The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-02
TRAVIS BEATEN BY
DUNHAM AT FINISH
BARELY Misses His Putt on Last
Green and Loses Match
by one Down.
GARDNER IN LONG BATTLE
Beach Holds Rhode Island Man
Until Twentieth Hole
Becker Wins.

PiSEHURsr, n. G., April 1.-To-day's
Arst round OF match play In the fourteent IN
annual United North and South amateur
rolf championship was replete with bril-.
liant play. In the championship flight
Only one man was an easy winner, and
there was sensation In a victory over
former International Champion Walter J.
Travis by c. T. Durham of the Mecklen-
burg Country Club OF Charlotte, N. C.
Dunham's tee shot on the eighteenth,
was sliced far down to the right and oiy
the course in the rough, and Travis !
ball followed the same airline route, bu,
he had the advantage in lie. Away
the Garden City player lit into II in an
attempt 10 make the green and landed
at the left of the whisker bunker which
guards 1t at the front and right. Dun
ham followed suit and the ball struck a
scrub oak and carromed. very fortunately.
toward the green. The approaches were
not exceptional and Travis just missed
his putt. a performance which Durham
duplicated. halve resulting. and the
former ex-champion. thrice winner Of the
United, retired from the contest by one
down.
Durham meets William Paul Of his
home cub Tomorrow. Paul won his
match from J. NJ Thompson Of Spring
Haven on the nineteenth green. Two
down at the turn. Thompson squared the
match on the eleventh. lost the twelfth.
halved the next four holes, won the
seventeenth IN 3. halved the eighteenth
/. and lost the nineteenth, IS, and the
match one down.
IL took twenty holes before Dr. c. IL
Gardner the Rhode Island champion, dis
posed OF Chisholm Beach of Fox Hills
Beach made the turn in 81. four up. but
Gardner won the sixteenth In IS to tie
took the seventeenth in 2 to gain the lead
lost the eighteenth 20 a 4, halved the nine
teenth In the same figure and won the
twentieth in four, making the homeward
Journey In IS. DR.. Gardner meets NJ F..
oConnell OF Alpine tomorrow.
Paul r. Gardner of Onwentsia was the
only man in the championship class to
win easily He made the turn up and
won by seven and five from L. VI. Barnes
OF Englewood. a prominent member Of
the metropolitan team. He meets Robert
Hunter OF Wee Burn, who was three down
a, the turn but two up at the anish in
his match with II. II. Lee Of Detroit. II.
s. Worthington OF Shawnee, three up at
the turn in 40, won by four and two from
=. NJ Lsxton OF Mecklenburg. He plays
c. + Becker OF Woodland, who made the
turn two up in IS with a two on the
ninth and who defeated Harold Weber Of
Toledo by up. The summaries:
: Champlonship-First round-M. F. OCon-
nell Alpine, beat X. W. Harvey, Phila-
celphia Country. and !. DR.. e. H. Gardner.
Agswan hunt beat Chisholm Beach. Fox
Huns, up Twenty holes); Robert Hunter
Wee Burn. bea, H b. Lee. Detroit, 2 up;
Z, Gardner, onwentsia. beat f. NJ.
ha'nes Ensewood. and 8: r. $. Worth
,nston Shawnee: beat F. NJ. Lax,on Meek.
ienburg and 2: c. L. Becker. Woodland,
beat Harold Weber. Toledo. . up, c. T.
Durham. Meckienburs, beat W. j. Travis
Garden City, l up; w NJ Paul, Macklen-
burg, beat J. NJ. Thompson. spring Haven
~ nineteen holes.
Governors Trophies-First round-w. l..
Crow, Scarsdale. beat Donald Parsons
lothian, beat J. V, Burd PittsourK Country
. and 9 j. Il, Standish. j.. Detroit. bea,
IL Faus. Buffalo, and s., +. II. Gates
Lake George. n. j, beat W. A O'Rrien
Mohawk, and 8; Il. e. Besll Uniontown
tta, ". l.. Mliiken. Hyannispor,. / up
GaFneid Scott, Philadelphia Country. beat
: d Armstrong. Park. and /: c. v.
fond au Lac. by default; II. +. Robinson.
s. GATHERINGS beat l.. Z. wardwell. Me-
slnticook. Up nineteen hoeS.
secretarys Trophies First round-C. +
Van Week Montcair, beat J. X. Mitchell
Monic!air and :; Frank Barton. Dyker
Meldow. beat J. l.. Walker. Hanger Hin
EEnsane. and, 81; c. b. Hudson, North
and g. $ d Wight. Jr.. Aroninack. beat
4 H..ydier. New York. : and 2; G W.
Debel. Youngstown. beat John NJ Scott
,M.ck.entars ! up; J: =. Williamson
,,ahd up; Il W. Croft oakmont. bea,
:, 4. chestham. salisbury, beat the Rev.
a.. y. Shesdy, Altoona. and 2