Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
AN EXCITING CONTEST
Final Round of Great Golf
GAME .as.
AT ENGLEW00D, N. j., TODAY
For the National Amateur Cham
pionship.
INTERNATIONAL IN CHARACTER
Many Messages to Two Players Before
the Start Today-Details
of the Match.
AT ENGLEWO0D, N. j., TODAY
INTERNATIONAL IN CHARACTER

ENGLEWoOD, N. j.. July 1.-THE final
round OF thirty-six holes match play In the
national amateur golf championship. which
Is being played on the Engiewood Golf
Clubs links today. Is international in char
aoter. The survivors Eben NJ. Byers OF
Pittsburs and George s, Lyon OF the Lamb
ton Country Club. Toronto. Canada.
Both men have been playing fine golf
| during the week. but the Pittsburg man
| was the favorite at the start. In view OF the
| manner In which he defeated former Cham
pion Walter ]. Travis In the semi-fnal
round yesterday afternoon. This was the
third victory that Byers had scored over
the veteran. as he defeated the Garden
City man at Glenview. near Chicago. during
the 1902 national tournament and a month
ago he beat Travis by a, narrow margin In
| the METROPOLITAN championship at st. An
| drew's
Lyon put up q strong game In his semi
final match with Ellis Knowles OF the Bed
ford Golf and Tennis Club and some of the
professionals who watched his play said
opponent ConEratulatory messages were
pouring in TO both mem before the start to-
day.
Lyon-Byers Play.
Byers putted his opening tee shot and had
to play short, while Lyon was on the edge
on the green with his second. The Canad-
ian however. lost the hole as he took four
rutts. Byers winning in to o.
The second was halved in aves, Going to
the third Byers played poorly and got into
trouble on his second. Lyon boiling out In
to 9. squaring the match.
They halved the next two in tours and
ffyes. Lyon outdriving his opponent. Byers
was stynied by tee on his drive from
the sixth and Lyon reached the green on
his second boiling out in to 5, which left
him l up and in the lead for the first time
in the match. The Canadian won the sew
enth, 4S yards in to 1. and the eighth.
only 100 yards, went to Lyon In the same
figures. Both pulled their tee shots from
the ninth and they halved the hole in fves.
making Lyon 3 up at the turn.
Their cards:
Byers, out......... 5 5-3
Lyon. OUT. 0 Is 4 3 $50
At the end of the first round OF lS holes
IN the 36-hole match for the national am
ateur golf championship George F. Lyon OF
Toronto led Eben NJ. Byers OF Pittsburg, l
up.
Coming in the tenth. eleventh and twelfth
holes were halved in 9, a. 4. The Canadian
| made a twenty-foot putt for on the thr-
teenth amid a generous round of applause.
and was then up on the Pittsburg man.
On the next green Byers holed out with his
mashie from the edge of the green and won
the hole in to 4. After missing the sec
ond shot going to the fifteen. Byers sue
ceeded in making II a half in fours. The
next was hafyed In similar figures Lyon
putted poorly on the seventeenth. which he
lost In 5 to T. and as he landed his tea shot
from the eighteenth into the road the
Canadian gave Byers another chance. Which
the Pittsburg man quickly accepted as he
won out in to ), being only one down at
the eighteenth.