The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-10
BEHR NOT EQUAL TO
TASK WITH TRAVIS.
Former Jersey Champion Plays
in Poor Form and Has No
Winning Chance.
STYMIES CUT 4 FIGURE
Veterans Good Fortune Turns
Almost Sure Loss Into
Win at Start.
STYMIES CUT A FIGURE

faltusroi tried his hand at the task Of
stopping Walter J. Travis on his own
course In the final round OF the Garden
City Golf Clubs invitation tournament
this afternoon. but the attempt was
dismal failure. The old man romped
away with the match and won by UP
and 4 to play. with his victory at Lake
wood last week and that which he won
To-day to his credit Travis has monopo-
1ixed the honors In the metropolitan sea-
son thus far.
There was not an abundance OF good
golf In the match this afternoon, and
what there was Travis furnished. Behr.
who was III last night and Is al present
trying to transform his style of swing.
went to pieces under the strain OF the
crucial match and played wretchedly
To add to his discontinue whenever he
managed to pull himself together and
seemed about to win hole Travis would
counter with a long putt or a deadly
approach that would discount the former
Jersey champions bid for the hole.
Several times during the round Travis
holed long puts just when he needed
them most. and as he made few mistakes
through the green. though his play was
not especially brilliant. he had no appre-
ciable trouble In winning.
On the first hole the veteran gave his
opponent a taste Of undeserved adversely
Behr should have won the hole. but Travis
stymied him twice. so that he could do no
better than halve. The first stymie came
when Behr was about fifteen feet from
the cup and playing 3. He putted past
the intervening ball. and his ball ran
foot OF two over the hole Travis then
putted and overran a few inches laying
Behr another stymie. The hole was halved
in s.
,onh ,hr.s nuts and tho Rsl,nsrol man
80. ~ 49, Co. ann,har .,v,,,,a
IA nrsynn,sd hin, f,nm mak,ns the ,rv
Tar m which his GOOD approach en-
,t,,.S bir " "e" '' eN ''''
yv,,h ~. match oil .ou,rs pebr sud
isis h.sar =" Ma Inc no., ama,eurish
80, IL ,on,, TO- ,h. fov,,h
~ r,,s,S' 80. -, ~ hi. ,,sw ~
~ 1rssn Ia made a moor drive ON the
er,h hu, r.covsr.d veil md .semed ready
- h.iv. tho mole when Travis ran down
= ,hir,,- az TO-, downbiii nut, FOR a a
-. ~, az 81. ~ ~. c,,n u,,h rs'
s~',,d;ns -
Th. .o,S S' ,..r. k.n, r,r,, nm winning
ana Ala No, atom mil he had taken Ave
straight holes from Behr. The ninth was
halved. SO they turned for home with
Travis still ave up. He was out in SO
From the turn on it was only cues.
cw Un Oh s.Sr v" u,' the tenth but iost the
gave Behr a chance by getting trapped
on the next hole. one OF his few mis-
takes during the roun% Sa, sf'' w,h the
tiers by winning the fourteenth w,." inc
Tr.,i.-ou.. ....1. ss,s s5..-,,
sshr-oai. .'....... .:EsseS'-'S
Both Travis and Behr had 70 fight hard
70 win their semi, final matches in the
golfer. gave Travis a stitf arsumen, and
outplayed him on the first half OF the
round. but coming In the me, veteran e began 's.ai,
out put BY , up and and 'G to pla p,a' anu W."
Behr beat McAlpin by up after the
teenth. McAlpin's trips to bunkers on
both the seventeenth and eighteenth
however, MADE bchr 'ne w'n ME- :, a..
or sGsS anS were Ss es took par
IN the handicap g r Van Week Ir
Of baitusrol was low man with ss-s. 70.
The summaries
First sixteen; semi-nnaI Roand-M. y.
Norris County, up: ". J. Travis, Garden
cay, beat D. far,rasC , n:a, n Si,y sand J.
beaten Eight Of First Sixteen. semi nnai
cIa. wA tsy FDs and beat ps.cs
n ..,0 0s'' ,. s" na,., As .na
second Sixteen. Scmi ,dna! Round-A r.
*G,Gr,n 1 81 Rhe. B. s4se
CITY, beat c. IL L.ake Garden city, 5 and 4
and
nnhhh,ns 9isrs.n civ ben, G. " tisrdiner
Jr.. Garden City. . and .; II. F. whitney
Nassau; beat C. A. Sponord' GARDEN Ci'y'
mo NO pound pohh,ns he,, Whitney nm
Fourth Sixteen, SEND anal Round-F
Snare, Havana beat c p pixon: ~ Rock