Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-17
Golf Champion Meets Defeat
at Hands of E. M. Byers
RESULTOF THIRD MATCH
Ideal Weather Prevailed at Glen View
Links Today-Large Galleries Fol.
lowed the Play With Great Interest.
Matches for Today's Contest.

Chicago, July 17.-Champion Travis
was defeated today by e. M. Byers, of
Allegheny, in the third round of the
golf amateur championship contest at
Glen View links.
Ideal Weather.
Almost ideal weather conditions pre-
vailed today when the play for the
amateur golf championship was re-
sumed. The chief interest centered in
the matches of Champion Travis and
e. M. Byers, OF Allegheny, who is ex-
pected to make Travis show all his
skill to keep in running, and that be-
tween Walter Egan and George A..
Ormiston, whose score of 70 in the
qualifying round furnished one of the
biggest surprises in the tournament.
Large Galleries Attend.
Large galleries followed both games
and the play is closely watched. To-
days match play will bring the tour
nament down to semi-finals.
Confident of Travis Ability.
Those viii be at thirty-six holes to-
morrow, and 1.-The generally expressed
opinion among the golfers this morn.
ing was that Travis Swould surely win
his way through them to the finals. ,
Today's Matches.
In the draw for the third round i'll
the golf amateur championship con-
test, which is to be played today at
the Gleh View links, the following
matches We're made:
Walter j. Travis, Garden City, ver-
sus e. M. Byers, Allegheny.
DR.. LII Harlan, Columbia, versus
H. Chandler Egan, Exmoor.
Percy r. Pyne, second, Princeton,
versus George H. Leslie, Skokie.
DR.. D. P. Fredricks, Oil City, versus
A. Poole, Jr, Onwentsia
Phelps B. Hoyt, Glen View, versus
Herbert J. Tweedle, Belmont.
L. N. James, Glen View, versus
Ralph McKittrick, ST. Louis.
H.C. Smith, Onwentsia, versus F. o.
Reinhart, Baltusrol.
Walter E. Egan, Lake Geneva, ver-
sus George A. Ormiston, Highland,
Pittsburg.
A Pretty Contest.
E. M. Byers of the Allegheny club
played the prettiest golf the last nine
holes, ever seen in the amateur
championship tournament and to
day added Eek" to Champion Travis
title, defeating him by one hole. By
ers medal score of 35 for the last
nine holes has only been beaten by
one or two professionals. His driv-
ing, approaching and putting were alb
solutely flawless, and this, too, with
the handicap of three holes against
him as champion and the young Pitts
burg player made the turn with Tray
is three up. Byers game was un
beatable. Travis played par golf or
better in fact to beat Bogey by three
strokes, going out and three strokes
coming in, but this was not good
enough to hold down the Pittsburg
golfer. He out-drove and out-putted
the champion time and again and
showed the form and nerve of vet
eran.
Upsets Calculations.
The results upset all calculations
with regards to the championship. 1t
was confidently expected that Travis
would dispose OF Byers, though by
close score, and work his way to the
finals. Eagan easily defeated DR.. l..
L. Harlan, of Columbus, 6 up and to
play.
The Afternoon Contest.
The play this afternoon is Byers VS.
Chambers, Egan of Leslie VS. DR..
Fredericks; Hoyt VS. James; Reinhart
vs. Walter Egan.
George H. Leslie, of Shokis, beat
Perry Pyne three up and two to play;
Louis James of Glen View. beat
Raplh McKillrick, of st. Louis, G up
and 5 to play Dr. d. P. Fredericks.
of Oil City, beat Abram Poole, Jr., of
Onwentsia, 3 UP and to play. Phelps
B. Hoyt, of Glen View, beat Herbert j.
Tweeoie of Exmoor. 5 up and 8 to
play F. O. Reinhart. of Baltusrol
i beat H. G. Smith, of onwentsia, 5 up
land 8 to play.