New-York tribune., 1906-12-23
WHO'S WHO In GOLF.
III. c. EGAN HEADS LIST.
amateur Champion Placed Fourth
in Unofficial Ranking.

There is official ranking OF the golfers, as
In lawn tennis. but at this season of the year the
players are able to strike fair balance between
the men, based on their best average play at high
class tournaments and in record scores of test
ing links The compilation of tho first sixteen
is therefore unofficial.
Eben NJ. Byers. the amateur champion fol-
lowed up his success in the national tournament
by winning the championship of the Western
Pennsylvania Golf Association. He was beaten
in final rounds by both Travis and Travers
however. and, while giving him all credit for
earning the highest honors of the golfng year, a
close study of the records makes It impossible
10 place him better than fourth to H. Chandler
Egan. Walter j. Travis and Jerome D. Travers.
II. Chandler Egan. although beaten In the
amateur championship and a non-competitor IN
the Western championship. is placed at the top,
he last year. Twice national and twice
Western champion. Egan in 1904 thirty
four out Of forty-two tournament matches. haIv-
ing one and being beaten seven times. After
leaving Harvard in June of that year he lost
only twice in twenty-one matches. In 1905
Egan won seventeen out of eighteen public
matches This year his season began with three
defeats-W. f. Egan beating him at Exmoor,
G. b. Clingman. Jr. at Grand Rapids and
George S. Lyon in the amateur championship. on
the twentieth hole. He won eleven tournaments
however and played a strong. brilliant game
He also tied for eighth place in the national
open championship at Onwentsia. After the
three early tournaments Egan was at his best in
the West His records include SO at Exmoor
and "A at Homewood. In the Marshall Field
Cup match at Onwentsia Egan tied his own
thirty-six-hoe record OF 150 and at Glen Echo,
IN the Olympic team match he made the thirty
six-hole record of 74-75-149.
Always reliable in spring or fall. W. ]. Travis
Garden City this year. At match play he beat
Travers in the Garden City tournament and IN
the amateur championship. but the youngster
drubbed him soundly at the Shinnecock Hills
tournament Byers beat Travis in the Metro
politan Golf Association championship at st.
Andrews, although in an earlier round Travis
equalled the record of r. Byers also beat
Travis in the semi-final of the national cham
piOnship. but Travis won the score medal with
115, leading Travers by two strokes, and In the
fall tournament at Myopia beat Byers de-
cisively in the 36-hole final round. His rec
ords. aside from the championship glories here
and abroad in the past, put Travis in second
place.
Perhaps the greatest golf ever seen in this
country marked the progress Of Jerome D.
Travers TO the title in the METROPOLITAN Golf
Association amateur championship at St An
drews. He lowered the amateur record of the
course 10 q in the first eighteen holes of the
qualifying round, mark a generation of golf
ers had SHE'D at without avail and in the sec
ond round he duplicated the great score. He
later won open tournaments at Shinnecock
Hills, the Huntingdon Valley Country Club and
Ekwanok. At the last course a hard one to
make good score over, Travers established the
new Is and 36 hole records of II, 73-144 He
has also records of II at Hollywood, "A at
iHa 70
Travers is deemed sure winner OF the anna
teur championship in the near future.
One of Byers's best matches was with Travers
in the final round of the Metropolitan Golf AS
sociatiOn championship. He held his own and
seemed. indeed. the winner until the twenty
seventh hole. but Travers won out by 3 up and
l to play. Byers has a determined and sound
game. especially brilliant when near the green
and in putting. He made a record of Il for the
Allegheny Country Club course during the sea-
son. Although hard pressed in the final round
Of the amateur championship by Lyon Byers's
victory was well deserved, and was the triumph
due To his earnest study of the game since leay-
ing Yale, six years ago.
d. +. Sawyer the Western amateur champion
who has been improving steadily, is placed next
on the list, although he did not do we'll at the
amateur championship. The others ranked in
the first sixteen have good records during the
season in open tournaments and team matches.
The ranking follows:
H. c. Egan. Chicago: Walter ]. Travis, New
York; Jerome D. Travers, New York; Eben NJ
Byers, Pittsburg; d. z. Sawyer Chicago; Archie
Graham New Jersey champion; w. c. Chick
Boston; G. p. Tiffany, Newburg; Robert Alb
bott, Plainfeld; Dwight Partridge, New York;
Fred HerreshOff. New York; w. E Glow tr
intercollegiate champion. Chicago; Warren K.
Wood, Chicago; T. NJ. Sherman, New York; w.
T. Egan. Chicago. and John NJ. Ward. New
York
Findlay s. Douglas. usually rated we'll up. has
been out Of the game this season TO tourna-
ments. In his public appearance, w. G.
Chick beat him in the Lesley Cup match. w. G.
Fownes, jr. has also been away. while A G.
lockwood after winning the Massachusetts
amateur championship, returned to England to
reside. Many others have shown fine golf on
occasions, but the list is thought to contain the
most reliable and prominent sixteen players of
the seasons tournaments