Show I I T LESSONS IN GOLF SOME BOMB SOM WONE WONDERFUL F SHOTS SOTS I t HAVE RV SEEN SEEK SEN By Gardiner Garner White Wt When a a. flock tock ock of ot nineteen holers holer gather together the conversation drifts toward 5 golf gol r And Ana A as a 1 rule a b. a bunch of or golfers or tell near V 1 golfe gler can sit It by the hour and tl of the the wonderful shots they have plaY Played d and ad have ie seen een n Played BUt I playe think lh the chances are that no one sean man could could hav o ha played any any TeAt great ay get number ot of shots that s swill m w long ne remain In the memory of ot ne nearly every devotee of ot the fi lame game ATTIC ever I should hould like Uke to to mention menton a few te of or a the wonderful shots I l have hav seen and nd ad shoU that that If 1 Ih they y come off ot at the time th the match ilch would have havo stopped there or t at the ther te next hole but u as It was the Wonderful shots hots I IAm Am going to mention menton men men- have i ira tion ton continued many matches to toI matche t extra etra ra holes boles I think p perhaps the finest Onet putt I have ever seen scon Icon was In the match between Water Wal Wa- ter J. J Travis and Henry wilder the w Well Wider known know golfer soleo In the ama ana l championship champion hIp In 1908 at Garden City It was wa at the seventeenth green with Wilder two and about goen four wih feet from th the hole hOJe Travis was wu about about- abut thirty feet away with wih what looked like an n Im Impossible impossible Im- Im possible putt putt They had bad both played the tho same number of shots and It was up to the old man mn to hole his hi putt putt so 0 as a to continue And even then Wilder could have settled sette things by holding his hll TravIe Travis Tra Tra- T- T TvIs vis vIe had ha to putt put up a a slope slope have the ball bail bal run rim ru some twenty feet along the ridge then come down dow a a slope Into the tha hole I the bail bal hit hi the back bak of the cup CP Jumped up in the air a 8 few rew thebes Inches then ten fell fel In Inthe Inthe inthe the hole bole A most mod wonderful putt putt Mr Mm- M. M Wilder Wider had a a short putt put to settle the match but after that wonderful putt of Travis Tvis it seemed as as' as proven that that he should miss Travis tn finally JY won out after some extra etra holes That Travis has ha played more spectacular spectacular ular shots hol than th any other one man mon In Inthis Inthis Inthis this country countr there i is 15 no doubt An Another wonderful putt put that he made mado and it will wJ long Jong remain fresh freh in the them m memories morles of those who saw sw it I. I was wa In tn Inthe inthe the final round of at tho annual Garden Garen City tournament last spring when pIa play Ing Gardiner Gariner W. W White They came up to the te eighteenth hole holf with wih White one one The last lat hole at Garden City is 18 a short shor one over th the pond White played playe his hi toe tee shot first and got t the edge of ot the green to the left let about hole high high Travis Travis' Tvs Tvs' shot was ws quite a little short hort of the green In fact ho he had geen very ver little to s spare re without getting Into the tho pond the pond the fair green gan was wa such that It It was wu possible for him to use his putter puter from fifteen feet teet short hort of ot the green He played the shot as though It I wore to go clear over the green into the deep traps beyond which It would have done had ha It I not hit the cup It hit hi the cup with such force rore that It I went into the air neary nearly a fo foot t. t then dropped dropp d and hung on the Up lip of the cu ou cu for tor a a second or two then fell fel In White barely missed mise getting getting get get- gt- gt ting his long putt for lor the half haf But It was TU Travis Travis' hole thereby squaring the them m mitch match which White finally won after five exta extra holes Jerome D. D Travers made a wonderful putt on en the ninth green geen at in his match with wih Harold H. H Hilton Hiton the International champion last lat fall fal In the national championship play Travers was a twenty feet away away ay and Hilton Hion about abut six feet away and what seemed to be a a dead de for Travers Travers but Travers hoJe holed the putt put much to t the surprise of both himself and Hion Hilton who after the match agreed the they did not see how the ball baU got ot agee into the hole Most licit of or the shots which really realy go down in golfing history have have been spectacular spec spectacular t putts puts But no end of or shots ahot have hao been played that were remarkable for the distance ono one obtained or difficult approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap shots hots but when a a. a long and difficult dif chit nc lt putt put Is se seen seln n to disappear Into tho the hole holo I 1 think the memory of It la is apt to tobe tobe tobe be lasting |