New-York tribune., 1909-09-10
GOLF TITLE FOR WEST
TRAITS BOWS TO YOUNG
YALE PLAYER.
Egan Among Those Left to Fight
1t Ont for the 4matew
Cham ponsMp.

wheaton, Western Will
srht 1t out tomorrow in the semi-fna round of
IRE national amateur golf championship tourna-
rent over the links of the Chicago Golf Club They
ere H. Chandler Egan. of Exmoor. twice winner
Of the national championship; Charles Evans ir
of Edgewater, the eighteen yearold Western cham
pian: Robert Gardner. OF Hinsdale. the Yale pole
rsuter, who for the first time is playing a promi-
rent part in fast golhng company. and Mason
Phelps, Of Midlothian, former Western and Yale
,hsmpion.
Walter J. Travis. the last hope of the East.
~-ner Of score OF big tournaments three times
rner of the national championship and once of
9ttle abroad went down TO defeat to-day before
s golfing skill of young Gardner, in spite of
Fendid golf1ng in the afternoon. Gardner finished
he morning round , I'D on the veteran and al
though Travis returned IS for his first nine holes
the afternoon and squared the match the young
Yale athlete took the lead again at the ninth hole,
the twenty-seventh of the match. and finally won
on the thirty-hfth green by up and TO play
Phelps, with the advantage of four holes over
Paul Hunter on the morning round. had consider
able difficulty with his opponent in the afternoon.
IS Hunter played the first nine holes in 9s and
succeeded in squaring the match at the fifteenth
hole, but Phelps took the next two IN As and
Won by up and TO play.
Chick Evans had far less difficulty with Albert
seokel to-day than when he met him in the final
round for the Western championship He finished
the morning round 4 up, and finally won by s I'D
and play.
For sensational golf OF all kinds long puts
culnes and wonderfully accurate iron work the
match between the two oldtime rivals H. Chandler
Egan and Ned Sawyer Will live long in solhrs his
tory. The match went thirtyeight holes before
Egsn won.
The morning round ended with Sawyer up the
medal scores reading: Sawyer. "a; Egan. rs Egsn
squared the match the eighth hole in the after
noon and took the lead at the next hole. only TO
lose il the eleventh. Thereafter II a ding
dong fight. Sawyer got 3s on the tenth. fourteenth
rh ~Ctc -ha Late r.n n1ln n1Tlnr N
preach shots Of seventy-ive yards I'm which the
ball ran dead. Egan halved the twelfth in 1. one
stroke under hogte, after what looked like an al
most impossible shot out of the rough. whila the
next hole even more sensational. Sawyer
topped mis- brsssey shot following a perfect drive,
the bail barely jumping a little cop bunker.
Il lay well however, and, putting every pound be-
hind his next stroke, he the sphere over the
big mound guarding the green. The ball carried at
ess; Us yards and rolled well on the green.
Egan meantime had played three fawless strokes.
and his bah was hole nigh twenty feet from the
cup ssvyers putt Of thirty-hve feet was true but
a tihe hari. the ball just failing TO run down.
Esan then stepped up and brought off his putt for
Mflian. T. two strokes under bosie.
Sawyer was / fp playing the seventeenth hole.
end right there his anxiety TO hole a twenty-foot
put for a 5 and settle the fight cost him the
match. He putted too hard, the bah rolled four
feet beyond the cup, and. missing the return put,
be took for the hole 10 for Egan. A gallery OF
five hundred persons watched the play TO the home
green. Egan ''heeled" his drive, and was short
and the right his attempt to get out. Saw
yers second shot put him thirty feet from the cup
Il looked Ike Sawyer's match, but again Egan
pulled off one Of his famous shots from bad lie
which are the envy OF professionals From
eighty yards away in the long grass Egan laid
his ball within four feet of the cup and earned a
half
Each made a perfect the first extra hole.
but Sswyers approach to the next was short and
he failed TO run down a put Of six feet for half
When the officials got the golfers off in the third
round this morning mist had settled down maxi
ing the greens slower than Usual. There had been
or less rain during the night. but despite
these conditions no decrease was noticed in the
size Of the gallery. Many women were on hand
and the Travis-Gardner match attracted the largest
gallery.
Gardner gained an advantage OF up going out
made possible by a mbination Of poor play and
hard luck the part Of his opponent. Generally
50 steady. Travis seemed unable to settle down TO
anything like his normal game. his most noticeable
weakness being with the irons. AS an illustration
cf this it may be said that Travis topped his iron
fhot into the trap the second and repeated the
mistake going TO the fifth. In both the
veteran recovered poorly and lost the hole At !
TIE eighth Gardner drew applause from the gal
ley by gobbling a thirty foot put and winning
Tic hole In g. The Yale man reached the turn
y. as against II FOR his rival, and stood up
Although Travis began the home journey indif-
iereany by fubbing his iron at the tenth. mis-
axe which him the hole. the veteran pulled
hnkef together thereafter his only poor work
"ehg weak Inashie shot to the bunker at the
Aeenth. Gardner got into trouble a couple OF
umes, but clever recoveries enabled the Yale ath-
iele TO get halves Both came home I'm 3s, that
me morning card read IS 10 70 in Gardners favor.
me end Of the first nine holes Of the afternoon
q 'ouno found Gardner only up his opponent
VINO got into all kinds Of trouble at the tenth.
ms iron shot fell into the water and he took
70 hole out. to GardDers 3. The eleventh
sna twelfth holes were halved in 4, while at the
thirteenth Gardner drove into the long grass. His
eooho' however hole high. but Travis ran
0vSh long put. and his friends took fresh hope
poor drive cost Travis the thirty-second hole |
eha Gardner followed up this advantage by run
Ans ooVn twenty-fve-foot put on the next
e'esh' which made him doTme ;. The veteran of
many battles made last stand at the thirty
'ur'n hole and in 10 when Gardner
ppso MS drive, but the Yale man succeeded in
'Hhe half ar the next hole which gave him
~ match by up and ] 10 play
ihs summary follows:
Rversss vsns Edgewater Albert seckei
~, . up and 3'to play
,nsaoler Egsn. Exnoor. defeated d. Z. Sawyer
i3s
ssssson Phelps. Midlothian defeated Paul Hunter,
FL, : up and 1 TO pley.
cls,teft Gardner H-zdate defeated Walter I Travis
eioen City. uD and / 10 pIay