New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17

Yet, at the flnlsh, he was exactly 4
startled big gallery by coming hol
teur champion exactly over this str
over the last nine holes Mrs. Gavin
PLAYED golf that few men could play
and that not even VIC best could hope
10 beat by any margin, Through the
fourteenth hole TravcrS was only l
down. but Mrs. Gavin played the last
four holes in two under fours, a pace
no, TO be beaten. Through the finish
she was playing every shot exception
ally we'll and her putting WAS even
more so.
Here is one striking sample OF her
rrsv-the eighteenth hole at Eng!e-
wood is one ot the hardest one-shots
m the country. II is only 100 yards
In length. but the green is higher than
the tee. calling for a long. hard carry
20 fast, sloping green. Here Jerry,
nv line shot, got his par 8. Yet ne
a.. the hole, for Mrs. Gavin planted
fine brsssie shot twelve feet past
he cup and then dropped her putt for
>. a brilliant finish TO a brilliant
nine holes.
Faces Hard Task
A. the result Of this match, Travers
finds himself facing a rugged assign
mcrt al Garden City next Saturday
sfernoon. lie starts down, and in
s9Eitior. must WELD another nine
s,roke handicap to complete the test.
Ills one chance is that Garden City is
not nearly so badly baked as Engle-
wood Is. and IL is a far harder course
for any woman player to negotiate
"a. even with the big handicap against
him. Jerry believes that he still has
4rbtir- chance 70 pull through in the
test. which even Hilton could not meet.
Trsvcrs was not At his best yester-
Ssv. but for all that he was far from
being of. He played thirteen holes
m psr and he had fairly short putt
for a fourteenth par, which was IN
necessary, as Mrs. Gavin had already
won the hole with stroke allowance.
Fourteen holes in par, even Tor a
champion golfer, is good, STEADY
average. Il is as good as the average
made i'm the finals of most Champion
s1.ps. But it wasn't good enough TO
furnish a WELD Of nine strokes to an
opronent going around in 50.
This match, living up 10 its early
-rorise. was one of the most inter
estinc played all year. Played upon
an even basis. Travers would have won
I'D and I 20 play. But seven Of the
nine strokes counted, and they fell
Al orportune spots. The male repre-
sentative was only / down ct the turn.
Travcrs Wa out in 40 20 Mrs. Gavin's
As Jerry was back in 81. but, IN
Mace OF evening up the match, he lost
three additional holes, dropping the
sixteenth. seventeenth and eighteenth
in succession.
Although the Englewood course rs
badly baked, making IL possible to get
fine distance. no one figured upon Mrs.
Gavin turning with such suddenncss
and cutting away eight strokes from
her first nine holes. A IT was, she
Dlsyed nine Of the eighteen holes IN
PAR. and a remarkable tribute 70 her
fine pl.ting comes in the announce
mert that she took but thirty-two
rutts Tor the eighteen greens. she
had the regulation two puts on four
teen greens and one putt to -FOUR
greens, three Of these being from
Twelve to fifteen feet.
Travers. OF course, had big mar
Gin of the tee. Yet there were sew
ersl holes where Mrs. Gavin was fair
~ close alongside, close enough 70
play iron for iron and get home with
tho open champion Of 1915. She was
unsteady at the start. her first SIX
holes being choppy.
Eight Holes in Par
Bu. she played the last twelve holes
IN 20 strokes, only one over As she
played eight Of these last twelve holes
m par. one under par and the others IN
only one over par, with stroke a!lot-
ment 20 help her along. It IS easy
enough TO figure from this what Irav-
eIs was W against.
Imagine, if you have an elastic mag
nation. giving 6 strokes on twelve
holes 70 this card: 3-5-4-4-5-5-
5-3-5-4-2! Yet this is what the
star amateur had TO face just at the
moment when it was beginning TO look
as If he would win with ease.
IL must be admitted that Mrs. Gavin
was favored with fortune on al least
two holes. On the fourth hole her tee
shot jumped bad bunker and her sec
ord shot stopped within a foot OF an
other bunker. but by fine putt she got
her T. On the tenth her maShle second
hit short Of the trap and bounded over
On 70 the green for another par.
Travers started badly. Both were
down the course on the first hole, but
Jerry hooked 20 a trap, barely got out
and then took 3 puts, losing the hole
20 a ., as Mrs. Gavin had also hooked
20 the left of the green. He then won
the second and third in par figures,
Mrs. Gavin requiring SIS, through bad
tee shot and short recoveries from the
rough. After missing her tee. shot on
the fourth, jumping a trap, Mrs: Car
win had a 15-foot putt for a half IN 4,
and she dropped the ball through the
centre Of the cup.
Travers's second slip was at the short
seventh, where he hooked to trap
barely got out and needed a 3. Mrs.
Gavin halved the eighth hole with r
stroke, and at the 360-yard ninth, up
hill, was twelve feet beyond the pin
with a drive and iron for her par 4.
Receiving a stroke here, she stood !
up. The out cards were 40-45
The tenth was halved in IS. Mrs.
Gsvin's msshie shot jumping the trap
end bounding on the green, A good
drive and fine brassie put her beyond
the cup. OF TO the right, on the 400
yard eleventh, where she barely missed
another 4. Jerry squared the match at
the twelfth, making ten as IN twelve
holes, which is steady enough.
Another Upset
The next upset came at the 4O9-yard
thirteenth. Travers drove $50 yards
and Mrs. Gavin 900. Her brsssie sec
end was fifteen yards short, while
Jerry was green shy by ten feet. Mrs.
Gavln's approach stopped twelve teet
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