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Show TRAVERS GIVES CLEVER GOLF EXHIBITION j Trlbuno Special Sporting Service. j NEW YORK. Dec. 12. Ono of the ' most remarkable exhibitions of golf i ever seen anywhere was given on u re- cent Saturday by Jerome D. Travcrs, 1 national amateur champion, on the links of the Montclair Golf club, when he , made the round in seventv seven strokes, using only ono club his driving iron. . Over a lunch in the clubhouse there j were three players looking for a fourth 1 man, when some one suggested' that' Travcrs be taken in -to plnv the best'f ball of the three, whereupon an admirer . spoke up and snil"T wi'l bet that Travcrs can beat their best ball and ; onlv use one club. ' ' The result was that Mr. Tinver3 un- . dertook the task, and after careful 1 study between selecting a mid-iron or j a driving iron, finally took the latter. , Played in bigii wind, with the course j very rough after a period of dampness J nnd heavy fog, with putting greens i abundant in warm casts, the display of I tho champion was all the more inar- ! vclous. llis long game was practically perfect throughout, with the exception of ono sliced shot, the long approach to the fourth green. His heaviest handicap was on the short approach and the ap.i proach putt, notably on his second to . the first, third and eighth greens, and his approach putts from iust off tho green on it ho ninth and thirteenth. Tlieso trifling irregularities were more than offset 03 his brilliancy- on the putting put-ting greens, where he only needed one putt on nino greens, for a total of twenty-seven putts on the round. |