Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-10
GOLF AT ENGLEW0OD
TWELFTH. ANNUAL CONTEST FOR
AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP.

ENGLEWCOD. N. J., July 10,-There
were very few absentees from the list OF
iSo entrants when the twelfth annual ma
ffonal amateur golf championship tourn-
ament was begun here today.
Todays play, as well as tomorrows,
viii consist OF IS holes medal play. SO
that the preliminary round Of SO holes.
in which 81 will qualify for the following
match play rounds. win not be completed
until tomorrow afternoon.
The Englewood Golf Clubs course the
playing distance of which Is 6.2o3 yards.
has been remodeled so as to make
round pretty thorough test OF golfing
ability. The amateur record Of the re-
arranged links is "a, made by jerome d.
lTravers. in practice.
IL. Chandler Egan of the Exmoor Coun-
try Club. Chicago, who has held the ma
Walter j. Travis of Garden City. who
Won this honor in 1901 and 1903, are
among the competitors. These are the
only former champions who are taking
part In this years competition. as c. b.
Mcdonald and Findlay S. Douglas re-
Trained from conteSting.
some OF -the pairs were: Amos T.
Dwight of Brooklyn and c. H. Mattern.
Oh City, Pa: H. Chandler Egan. Chicago,
and Henry Kryn, Brooklyn; George T.
Brokaw. Garden City. and E. H. Bankard.
Jr., Baltimore; Walter J. Travis former
American and British champion, and Ell
lis Knowles of New York.
Golfers who have been making little Or
no calculation on Walter J. Travis In fgur-
Ing out the national amateur championship
here this week may be interested to learn
that he made a new record Sunday at Gar
den City. which was unquestionably the
best medal round ever put up over that
course. He made 20 as follows:
Out. ......................4 3 4 3 5 +38
H.. -....................3 344 8 3-34
70
For year players the country over have
been trying to lower the Garden City mark
of y. held by Travis, and one harder
thar the former international champion
himself. The only change on the course
since the u was made Is on the fourth hole
which Travis estimates as a bit easier now.
Making the 20 Travis missed three puts
going out, two of them short ones he
has strong hope of making 90 or % this
summer. The professional mark at Gar
den City Is 70, held by Stewart Gardner,
the local pro. who proposes to keep hack
ing away until he equals Travis showing.
The weather conditions were not more than
ordinarily favorable when Travis accom-
plished his latest stunt.
George 8. Lyon of Toronto. former Cana
dian champion, was paired with ]. c. Dill
worth of Pittsburg.
Champion H. Chandler Egan, who started
off in good playing form. had Z on the
seventh and tenth holes. finishing with 81
for his initial round. To offset the two bad
holes, however. he got the eighth hole in
2, and holed down on the home green. also
in 2. where he drove within a half yard of
the cup
Egan's card was as follows:
fn ,'.', ... 5 J J 3 s s-ss
Other scores were: C. H. Mattern. Oil
City. "a; E. r. Bankard, jr., Baltimore. 81;
H. c. Ross, Oil City, So; Howard Gee,
Princeton, SO; H. McSweeny. Oil City, "a:
A. w. Tillinghast, Philadelphia, So; D.
Laird. Princeton, 81; R. T. Sterling, Mount
Airy, Pa, 101.
R. b. Case, OIL City, 90.
Robert Weir. Wilmington, Del. 104.
T. s. Lippy, Seattle, 81.
T. NJ. Marshall, jr., Pittsburg. 80.