New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-06
Wonder of His Play in Win
ming Metropolitan Title
Pointed Out and
Applauded.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

II the citizen who first said that
Youth will be served" is in the audi
ence he will confer great pleasure By
stepping forward for 4 moment We'd
like to have him meet sir. Walter j.
Travis. of Garden City.
There are times when youth Will be
served. and there are also times when
experience. skill and a mighty grip
upon the nervous system will come in
for their just reward.
Walter J. Travis has won more than
one mans share of golf-grown laurel.
He has had more than one mans share
of triumph down the way Of the Ancient
Green. But in his complete career to
date he has never earned greater ac-
claim than in his march to victory in
the Metropolitan championship that
closed at Apawamis yesterday
With the rising field of young stars
around him and with his years well
beyond twoscore and ten, it was fig
ured some seasons ago that his cham
pionship days were over back in the
memories Of a victorious past.
1t WIS expected that he would play
well IN the earlier rounds before the
heavy strain began TO drag him back
and upset his skill and accuracy, but
in such field no one figured he could
90 the full route unbeaten. Yet under
weather conditions that were mixed
with high winds and raw chill, in The
toughest part of the draw, where.
among others. Jerry Travers and Os-
Wald kirkby barred his path, he came
back 10 the crest with some Of the
greatest golf he has ever shown m
Yrs Of val.a
Once only in his five rounds Of match
play did he falter and reel a hit from
the high plane of PARDON. That was
IN the morning round yesterday, when
he struggled badly. But when the big
,est came later, even though weary, he
took a now grip upon himself and went
his way with only a brief culver here
and there.
To win this tournament Travis had
70 beat, among others. jerry 1rayers.
who had beaten him four straight
times. and who was playing exception
ally well; Percy Platt, who had only
recently beaten him al Lakewood; Os-
valid kirkby, who had also beaten him
four times before. and last Of all John
G.. Anderson. who in twelve years had
lost only three thIrty-siX-hole matches,
and who Is blessed with the temper
amcEt that never acknowledges defeat.
Yc' ono by one he hooked them all
until a. the end OF his last thirty-siX-
hole match he sank a 3 on par (
hole 20 end all doubt a 20 whore mas
tcry q the occasion belonged.
They wii! tell you that Travis again
won with his putter. Tins Is only part
Is true. His putter helped. but Travis
won through control Of every club M
MS bag. Take his final round with
Johnny Anderson. who deserves only q
shade less fame than Travis for his
wonderful work.
The ninth hole at Apawamis is go
yards long. II IS a par 8. Yet Travis
was there with a drive, a brassic and a
jigeer shot In two shots he had Gov
cred $50 yards, and always straight
upon the pin. Il took something more
than a putter 20 get him there
Tho twelfth hole is over 200 yards,
all uphill, practically all carry. An
derson struck lusty wallop and was
only at the green's edge Travis
plunked one in the middle Of the green
which IS something more than pact.
The sixteenth hole Is over 225 yards.
Yet Travis was over the green on his
tee shot. At the seventeenth hole the