The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-28

say 1t is largely matter OF personal |
taste: what suits one man might not
suit another. Acomlnon objection felt
to the grip is that the player thinks
he has not sufficient power In the
fingers OF his right hand to steady and
guide the club properly. This plea is
common with small. delicate hands.
who insist on having as big handful
OF the club az possible.
a very useful tip to players who have
experienced this difficulty lis to get their
grips thinned. BY thar means they
will be able to get their fingers around
the club better, and its feel for the
future will be ever so much nicer. One
OF the great features OF the Vardon
grip which is not emphasized enough
releasing the right wrist in the back
ward swing. Many players who take
q full handful OF the club shaft often
experience q difficulty in getting the
club around as smoothly as they would
like on account of certain stiffness
in the wrist This feeling is unknown
10 those who have adopted the Vardon
grip. There is that advantage, there
fore. In playing the wooden clubs. In
case of ma shie play, too. the bencfit lis
icate operation. No great expenditure
Of force Is required and 1t stands to
reason that one can handle n golf club
with the fingers for such shots with q
I n1C6tS OIL lOuCn which Is altogether abb
sent when one has to take a handful.
In match requiring the full round.
Walter j. Travis beat Horace d. Cook
al Lawrenceville. In the final of the
"hnual invitation golf tournament at
the Country Club OF Lakewood to-day
That Travis was pushed to the limit
was shown by the fact that at one time
he was two down.
! disconnected the younger PLAYER. the
finish might have been different This
happened when the pair were PLAYING
the seventeenth hole, the match being
all square. Cook carried the bunker
on his second shot. and Travis was
the green on the odd his opponent
played. and the hole was apparently
halved in FIVE.
In addressing his ball for the short
approach, Cook moved the rubber core
1nd Travis claimed a penalty. stroke
The incident was enough to upset the
/ mental Doise of the former Lawrence
Vile schoolboy. He lost that hole and
made hash Of the home hole. Ton
ping his next drive and getting into
pit on his second. he picked up and CON
f, coded the hole and the match 10 Travis
who won by two up
When the pair started ont a small
sized gale was blowing. and they had
Giihculty in keeping clear OF trouble
Both got bunkered going TO the first
| hole. and Cook lost. Travis getting n
/ hve. The Garden City man failed 10
! make the next green on the approa eli
ana lost, his opponent getting y four
again at No. 3 Travis found Il bunker
en- nus second shot and became one
( down Outdriven to the fifth and over
! approaching the green, Travis was
/ lucky TO win, his opponents an
I proach, trife weak. found an unplav
! aoie lie on the top OF the old cross
! bunker.
Travis then proceeded to err bv null.
ing 10 trap going TO the sixth. and
picking up after failing to get ON
! he supplemented this by digging loo
cecpiy on his approach 10 the seventh
ana losing even after the other had
taken three puts. Now two down. IRA
WIS proceeded To play tho Tong eighth
isultlessly, but the best he deserved
\ was q half. lie won five to six. how
/ ever when Cook missed wee put, so
+ close to the hole that il might have
/ been kicked in. \ half in me-, III the
rinth left Cook ono up at the turn.
Both golfers started 70 do things on
! me homeward journey At the short
'enth Travis brought Of q thirty foot
I nut ior two II was a hard hole for
/ Cook To lose. AS his approach put from
! me green's edge had come 10 rest
stone dead not more than three inches
( from the lip OF the cup. Cook re-
'"'Heu me compliment by holing q
{ twenty-foot for Il two at the next
/ water hole
/ After halVing the twelfth i'm four.
I travis squared accounts again by win
( ring the nest in three. where he drove
! the green The distance is go yards.
and both used wood. but. with the wind
at his back, Cook overdrove the green
/ He hit the back of the cup on n long
/ try for three a the next, but halved
/ In four
| Cook then had the hardest kind Of
/ luck. his ball twice going in the cup
ana coming out again at the fifteenth
I so that the four puts taken there cost
1 him the hole and put him one down
again. His drive to the aixteenth
/ found the rough but he got we'll away
/ from the stuff with an iron, got inside
4 his opponent on the approach. and
/ sinking the put for four, won the
/ hole
Travis, out 5 $40
! Cook. out. g { : 4 1 5 5-46
( Travis. in . 3 3 > 5-S6@s2
/ Cook. in...... 3 = 4 4 . Is s--39-s5
I Earlier in the day Cook defeated T.
! =. Allis, of Milwaukee, UP. All Cook
7 matches iii this tournament required
/ eighteen holes. On the other side of
the house Travis began the day well
/ by eliminating Max r. Marston. the
/ Crawford golfer. An Indifferent short
game handica ppcd the Pawling school