The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-07-20
Glenview Youth Beats Rycrs -Four
Up and Two TO Play in 4
Hard Contest.
GAME III DRIVING transform.
Sixteen Hundred Enthusiasts. Ona-
Third Of Them Women, Trudgc
Through the Mud 10 See
End of Tournament.

Glcnview Col: Course. July Ia-Louis y.
James OF Glenv!ew. barely % years Old. TO-
Gay Won the highest sollus Eorors that
can come 20 an amateur in the United
states b. a"lsatins Ehen II. Eycrs Of the
Allegheny Goli Club OF PIttshurr. Pa, in
tie Anals ia the annual championship tour
namen-.
lis victory WIS decisive. as shown both
hE the medal scores and the hole pllys.
He finished four up and TWO 10 play. with
n spectacular put Of At least ten yards over
the uneven. yatsr-sOakel surface OF the
seventh green. and even before he had
iSAeI his ban out OF the cup he was
grabbed by his wildly cheering eliminates
ana holstcd on their shoulders.
JameS'S media! score was: Morning, out
:" in 81. afternoon. out a. in 81, for seven
lu!es- ayerSs score was: Morning. out IS.
holes. " N' seven
The young champion Won his laurels on
the green. Both drove beautifully all day.
occasionally q ban would 60 wrong. but
this was due more TO the slippery condition
q the tees than 10 faulty form.
There was little 10 choose in this re-
specJ. but when James used his cleek. his
miClron or his pEtJcr. hiS shots were so
true as 10 excite enthusiastic mmen from
Willie" Smith. AUchter!Onie. Leslie and
other veteran professionals. who learned the
game on the sand dunes OF Scotland.
Time and again, he laid long approach
pitches dead for the hole and only once or
twice during the Ions. trying contest he
failed 10 negotiate his puts.
Tai and slender. with the fragile limbs
OF an overSrGwn boy. lie used every ounce
OF his weighs TO the best advantage in HIS
drives and braSSeys and seldom failed 10
cover go yards from the tee.
ByerS Loses in short Plays.
Byers lost thu game or the greens. At
Yale and in the East the young PIttsburger
gained the reputation Of being unreliable
il his short game. unbeatable n times. and
without fully lacking in accuracy at others
To-day Was his OF day. Three times he
had short puts to win the hole. and twice
had he putted down from short distances,
tn hole would have been halved.
In every instance he failed. He trimmed
the cup four times, but. as former hRmpion
Travis said when Bye-s defeated him: 1T
isn't what n man ought TO do at golf. but
icate play on the greens Byers was found
wanting.
Probably 4 golf championship was never
decided under such uuflvorabla conditions.
Part Of the morning play was during a rain
storm that was almost q deluge. Occasion
ally the rain would let " a little. Then q
would let down a great deal more. and great
pools Of water formed on the already
soaked course. The play was ~entierly over
the first nine holes Of the eiEhtesn-hole
course, several OF the greens OF the last
being entirely under water.
The gallery that followed the two con-
testants was probably the largest that ever
witnessed a golf game in this country. Tn
deferred by the storm. society turned out
in fun force, and fully leo golfers. 4 third
of them women. trudged through the driy-
ing rain behind the players.