New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-26
GOLF.
Rapid Rise of Younger Players Re-
sponS;bIe for Seasons ReUerses.

S'SoSOSS W CktsoOfg AbCOCf cSCs
The tournament results in golf in the year Just
ended are upsetting 10 the followers Of amateur
golnng form Never before IN the history Of the
game IN this country has there been much diff
Guilty in picking winners the basis OF previous
records The youngest set Of players has shouldered
its way into the rank Of prize winners. and
of the so-called 'uvincbles have found II increas
inely difficult 10 maintain their regulations
One of these latter is Walter J. Travis. whose
winning of the amateur championship Of Great
Britain gave him prestige never before held by
any American player. Traviss title OF champion of
the United States passed to H. Chandler Egan Of
Harvard. who two weeks before had the West
ern amateur championship, honor that
almost a birthday gift. for the Sunday following
he was twenty years old. When he appeared in the
national championship at Baltusrol in September he
did not show his true game until the final. for IN
the qualifying round his driving erratic and he
was forced repeatedly to rely on brilliant work
with his irons and the putting green's. Egan's
career throughout the season must have been a
mental and physical strain for he played thirty
seven severe matches, OF which he thirty. lost
six and haIved The record is interesting
one. but only his most important achievements
be given. Here they are:
ls5, and cup from Findlay S Douglas.
July 6-Broke record Midlothian doing thirty-six
July 22-LOwsred thirty-six-aole record onwent.a
July 26Io@s5sd same record TO I5s and Won quail
also the Lake county cup with walter Egan.
August 49, OWered ExroOr records, with TO- 74-1A4
IN qualifying round, and won Western amateur cham
september 1o-vron qualifying round in so So s2-2s2
and the national amateur championship at Baltuzro
Egan captured the national championship from
a mere schoolboy-Fred Herreshon, nephew OF
the famous Nat" who had previously from
George A OrnIston. OF Pittsburg. Ormistou was
the surprise of the tourney. To be sure, he was
holder of the Western Pennsylvania champion
ship and a frequent competitor in open tourna-
ments, but no-on supposed that it would fall
I
can champion was shut out when the two came to-
gether IL the second round, and then. the vio-
tory Intoxicating Ormiston went to
pieces before Herreshon in the next round HERES
hoff. by the way. had captured the amateur cham
pionship of Vermont. q few days previously. and
his earlier trip abroad IN company with his father
had drawn this comment from J. l. Low, who
captained the Oxford and Cambridge golf team
its trip 10 this country two years age.
gR a7s 3 t g RF96 s Be b 99e o. o th
! really be a strange thing would be to see the
and Water against s Britain What they have done
| at sea they might do on land for Mr. Herreshofts
foundation for most dangerous game.
Mr.. Lows experience with the leading American
golfers gives an added weight to this comment and
! indicates that Traviss success abroad may be
| duplicated in the no distant future.
| But study Of the seasons records makes it i'm
possible to pin faith in any particular standard
bearer: Even Egan was beaten at St Louis in the
| BaItusrol a1alr: He reached the finals through
! but there he met George S. Lyon a Canadian.
/ and three times champion OF the Dominion. The
| heavy with recent rains. and the match was
| fought in a downpour. Egan lost By up and
collegiate championship, at the Myopia Hunt Club.
hart was the title holder ana Egan succeeded in
dsposing Of him in the course Of the tournament,
| but he, himself lost to A L. White. A Harvard
! Lyon the Olympic champion. was subsequently
champion was beaten by Malcolm NcBurney, an
IN the fail and again at the Ekwanok Club. at Man
chester. Vt, by E. NJ. Dudley, young st. Andrews
Such has been the history OF the year Cham
wb tbemseves can Claim no 5 permanent gdIsnc
ton. because OF frequent subsequent defeats
unable to renstate himself al Nassau in the an
nual open tournament at that popular course and
Nassau is a links where Travis usually does Wen.
Travers, the seventeen-y ear-od interschoiastIc
champion and vas as. completely %oFged
IN the forenoon Of the same Day but In looking
that in the national championship he was beaten
in the first round by Dr.. D. P. rrredericks. of Oh
This condition of affairs indicates the transition
ft or e game ~ w r ne ugy sTwar men a
without the stanli[y as yet to h3id the place .
| men who qualified for the match play in the
golfers and three of Them reached the semi-nnals
Another season will doubtless the supremacy
The uncertainty which marked results IN the
mems tourney was also noticeable in the few i'm
portant matches in which women appeared. The
national tournament was held at Philadelphia, and
Miss Georgfanna Bishop. Of the Brooklawn Coun-
try Club. of Bridgeport Conn won Added in
terest given to the affair by the presence OF
Miss Charlotte bod. the British champion But
Miss bod completely failed to fulfil expectations.
She was beaten in the first round by Miss Pauline
Mackay. OF Boston, by and TO play; Miss
Mackay. however. who was then regarded as a
possible champion. defeated in the serni-hnals
by Mrs Z F. Sanford. OF Orange.
, Then came the international match with the
women OF Canada. Miss bod again beaten;
this time by Miss Bishop. captain Of the American
team but the latter in turn lost 20 Miss Mackay
two weeks later IN the womens tournament. at
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