VOL. XIV, NO. 6
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1911
FIVE CENTS
W. J. TRAVIS THE STAR
Remarkable Rounds Spectacular Feature
of Holiday Week Golf Tourney
Total for lOS Hole of 434 Willi
Average Hounds of 14 13 Outdis
tances all Comers
BOTH IN CLASS and
representation the sev
enth Annual Holiday
week golf tournament
ranks with the most im
portant contests of the
year. With four such
entries as former Ameri
can and British cham
pion Walter J. Travis, Intercollegiate
champion Robert E. Hunter, his cousin,
Paul M. Hunter of Midlothian, one of
the fastest of a remarkable group of
young western golfers, and Parker W.
Whittemore of the Brookline Country
Club, one of the best players in New
England, the country sat up and took
notice,expeetant, and Mr.Travis "deliver
ed" the goods. Qualifying Thursday in a
remarkable sixty-nine, within two stokes
of the professional record of Braid and
the equal of his own best score, the pace
was maintained throughout. Wednesday
afternoon a seventy-three resulted in a
four-ball match, Friday morning a phe
nomenal thirty-two out and a fast pace
home, approximately seventy, with a
seventy-four in the afternoon ; and Sat
urday, rounds of seventy-five and seventy-three,
his play was the tournaments
spectacular feature, which background
ed all else,average rounds of seventy-two
and a third. The cards :
THURSDAY MORNING
OUT 35433443 433
IN 34446453 336-69
Note In theory sixty-seven Is the
best possible score on the course, bar
ring flukes, yet Mr. Travis made three
mistakes : the missing of short putts on
the fourth and eleventh and an over run-ning-up
approach on the fourteenth
green; an opportunity to score sixty -six.
AFTERNOON
OUT 45345353 436
IN 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 3 437-73142
FRIDAY MORNING
OUT 45233443 432
IN 4 3 4 4 5 4 6 3 5 38 70l
Note Approximated at highest
score made during the tournament. If
approximated at the lowest score, the
total would be thirty-live or sixty-seven
for the round, reducing the average for
rounds to seventy -one and five-sixths.
afternoon
Out 53443444 536
In 43445463 5-3874144
SATURDAY MORNING
OUT-IN
5 6 3
4 3 4
4 3 4
4 5 4
5 4 5-39
5 3 43675
AFTERNOON
OUT 5 4344543 4-36
IN 4 3 4 4 5 4 6 3 43773148
Naturally Mr. Travis was very much
in the limelight and with Robert Hunter
out of form and Mr. Whittemore out of
the running through defeat by Paul
Hunter, the final was an event which all
but the always present "if intervened
and the match was over, Mr. Hunter
losing on a short putt. As will be noted
fourteen of the seventeen holes were
halved, Mr. Travis winning the bye. The
cards :
TRAVIS Out 54344543 436
HUNTER OUT 54354553 438
TRAVIS-IN 43445463 4 37
HUNTER In 4S445454 5 38
Bye hole.
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W. C. Freeman of Fox Hills, gave
Robert Hunter a close match in the
second round, which the home green
and a halved hole decided. At the turn
the players were all even with medal
play cards of thirty-seven each, and it
was give and take to the fifteenth which
Mr. Hunter won to tie, gaining a lead on
the sixteenth, halving the two remain
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PAUL M. HUNTER
Pinehurst turned out to witness and a
pretty contest it was with the crisis on
fatal" seventeenth where so many fa
mous matches have ended. Going out in
thirty-six to thirty-eight for his oppo
nent, Mr. Travis started home two up,
halves following on the next six holes."
Then Mr. Hunter took the long six
teenth, 6-5, and on the short seventeenth
a halve looked certain, perhaps a win ;
MIDWINTER CHAMPIONSHIP
Annual Tennis Tonrney Inaugurated on
Broad and Comprehensive Lines
full Week of January 23d Provided
For with liargre and Represent
ative field Assured
WINTER tennis on im
portant Championship
lines is but the inevi
table result of keener
appreciation of the op
portunities offered for
enjoyment of the sport
in the south during the
winter months ; a fact
long ago recognized by tournaments
at Nice and Cannes in France, and
Mentone and Monte Carlo in Monaca,
these contests commanding international
attention through entries of such players
as Dohertys, Wilding, Ritchie, Decugis,
and others as equally well known and a
few Americans ; Beals C. Wright, F. B.
Alexander, Robert LeRoy and C larence
Hobart, all having won honors on the
Riveria. For four years past Mexico has
held important tournaments, California
following suit with meetings at Pasa
dena, Los Angeles, Coronado and Del
Monte which have been largely respon
sible for developing Bnndy, McLaugh
lin, Long, Miss Sutton and Miss
Hotchkis8.
As a natural consequence Pinehurst
enters the field this year with an annual
Championship on broad and comprehen
sive lines which soon promises to occupy
a place equal in importance with golf
and shooting. Strange as it may seem,
winter tennis has not gone forward with
winter golf and shooting, but indication
now point to a continuance of interest
throughout the year, in the development
of which this annual . tournament will
play a conspicuous part: fast trains
making a week's sport here within the
reach of even those of limited time for
Pinehurst is not much farther away than
the summer resorts which make so much
of tennis.
The full week beginning January
twenty-third, is provided for, the events
including Men's Singles and Doubles and
women's Singles, with specials in the
form of Mixed Doubles and Women's
Singles should there be a demand for
them. Details of arrangements are in
the hands of a committee including Mr.
Henry Clark Bridges of Tarboro, N. rj..
Mr. George Wright of Boston, Mr. How-
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