The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-25
THIRTY FOOT PUTT
SAVES PERCY PLATT
" Uoling II on Last Green
He Wins From Travis in
Lakewood Final.

Second Section

wood this afternoon ana put MS name AZ
the top of the 1915 list OF winners OF
tournaments in TIE Metropolitan dis
,rlct incidentally he Joined the once
exclusive men who have beaten Travis"
club by defeating the Garden City
veteran by up in the eighteen hole
anal Il was no easily gained victory,
for the "old man" played some excel
lent golf and although he lost the match
his medal score OF IS equalled that of
his conqueror Travis reached the final
by beating u A. Steiner OF Inwood by
I'D and to play. and Plat advanced
bv disposng of Max Marston of Bal
tusrol in a match that went three extra
holes
In the final both Flat and Travis be-
gan In a machnelike way, each doing
exactly what the other did on the first
Two holes, which were halved In 4. The
third seemed TO be reproduction of the
first two until Travis stepped up to
one foot putt and knocked his ball
past tire cup instead Of into 1t. giving
Plat the hole in to D. Two more
halyed holes followed, although on the
nf.h Plat was hard put to II to retain
the advantage gained by the veterans
unusual lapse on the third green. From
tie sfth tee Plat hooked his ball to a
homeless looking position behind high
COP bunker. 1t was impossible to get
over II he played straight for the pin, but
by hitting to the left he could clear
he obstruction. He did so and at the
same time put splendid slice on the
ball that curled II around toward the
green before IL fell. Ii did not quite
get on, but IL was just as close as Travis
got from his perfect lie in Tire middle
Of the farway.
Both missed puts on the sixth, Travis
slipping up on a four foot AFFAIR that
looked easy, hut he redeemed himself
on the next green by holing one from a
dozen feet away that halved that hole
in<
The next two were long holes and
Plat ran away with them, winning the
eighth to and the ninth 10 9. The
ninth is 493 yards long and Flat after
reaching a point a few yards short OF
the green on his second laid his third
dead and ran down the putt. He was
out in 81 TO Al for Travis, and was 3
up
Travis won the short tenth and after
having the next two in par figures. took
aivantage Of Platts hooked drive on
the thirteenth and won 3 to 5. II left
him only down. and when the next
me gallery began to see some excite
men, ahead They were not disappointed
br Flat drove the fifteenth green, PA
Yards and won the hole TO 4 becom-
'ng up again. The hard sixteenth
was halved in .. Travis hanging on
desperately. and he was rewarded for
his tenac!ty n moment later when Plat
topped into a trap on the seventeenth
and lost the hole.
They drove OFF the eighteenth tee with
patt dormie l. and when he drove
out Of bounds II looked as though he
had cracked and that Travis would
square the match and possibly win on
the extra hole II took Plat four strokes
10 get the green, and then he was on
TIE edge thirty feet from the cup and
Travis had sure In prospect. Flat
studied us long putt carefully and while
me gallery watched hreathlessly hit the
ha,, tap that sent IL sliding across the
slippery green and into the cup, The
thirty foot put halved the hole and won
Ne match The cards:
Percy Platt, Ridgewood-
n H'' ... ..,....... -. IIs--Ys
Walter J Travis. Garden CITY
In Inv ... .......... sssss SGs.-7s
Ro'h scmi-final matches were un-
usually Interesting. Travis and Steiner
started hrst and carried the gallery with
hem. After thirteen holes OF even play.
steiner was up. but ne topped his drive
MO bunker on the fourteenth and the
match was all square again. The next
vas haved. and on the sixteenth a bit
o. real hard luck entered into the play.
steiner outdrove Travis by many yards,
hl, his ball came to rest in a foot
Path and ruined his second shot He
'os' the hole and lost the match on the
neSt green.
Marston should have won his match
agdirst Plat for on the second extra
hole the Bal,usrol golfer missed A one
''o' putt which would have given him
ne victory The match was close
throughout and Marston just managed
70 proong II beyond the stipulated dis
. lance hy winning the home hole after
'.1't had been dormie l.
Play was completed to-day in ALL five
'~'ens and in ~" handicap F NJ Kerr
won the net prize. and Percy r. Pyne
ne rross Tho summaries
- sixteen Semi hnsl round walter
T'H''' GARDEN CIV. boat ". 4 steiner,
NV and Percy Pau. Rilgewood.
',a' Max Mhrston, Baltusro!, ! up
Ven, one no'osl.
Una round -platt beat Travis, I up,
Second sixteen eml-Nual round--H V.
,g'-M'' ". ktgvn heat +. a. Jameson,
o Hra ~. 5s, tnt JS wa,do be Rrnor
|. ..Fra' Round Portram beat Gaines, ,
v.LLrrl S,N'een-semi. final round--r. P.
N."n'' Lakewood. beat p, f, Miller,
F.. '4',". ana =. r senseman, Atlantic
sit' Round Klmhn'l beat Senseman,
y p-.. ~,.eon- Semi final round--E. q.
I'".. heat \. + Suut hcrland, 81.