Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-21
JAMES WINS AT GOLF
DEFEATS BYERS IN CHAMPION
SHIP MATCH AT GLENVIEW,
Superior With His Irons and on the
Greens-Byers Not at His
Best

Louis n. James of the Glenview Golf
Club, a nineteen-year-old boy, on Saturday
won for his own the highest golf honors
that come to an amateur in the United
States by defeating Eben M. Byers of the
Allegheny Golf Club of Pittsburg, in the
finals of the national championship tour
nament. conducted on the Glenyiew course
near Chicago last week.
His victory was decisive, as shown both
by the medal scores and the hole play. He
finished four up and two to play, with a
spectacular putt Of at least ten yards over
the uneven,syatersoaked surface Of the sew
enth green. and even before he had fished
his ball out 81 the cuff he was grabbed by
his wildly cheering eliminates and hoist ed
on their shoulders.
James medal score for this morning was:
Out IS. in 80: afternoon. out A. In 81. for
seven holes. Byers' corresponding scores
were: Morning, out 43, IN 43; afternoon, out
A, in 80, for seven holes.
The young champion won his laurels on
the greens. Both drove beautifully all day
Occasionally a ball would go wrong, but
this was due more to the slippery condition
Of the tees than to faulty form. There was
little to choose in this respect, but when
James used his cleek, his midiron or his
putter his shots were SO true to excite
enthusiastic comment from Willie Smith
Auchterlonie, Leslie and other veteran pro-
fessonals who learned the game amid the
sanddunes of Scotland.
Time and again he laid long approach
pitches dead for the hole and only once
or twice during the long trying contest did
he fail in his puts.
A Contest in Putting.
Tall and slender, with the fragile limbs
Of an overgrown boy, he used every ounce
Of his weight to the best advantage in his
drives and brassies and seldom failed to
cover 200 yards from the tee.
Byers lost the game on the greens. At
Yale and in the east the young Pittsburger
gained the reputation Of being unreliable
in his short game, unbeatable at times and
woefully lacking in accuracy at others.
Saturday was his off day.
Three times he had short puts to win the
hole and twice. had he putted down from
short distances. the hole would have been
halved. In every instance he failed. He
trimmed the cup four times, but as former
Champion Travis said when Byers defeated
him, 1T isn't what a. man ought to do at
golf, but what he does. that counts" and in
the delicate play on the green's Byers was
found wanting.
In the afternoon James outdrove Byers
for the nineteenth. Byers' second a long
brassy, found the bunker. James was a
beauty. well over, and his third was only
three yards from the hole. Byers was well
out In three but missed long putt for a
half. James up.
Byers outdrove James ten yards for the
twentieth, James second, q mlQ-1r0n, was
very short while Byers' stopped four yards
from the oleSJames was short again and
Byers trimmed the cup. He missed short
putt for the hole and 1t was halved. Both
got good drives for the twenty-frst but
Byers' weli-directed brassy found casual
water and stopped the wrong side Of the
slope. His third was yard from the hole,
but James putt stopped a foot from the
cup Byers ball stopped ON the rim and
James won, IS. James 4 UP.
BY the time the thirty-first was reached
James was up.
Byers Gets Ratified"
James sliced his thirty-first drive to the
rough, but his brassy all but reached the
green. Byers' third was too hard and he
missed the eight-foot putt. James holed
his and was UP and 5 to play. James
sliced into the grass on his drive for the
thirty-second, but Byers, who was appar-
emily little ratified over his poor putting
topped his drive badly. He steadied and
sent beautiful brassy over the bunker to
the green. James reached the green on his
second. and his third. short approach pitch,
laid him within two feet of the hole.
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