Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-06-02 | Page 7 | Travis Only American Left in Goff Tourney

TRAVIS ONLY AMERICAN LEFT EN G0FF TOURNEY LONDON, June 1. In the third of the amateur golf championship contests at Sandwich today H. M. Calrnes beat Devereux Emmett of the Garden City, New York, Gtnc club, W nve up and four to play. H. E. It en do beat W. W. Burton. American, by nine up and eight to play. Walter J. Travis, the American champion, beat R. Graham Murray, son of the Secretary for Scotland, by three up nnd one to play. Travis started moderately, but drew level al the sixth hole and took the lead at the seventh with two grand straight ahota to the edge of the green. At the turn Travis stood one-up. He won the eleventh nnd halved the next three. Superior putting gave him the fifteenth. Tho next was halved and a win at the seventeenth gave Travis the match. F. Williamson beat E. M. Byors, American, at the nineteenth hole. Trav-iu, Trav-iu, therefore. Ih the only American left In tho conteBt. Byors had a hard match. After being all squared at the seventh hole he lost the eighth and stood one down at the turn. He again was equare at the sixteenth, but lost the seventeenth, missing a short put. Williamson was bunkered at the eighteenth, eight-eenth, whore Byern ixiuared, but the American misBcd a drive to the nineteenth nine-teenth and was beaten. Travis played a strong game against Readc. who Is the Irish champion. The American did not secure tho lead until the freven-leenth freven-leenth hole, being one down at tho turn and two down at the fourteenth, but he won the next four and the match. To-morrow Travis will meet II. H. Hilton and other survivors, E. D. Black-well, Black-well, W. E. Fairlle. J. E. Laldley. O. C. Bevan, R. Maxwell and H. G. Hutchison.