Evening star., 1915-06-19
JEROME D. TRAVERS CAPTURES
NATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT
Brilliant Amateur Player Beats Mcnamara
by One Stroke-McLeod and Sargent
Get Inside the Money.

SHORT HILLS n. j.. June 10
Jerome D. Travers is the open golf
champion of the United States The
most famous amateur that American
golf has thus far produced won the
open title yesterday on the links of
the Baltusrol Golf Club. from a field
that included the best professionals
and amateurs in the country. and ad-
ded the crowning honor to his great
cafeer as golfer. Travers was in
fourth place when the third round OF
the championship test began yesterday
morning. but at midday was at the top
of the list. There he remained when 1t
was all over, his total of 297 for the
seventy-two holes of medal play gain
ing the title by the margin OF a SIN
gle stroke
Tom Mcnamara, the Boston home
bred, was second with 29s and Robert
G. Macdonald. born in Scotland, but
now professional at Buffalo. was
third with an even 300. All of the
others were over the 300 mark. lnciud-
ing Chick Evans and Francis ouimet.
| who, with Travers, make up what often
has been called Americas amateur
triumvirate Evans was eighteenth
with 307 and Ouimet was tied Ior
thirty fifth position with a total OF 5l'
Travers is the second amateur to win
the national open championship. Oui-
met having won the title in the history
making tournament at Brooki1ne IN
1913 But though he has never been
open champion before, Travers, who ls
but twenty-eight years old. has won
the amateur championship of the
United States four times. in 1907. 1908,
1912 and 1918. record that has been
approached only by the veteran Walter
IT. -lo hnld 10 N a
teur title three times. On the other
side of the Atlantic Harold +. Hilton
and John Ball are the only amateurs
who have won the British open. so now
there are four golfers who have won
the double crown. Hilton. Ball, Ouimet
and Travers.
Travers Holds on Well.
The skeptics were still doubtful when
play began in the morning in regard to
Jerry's ability to even hold the place
which he had gained yesterday, for the
old belief that his reputation a |
golfer depended entirely upon his skill
at match play still held sway. 1t didn't
seem to have much effect upon the vast
throng of spectators, however, who |
rushed after Travers and NJ j. Brady |
when they set out on their third round, |
for all the enthusiasts in the gallery |
knew was that Jerry was a great golf /
er and that perhaps Brady was a great |
er one, for was not Brady a stroke |
ahead of Jerry as result of Thurs |
days play?
Thus it happened that Travers played ,
all day under conditions that seemed !
almost like match instead of medal |
play 1t was a struggle between him !
and Brady with the rest of the field all |
but forgotten until late in the after
noon, when Brady began TO fade from
view, and with the knowledge that
Tom Mcnamara was already in with a
29S the spectators began to realize that
after all they were watching medal
play against the field and not match
between two golfers
1t was then that the crowd saw how
great a golfer Travers was, for when
Brady was beaten of there was no let
up. Instead Travers kept hard at work
and never eased up until the sixteenth
hole was completed and he realized that
two As, par golf, would win the title.
There was a relaxation on those last
two holes. for Travers hardly tried to
hole his puts for IS. He was content
to put the ball close enough to make
the next shot sure, and though there
were some in the crowd who mur-
INJURED, Give the ball a chance, Jerry,
TrarerS knew what he was doing, and
played safe. 1t was good. conservative
golf on those last two holes and show
ed the caliber Of the golfer who played
it better than did anything else all day
long,