The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-10

THREE PLAYERS TIED FOR LEAD
Golf Champion Is
Way Down List in Quail
Tying Round.

shall Byers, of Pittsbure. will have 10
hurry IL he Intends to succeed himself as
amateur golf champion of these United
States. Out of a hundred players who
yesterday returned cards In the first quail
flying round in the annual contest for the
title he stood forty-ninth.
Indeed, there Is general feeling that he
may not be able to qualify, which, for a
golfer of his long prominence, would be
unprecedented disgrace. When the books
closed last night Walter Travis. Fred
Hereshoff and Walter Egan were tied for
first place at 20, with w. T. West, p. w.
Whittemore, Thomas NJ. Sherman and
d. e. Sawyer punched for second position
at rs, and then a gap. Jerome Travers
alone being at rs.
On his heels at 70 were seven payers
dlsputing fourth place, Chandler Egan
among the number A little earelessness
cost Fred Herreshoff low score. He was
one of the last to start when conditions
were rather more favorable and was out
in a wonderful 81, the best nine holes so
far. On the sixteenth, however,, he pulled
his ball into the ditch and 1t cost him
two to get out, which made him Z for the
hole against boyle 5. That made him Al
coming home.
Walter Egan's performance was the
greatest surprise of the dry. considering
his poor form yesterday. He was putting
like a wizard. SO that it mattered little
where his ball landed on the green. He
put down FIVE puts of twenty feet each.
His driving, however, coming back showed
noticeable Improvement. Going out he re-
covered from all sorts of trouble.
As for Travis nothing he does Is ever
surprising, and despite the fact that he Is
no longer invincible as of yore, he stands
the best single wager against the field.
He was much annoyed this afternoon by
a slow player ahead. The feeling at this
juncture is that som dark horse Is likely
to win. so betting is at a standstill. The
four players in the second tier furnish
most of the material for discussion. Ed
ward Sawyer, once a caddy, national run
ner up in 1906 n since Western champion,
as yesterday, put up a smooth consistent
game, the best in the field to date, but the
other three set the crowd guessing. Sher-
man has practically lone no competitive
playing for a year.. yet he flashed like a
comet. His lack of steadiness, however
make his chances small.
West came up for the first time in three
years.
Like Herreshoff and Travers, White
more is the only scratch player in the
Brookline Country Club, yet has been
considered hardly in the second flight of
the Bostonians. Chandler Egan was out
ting badly and his second shots were al
most invariably wild. Harold Weber, the
best of the Ohioans. pulled himself to-
gether after his recent form reversal,
while Kenneth Edwards showed that he
Is close to the front In the new crop of
Western performers,
W. c. Fownes, jr., of Pittsburg, and
JOHN NJ. Ward and Charles R. Macdonald.
both of New York. did capitally, consider
ing the little competitive play In which
they have recently engaged. The credit
able total of Mortimer Barnes, a variable,
has little Significance beyond the day. In
the other weather conditions the scores,
except Of the first dozen. were curiously
high. A visit by a party OF Glidden tour.
lists was an incident Of the afternoon. OF
cards. Half a dozen more withdrawal
are expected tomorrow in the second quail
flying round. The low cards:
Walter Egan, Chicago:
% 2pt ...4 sss5s4s tls -
Fred Herreshoff. New York:
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Walter Travis, New York:
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II summary;
w. J.. Travis. New York. Is; Walter
EEgan' chlGases9G; Is; Fred Herreshoff Ney
W. Whlttemore, Boston, rs; Thomas NJ
Sherman. Utica, 76; D. f. Sawyer. Chicago,
IS; Jerome D. Travers. New York. rs; W.
c. Fownes, ir, Pittsburg, 70; Kenneth Ed
wards. Chicago. 70; Harold Weber, Toledo,
70; John M. Ward, New York. 10; Charles
B. Macdonald. New York. 70; Chandler
Egan, Chicago, 70; E. NJ. Barnes, New
=. H. Brown. Cleveland, 50; Norman
New York, 50; warren K. Wood i Chicago
81 w. P. Smith, Philadelphia. Sli George
S. Lyon, Canada, 81; A. W. Tillinghast.
philadelphia, 81; F. R. Martin. Canada, 81;
BSbsrt Abbott, New YORK 81 Mason
Pittsburg, 50; r. L. James, Pittsburg, Y;
R M, T. N H%SF SSrK. /" a. z, FoRn Se Pits,
burg, 50; ]. D.. Chino, Cleveland, s.: Albert
SsGkel' ss ch hrsEGliba 80 GRAHAM E; Il; ch NaN R Rlt!s.
SO; c. r.. Dennen, Detroit. 50; w. A. stick
ney, st. Louis, SO; A. F.. Austin, Canada,
So; o. w Jones. Toledo, So; S. G. Stick
ney, St. Louis, S3i Charles Evans, u.
j. b. Kennedy. Chicago. 81; George ormis-
81; George F. WNilett. Boston. 81; r. =.
Nevin. tF, Pittsburg, 81; Gil, seely. New
York, 81; Allen Lard. Washington, S;
Byers. Pittsbure. IS; T. G.. stevenson, 5os,
ton, So; J. ". Rhett, Brooklyn. Sc; Daniel
Chauneey, Brooklyn, Sc: n S. Beekwith,
Cleveland, So; II II. Bets. Canada S.;
I. W. Fgaser, TolsSo' 81 ! agSo SE9 5, =
s.; j. A. Ellen, Pit.s6arg 4; & B
Fownes. P%lttsburg. 81; Harold Sands,
Aiken. 81; A. r. Adams. Chicago, 81; z. Z.
siles. Pittshurg.. 81; W. r.. RheTt.. Brook
Ign, 81; Lowndes GheIt Bfeosoklyn. IS;
Bornp. New Haven IS; +. w. Mitchell
Chicago, 80; c. II. Mattern, on City 50;
Guy Miller. Detroit, 50; r.. Fl. Bankard.
tr.. Baltimore. 50; Robert peming, Cleve-
land, So.