OTLQOK VOL. XVIII, NO. 15 SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1915 FIVE CENTS STILL IN THE RUNNING! Walter J. Travis Heads Fast Field in Annual Spring Golf Tourney Jenuv P. Guilford In Conitolation Ntar and Ten Other Vln In Am 71 any lllvialonn Iteenth, failing to score the eighteenth with a putt which positively refused to go down. The cards: ROBESON Out 544564 4-34 39 In 6 6 5 4 5 4 4 3 4 41 80 HUNTER Out 6 5 5 6 5.3 5 3 341 In 446 55342 53879 Note Stymied. YES, stranger, Walter J. Travis, onetime inter national champion and many years national title holder, is still in the running. If Eleventh an nual Spring golf tourna ment was pretty much his verv special, only own; four match rounds with a medal average of seventy-five and a half, and no match which carried him further than the fourteenth green. Gold medallist, also, with a margin of five strokes over a field of two hundred contestants, and some of 'em with some speed. 1f Surely golfers may come and golfers may go, but Travis goes on forever! If Straight down the alley, straight for the pin, straight for the cup; just playing his own best ball with sublime, subsconscious, preoccupied concentration, all of which goes to show that ' ' temperament ' ' is the stuff that makes champions; the infinite capacity for detail which is always the surest indi cation of "genius." Down the bracket the veteran golfer skiied, W. E. Truesdell, W. W. Powers, I. M. Thompson, and I. S. Robeson the pacemakers in the order given. If Not a path strewn with roses was it for Robe son, however, who contended every match from first hole to last and left three good men by the wayside; Henry (1. Fownes, Robert Hunter, and J. 0. Parrish, Jr., in the order given; all of them in the running until the trusty putt ers were sheathed on the eighteenth green. I'ownes was the first victim who, one down at the turn, won the eleventh for the lead which he lost on the thirteenth :"d regained on the fourteenth, only to retire before 4's which wTon the sixteenth :,"d eighteenth and halved the seven teenth, f The cards: ROBESON Out 5 5445354 439 1 56545444 44180 FOWNES Out 55446463 340 ,x 4 5 5 5 4 4 5 4 54181 Next in line Hunter who two down at the turn squared the match on the twelfth, lost the next two hole3, and was :U square again with a 2 on the seven- PARRISH Out 5 5 4 4 5 3 6 4 440 In 5 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 44 S4 Parrish advanced on a two and one win from Dr. G. T. Gregg who dropped Jesse Guilford into the consolation to the tune of five and three. All even the pair made the turn, halving the tenth and eleventh. Par rish gained a lead on the twelfth which he lost on the thirteenth and regained on T' 'I 0 to. L 1 i ,is, J I ''If ST NEVER A DINNER LIKE IT! "WALTER J. TRAVIS "STILL IN THE GAME" Then the crucial semi-final test with Parrish who turned homeward one up, halved the tenth and lost the eleventh for a tie, with four 5 's and a 4 for halves on the next five holes, Robeson gaining the lead on the seventeenth and winning the match through a halve on the eighteenth. If The cards: ROBESON Out 65444373 541 lN 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 3 54081 the fourteenth, clinching the match with a winning 3 on the seventeenth and halv ing the eighteenth in 5. If Hunter found John II. Clapp a worthy foe in opening play who was in the game until the seven teenth hole was played, where A. L. Carr also retired to Thompson ; C. M. Ransom, Thompson's second round opponent, win- nino- from C S. McDonald on the "" home green. (Continued on page eight) Tin Whistle Annual Combines Pleasant Memory and Joyous Anticipation Good Fellowship llelg-na With .Never Hull moment from Greeting To Auld liang- Syne YOU may bring me half a dozen grains of oat meal, Mary without cream, please! Tom can't you handle that silver with a little less noise and for heaven's sake open a window two windows ! If But. say, Billy, old top, it sure was some party! If Tobacco smoke as thick as Lon don fog, eats 'till one felt like Broadway on election night, and drinks until you fancied yourself the Atlantic squadron on dress parade! If Roar, rattle, bang; song, laughter, voices; wit, sally, mirth; with always the consciousness of good fellowship tingling your elbow tips. Make it coffee, black coffee, and hot, Mary; never mind the oatmeal! No indeed, there never was a Tin Whistle dinner like it; never any dinner to beat it ! 1f Country Club house the place, Tuesday night the time, in attend ance each and every honorable member within striking distance of the Land of Promise; journeying hither joyously from frozen north, sunny south, golden west, and starry east. If President John G. Nicholson, Toastmaster Robert Hunter, Leonard Tufts, E. G. Chandlee, A. S. Newcomb, I. S. Robeson, II. W. Ormsbee, C. B. Hudson, II. C. Fownes, C. B. Fownes, "W. L. Milliken, C. L. Becker, Edwin Hen derson, and Rev T. A. Cheatham at the big round table at the head of the hall. These members and guests in congenial groups within speaking distance: II. W. Priest, J. D. C. Rumsey, T. A. Kelley, W. S. Van Clief, C. D. Chandlee, A. E. Lane, A. L. Carr, C. M. Wells, W. T. Stall, J. II. Herring, George Barber, T. B. Boyd, J. P. Gardner, Dr. J. S. Brown, J. P. Bow man, John. C. Spring, P. W. Whittemore, W. L. Baldwin, John Barclay, R. II. Hunt, R. C. Blancke, II. II. Rackham, C. M. Ransom, W. W. Powers, W. II. Faust, W. S. Morse, Donald Ross, Alexander Ross, James MacNab, R. C. Shannon, II, J. M. Thompson, Donald Parson, C. L. Jones, Thomas McGraw, Jr., Dr. G. T. Gregg, II. W. Croft, W. II. Thayer, W. L. Hurd, Tyler L. Redfield, Judd II. Red field, C. S. McDonald, J. R. Towle, J. M. (Concluded on page twelve)