New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-03
Wins Gold Medal, While the
Champion Is Forced to a
PIay-0ff to Hold His
Place in First Set.
BAD SCARE FOR TRAVERS
Heinrich Schmidt, Who Played
So Well Abroad, Fails to
oualify-Favorites Win
in First Round at
Match PLAY.

the nelQ N lne QUALIFYING rOunO OF the
amateur golf championship tournament
over the links of the Garden City Golf
club Yesterday. while Jerome D. Travers.
the title holder furnished a series Of
thrills 10 the big gallery by earning a
Mace in the coveted thirty-two after the
play-of1 Of tie.
What was wrong with Travers? was a
question asked by late arrival Briefly.
an unruly mashie that got him into
trouble at TWO holes for a net loss OF
seven strokes This landed him with a
total OF l65 at the bottom OF the list. tied
with eleven others for eleven places.
Jerry survived the play-off. TO be sure.
but II meant a trying ordeal for the on
lockers, VINO have come to regard Trav-
ers as their greatest exponent OF the
game
II seemed odd 10 see the champion so
widely separated from his greatest rival
Chick Evans. Having suddenly come
on his game, the Edgewater golfer &C
complished the seemingly impossible by
coming home in 80. which. combined with
50 out gave Il for the round, a new
competitive record for the course. Incl
dentally Evans won the gold medal, his
total Of Jas for thirty-six holes leading
Francis Oumet the first days leader. by
a margin Of three strokes.
To begin at the beginning. the early
arrivals had the pleasure Of witnessing
probably the largest play-of OF a tie in
the history Of American golf II was a
hold-over from the evening before. when
. - v.-yfH Of
Is for the last nine places.
Those concerned in the deadlock were
Heinrich Schmidt. the man who played
80 well in the amateur championship OF
Great Britain this year and who later
was to be the victim OF a second play-ofr ,
Chisholm Beach and A. F. Hammer of
Fox Hills; Ralph Peters. jr., and George
T. Brokaw. of Garden City; ". h.
Gardner. OF Buffalo: c. G. Waldo. IT., OF
Detroit: Max r. Marston. OF Baltusrol,
the interscholastic champion; Percy Pyne.
"a. Of Morris County S. D. Bowers. or
Brooklawn; Gilman P. Tiffany. of Powell
ton: Clifford A. Dunning. OF Nassau; G.
3 Buxton. Of Huntingdon Valley; W. X.
sirnons. Of Westbrook; Charles Brown. of
81. Andrews and T. NJ. Barnes, OF Engle-
wood.
The executive committee corralled the
sixteen and took them over 10 the four
tsentn tee, where they were sent away
in groups Of four. When the hole had
been played by all. Brown and Barnes
both OF whom took g. had 70 drop out
While Beach. Hammer. Schmidt Peters
Brokaw. Gardner Waldo and Pyne quail
fec with Is Pyne. by the way, had to
bring of a 9O-foot put for his l.
The other six men. all Of whom took
Sc. then had 10 continue on for one place.
After playing the 1fteenth hole only two
were left. Bowers and Marston, both get
ting IS, MarstoD thanks 10 a trying pu'
OF twelve feet The sixteenth hole endeo
fayorably TO Bowers. who had 70 run
down a put Of ten feet for I. whereas
Marston missed on one less than yard
Long before this play-o1 had been de-
clded most OF the others who had al
ready qualified had been sent away from
the first tee, and II wasn't long ere Woro
came by wireless" that Travers was
having his troubles. They began as pre-
vlous!v stated. with his : az the hrst
hole. where after discounting fine drive
by topping his mashie 70 the pit ne re-
CURED three shots 70 get clear.
A string OF four As follows, and II began
to look as IL he might get out In ~. but
the next FIVE holes saw him accumulate
twenty-five strokes. making a total OF
a TO the turn. His at the ninth resulted
chiefly from a topped drive.
Jerry knew then that the time for fool
ing had passed and with characteristic
grit he proceeded TO make amends, but
IN this instance the result OF his execution
fell short of the merit OF his intentions
he did hole nervy puts for 3 and 4, re-
snec,iyelv on the sixteenth and seven
teenth greens, but again the mashie
failed him on the tee shot over the POND
10 the home hole. He pulled TO the we'll
Ike trap on the left of the green IN iact
the same Dit that helped him deieat wa
ter Travis in the semi-hnal rouno o
the national championship tourharhen
1--WE years ago AS its steep sides IN" ai
ed the efforts OF Travis, so II was VIII
Travers. who needed three shots 10 se
out, and when he did get clear the oH'
brought up on the far side OF the greer
near the clubhouse He needed NOR
10 get down, making in all ana d 'o'"
OF IS for the round.
The grand toal OF le5 looked hopeless
then. and il was a glum CROWD Una
walked 70 the clubhouse. Later on
was seen that Travers had chance U
get in. but that was not determined UNI
the last pair, Schmidt and Sam Grahari'
OF Greenwich. had finished. Oddly enough
Schmidt also had 1S5 and as Graham haC
squeezed in with lti. another play-on De
came necessary.
The following twelve players wer'
promptly sent away from the first tee
Kerr. Merriman. Travers. Perrin, Hale
Sullivan. Watson Whitney Schmidt, u
mer, Corkran and Maxwell AS onlI
one OF the dozen could fail 10 &c
in, everybody was asking who would
be the goat Travers took his drivini
iron and half topped the ball. which mar
rowly missed the bunker He pitched
clear across the green on his next anc
got a 8. good enough 10 qualify. a.
Schmidt using niblick for his approach
dug too deeply and became trapped in tn,
pit
His first effort 10 get clear resulted In
the ball striking the sleepers and rebound
Ing thirty yards back In the rough Agar
Schmidt failed TO clear the hazard. anC
although he got on his next. a tota
Of settled his chances. az no one go
worse than g. except Kerr, vino took a
after being In the trap.
Considering the remarkable homecom.