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PINEHURST, MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
NOT ALL THEIR OWN WAY !
W. J. Travis Was Only One of the
Favorites Who Won Out.
TravhFown, Jr., Match Fitting:
Ending to II iff Tonrnament
Tlie Cup Winner.
CONTUARY to expressed opinion the
favorites did not have things "all
their owu way'1 in the big inauguration
tournament. John Moller, Jr., the runner-up
in the Metropolitan champion
ship, went down before V. C. Fownes,
Jr., in the semi-finals for the first cup,
and John M. Ward dropped out at the
same point, in the contest for the Conso
lation, to O. McCammon of the Chevy
Chase Country Club, Washington, much
to the surprise of many who had picked
these players as having something like a
"cinch" on the runner-up medals at
least.
W.J.Travis, the amateur ehnmpion,
was the only one who pulled through
the tournament a winner and it is gener
ally conceded that his final round with
Fuvvnes was, to s.iy the least, close
enough to keep his mind and interest on
the game from start to finish.
When the players came in Saturday
noon even up, a buzz of interest swept
through the Club House, and when the
rivals started on the afternoon round a
big gallery was at their heels to see the
battle through to the end.
Travis took the first hole four-five, the
second was halved in four and Fownes
won the third, four-three. When Fownes
made a beautiful one hundred and fifty
yard mid-iron approach on to the fourth
green his friends increased wonderfully,
but the champion went down in four
and halved the hole.
For a few holes it looked bad for the
Pittsburg player and at the thirteenth,
four down and five to go, it seemed to be
all over but the shouting. Fownes, how
ever, made a brilliant rally on the four
teenth, playing a ball from a pit dead to
the hole and winning, six-seven. Then
he took the fifteenth four-five, and the
sixteenth, three-four, and the hearts of
the gallery thumped furiously.
On the seventeenth Fownes over-drove
the green and in returning over-approached.
Travis laid his second dead,
and the Pennsylvanian made a thrilling
putt for a halve. Straight as a bullet
the ball went and into the hole !
"Even up!" was the cry on the lips of
the gallery, but before it could be
uttered, Fownes' ball had jumped out
and to one side and the match was lost,
two up and one to play.
"Hard luck," grunted the men. "Isn't
it horrid" moaned the women and then
congratulations were showered with
equal enthusiasm upon both the winner
and his opponent.
The story of the great battle is very
clearly told in the following subjoined
cards :
lent golf, who was first brought into
National prominence as winner of the
November tournament at Atlantic City.
He has struck his "gait" within the last
few months and is steadily improving.
His form is so clean-cut as to be
rhythmic, and when he acquires the
accuracy and steadiness which comes
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THE INAUGURATION TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE.
Travis Out 34344574 640
Fownes 54344564 439
Travis In 53545774 545-40-85
Fownes 53646463 542-39-81
Travis Out 44443454 436
Fownes 54344654 439
Travis 6 3 3 4 7 5 6 3 37-36-73
Fownes 54456454 37-39-76
W. C. Fownes, Jr., is one of a family
of Pittsburgers, all of whom play excel-
vvith experience he is sure to be heard
from in the golfing world.
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OTHER CUP WINNERS.
The final battles for the second and
third cups and the first, second and third
consolation cups were bitterly contested
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BRILLIANT ENDING!
Inauguration Tournament Brought to
Close With Medal Play Handicap.
91. C. Work, Philadelphia, F. J. Hal
ley, Kearnarg-e and O. McCain,
nion, Chevy Chase, are Winners.
7T HE inauguration tournament was
given a brilliant ending with an
eighteen-hole medal play handicap, in
which over fifty golfers participated.
M. C. Work of the Country Club of Phil
adelphia playing with a handicap of
twelve, won the trophy offered for the
best net score, witli seventj'-six net,
with F. J. Bailey of the Kearsarge Golf
Club, North Conway, N. II., who also
had a handicap of twelve, a hot second
in seventy-seven.
C. B. Fownes of the Highland Golf
Club, Pittsburg, and O. McCammon of
the Chevy Chase Club, Washington, tied
for the best gross score cup with eighty
each, McCammon winning on the play
off. Walter J. Travis, the champion, made
an eighty-five, which with his handicap
of plus six, made ninety-one net. John
Moller, Jr., and John M. "Ward did not
participate.
George C. Dutton of the Oakley Club,
and E. A. Freeman of the Montclair
Club did eighty-four each.
A high wind which made putting on
the greens difficult, was in a measure
responsible for the high scores.
THE PARTICIPANTS.
The participants included the follow
ing: A. C. Aboru, Montclair golf club, New
Jersey; F. J. Bailey, Kearsarge club,
No. Conway, N. II.; Henry W. Brown,
Ekwanok golf club, Manchester, Vt. ; W.
K. Hotchkins, Montclair golf club, Mont
clair, N. J. ; C. M. Brett, Brookline
country club, Boston; II. H. Fox, Oak
ley country club, Cambridge, Mass.; M.
S. Willing, Ekwanok golf club, Manches
ter, Vt. ; E. A. Bailey, Geo. C. Dutton,
O.ikley country club, Boston; W. C.
Freeman, Montclair golf club, New Jer
sey; II. C. Fownes, Highland golf club,
Pittsburg; J. II. Ilentz, Jr., Mt. Airy
golf club, Phi adelphia; S. Y. Itamage,
Oil City golf club, Oil City, Pa.; C. B.
Fownes, Highland golf club, Pittsburg;
G. H. Milliken, Baltusrol golf club, Short
Hills, N. J.;E. A. Freeman, Montclair
golf club, New Jersey; W. J. Travis,
Garden City golf club, Long Island;
Jasper Lynch, Lakewood counfy club,
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