New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20
TRAVIS REPEATS IN
LAKEWOOD TOURNAMENT
Finishes Two Up on Cook After
See-SaW Match That Car
rieS Big Gallery.
BOTH MEN FIND BUNKERS
Lawrenceville Golfer Plays in
Nervous Fashion After Vet
eran Gains Hole on
Technically.

Repeating his performance of last fall
Walter J. Travis. the Garden City golfer
won the chief cup in the final round of
the spring invitation tournament at the
Country club Of Lakewood yesterday.
His victim i'm the decisive match was
Horace T. Cook, Of Lawrencevine the
margin at the finish being up in favor
of the veteran.
Earlier in the day Cook worked his way
through the sem-final round by defeating
+. T. Allis. of Harvard The last named
stood up at the turn. going out i'm A to
45 for Cook. but a steader short game
coming home enabled Cook 10 wear his
opponent down and assume the lead at
the seventeenth. where he became dormie.
Allis had a chance TO win the home hole.
and he certainly would have carried the
match 10 an extra green had his opponent
not brought of a hard put for a halve
in ). after first getting into the woods
on his DIVE. Each made the round i'm S.
While this match was I'm progress. Ira
Wis was taking care of Max r. Marston.
the Pawlng schoolboy. Nothing particu-
lar happened going out where Travis
stood up, his card showing Al to iS for
his opponent
The real incidents OF the match were
crowded into the play at the fourteenth
hole. This is 30 yards long. and Mar
ston with bonnie lick" reached the
green. The hole looked as good as won
when Travis found the bunker on his
Irftr hrrf no (,av1an fto
reaching the green from the sand. still
further dismayed his opponent by jump
ing a stymie. which Marston laid This
enabled Travis 10 steal the hole in TO
> The Garden City man finally won the
match by up and > TO play.
Going 10 the first hole for the final tilt
with Travis, Cook was bunkered twice
and Travis once. The latter won in ) 10
. Going TO No. .. Cook stood one up,
and after Travis had overplayed the
green on his approach il looked as if the
youngster might increase his advantage.
Playing the like. however, Cook was
trihe weak. the ball landing on top of
the bunker. The lie was practically I'M
payable. and after making three ineffect-
nal lEnges at the ball Cook picked up.
4 wild drive to q bunker cost Travis
the next hole and a weak approach to
No. put him out of the running there
latter lost the eighth hole, when he
missed a put Of less than a yard. but he
turned for home one up The cards read
IS for each man.
At the tenth Travis stole" the hole by
bringing off a 30-foot put after his op-
ponent had laid his long one stone dead.
\ few moments late Cook returned the
compliment by sinking a l0-footer on the
eleventh green.
Cooks try for a 'gObble' on the four
ieenth green hit the back If the hole and
came out again, and a little later he saw
two more puts act similarly on the If
teenth green That placed him one down.
hut he squared accounts with fine four
at the long sixteenth, where he laid an
close to the hole.
From the seventeenth tee Travis topped
his drive and was short o. the bunker on
his second shot. Cook almost reached the
green on his second. but in addressing
his ball he moved it slightly. whereupon
Travis claimed the penalty stroke. Had II
not been for that the hole would nave
been haived in five. but it went TO Travis,
3 to 6 The incident unnerved Cook. who
made a hash Of the home hole and finally
picked up before reaching the green.
In the eighteen-hole handicap Frank
Shanley won the net prize with a card OF
sl-lG-75 while Hamilton X. Kerr. of Elk
wanok won the gross award with 19.
Coincident with this competition was the
handicap for the John i. Stanley me-
mortal cup. won by ID. s White Of Allan
tic City. with 9l-lG-75. G. A. SpOfford, of
Apawamis, had an SO, which was the best
gross.
The summary follows:
First sixteen (semi-fnal round)-H. T Cook.
beat f.. +. Allis Milwaukee. l
up. Walter ]. Travis, Garden City. beat NJ X.
Marston. Baltusrol. up and TO play.
First sixteen (hnal roun0 Travis beat
second sixteen Csemi-nnal round)J. T.
Bishop. Yale, beat L. W. Carpenter. Detroit.
3 up and to play: Percy Plat. New York.
beat :. Y Rsmage, Pittsburgh, up.
second sixteen final rOund)-Platt beat
Bishop 4 up and to play.
Third sixteen (semi-fnsl round) H. A.
Sherman. Apawamis, beat G.. G. Dixon Yale.
J up: p s p. Randolph. jr.. Lakewood. beat
Third sixteen Gnal round Randolph beat
Sherman. up. $500
Nassau. beat II. B. Mcclellan. Fox Hills. 8
beat w. A. Engeman. Nassau, up.
Fourth sixteen (Hnsl round)-Tflt beat Hsr-
mon. up