The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-06
New Champion Plays Nearly
Perfect Game and Wins
6 Up and ) to Go.
SEVEN HOLES IN ROW
DROPPED By TRAVERS
One IIOrc Advantage Turned
to Six Against Him as
Wooden Clubs Fail.
~, JOHN q. ANDERSON.

MANCHEsrER, VI, sept b.-lrtSpira-
tional golf That is tho only term which
can be applied to that brand OF golf which
was exhibited this afternoon on tho links
OF the Ekwanok Country Club when
Francis Ouimet OF the woodland Golf
club in Massachusetts, defeated the four
times champion, jerome d. Travers. for
the title OF amateur champion OF the
United States.
The margin was up and to play,
but the heavy defeat does not mean that
Travers played badly; rather 1t means
that the new champion played the best
golf that has been witnessed in any ana
teur final. Oulmet was out in 81,
stroke under par. and / do not hesitate
TO say that II he had been forced to
hole out on one two sf tho greens
where Travers conceded a VIA no would
have been stroke or possibly two
strokes less
IL was uncanny tho way that ball left
the club on the drive and swlshed down
the fairway not an inch out of line.
| say an inch. for that IL Just right, for
never was Mr. Ouimet anywhere but in
/ tho direct line 10 the hole off the tee.
/ His irons were played right up to the
pin and the puts were deadly. There
may have been few drives which
measured a trine less than 225 yards, but
tho average would be nearer 24O, with
| never IL waiver from the start to the
finish
| do not hesitate to say that Harry
vardon himself would have met defeat
playing against Ouimet In the afternoon.
IL one were To sum up the whole game in a
sentence 1t would be to say that Ouimet
drove straight down the course. APP
preached every time that AN approach
could reach the green up to within putt
ing distance and then had "A putt for q
. or 8. If that is not the highest
form of golf then am very much mis-
taken. Travers might have made tle
match ooser: IN fact 1t might have gone
to the thirty third or even TO the thirty
fourth hole nat Ouimet would have been
4 the winner | am fattering Ouimet be-
/ cause his game fatters him, and every
spectator who followed around to-day
could have nothing but the kcenest re-
apect for the golfing ability and the play
ing genius which to-day Is in the hands
and AT the command OF one Of the three
finest players which this country has ever
produced
Walter J. Travis was in class by
himself for many years, ana then cam
2 Jerome Travers Now II seems 10 me tnat
, II IL the time for Francis Ouitnet 10
D shine as they did In amateur circles
t This was the frat time that Travers
l has been defeated In Championship
t meeting when he has reached the semi
final round The reason why ne vas
v heaten 40 badly was because he was "a
I wild as the proverblal hawk from tho tee
3 and found all sorts OF trouble when "
l came time to play his second shot There
n was not that old spirit In evidence whicn
made Travers the dogged hghter ana tho
Y iron master OF his opponents Ihat u
r would have been in evidence II no had
% heen FAR and straight from the tee ~
. not doubt, but with such starting nann
q can It would have taken nerves OF hlht
e to have withstood the constant h""'''
g ing OF his opponent.
II was stated that Travers was nor
feeling himself and that may nave peen
,rue for on two or three occasions ne
was taken with n coughing spell put III
onv event the punch was lacking.
' ,rbo morning round can he passed over
with a few words. Travers held the upper
. hand all the way 20 the seventeenth,
II where for tho hrst time since the SUIT
II the match became even. lie was OUT III
U! splendid &C. 10 Ouimets 81 ~ tne 'em.m
Il hole came a heartbreaker. Ouimet was
J. or tho green In and approached about
II TON foot over the hole. while Travers, VINO
x was Q up at this stage. lay not yarn
= from the pin I'm "A like number OF stroKes'
n ouimet managed to hole the putt, much
II TO every ones surprise, for he was IN a
n had puttlng vein at that time, and then
p Travcrs m ssed his easy chance. lie was
~. txh
=, palpahly die'urhu ~ Wv %Cii,g and
~ greeted onlh', ,,i,h BE- sbouId
did not tAke 'ue P'.,' :, to,t rim
IN have IN irNluS I"' Wv 10y ,b.r a few
! only one hn'c 10 Wv ra5 ,Eo, no was
:, minutes before IL st'Ih'u ~ -
d destined 10 become up coming nome
onimet haI SiI'- ~ ,.aro c,red for with
tho other ''gn, no. rl,,,T,', hon'a +, az gave
sew" - W." - 30 nrd lart him nm
me new champion d 80 "', ''''
,,hs
WIN tu'E ~ ,,o,,,n,r woe ANYTHING
u me S''' ~ ,,ra,..rs, ,Jh,rert Terry
hnt ROSY ''' Mn as sIicinr
nan "IIru u' a,J Lost IN. hole In a
IL y my r,,a ~, ,ha seconb hole. after