Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17
BYERS BEATS TRAVIS
CHAMPION DEFEATED BY ONLY
ONE HOLE.
E. M. Byers Was the Successful Con-
testant-Dr Harlan Also
Meets Defeat.

Allegheny Club, playing the prettiest golf
in the nine last holes that has ever been
seen In an amateur championship tourna-
ment today, added an Eek to Champion
W. ]. Travis title. defeating him by one
hole. Byers' medal score Of 80 for the last
nine holes has only been beaten by one
or two professionals. His driving, ap-
preaching and putting were absolutely
fiawless and this. too, with a handicap of
three holes against him, as the champion
and the young Pittsburg player made the
turn with Travis three up.
Byers game was simply unbeatable.
Travis played par golf. or better, in fact,
he beat DOGGY by three strokes going out
and three strokes coming in, but this was
not good enough to hold down the Pitts
burg golfer. He outdrove and outputted
the champion time and again, and showed
the form and nerve of a veteran. The re-
suit upsets all calculations as regards the
championship. 1t was confidently expected
that Travis would dispose of Byers, though
by close score, and work his way to the
finals
Byers showed considerable nervousness
In his match with Travis, while the veteran
played as if errors were unknown to him.
Travis took the first hole SO, Byers miss
ing a twO-fOot putt for a half. The second
and third were halved, Byers missing an
other two-foot putt in the third to win.
Travis took the fourth. sixth and eighth
and Byers the seventh, his magnificent
brassy landing him on the green. AT the
turn Travis was up with medal score
of 80. three under DOGGY. The medal scores:
Travis
Out ...........5 5 5 4 $50
Byers-
Out ...........8 5 5 4 Q 3 5 AZ
H.. 3 80. Totals
In. 4 3 5 50 4-35. Total-77
Chandler Egan of Exmoor easily defeated
DR.. l.. l.. Harlan of Columbia up D TO
play.
Egan-
Out................. 5 s 5-l
Geo. H. Leslie of Skokie held his ad-
vantage over Percy Pyne and won up 2
to play.
Louis James of Glenview beat Ralph Nc
KittriCk of St Louis. up ) to play.
DIR. D. P. Fredericks of Oil City beat
Abram Poole. jr., of Onwentsia, up to
play.
Phelps B. Hoyt Glenview, beat Herbert
j. Tweedy, ExmoOr, up 3 to play.
F. o. Reinhart. Baltusrol. beat H. c..
Smith, Onwentsia, up 3 to play.
The play this afternoon will be as fol-
L. NJ. Byers agt. H. Chandler Egan. Geo
Fl. Leslie agt. DR.. D. p. Fredericks. Phelps
b. Hoyt agt. Louis James. f. O. Reinhart
agt. Walter Z. Egan.
II have only thing to say about my
defeat said Mr.. Travis. and that is that
Mr.. Byers played a little better game than
1 did. He earned his victory, and there
fore deserved it,
GLENVIEW GOLF COURSE, Ill, July17
Almost ideal weather conditions prevailed
today when match play for the amateur golf
championship was resumed. There was a
southwest breeze blowing but it was too
gentle to seriously affect playing, and many
good scores were made by the contestants
during the morning round
Chief interest conferred In the matches be-
tween Champion Travis and E. NJ. Byers Of
Allegheny. who was expected to make
Travis show all his skill to keep in the run
ming. and that between Walter Egan and
George A Ormiston. whose score of seven
ty-nine IN the qualifying round. a tie with
Travis. furnished ore OF the biggest sur
prises of the tournament Large galleries
followed both games and the play was
closely watched. Today's match play will
bring the tournament down to the semi
finals These will be at thirty-six hoes to-
morrow and the generally expressed opinion
among golfers this morning was that
Travis would surely win his way through
them to the finals.
Eisar and Ormiston haIved the first and
second holes i'll ) and 4. DOGGY figures Egan
took the third, 81; Ormiston slicing and
/
fourth was Egau's. i-6, Ormiston finding
the trap bunker. Ormiston won the fifth
81.
Percy Pyne of Princeton found a formi-
dabte opponent in Geo. II. Leslie of Skokie
and was ; down at the eighth.
OrmistOn squared the match, winning the
sixth. The seventh was halved A. Egan
took the eighth. 40, and Ormiston the
his second Egan again took the lead al the
twelfth. 10, Ormiston's putt trimming the
cup. Egan also took the thirteenth, Ormi-
ston's approach finding the brook. Ormiston
took the fifteenth. Egan missing d three
foot put for half Egan took the six
teenth, 40 making him dormie two. Ormi-
ston won the seventeenth. He topped his
eighteenth drive, went into the trees on his
second and lost the hole and match up.
The medal scores follow:
Egan-
Out, 4 4 8 AZ
In............ 6 3 4 8 4 g 9 5-4Ls6
Ormiston-
f Gn':::::::: 3 3 559ss55 t "a
Byers won the tenth by "a. Travis making
a poor brassy second This encourage
Byers. who halved the eleventh by So, and
with a beautiful eighteen foot putt won the
twelfth by As. cutting down Travis lead to
one This he removed on the long bridge
hole by another long putt. The fourteenth
was halyed in 3. DOGGY figures and the
fifteenth in >. Their Byers Won the six
tsenth in 1.
And for the first time the young Pitts
burger was in the lead. Byers holed a rather
difficult putt for a half on the seventeenth
and he was dormie one. The immense gal
lery was still as death as Byers drove
for the home green. 1t screamer
the ball stopping fully 200 yards, jumping
.he road and landing well on the fair green
Travis drive was even better. Both ap-
preached well, Byers little away, but his
approach putt laid him dead. Travis tried
for three. missed by narrow margin and
the great gallery and throngs on the spa
cious club house veranda enthusiastically
cheered the flushed. smiling Pittsburger as
he and Travis shook hands good naturedIy
81 played my best when l struck my
gait" said Byers later. Il realized my OPP
ponent was a hard man to beat. but he
knows how to loose we'll as how to win.
Naturally, 1 am proud that | won"