Evening star., 1914-08-01
v. J. TRAVIS GETS HIS
BUMPS FROM A KID
Schoolboy, Reggie Lewis, Plays
Nervy and Steady Game Against
Veteran Golfer


was served with a vengeance yesterday
when Reggie Lewis, aged eighteen. re-
tired Walter j. Travis. fifty-two years
old. in the semi-final of Ekwanok Clubs
golf tournament. Few closer or more in
teresting matches have ever been play ed
in this country. The fifteenth hole will
never be forgotten by the big gallery.
There Lewis was over strong in reaching
the green. being in rough on far side.
His approach putt. however, would have
gone down but for Tipping the cup. He
had laid Travis a stymie. The veteran
studied q long time for him. and resolved
to try pitch, although 1t seemed hope
less. Yet Travis at five feet distance
played a carom shot that knocked Lewis
ball to one side instead of tumbling II
into the cup.
At the same time Travis impaired
back spin to his own ball SO that after
knocking the other ball away. gave 1t
enough motion to plump 1t into the cup.
Only a master could make ball perform
two such distance missions. Spectators
sort ever made.
Turn Home All Square.
Lewis lost the first hole by getting
into rough back of green and being too
strong on his chip out. Travis lost the
second hole for practically the same rea-
son, Lewis getting down a ten-foot putt
Lewis lost the third hole by chipping into
a bunker. The fourth was well haiyed.
Oyerplaying the green cost Travis the
fifth, squaring the match for the second q
time. Getting into clump OF trees cost
Travis the sixth. and he also lost tne
on his third, which more than onset
Lewis shortness on his second
Travis was down when Lewis drove
into a trap at the eighth and mlsseo nle
first escape stroke. On HIS second nov. :.
ever he played a beauty. LOO yaros
long, well to the hole. Travis, however,
sank a putt of Is yards for the hoie.
Travis stole birdie at the hAH,n'
Lewis not being able to dink his putt.
They, therefore turned home all square
inferior putting cost Travis the tenth.
The eleventh was well halved. Tranls
squared the match at the tweifth win
"a 4, thanks to a superb second, WnIie
Lewis took s. Two puts cost Travis
was halved. The pyrotechnic fifteenth
has already been related. The sixteenth
was indifferently halved with two
puts. At the seventeenth Travis was
trapped at left. Lewis at right. The
latter tried for too much and had too
long a putt to sink, SO they were
square with one hole to go. Travis
pulled his tee shot at the eighteenth
and took three for the green against
two for Lewis. A nervy eight-foot putt
then carried the youngster to victory.
Card:
Ont ........... 81 5 3 4 3 8 4ss
Travis
Out ....4 5 8 4 8 4 3-3S
Lewis
In ........5 8 B 8 8 439-77
In ......... 4 5 54O-7s
Jesse Guilford. nineteen-year-old young
ster, who has thrice held New Hamp-
shire's title. after squaring his match
a second time at the sixth. saw the
balance begin to roll UP in favor of
Fred Martin, Ekwanok, who was Yer
mont champion while attending Dart
mouth. Guilford won but one hole
thereafter. J. NJ. Thompson. Spring
Haven, beat L. B. Franklin, Oakland,
5 and 4, in the semi-f1nal third sixteen and
will oppose John H. Hunter, North
Adams, in final.
Yesterday morning c. s. Clark, Phila-
delphia Country. beat Dumont Clarke.
Ekwanok. 3 and 1, in the consolation
division. first set, but was beaten in the
afternoon. 3 and 2. by Hamilton Kerr,