Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-12
GARDNER is NEW
GOLF CHAMPION
NINETEEN-YEAR-0LD PLAYER
DEFEATS EGAN
APPLE PIE CAUSES LOSS OF
AMATEUR TITLE
Indigestion Caused by Hot Pastry
Weakens the Veteran Player, and
t1lnsdale Youngster Plays
Great Game
IBy Associated Press.l


WHEATON, ILL.,, Sept. 11.-Robert q.
Gardner of Hinsdale, a clean-lmbed,
rosy checked lad of 19 years, today
won the amateur golf championship OF
the United States from H. Chandler
Egan of Exmoor, twice winner of ma
tional honors, up and to play. he
is the youngest man that ever won the
national championship.
Gardner had an advantage OF Two
holes over Egan at the end of the
morning round, and although Egan
caught him at the third hole of the af-
ternoon play and had a lead of one
hole at the seventh, the gritty young
ster came on again and from that time
completely outplayed the man from
Exmoor.
Apple PIE Did 1t
A nice large piece of hot apple pie
figured largely in the result. Egan
was the victim. He suffered from acute
indigestion yesterday after luncheon,
and shortly after the conclusion of his
long hard match with Chick Evans in
the semi-finals, tainted away in the
locker room He was under physi-
clans care part of the night and phys
ically was unfit for a grueling game
such as today's proved.
1t was Harvard against Yale. Gard
ner being a sophomore at the New
Haven lnSl1lullOIl n llCihiOhAC6o oAeA
lery followed the match and when the
end came at the thirty-fourth hole,
when Gardner holed out the short put
that made him the amateur champion,
a crowd of the Yale field captains
friends lifted him to their shoulders,
shouting with joy.
Gardner outdrove Egan on nearly
every hole and Egan is noted for his
long drives. Gardner holed three long
puts, one of them for at least forty
feet and in only one or two instances
did his tee shots fail to travel straight
and far down the fair green.
Gardner Consistent
Gardner throughout the tournament
PLAYED consistent golf. He disposed
of Walter Travis in the third round
of match play and won from former
western Champion Mason e. Phelps
yesterday in the senli-fnals.
In a way he is a golfing marvel. He
has never figured prominently in Dig
golfng events and last year did not
play at ALL This year he took up the
game in earnest and his play rapidly
developed to a degree of perfection that
today won him the championship.
Gardner was 2 up on former National
Champion Egan at the end of the
morning round of is holes.
The score:
Gardner "A, Egan H.
Weak and trembling from severe
attack of indigestion. Egan played the
first nine holes in the morning in the
poorest form he has shown in the
tournament. and had his 19-year-old
opponent taken advantage of his Op-
portunities the game would have been
much more one-sided.
Gardner early missed four puts of
less than five feet, but atoned in a
measure for the poor work by holing
a fifteen-foot putt on the eleventh
green and one of twenty feet on the
thirteenth, holing his ball in four on
the latter. two strokes under bogey.
Egan, on the other hand. missed
comparatively short puts and drove
badly. Gardner was two up at the
turn and made 1t four up by winning
the tenth and eleventh holes.
In the meantime Egan settled down
and played in championship form
Egan although evidently playing pure
ly on his nerve. slightly outplayed
Gardner during the latter part of the
game. but his easy, powerful swing
was lacking.
In 1904 IIgan annexed the title by de-
feating Fred Herreshoff Of ElSwanok
at Baltusrol. and again in 1905 he won
the honor by beating d. Il. Sawyer of
Wheaton on these links.
Gardner. who is ~ wears old began