweight
at the twentieth hole as to commit
what President r. G. Watson, of the
United States Golf Association de-
clared to be "the worst exhibition of
partisan feeling in American golfing
history, and disgrace to the sport"
The outbreak followed Travers's ILL
fortune in driving into a trap beyond
the twentieth hole on his approach.
The champion had tied at eighteen
holes and had halved the nineteenth
and Ouimet had reached the green In
the twentieth with two strokes.
Travers's mishap was appreciated
to be the deciding break, and the gall
lery gave vent to it's feelings by clap
ping of hands. When TraverS came
on the green he looked the crowd in
the face for a moment and then
turned to the business of extricating
the ball. He failed on a twelve-foot
putt and saw the match go to Ouimet,
who sank a two-foot putt.
Regarding the incident at the
twentieth hole of the Ouimet-T ravers
match, G. Herbert Windler, chairman
of the golf committee of the Country
Club, issued a statement last night
rendering an apology to Travers "for
the disgraceful and unsportsmanlike
behavior of the crowd
1.-THE action of the crowd, or that
part of 1t which applauded the stroke
that put Mr.. Travers into bunker,
detracted greatly from the merit of
the victory for Mr.. Ouimet, and may
even have been the means of termi-
mating the match at that point" said
the chairman.
Ouimet outnerved Travers yester-
day, as he did the British profess
SIGNALS, Vardon and Ray, in the ma
tional open championship play-off on
the same course last Saturday. Start
ing poorly, he was outdriven and out
putted by Travers in the early holes.
He outdrove Travers for the first
time from the sixth tee, but missed a
putt Again In the seventh Ouimet
xIyac yUf q of ha nj IN q
tee drive, but missed the putt, and
took three, while Travers retrieved
a bunker shot and an overapproach
by running down twelve-foot putt.
Ouimet picked up a hole on the
eighth, when Travers missed an easy
putt, but dropped another when
Travers landed within a foot of the
hole ON his third shot over the long
ninth hole. Three down at the turn,
Ouimet set out on a stern chase. He
halved the tenth with Travers, but
reduced the latter's lead when he ap-
preached within foot of the eleventh
hole in two, while Travers fiubbed his
tee drive. He was also on the twelfth
green In two. while Travers was
again short. Travers topped his drive
slightly at the next tee, went into a
gully on his second shot and gave up
the hole when the ball hit the sheer
sac Oh the anu DOQnQcu DdCh.
The match was even.
The fourteenth was disastrous
hole for Ouimet. After slicing his
drive into the trees, he hooked twice
into the branches before he got out.
and took an eight for the hole, while
Travers took four. Ouimet was one
down when he was forced to concede
the fifteenth, missing a seven-foot
putt.
Ouimet's mother greeted her son on
the sixteenth green, which hole he
halved for three; then the boy. after
apparently assuring his parent that
he had not lost his spirit, played the
seventeenth for four. Travers APP
proximated six. For the home hole
Ouimet outdrove Travers and lofted
to the green in two. Travers's ball
on the second shot fell in front of a
bunker, and on the third shot over
ran the green into the crowd. 1t was
Ouimet's hole, and the match was
tied. The young amateur had come
back in thirty-eight strokes. which,
including an eight for the fourteenth
hole, was considered remarkable
Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, the
English golf experts, yesterday twice
defeated John Harland and j. c. Will
son, local professionals, at Buffalo. In
the first game the score stood: Var
don, II; Ray, 70; Harland, n; Will
son, ". The second game resulted:
vardon and Ray, II; Harland and
Wilson, rs.
Playing consistent rather than brill
liant golf, Miss Ruth Chisholm, of the
Mayfield Club, Cleveland, and Miss
Myra Heimer, Midlothian, Chicago,
won their way yesterday into the
championship finals of the eleventh
open tournament of the women's
Western Golf Association, at Mem
phis, Tenn. Both disposed of their
opponents on the fifteenth hole of the
semi-tinals match. The round was
played in a cool, misty rain, with a
slight wind.
There will be a thirty-six hole exhi-
bition match played this afternoon at
Canoe Brook Golf and Country Club,
at Summit, between Alec Smith, of
Wykagl, and Orrin Terry, the home
professional, and Louis Teller, of La
Boulie, France, and Wilfred Reid, of
Banstead Downs, England.
Walter Fairbanks, of Denver, and
Herman Wendell, of Philadelphia, the
two veteran golfers, who tied for the
low gross prize for the entire thirty
six holes in the Apawamis seniors
tournament, played an eighteen hole
medal round yesterday to break the
tie, and Fairbanks won by strokes.