Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
THE BIG GOLF TOURNEY
TWO YOUTHS STRIVING FOR
CHAMPIONSHIP HoNoRS.
Final Match Play on the Baltusrol
Links Today - Survivors
of 1873 Starters.

SHORT HILLS, N. j., September TO-
Two youthful golfers, one Harvard stu
dent, the other Brooklyn lad who attends
school at Pottstown, Pa, are striving for
national amateur golf championship honors
In the final match play round of thirty-six
holes on the Baltusrol Club links today. H.
Chandlerm of the Exmoor County Club,
Gh caEos champion of the Western Golf
Association and captain of the Harvard
University golf team, represents the west,
and Frederick Herreshoff, a sixteen-year-
old Brooklyn boy, who won the state cham
pionship of Vermont few weeks ago, and
entered from the Ekwanok Country Club of
Manchester, VT, is the eastern representa-
tive in today's battle.
Each of the survivors Of the big field of
I33 starters has shown remarkably good
form during the week, and while Egan by
his consistency. is considered to be more
likely to succeed Walter J. Travis the Ge-
ieated champion, young Herreshoff has
most OF followers who believe that his work
being less erratic and his long game the
surer he ought to be returned the winner
When the pair started out today for the
irst round of the eighteen-hole course a
large and representative gallery of prom
lnent men and women golfers followed in
their wake. and every movement of the
players was carefully watched and keenIy
criticised. The weather was haZy and the
shy oDSCuTeU Dy threatening clouds but no
rain fell. and the course was just as hard
and tricky as on any previous day of the
tournament.
At the Start.
At the start Herreshoff, for whom Donald
Ball, the professional of the Ekwanok club.
acted as caddie, won the toss for the honor,
and drove long ball slightly sliced, while
Egan, with his cousin, Walter E. Egan
acting as caddie, pulled into the long
grass. He took two iron shoots to get
it out. and was on the green with a
beautiful cleek shot. Herreshoffs third
went to the far side of the green and he
was short on his putt. Egan trimmed the
cup with long putt and Heareshoff won
the hole (463 YARDS in toe
Both pulled slightly from the second tee,
the balls going into the long grass Egan
had to play and sent the ball into bunker.
Herreshoff's second was close to the green
and he was on in 3. Egan made a fine re-
covery with an iron, reaching the edge of
the green and gained half in 8. The sec
ond hole was distance of 376 Yards. Play-
ing the third hole Goo yards) both players
drove well close to the edge of the green.
Herreshoff's approach putt laid dead for
the hole, which he won in to H. making
the Brooklyn boy 2 up.
Herreshoff made the better drive. going
to the fourth hole ass yards) as Egan
sliced. Both landed in the rough with their
brassey shots. Each was on the green in
three, and Egan holed out in 5 to 6.
Egan drove $50 yards for the fourth hole
600 yards), while Herreshoff was short and
had to play a full iron shot Egan putted
poorly, and the hole was halved in fours.
Both got into rough going to the sixth $40
yards). Egan having the better lie. Her
reshoff got to the right of the green in
three.
and won it in to 3, making the match all
square.
Egan's Superiority.
From the seventh. tee Egan pulled his
drive into the road. Herreshoff drove a
shorter ball ON the fair green. and sliced
his second into the rough. Egan here DEM
onstrated his superiority at the long game,
winning the hole (52o YARDS in to T. Her
reshoff having picked up instead of putting
out. Egan / up.
The eighth (2S3 yards) was halved and
Egan was up at the turn. having won the
ninth hole us2 YARDS in 3 to 4, cleverly
negotiating a half sty:lie.
Egan drove the tenth green QS4 yards),
but Herreshoff'S ball fell into a sand trap.
He took two to get out, Egan winning the
hole in 3 to 5.
Herreshoff placed his drive for the elev-
enth hole (310 yards), the ball lying behind
the trees back of the bunker. Egan drove
straight and won the hole in to s, in
creasing his lead to 4 up.
Egan outplayed MS opponent on the
twelfth hole t262 yards), and won it in
to 4.
On the thirteenth C321 yards) Herreschoff
missed short putt for a half and Egan
holed out in to 5, giving him lead of
up.
Egan made a very strong game all the
way through, but occasionally had ten
dency to Gull his drive, but his .recoveries
were remarkably well executed. Herre-
schoff seemed to lose heart as the match
progressed, frequently playing shots poorly
which he executed with vigor and precision
Yesterday.