The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-13
BGAN HIS OWN SUCCESSOR.
HE AGAIN EINS THE AMATEUR
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
vanauishes Sawyer by Q Up and to Play
in the Final Round on the wheaton
Links-PIays Brilliantly in the After.
noon--Big Gallery Follows Players

WHEATON. ILL.,, Aug. l2.-Golf champion.
alma s.em to run In grooves, which il a good
thing for the game and the players. To-day
H. Chandler Egan of the Exmoor Golf Club
won the amateur cha mpionship Tor the sec
ond year. He beat d. E. Sawyer Of the Whea j.
ton Golf Club by UP and TO play. ms
brackets the gallant youth with n. j. Whig-
ham az a double winner. but Travers still
leads with three wins.
Il congratulate you and hope to nave
the plea sure again next year In the East
exclaimed q New Yorker.
Thanks, but may not be player next
year" was the reply firm Egan. You know
/ am going into stock brokerage.
There was q band on the clubhouse lawn.
and when the crowd swarmed IN AFTER the
finish they heard II playing Fair Har-
yard.: Egan got his degree at Harvard last
June. but the Yale men In the gallery would
not stand for the air. and the band switched
to "Tammany." Then President Thomas.
amid cheers, made the presentation OF the
championship cup and gold medal to ESan.
the silver medal to Sawyer and bronze
medal to W. c. Fownes, Jr.
Sawyer did not play UP to his game to-day.
but possibly moral influence may have been
a factor, as this was their third match. and
Egan had won the other two. In the casual
poolrelling on the quiet among the club
members, F. Odon Horstman had bought
ERan for $500 In pools OF 5000. After Saw
yer's fne showing against White and Fownee.
some one told the Philadelphia he ought to
hedge. Not. a cent Of It," replied Horstman.
"For with both on an equal game moral inau-
epce would still beat Sawyer. l believe IN
the hypnotism Of Rolf.
On the third tee In the first round there
was a striking proof Of this hypnotic infiu-
ence. Egan had pulled twice out OF bounds
from the second tee. presenting the hole to
Sawyer. Then, instead Of keeping on and
lighting hard for the third hole, Sawyer In
turn pulled out of bounds on his drive. and.
had not Egan missed foot put. 1t would
have cost Sawyer the hole.
To reach the final. Sawyer passed In turn
q. J, Cooke Of Philadelphia. by and Q; F. r.
the intercollegiste champion, by 3 and I: and
W. G. Fownes. ,Jr.. by up. while Esan,s mile
donald. former chamipoh. by up; DR.. Carr
Of philadelphia. by and 2: Fred Herrsshon,
4, eTh oIeda BY rsd and Harold
A few words Of counsel delivered by Preei-
dent Thomas TO the throng waiting at the
start both In the morning and afternoon had
the. game. He said: Il want 70 say q word.
and do 90 at the request Of the contestants.
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golf champion Of the United States and
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or reorganization OF approval or dlsap;
the. ball is played out, appeal to you one
and all TO comply With this request and give
TO demonstrate which 10 the better man"
Human nature is iallible,, especially when
| enthusiasm Ia running high for . native lad.
There was demonstration more than once
| when Egan recovered from drives into the
rough. which was his crabllke way Of pro-
G5essipx 70 ths quitting green; also groans
get from the rough on the sixteenth, while the
yells and handclaps when Sawyer ran down
| would have split . church bell But as &
| numbers the following was about 800
Setting out, they halved in s, but Sawyer
Won the second In I! to through Easn twice
miss OF 4 short put cost Egan = win ON tbs
sawyer stymied Essn on the approach puts
but the balls were within six inches of each
! other. and hS had to VT. Neither had Z