The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-04
Hy JOHN e.. ANDERSON.

poash.p. demonstrating afresh what skin
.rd ,Npcrienco Will do. People say go,t
.- game OF luck. yet here In the semi
rna,s Of the 1914 championship are
Jerome H. Travers. four times winner OF
tIg title and present holder. Walter j.
rnvs. three times the champion w c.
tuNncs, Jr., once titlehoder. and Francis
urmet. winner last year OF the national
open.
Trav,rs. siusularly enough. has won the
tito every time he has gone as far Ms
the SENT nnsls. Travis has been a semi
fnaiist seven times. including the times
&c Won the ''tlc. Fowues has been In the
seini.fnais thr,e times. inclusive OF the
YEAR he won the titlc 80 that Ouimet Is
the only stranger TO the company of semi
nrafsts tomorrow lie ought not to feel
out of place after what happened last
.,.ir I'm the open, when he beat Nardoh
and Ray, or again At Midlothian in this
Gears open championship
rravers and Travis meet tomorrow
They Ar, alike Tn their qualities Of golt,
but entirely different In their styles Of
play. FoWnes and Ouimet make up the
other pair. The p.ttsburg man had some
hing taken out OF him In his match
with r. Il. Gorton OF Brae- Burn to-day.
but Ouiinet will need the best shots he
-Four down at the twentieth and play
ing badly one up at the twenty seventh
and playing Ike house aire-that
was the story OF the play Of Walter J.
Travis in his match with Roy Webb OF
EnElewood IN the struggle for semi
unAl!sts positions. At the end OF the
morning round Webb led - up and be
van the afternoon nv taking the first two
holes ha!ve followed az the third hole
md then IN. fireworks began when Travis
surk u twenty foot putt for at the
fourth. The putting goddess was Just a
tr.Fp nck!p. however, for on the next hole
Travis could only halye whore four foot
putt would have give" him another win.
From then on to near the end Travis
olav-d IN his best form. the form which
rad won Tor him many a tournament
~, score TO the turn was 81, This after
4 bad start, and he kept up this gait
20 the fourteenth hole. Here Webb laid
~ a pretty appoach and won back hole.
he nrst 10 his credit after the second OF
he afternoon.
Both drove well 10 the fifteenth. but
Travis half topped his second shot and
was twenty -ive yards short There was
mn opening for Webb 20 square the match.
hu, De too was a bit on the green. Travis
an up his approach with such strength
that Do. went FAR past the hole and down
che side Of bank. Wobb laid his shot
Ip 10 within four feet Of the hole. but
sn i,a''s va" -, 80 ,ho hoIs uaS
~ t.,",,,h .a,,ud -rra,.ts inst
short ~ the green IN and Webb almost
on IN :. Webb took three puts however,
and Travis halved.
The seventeenth was halved IN =. Webb
-. III 80 .ao. ,,,,, fa,.
49, - ~. - al rsut ~.
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- - -, ,ro,-.d tho ,,,doi,g
L -. 'i,ibnlsa- rrs,ts had a
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n,.i -, w. -, his rail- an ,bs
IN "'V" t,'h - 40, ,,lsaniv s,r,,ck
80 D." 80 80, =, ~ .",rr,, an, ~
~ ,.,,,L >. GOOD lie ITs third wa.
a. -, H., bn,. ava his
800 .nr.o inches webb in the mean
,.,.. t,J ,l,,'.d NJ s.,.ond shot Ia ,yithtn
.f,, - 80 ,ho ,,ros,, and ,hen IsId nm
,r ,.Tr,',.h .hat Isft MIN Win A neskv
Ave y,o, nn,, for , win lie made II and
''y vera I lqg mae" 70 hook into the tran
10 yards away on the extreme left OF
80" H'' "" ,''S ~. - -" -,
,'''S p'N'eu Inv tue .'eani 80
So 80, 80 ,,,,sJ az, 80.
10, 80. az, ,,'. 80 ~ ,be co,,rsa t,st
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- '", ne IeS"'t u'S"ppo'Ht'he'''' iol
t'"'' ''"Se' h'''! t"o sVore F"ruH
10y ana 'I worse ne man peiore' II
WOO H'''", 10" I'P"'IHs inc greatest OF
,.', ".i 'idN" - rose 10 Tue occasion
JUS ''H'l" "o' was d oedul ana Iett MN
-. tx. 700, put'' Nenp played ms
'3urn % W''hin fifteen inches of the hole
%uI .'' E''.eil sto"d nlotohless 10 see II
'a'' "'h'" h"'e that put lie ala :"
newer qlNer ana then 10 inc
"h'''. surprise ot all Webb failed on
'''f chance Travis was again IA
'H 'hddst the afternoon cards.
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N''' noe travis % webb O.
Iu' other hard fought match OF today
Nfs fHIt between W. C. Fowues Jr and
hts lt Gortou. They were the two WHO
''G g.. the low gross in tho thirty-six
lv.eS ~ qualification Their match was
dis .lo-. as their medal play had been
..d went 20 the green where Travis and