Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-05
EvANSPLAY|NG WELL
Golf Enthusiasts Believe He
Will Meet Travers Again.
HE TRIMS VETERAN TRAVIS
Title Holder Defeats Reid, Anderson
Disposes of Sherman and HERES
hoff Beats Whittemore.
HE TRIMS VETERAN TRAVIS

GARDEN CITY. N. j., September O.
Now that the national amateur golf
championship tournament has reached the
semi-final stage. 1t seems probable that
the finalists who fought it out twelve
months ago at Wheaton, ILL.,. again will
face each other in the last match for the
title next Saturday. These are Jerome T.
Travers, the national champion. and
Charles Evans of the Edgewater Golf
Club, Chicago.
Evans has acquitted himself in top
notch style all through the week, while
Travers has been less steady but equally
successful at every stage of the tourney.
Both seem likely winners in their respect
i've matches today with J. G. Anderson
Of Braeburn, Mass, former champion Of
Massachusetts, and Fred Htrreshoff of
the local club, who is entered from the
Ekwanok Club Of Vermont
While the matches in the third round
yesterday We're not productive OF anything
sensational, they taxed the staying quail
ties of the players almost to the limit OF
endurance, as the weather was sitting
hot during the greater part Of the day.
Veteran Drops Behind.
The Evans Travis match proved to be
the attraction. In the first half Travis
held his own fairly well against the
western player, but in the afternoon the
veteran was unable to keep pace with his
younger opponent.
Beginning the second round Evans was
up. They halved the first hole in par
as, but each took one over par for the
second, halving it also in As. The vet
eran had extra puts on the third, which
went to Evans in to ). Although Travis
was trapped after topped brasSie shot,
Evans required three puts on the fourth
green, and the hole was halved in 6s.
They played the next even but going to
the long sixth Evans got into the rough
losing the hole in i to 4. He made up
for this on the seventh. however, by
running down 25-foot putt for 4 and
was up again.
There was question as to which ball
was the farthest from the eighth tee,
and the officials directed Evans to play,
and he won the hole in to ). The ninth
was halved In SIS. and Evans was up
at the turn Coming in the tenth, twelfth
the eleventh and fourteenth went to
Evans in par figures. and the match was
his by up and 4.
Reid Easy at Start.
Champion Travers was not called
upon to overexert himself in the early
part Of his match with Archie Reid and
finished up on the first Is holes
Reid, however, sprang a surprise at the
outset of the afternoon play by taking
the first three holes in three strokes
each. two of them in stroke under
par. The next two were halved and
Reid was only down after he took
the sixth in to 5. clipping another
stroke from par figures. Travers won
the next two each in to and was
ly, took the tenth, and a stymie forced
Travers to q half in As on the eleventh.
The next was halved in the same fig
ures. A topped drive into the roadway
by Travers gave the thirteenth to Reid.
The two following were halved, and
Travers won the next and the match
by up and 2.
John G. Anderson of Braeburn, who
meets Evans today. played an interest
ing match with T. NJ. Sherman of Utica,
whom he beat up and g. after having
had lead OF 3 UP on the first round
of the links. At the turn in the sec
ond half the New England player had
Increased his lead to up. but Sherman
Anderson laid his tee shot dead for the
z on the next hole which went to
sherman. Anderson took the next in
3 to g. and a half on the next green
ended the match, with Anderson the
winner, up and 3.
Fred Herreshoff, who was the run
ner-up to III. c. Egan in 1904 and again
in 1911 to II. H. Hilton, il once more
on the semi finals through his defeats
Of p w. Whittemore OF Brookline,
Mass. by 3~and ].