New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-06
TRAVIS CROWNS
LONG CAREER
ON THE LINKS
Beats Anderson and Wins
Metropolitan Golf Title
by Two Up.
SINKS A LONG PUTT
ON THE HOME GREEN
Veteran of Fifty-three Years
Proves Once More That He
Still IS a Wizard of Golf.

The saying "once a golfer. always a
golfer" received fresh verification on
the links Of the Apawamis Club yes
terday, when Walter j. Travis success
fully wthstood the determined attack
Of John G.. Anderson in the final round
Of the seventeenth Metropolitan Golf
Association championship tournament.
Travis won by > up.
Ii was in 1900 that the Garden City
Golf Club veteran first spranE mo
fame by winning both the metropoli-
tan and national titles. To chronicle
half Of his achievements on the links
since then would ill a book, yet IN
glancing over his long and brilliant
career one finds II difficult 70 name n
tournament that has so redounded TO
his credit as this championship meet
ing. $500 ~
On the home green. the thirty-sixth
Of the match, Travis wound up by
sinking a twenty-foot putt for 3, and
as the ball dropped into the cup win
rattle the throng packed IN a mol
low square around the contestants sp-
plauded with a Will.
In summing up. Travis won on the
greens. for he clearly outputted the ST.
wanoy Country Club representative.
Anderson. with his forceful and com
pact swing, usually outdrove the vet
eran and there were occasions When
this gave him a distinct advantage
although he often failed 70 grasp his
opportunities. ,h.
From a scoring point OF view the
Golf displaved was by no means up 10
The standard displayed earlier In the
week Had either man been on edge
in the morning he might easily have
rjoced the other down. but as II was
botb men we're undoubtedly feeling the
fleets of the gruelling struggles that
had gone before h,d
N 90 TO the home green or beyond IN
vi vi 81 his other matches. There can be
ro doubt that his twenty-three -hoIe
struggle with Philip Carter the pre-.
,.,ous afternoon took something out OF
the erstwhile Boston player.
At any rate. the card for me morn
ing. which left the rivals all square;
credited Anderson with an NJ ana
Travis with an 81. For golfers OF tneir
caLbrc to take that many strokes
especially at Apawamis. meant loose
ness OF play somewhere
rlcarlv not using his irons with ms &C
customed accuracy. but IT was diner
on, story when ne took out his putter;
Little fault could be found with me
NAV the Garden City man went out IN
,bc afternoon, for he reached the turn
IN az after missing short putt on the
o,ob,h green. He stood 2 up then, but
Tho tourney home represented strug-
glc for this remarkable golfer, VINO
cbeerfully owns up 10 hfty-three years
Of age. ~. mar.
won or lost speaks volumes ior the
kcenncss OF the finish. The yagaries OF
~ came we're illustrated when Travis
missed a putt OF less than two feet 10
yin the sixteenth hole IN the afternoon.
Vow II looks like Anderson, re-
rkcd a man in the gallery. John
viii surely have something on the OLD
man a. mis- long hole" He was refer
r;ng "a the seventeenth hole, which is
we'll over 500 yards. As IT turned out,
Travis won this hole, even after pulling
bis drive 10 the rough. II was case
of better putting. for Anderson was
able 70 yet his 5 after reaching the
green on his third shot.
Throughout the day only two drives
were topped, both by Anderson. one
vas from the sixteenth IN the morning
and the other at the fourteenth in the
afternoon. IL looked like a case Of all
square TO the turn in the morning until
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