New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-06
Champion Beats Herreshoff,
Even When Mashie BaIks.
WINS BY A WIDE MARGIN
Big Crowd Follows Players
Over Course with Great
Show of Interest.

title on the Garden City links to-day.
Travers survived the sem-hnal round
by defeating his old rival. Frederick
Herreshof, . up and 10 play while
Anderson upset calculations when he
eliminated Charles w. CChick') Evans.
jr., the hope OF the West by . and
margin
In a way. Anderson's success was IN
expected. especially as his opponent had
gained lead of . NJ, at the end OF the
morning play. Although he had been
putting indfferenty, the Westerner sue
ceeded in turning the course in a. three
: strokes better than his opponent. who,
for the first time in several rounds had
gone above the 81 mark
After luncheon Evans. trying first one
putter and then another. became we'll
nigh helpless on the greens. whereas
his opponent kept pegeing away, always
driving lonc balls rarely of the COURSE
and usually taking advantage of the
I openings presented through the lapses IN
his opponents short game.
/ As is always the case on semi-inal
day. the gallery sVelled 10 unusual pro-
]
day advanced that the committee of the
/ United States Golf Association found II
expedient to resort to the ropes, which
certainly had more restraining erect on
the impetuous ones than the little red
/ nags with which the committeeman ana
/ their aids have been armed throughout
/ the week.
Apropos Of the crowd, il is doubtful If
any national tournament seen in the East
during the last ten years has attracted
larger gallery. The T:avers-Herreshod
1 match. which started IN the afternoon
/ fully half an hour before the other te'-
minated al d time when the Anderson
| Evans tilt had reached its most INTEREST
/ ing stage As Jerry shook hands with MS
/ defeated rival Oh the fourteenth green,
/ Anderson and Evans we're standing on the
twelfth tee. and the spectacle Of two thou
sand persons. including hundreds Of hand
somelv gowned women, turning as Of one
mind and rushing with more speed thsh
dignity across the links TO head on me
other pair was a novelty in the mstor! OF
/ American golf. This swelled an already
! large gallery that had been watching
Evans and Anderson. The two armies
met Al the twelfth green. and con-
sentative estimate Of the number put II al
\ three thousand.
! When Trsvers gained his six-hole lead
/ over Herreshof in the morning the chaH-
pion from Upper Montclair vas not able
10 boast OF a low score. the card showing
an aprroximated round OF 81. Al match
MAY. however, this same card was almost
] unbeatable. To give d further idea OF the
/ keenness of the morning part OF TINS
match. il may be said that all save three
Of tho eighteen holes were either won or
lost. the only halves being at the FIRST
/ sixth and sixteenth holes
In golf. az in other games 'he pest
PLAYER generally wins. There Is also
/ saving that luck goes with the Good
plaver." Travers had his share OF good
/ fortune yesterday, for in the mat'eT oi
/ stynies alone the champion was alded on
| no less than three occasions. ms was
/ certainly trying on the nerves oil even
good natured Herreshof, although ne
/ took it all in good part.
The reason that Travers did not nave
/ a better looking card was due to some
/ weird work with his mashie al two OF the
| boles Those who saw his exhibition
while plavinE the home hole in the morn
/ To-, uyero amazed When he walked 10
tho tee he had an advantage OF up and
with nothing to worry him, proceeded 10
/ bit tuo shots in succession on the neck
/ 81 his n,ashie. the ball skating at al
| ,,,ost right angles into the pond. Count
| ing the penalty strokes lraVers' mao
/ ne continued in trying 10 carry INC
water. would have been playing D. ou"
/ turning to his caddic, he SAID Co''e
| alongr' signifying that he had mao
! enough. Even so, there was no certainty
| that Herreshoff would have won the hoie'
for his tee shot, far too strong went
tn into the grave-like pit behind the
! erocn Many golfers have been known 'o
u,aste stroke after stroke in tnat same
/ pit ,...o. =, uss
po,urninc 10 Travers, however II was
,ou, moments after the incident AT
This hole that the champion had returneu
90 tho other side OF the POND ana petSh
/ ..o,.iei,p the shot that had peeh %
| .,,t,osorne The fact that hundreds OF
e-,o,s stood watching didn't bother MN
. - least and he kept at II until the
T., u,as rlaved properly. IL was chaia1
SUI 81 the determination of this re-
! ,,srkable golfer. who at present wears
.-trIa croyn-national metropolitan anu
New Jersey. .a Golfers
Tho old saying that when gooo soiiels
-. ,ogother more holes are won anu ioS'
~ Greens than anywhere eise was
,,rliaod again in his match pe'"ee"
,reo,.a.s and Herreshoff. Despite ms
10. let's 10 trouble. the national ti''e
q"."' ,re than discounted the STROKES
hol'e 49, s.,d nv the mechanical accu-
-. ~ his putting. The thira nor "a
ia,' ..o~,;ne was an instance ho'n ~
INC ,,srr.shoff reached the green OH '''eI
ana .so,s the balls being some t"eh,
So e''o feet from the iag' ana II ioo"eu
halve in I. yet Ira'erS sou
IKE cor a g. giving his Opponent
w ~ what was TO follow Oh
tas'e v throughout the day
the long fourth 1t was i,e'
~ -. % negotiate the rolling gree"
nc, aa,,sed him TO lose. but ne uiu ,lia
'''a' - renav Jerry in kind by sooonns
aso sS.s a. slamming down So-ioo'e'
~. W. hit the back Of the cup SO hs'u
- oause the ball to jump up III sns
:. inches before settling out Oh s'e"'
- doine Herreshoff managed "
drce Traverss lead from . 10 IT,
80 weak putting again that oo'' -,
.,ot the seventh hole, but once ,'V'e
,,..aoo CIV man partly atoheo W