The Washington times., 1902-07-18
Byers, of Pittsburg, Sends
the Holder of Title
TO D.feat.
DR.. HARLAN OUT OF IT
Meets the Lucky Player From Pitts
burg ard Comes to Grief-Splendid
Golf Witnessed On Links of the Glen
View Club-Semi- Finals Today.

GLEN VIEW, H.. July 17.-Walter ].
champion of the United States. The
clever player who has the title for the
past two years was dethroned today in
the third round OF match play by E. NJ.
Byers. a young man from Pittshurg, md
graduate from Yale only last year.
who has been prominent n national
golf fer a few seasons.
The contest in which Nr. Travis was
defeated, was replete with brilliant
work. as evidenced by the scores which
were. made. The former champion play
cd the best golf that has characterized
his work since he came TO Glen View.
making the eighteen holes in rs, while
his opponent did II. and won by d
hole Mr.. Byers' figures are the best
that have been registered since tine
tournament started. and are six strokes
under the bogey for the course
a Plucky Battle.
When it is taken into account that
the young PIttsburg player was three
down at turn, too much credit cannot
be given him for his plucky uphill fight
on the home journey. and he played golf
that has never been equaled over an
American green.
Only sixteen of the sixty-four who
morning to fight out the match rounds
irtr ha ho - AZ, a
round was finished the situa ation re-
solved itself a& follows:
L. NJ. Byers, Pittsburg. defeated Wal
ter J. Travis. Garden CITY. b. l up.
II. Chandler EgGn. Exmoor. defeated
Dr.. L. L. Harlan, Washington, d. c.,
by UP, and to play. George Il.
Leslie, Skokie, defeated Percy r. Pyne
II. Princeton. 3 up and 2 TO play. DR..
b. 7. Fredericks. Oil City. Pa. defeated
Abe Poole, jr., Onwentsia, by up and ,
TO play. Phelps b. Hoyt. Glen View,
defeated Herbert ]. Twecdie, Belmont. by
3 UP and 10 play. Louis y. James.
Glen View. defeated Ralph MeKittrick,
st. Louis. by 6 up and ) to play. +. O.
Reinhart. Bsltusrol, defeated H. {.
Smith, Onwentsla. by up and to
play. ". E. Egan, Lake Geneva, de
feated George a. Ormistop, Pttsburg,
by up.
The Fourth Round.
The results OF the fourth match round
follow:
f. NJ. Byers, Pittsburg. defeated II.
Chandler EGan, Exmoor. by 3 UP and .
to play; Dr. D. ?. Fredericks, Oil City,
defeated George II. Leslie. Skol.ie. l
up: Louis y. James. Glen View. de-
featcd helps b. Hoyt, Glen View. BY
g up ana ? to play; F. o. Reinhart,
Baltusrol, defeated Walter E. Egan.
Lake Geneva. by up.
The pairings for the semi-fnals to-
morrow are: T.. VI. Bycrs. Pit;sburg.
VS.. Or. d. p Fredericks, oil City; Louis
y. James. Glen View, VS.. Frank o.
Reinhart, Baltusrol.
Chandler Egan. of Exmoor, had n
rather easy contest with DR.. /. L. Har
ban. of Washington. whom he put out
in the morning. 8 up and ;. but he had
to succumb to young Byers in toe af-
ternoon, who beat him up and. 2 after
a most interesting round. whicn Tas
by an enthusiastic gallery. The
whole story of Mr.. Egans defeat is
told In saying that his poor putting
was responsible for It.
EedteH Ly IlIDmate.
After defeating Herbert J. Tweedie. in
the morning play. Phelps b. Hoyt. the
Western champion. was beaten by his
cluhmate, Louis y. James, in the fourth
round MIR James is the only Chicagoan
in the running now. II is a coincidence
that he ped with twelve others in the
qualifying round for the last two places
and won only in plaI-cff and was paired
as No Ga. MIR. James is good player,
but was quite unlucky in the preliminary
round.
After Travis and Ormiston had been
defeated in their match rounds they
elected to play, OF, at IS holes, their
tie for low score in the qualifying round.
Travis won by SO to 81.
Semi-fnals to be played tomorrow are
at 50 holes. Frank O. R2inhart, ot
Is among those left to make
a try FOR the trophy. II may be remem-
bered that MIR. Reinhart recently de-
feated Travis in the Morristown tourna-