New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-23
,Travers Tells How He
-" Won a Championship
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~ I'D football have their sud
rn.ets. where in nSsn .ne nv;
ssn .,on is turned upside down ~
h'.ssho saw the Harvard arc RAN.
ran ,o,a in the Bowl can ever i'Isee
q. ssmmerins at harNsro ,Ie
~, two yards OF t0"SnuSN"i' Mi
r ~m Coolidge grab tumoled oa'.,
% within twenty SECONDS CONVEX
an. ,oirts into harNsre poln.s
!s.,.nee Of u points WITHIN 0ne-'h''u
sis n''n ,.,,hcr football nor baseball
% any swifter upsets IMAM sGii,.
G, ~, Golfer who hangs on oosSSo..
fei , ~ 70 quit = hole Is never los.
'sD ssotis's gripping sport un''' '"e
M,sinr putt has gone down
p;,,br-st recently We saw two
..t,rs playing the sixteenth noe.
r. lad come through hfteen holeS
l ~ IN their match. 4 had gotten
., deep trap and finally put h's
n,,s shot ten feet over the sshu
o. forty feet beyond the pin WIN
r s,rsiehf blows he was ten feet
", If The sand in two.
"a two strokes on A, and theY
-, a. eousl distance from the cup
wor the hole. How BY emp
- his approach into the cup Tor
strs 3. suddenly iolted. was short
rev missed = two-footer. In one
-, 4lad picked up three strokes ana
~ nor = hole which seemed TO be
,rr.trisysbiy lost.
n. Nil never forget an amazing up
1-bieh took place 81 Detroit-on one
y he most astounding we have ever
Nax Nsrston and Howard Lee
~ rome 20 the thirty-hfth tee All
So" Nars;on had straight drive
w ~ tbc edce Of the green IN two
"a within four feet Of the cup on his
;hire Shot. s....o s,~ INTO Tho
y bscs Of high mound. HIS sec
.,5wen. only about twenty .yards ana
W ell In the rough. HIS thlrd'
- .onred. ran ont IN the course
pa ..ii remained leo yards from the
80 He failed 20 catch his fourlh
-, r;cb,. and 10 ran on past the pm
49, feet thirty feet beyond ana
49,. -. fee. 10 the right for siantlng
80 Xiii rutt. Lee had played four
- shots in a row and Marston had
800 three fine ones. Then Lee, who
II ;rst missed three short puts on
80 iss. three greens, sunk this long
IN. and GOT his half when Mars'on
missed.
=, he North and South champion
hin a. Pinehurst last March, Jesse
cgffor6. the lntervale mortar anH
vogrs Robson came 10 the eighteenth
s,ssr all even. Guilford put ms sec
~ shot on the sand, the mole oelne
Il0 yards. Robson found a bac TRAP
and reached tire sand IN :; kooeSon
-,yer hsd a chance. e. ne so' no
h,lf when Gvilford finally tooA loui
pvt,s. snd II was Ro0esons mA'eh y"
he nineteenth mole.
rvnsr,eneed golfers and those who
,.vs studied the game know how these
r,.s.s NV come. and so never give up;
TLsve seen too many matches turned
,rsr ~ az evelash," said Jerry Iravers
.,.s,.Iv 10 ever think OF concedlns
ioss ~ any hole. ! was playing
T-sv;s once in an amateur champion
,Iir was . down and 10 play ms
,s.s,d shot was on the fifteenth green,
vs.i;r twelve feet OF the pm. SIiceo |
Nv second and when ! saw II snootlng
.,rard some deep rough to the rlgnt i
s,nrsS he match was about over. buU
nv shot struck spectators 1oo''
..,,or,ed I'D on the green WITHIN TWO
;sst ~ the bin. and ! won the hole WIN
-'s - Also the match and the
championship.
"a. Raltusrol." continued Jerry, II
I hadn't seen so many recoverles l
night have gwen up all hope on Ihe
.,r.h hole in the afternoon. s!iCeu
nv tee shot out OF bounds ana e I
Ssotsd my second 10 the rough, hIty
ards short and fifty yards OIL line
va. nrsving for 8 But my tnlrd
.bot dropped within three feet OF the
ran and got my 4 after making Two
vr.,cbed shots. / did as well az Il !
had rlaved the hole out perfectly.
have seen anv number OF golfers give
m hole after making one or TWO osu
,tot,. when by hanging on they mlsnI
have cot an easy half or poSslO!e
WI, For there is nothing that upsets
The other fellow so much as 10 thinK ne
Ia. the hole won easily, only 70 nave
he otb.r fellow come along and get
hsli or win by some remarkable shoV-
luke or otherwise.
sticking TO il in golf is rewarded
t.5ond all count. On entirely too many
occasions golfers take 1t TOT grahteu
hit the other fellow is goirs. TO 90 far
better than he actually does. Inc mos
vs!uable hole in the world 10 win is tne
one tia, YOU have almost lost me
PSYCHOLOGY then Is all your way. peep
acwn in his heart you know the otner
zsn is calling you e lucky dub, but ne
. Worrying all the more. ana we
TEX never gets a chance 70 come 10 the
player who quits trying
Marshall Whitlatch, one OF the games
closest students. was talking about TINS
feature OF Travers's play few Gays
sgo. 81 have never seen fellow, ne
aid, "who could make as many won,
t.r!1l recoveles. Time after time
hsYe seen him miss shot or two, ana
ten from some place of in the rougn
q from bad trap plant one WITHIN
loot Or two Of the cup when you hAu
hin figured all out OF Il. And these
ne the shots that tear your nerves 10
Pieces and burn your soul 10 ashes.
And the two things that do TINS 1or
'srry are skill and that bulldog deter
ainst'on Of his 20 keep on hghtihs IL
cut"
No man whose soul Is inclined 10
culver under pressure has much OF
Championship class. Travis and Oulmet
nave this same ability to stick aIong