New-York tribune., 1918-11-11
Up i'm. War Work Fund Golf
famous SAn1ateurSF Historic Pnttey B1iues
81, 7OO at AUCTION 4 fter Close Contest
Large Gallery Follows Olo
Rivals Over Links at
Garden City

SAo WoS SApeClSo, great gallery OF
golf enthusiasts, and especially golferS
who were prominent in the game TWEEN
ty years ago, were assembled at the
Garden City Golf Club yesterday TO
witness the meeting on the links of the
old rivals, Walter J. Travis and Finalay
s. Douglas. They followed the match
over the links, and they had the pleas
ure OF seeing the game played as it
was played in the days when these men
were champions.
Many holes were won and halvcd in
par and many were played in a stroke,
Or more over par. 1t was an extremely
interesting contest and at no time did
either have lead Of more than two up.
The caddy privileges brought $3.50 for
each man. Howard Maxwell, an old
member of the Dyker Meadow Golf
Club and now prominent member of
The Nassau Country Club, caddied for
Findlay Douglas, while a little boy
hardly larger than the caddy bag car
ried the clubs for Walter j. Travis,
and he was the envy of all the caddy
boys on the course.
The young women who were collect
ing for the War Work Fund did land
ONCE business as they let no one escape
without being tagged, while at the
close OF the match, which was won by
Waiter J. Travis, by up, there was
some spirited bidding for the famous
putter with which Walter J. Travis won
the British amateur championship in
1904, the first and only time the event
was ever won by an American. The
hrst bid was $3.50, and 1t was run up at
a lively rate until it was finally sold
to 2. n. Lapham for $l,700, who pre-
sented it to the Garden City Golf Club.
Douglas Wins First Hole
The match began by Findlay S. Doug
Las winning the first hole in the par
OF 4. as Travis got into the trap guard
ing the green on his second shot and
took five for the hole.
The second hole was most admirably
played They were both on the green
within twelve or fifteen feet Of the
hole. Douglas was away and he ran
ms putt up within a couple Of inches
Of the cup. Travis was more fortunate
third hole, of 334 yards, was halved in
5, one stroke over par.
Travis took the lead at the fourth
hole, Of 4s0 yards, which he won in 4,
one stroke under par. Douglas. however,
squared the match at the fifth hole,
of 290 yards. which he won in par,
and he took the lead at the sixth hole.
Of 420 yards. which he won in to 6.
one stroke over par. After halving the
seventh, 621 yards, in par, Douglas won
the eighth, 357 yards, in 3, one stroke
under par, which increased his lead to
2 up. Travis then won the ninth hole,
316 yards, in s to 6, one stroke over
par. leaving Douglas in the lead by
l up at the turn. Douglas having gone
out In 40 and TRAVIS in az.
Travis in Trap
Playing the tenth hole, of $50 yards,
Travis got into side trap on his tee
shot and barely got out on his second
His third went into bad lie on a
road, while Douglas was on the green
in and Travis in L. Douglas laid his
third shot dead to the cup, and Travis
picked up, conceding the hole 60 Doug
las, who was again in the lead by
2 W.
Travis won the eleventh hole. of A11
yards, in to 6, par being 4. rhey were
both in the trap guarding the green,
on their tee shots from the twelfth tee,
a wretched exhibition of putting halved
the hole in 5. tive strokes over par.
Travis squared the match by winning
the thirteenth hole, of 513 yards. in
the par Of 5.
Playing the fourteenth hole Travis !
drove into side trap and Douglas won
the hole in 5 to s, one stroke above par.
Douglas drove into side trap playing /
the fifteenth and lad his own troubles, /
picking up on the green after Travis !
had squared the match by winning the /
hole in 5, one stroke over par. !
Travis took the lead, which proved /
a winner, by winning the sixteenth (
hole, 402 yards. in the par Of 4. The /
seventeenth hole, of 445 Yards, was
halved in the par Of 5 and the eigh
teenth hole in the par of g, leaving /
Travis the victor by l up.
Their scores were:
rrar;s e . : 4 z 6 6 z G 40