Evening star., 1908-12-20

E.. NJ. Byers to forty holes in that event.
Ward also won his Lesley cup match
from Templeton Briggs and with Herre-
shoff saved the Metropolitan team from
defeat by winning from Wilder and Br1Sgs
In the foursomes. n. NJ. Whitney Is new
name to close the division. Runner up
to Leigh Carroll in the Southern Golf AS
ISOLATION championship of 1905. and win
ner of the title from Lawrence Eustis In
1906, and H. Chandler Egan this year,
Whitney has displayed consistency ana
the best game of an army OF golfers III
his territory, Max Behr put him out In
the amateur by up. but who can beat
the Morris county player in the early
rounds of a tournament?
New men rated are Wilder, Fuller,
Whittemore, Phelps, Edwards and Whit
new. Those dropped from last years list
chiefly because they have not played
much-are w. /. Rowland. jr, Eiis
Knowles, D. T.. Sawyer, Robert Apoott'
Archie Graham and Gilman p. Tiffany, al
though the latter won the Hudson River
Golf Association championship Tor the
fourth year. Early in the season Charies
H. Seely had a round in 6e at wee Burn
and at the NJ. G.. A. championship IN May
The won the title he had before in 800 py
overcoming a lead of six holes ana peat.
ling Travers on the thirty-eighth hoie. But
lit was his swan song, Tor Seeiy has Ioe
been to a tournament since
,rhe best of the Philadeiph1ans Ha.e
heen DR.. Simon Carr and II. B. Mcfar-
land while Washington has the Harpans
and Allan Lard and Baltimore, 6: w.
Corkran The chronicle or near ciahi
MONS. east and west. might be continued
indefinitely Three westerners very close
To- national class are Paul Hunter and
tfe boys A. Seckel and c. Evans, Jr Inc
latter has won the western JUNIOR chanl
picnshp twice. and is Chicago lnterscho
lastic champion, besides other dlstlllclio,,S Nt
having a thirty-siX hole record at OnWeht-
sia of 144 Seckel qualified at Garoen
CITY and lost in the second round 10 w:
q Fo,ynes jr The two youngsters Seem
to be true championship possibiiltles.
Rating for 1908.
I n rravers. New York; w. ]. Travis, New
York: H. c. Egan Louisville; II. H. Wider
Boston; T. II. Fuller. Boston, J. g. Anoersoh
Boston; f. $. Douglas. New York; Fred herre-
shon, New York: Z. NJ. Byers. Pittsburs; W. u
Fownes, jr.. Pittsburg; NJ. Il. Phelps, ohic"so'
Kenneth Edwards. Chicago; Z. W. Whittemore'
Boston; w. X. Wood. Chicago; John NJ. "aro'
New York. and n. NJ. Whitney, New Orleans.
New York may claim five, Boston four,
Chicago three, with part claim on an
other: Pittsburg two and Louisville ana
New Orleans single representatives. me
compilations since the first one follow
and in a way form thumpnan n,SaoiS oi
American amateur golfing since 1901:
19O7-Travcrs, H. C. Egap. Travis, Herreshon'
Bycrs. Anderson, Fownes, IT,: douglas. Knowles.
Wood. Sawyer, 4. Graham. G. T. Tiffany, Ward'
AG9ot. I9SsH. I.o Chandler Egan. W. j. Travis. J. p
Travcrs F.. NJ. Byers. u. =: sawyer; Aren.e
Graham W. q. Chick, G. Z. Tiffany ROBERT 40
bott Dwight Partridge Fred Herreshon' ~, W.: -,
Glow. jr.: T. NJ Sherman. w. Il. ESan, warren
X. Wood and John NJ. Ward :, &c
1so5-H. c. Egan. Travis. Travers. II; p
Douglas. Lockwood, W. c. Fownes. IT,; W. H.
ESan. Byers. D. p Fredericks. A. L: White.
sawyer. Abbott, Herreshof. Ward, Z. II. seeis
aIa isoa"Travis. H. C. Egan. Trayers. Douglas,
Fownes, jr. G. a. Ormiston. White. II. NC
Burney, W. E. Egan. II. b. Mcfarland. FREQ
ericks, Ward. c. B. Macdonald. Lockwood byers'
Frank o. Reinhart. 49,
DonSias Lockwood. Bruce d. Smith, OrmistoMn, ~
Macdonald. Reinhart. Allan kennaday. g. I.
RrokaW' Mcfarland, W. G. Chick. seely, Norman
D. 1sosHTravis. rVi Douglas. Byers. H; g. Esan. %
Macdonald Ormiston. Reinhart. Seeiy. LOCK LGcx-
wood W. E.. Egan. c. Hitchcock. r.: NICE as
land, Kennaday. H. B. Holins, Jr.. ana II T.
i9o1-rravis. Douglas, Seely, W. E. Egan, W.
Holabird IT,; Lockwood. L. Livingston; Henna-
day Byers. Hitchcock, jr.: Myers, ". r; smith,
Phelps B. Hoyt, Macdonald. G. n. Hamilton ana
Halsted Lindsey.
Travis and Byers have been included In
the first sixteen each year since the hrst
1901 compilation and Walter F. Egan
until last year. H. C. Egan has been IN
cluded since 1902.