Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-24
J. D. TRAVERS HEADS !,
LIST OF GOLFERS

NEW YORK, December A.-F1gured out
on the best work Of the season, four Of the
golfers selected to make up the national
sixteen hail from Chicago clubs, H. C.
Egan, w. 1. Rowland, jr., D. +. Sawyer
and Warren X Wood: two are from
Pittsburg, E. NJ. Byers and w. C.
Fownes, jr.; ]. g. Anderson represents
Massa chusetts. and Ellis Knowles. al
though he learned to golf at st. Paurs
school, Garden City. lives at Pensacola,
Fla. The remaining eight, Travers, Travis,
Herreshoff. Douglas. Graham, Tiffany.
Abbott and Ward. are selected from clubs
IN the METROPOLITAN Golf Association. ,
matched Travis II at the national: w. C.
Chick. although he won the Poland
Springs tournament for which he specially
prepared; Dwight cartridge and A. G.
Lockwood, who returned to this country.
certain links. r. NJ. Sherman. Walter
Egan. Max Behr, Archie Reid. Ralph
Peters. jr., B. ". Cochran, Lawrence Eus-
tbs and Oswald Kirkby are among the
other top notchers Of 1907.
Jerome D. 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 Ma
tional and New Jersey championships
lIaVerS won LOT Inc second year the
hardest-fougat New York championship
of the country. that of the metropolitan Golf
Association. He also won the open tour
namerts of Myop.a. Maplewood, Prince
ton. Morris county ant Balustrol. and in
Travers sheaf of new records % at
Dyker Meadow this month is prominent.
Although not nearly SO prominent this
year as last, H. Chandler. .Egan OF Ex-
moor, seems to be entitled to second place.
The national title holder OF 1904 and 1905
was not at his best this year at Cleve-
land, and right here 1t may be pointed out
that the Chicago entrants are never likely
to do themselves justice In national tour
naments until later date is selected.
Egan won the Western Golf Association
title for the fourth time.
In 1904 Egan won thirty-four out of
forty-two tournament matches, including
the national In 1905 he won both the ma
tional and western titles, besides seven
teen out of eighteen tournament matches.
Out of fourteen public matches last year
Egan won all save three.
Third place Is due Walter J. Travis of
Garden City. the only player who has ever
won the amateur title Of Great Britain
and this country. =
Travis and Byers have been included in
the first sixteen each year since the first
1901 compilation. and Walter E. EKan un-
til this year. H. c. Egan has been in
cluded since 1902 H. B.. Mcdonald, who
was in the list Tor three years while at
the University of Pennsylvania, came
back to form last Season and won the
Philadelphia championship. and of those
rated in different years F. o. Reinhart.
Charles Hitchcock, jr., G. A. Ormiston.
George T. Brokaw and c. B. Macdonald.
who won the Niagara on-the-Lake inter-
national tournament. have proved their
weli-grounded knowledge of the game.
This summary of former ratings shows
that three selected in the first sixteen
have subsequently become national cham
pions II. c. Egan. Byers and Travers,
and that more have kept up than gone
back in their game:
1905 Chandler Egan. ". ]. Travis, ]. n.
dsSss eSss e. Fsnx k Assss
abbott 4 Dwight Partridge, Fred Herresnors ".
warren <. Wood John 81 speI Wara. w. T. esan'
n dso5mH: IL, c; Esan Travis Travers. z; $.
Egan. Bysrs, D. p. Fredericks, 4. L. white.
Sawyer. Abbott. Herreshof, Ward, c. II. Seeiy,
Graham.
lso4-Travis. H. C. Egan. Tr.yers. Douglas,
s sqsRsy W " E. eE'b uscdsasd s,Tss
Byers. Frank o. Reinhart.
19o3-Travs. Byers;, H. c; Egsn; ". p EEan.
Ksirt. a aii.n k s% e. T.
Brokaw. Mcfarland. ". c. Chick, seely, Nor
i9o2-Travis. douglas, Byers, H. c. Esan,
Macdonald, oTmsian. Rsinhsrt Sesly. lockwood,
uaday. 4: y. Holins. ,r.s I r. Myers. -,
Hoabird jr.. Lockwood, l.. Livingston. kenns-
day, Byers, Hiteheeek: j.: Myers, ". p. Smith,
Hastead. Lindsey.
The rating follows: