New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-25
JEROME TRAVERS AGAIN
CAPTURES GOLF TITLE
Holds Metropolitan Honors by
Defeating Hammer.
FIFTH SUCCESSFUL EFFORT
Right on His Game, Upper
Montclair Star Brings Contest
to Close with Seven Holes
Still to Play.

Gaining an early advantage. at one
stage as much as 10 up. Jerome ID. Trav-
ers, of the Upper Montclair Country
Club, easily retained his Metropolitan
Golf Association title by defeating A. +.
Hammer, of the home club. up and to
play. at the Fox Hills Golf Club on Staten
Island Yesterday In addition to winning
the championship Travers also won the
handsome Chauncey shield. which now
passes into the permanent possession OF
the club he represents.
Immediately after the match brief pres
entaticn speeches were made by Fred
erick II. Thomas secretary of the NJ. G.
A.. and Howard F. Whitney. a member
Of the executive committee. Thomas
called attention TO the fact that Travers
had won the Metropolitan on no less than
five occasions. lie first got his name on
the shield in 1906, when playing from the
Nassau Country Club, and repeated tho
following year. Travers was runner-up
I'm 1905. did not compete the next year.
was runner-up again In 1870 regained the
title the following year and has held IL
since.
Longer off the tee. straighter with his
irons and wellnigh mechanically accu-
rate on the greens, Travers. once he set
tied to the work at hand, always had the
better Of the argument Last season, ex-
cept On rare occasions, Jerry was for
ever having trouble with his wooden
clubs, but his spliced driver. shorter ana
heavier than It's predecessor. has been
willing servant in his hands this spring.
During the early stages the pair had
a succession Of ties. the sequence not be-
ing broken until Hammer brought
shout from the gallery by holng shot
from the long grass for at the NTH.
The Staten Island champion had sliced
his tee shot TO the rough and his chances
there locked about as bright as can
celled postage stamp when Travers laid
his iron nicely on the green. Hammer
took ont a mashie niblick, and playing a
stroke that Larely brought the ball out
of the grass with loft enough 10 clear the
rough the rubber core ran straight for
the hole never stopping until II hit the
pin and disappeared. on his long try for a
halve Travers missed the cup by few
| inches
From that moment however, the ma
tional champion played golf, the KIND that
wins in almost any company. BY taking
| four straight holes. the eighth and ninth
/ in 3 each. Travers reached the turn IN 80
and stood up. Hammer missed his sec
ond shot going TO the eleventh. lost there
| and also made a hash OF the fourteenth.
while on the fifteenth green an extra put
robbed him Of a chance 70 get naive
! i'm 4.
They divided the short sixteenth In
3. and then Travers won the last two
holes in the same figure. An approach at
the seventeenth left him put Of yard
or so, while or the home green he brought
off a 20-footer after Hammer had trimmed
the cup on his long try. This brought
Travers home in SO. giving him the round
IN "a. and placing him S up on the much
worried staten Island champion. The pos
sibllties Of Travers's game had been Nus
trated I'm this round. for although he had
made several mistakes he was still able
10 return an exceptional score.
4 poor start by Hammer In the after
noon. the home golfer losing the first two
I nOltS lNIOubU h'Sh lhNNiAibf h'''N' - 1870
as if the match would not go much FUR
Their. but Hammer suddenly settled down
and actually won three out OF the next
four holes A better approach enabled
him TO get a at the third. and he got
fine ( at the long fourth his opponent
slicing the drive over the fence At the
short fifth Hammer played out Of trap
SO we'll that he was enabled 10 bring on
the put for a halve In 3. on the other
hand. Travers, with a slight slice from the
sixth tee, placed himself in mean posi-
ton on the hillside and Hammer won in D.
From the seventh tee Travers's drive
landed in the road, and IL looked as IL he
would be unable TO get home from there,
but they halved the hole in 4. Travers,
with a mighty drive to the edge OF the
next green. won there with a 3. Again.
nj the ninth. Travers got 4, placing him
dormie Q. He had gone out in IS TO his
opponents 80.
All the champion then needed was
halve and as IL had started to rain many
hoped that the finish would not be de-
layed Hammer had other ideas, how
ever, and won the tenth with fine put or
eighteen feet for 4. That sent the pair
10 the eleventh tee. which was halved in
s. thereby leaving Travers the winner,