Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
TRAVERSMAKES
OUIMET TRAVEL
z EXTRA HOLES
~ ROOKLINE, MASS, Sept. 81
~ The consensus of opinion

II ROOKLINE, MASS, Sept. 81
n The consensus of opinion
among golfers in the East
seems to be that in order to defeat
Francis Ouimet at the anclant game
it will be necessary to lure him off
his home Hnks-the BroOkline course,
where he learned to play and which
now offer to his hobnails the we'll
known native heath" thing so much
lauded as an incentive to battle.
Yesterday the youngster gave fur
Their proof of his prowess by beating
Jerome Travers, national amateur
champion in a match that went 20
holes, in a match tournament be-
tween teams from the Boston and the
New York districts.
A Clean Sweep for Boston.
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 preliminary
tie for the Lesley cup. New York won
three out of five foursomes matches,
but the interCity score for the day
was: Boston -, New York 8.
The local team will meet Philadel-
phia, the present holder of the Les
ley cup, in the final tomorrow.
A gallery of 1000 persons which
followed the Ouimet- Travers match
became so overweight at the TWEEN
tieth hole as to commit what Presi-
dent r. c. Watson, of the United
State Golf Association, declared to be
the worst exhibition of partisan
feeling in American golfing history
and disgrace to the sport"
Crowd Bothers Travers.
Tho ont brpalk followed rTr.aN-prC i'll
fortune in driving into a trap beyond
the twentieth hole on his approach.
Trayers' mishap was appreciated by
the spectators to be the deciding
break and a small portion of the gal
lery gave vent to it's feeling by clap
ping its hands.
When Travers came on the green
he looked the crowd in the face for a
moment and then turned to the bust
ness of eXtricating his ball He al
most trapped himself again, then fail
ed on a twelve-foot putt, and saw
the match go to Ouimet when the
latter sank a twO-foot putt after
failing to run down one of eight feet
for a three.
Ouimet outnerved Travers today,
as he did the British professionals,
VardOn and Ray, in the memorable
national open championship play-off
last Saturday. Starting poorly, he
was outdriven and outputted by
Travers in the early holes
Three down at the turn, Ouimet
set out on a stern chase. He halved
the tenth and then won the eleventh,
twelfth and thirteenth, making the
match even
A Great Finish.
The fourteenth was a 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. He was also
forced 10 concede the fifteenth, after
missing foot putt, making
him two down.
Ouimet's mother greeted him on the
sixteenth green which hole he halved
for three; then the boy, after appar-
entity assuring his parent that he had
not lost his spirit PLAYED the seven
teenth for four TTavcrs approx
mated SIN For the home hole Ouimet
outdrove his older opponent and loft
Cd to the green in two. TrayeTs' bah
on the second shot fell in front Of a
bunker and on the third shot over
ran the green into the crowd This
was Ouimet's hole. and the match
WAS tied Both players required i've
on the nineteenth, but victory came
"a Ouimct on the twentieth.