The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-23
GOLF RATING FOR
SEASON OF 1907
National First Sixteen Picked
on Years Work, With
Travers Leading.

AldFSlo LSouIiSs
Four of the golfers selected below to
make VI the national sixteen hail from
Chicago clubs, Ii. G. Egan, w. l. How
land, jr., ID. L. Sawyer and Warren X.
Wood; two are from Pittsburg, e. NJ.
Byers and w. c. Fownes, il. j. G. An
derson represents Massachusetts, and Ellis
Knowles, although he learned - golf at
st. Paul's School, Garden City, lives at
Pensacola, Fla. The remaining eight,
T%ravers, Travis. H~erreshoff, Douglas,
Graham, Tiffany, Abbott and Ward, are
selected from clubs in the Metropolitan
Golf Association. There Is interest In such a
compilation, although 1t is an Informal
analysis of the public golf of the year,
for one thing as a forecast of the most
formidable a%spirants for the following sea-
sons amateur championship. A multi
plicity Of wins, except in testing company
and on a propqR course, does not alone
give a golfer admission to the list.
Jerome ID. Travers has played better golf
on all sorts of links than any other golfer
since Harry Vardon made his tour of the
country, and must be ranked as the best
amateur of 1907. Besides the national and
New Jersey championships, Travers woh
for the second year the hardest fought To-
cal championship of the country, that Of
the Metropolitan Golf Association. lie
also won open tournaments at Myopia,
Maplewood, Princeton, Morris County and
Baltusrol, and in Travers's sheaf of new
records a 10 1T DykeI Meadow this month
is prominent. In the national Champion
ship II. Chandler Egan and the Western
contingent We're hardly at their best, Cor
1t was held in July anu from the vigors Of
the winter in the country beyond the ALT
ghenies the Customers will always have
an advantage in this tournament unless
held In August or tie fall months.
Later on ii. c. Egan won the Western
championship for the fourth time, and on
his general game earned the right TO see
ond place OF the sixteen, although he did
not play in many tournaments.
Winning his only two open tournaments
ut Garden City in the early spring OH the
thirty-eightn hole of a match that sug-
gested the final at Sandwich agalnst
blackwell and at Shinnecock Hills, alter
j. Travis lost IN the MetfopO1tan to Fred
ttetreshoff, ana IN the National TO foWnes,
A.. on the twentieth mole. Travis won the
score medal with 10. 7l-46, however, the
eighteen and thlrty-siX-hole amateur rec
ordS for Euclid, and among other new
records he achieved a 81 at Garden City,
The cementing his claim ON
third place.
Fred Herreshoff, a great driver and safe
On Ile SHOIL game, won elBnL open tour
naments IN the Cast, including two In
which TraVerS was a starter, his records
Including a 6o at Ekwanok. Herreshoff IS
placed fourth, and Il. M. Byers, who
showed in flashes the game that won for
MIN the national of 1906, comes fifth.
Among his achievements was the winning
OF an uphill match from Sawyer, in the
national, who took the first four holes,
a 6S at the Allegheny Country Club, and
chief honors in the M~isquamicut open
tournament. To complete the half dozen
is a player first noted in the compilation.
j. G. Anderson, present Massachusetts and
former New England college champion. In
winning the Brae Burn tournament An
dersOn gained the thirty-six-hole record
of l44. At the Essex County Country
Club and in many matches Anderson has
revealed possibilities of a national title
winner.
w. c. Fownes, jr., out of the game in
1906, was back again In reliable form and
among other winnings gained the cham
pionship of western Pennsylvania. Doug
las, abroad in 1906, is also restored to his
1900 rating, for while not playing in many
tournaments he was runnerup in the Met
ropoiitan championship and on other oc-
casions revealed the prowess that time has
not withered. Next in order are named
Ellis Knowles, victor at medal and match
play in the w~ell-contested Intercollegiate
championships Warren K. Wood and u.
E. Sawyer, who were not as successful In
tournaments as IN 1906, although always
to be reckoned with, while Wood, in the
national played "A phenomenally good
match against Travers and only lost by
one hole.
The trio to follow sre as hard to beat in
matches as any in the cOuntry-Archibaid
Graham, runnerup in the national; Gilman
/. IlIiany, -FOUR tlles ~ succession Hud-
son River Association champion, and John
NJ. Ward, as many times Staten Island
championship. Robert Abbott, the for
mer Intercollegiate champion and Deal
tournament winner, although he did not
qualify for the national, deserves fifteenth
place. If only on his great long game. He
has iriven $50 yards at the Plainfeld
Country Club; at Nassau. Abbott was over
the green of the uphill 5OO-yard hole with
q drive and a cleck and on the ABS -yard
hole at Deal, where a cop bunker guards
the green and the second must be all car
Abbott was home with n drive and
clicked and holed.
w. /. Howlard, jr., a Western youth,
who Is the Yale champion, closes the six
teen. He did not play in the National and
in the Western amateur, after tying for
Sawyer. II. c. Egan beat him in the
semi-hnai. Rowland won tournaments at
Skokie and Onwentsia. At Nassau, In the
intercollegiate, Rowland stepped from the
train and won his match with rs, a great
first appearance. Later Ralph Peters, who
was 8 down at the turn in 43, came home
In 50 and beat Rowland > up. The rating
In order for 1907 is:
Chicago; w. J.. Travis, New York; Fred
New York; 70. M. Byers, Pitts
burg; j. G.. Anderson. Boston; w. @.
jr.. Pittsburg; r.. S. Douglas,
New York; Ellis Knowles, Pensacola; w.
x. Wood, Chicago. ID. Il. Sawyer. Chi
A. Graham, New York: G. T.. Tiff
fanny, NewburRh; John NJ. Ward, New
York; r. Abbott, New York; w. /. How
land, jr., Chicago.
The ummary OF former ratings shows
three selected In the first sixteen
have subsequently become national cham
pions. II. c. Egan. Byers and Travers, and
more have kept up than gone back
In their game:
19O6-H. Chandler Egan. w. ]. Travis, j.
Archie Graham, w. c. Chick, @. p. T1f-
fanny. Robert Abbott, Dwight Partridge,
Herreshoff. W. -. Glow. tr., Il. M.
Sherman. w. Il. Egan, Warren X. Wood,
NJ. Ward.
l9O5-H. G. Egan. Travis, Travers. f. S.
Douglas. Lockwood. w. G. Fownes, jr., w.
Egan, Byers, d. p. Fredericks, A, l..
White. Sawyer. Abbott, Herreshoff. Ward,
II. Seely, Graham.
J9O4-Travis. II. G. Egan. Travers. Doug
Fownes, jr.. G. A Omission. White,
NJ. McBurneY. w. f.. E2an, II. b. McFar-
Frederiels, Ward, c. b. Macdonald,
byers, Frank O. Reinhart.
l903-Travis, Byers, II. c.. Egan. w. r..
Egan, Douglas. Lockwood. Bruce d.
Smith, Crimson, Macdonald, Reinhart.
Allan, Kennadav. g. Il. Brokaw, McFar-
land. " C. Chick. seely, Norman S
Campbell.