The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-07
LEADS BIG
FIELD OF GOLFERS

CHICAGO, Sept. ~7.-Charles Evans,
jr.. the 1S-year-old champion of the
Western Golf Association, carried off
the honors of the first eighteen holes
qualifying play for the national anna
teur golf championship, at Wheaton,
with a a.. Going out in 40, rather poor
golf for a champion, the youngster
played the last nine holes in "a, seven
strokes under DOGGY. Evans took first
position away from the l~ong-driving
T. M. Sherman, of YahnundasiS, son
Of the Vice President, who previously
had finished the course in IS. Sherman
was two strokes lower than former
Champion Chandler Egan, Bob Gard
ner, of Hinsdale, and r. e. Hunter, of
Midlothian. One stroke higher than the
Western trio came Fred Herreshoff, of
Ekwanok; w. C. Fownes, of Oakmont,
and w. P. Schatz, of Wheaton. r. w.
Tillinghast, Philadelphia Cricket Club;
]. F. Stanley, jr., of Deal, and H. X.
tombstone, Myopia, made 49,, and Wal
ter j. Travis and four others counted
so strokes.
The field for this, the fifteenth ma
tional tournament, was the smallest in
many years, exactly 100 of the 121 en-
trants starting, and seven of these
found the going so bad that they did
not turn in their cards. Weather con-
ditions were most trying and the
green's We're bumpy n treacherous.
Nevertheless, eleven scores We're under
so n t~wenty-nine equaled DOGGY for
the course, 81.
Only q few of the stars fell by the
wayside. John M. Ward, the New York
lawyer and former baseball player,
started with a topped drive, took eight
for the first hole, and then skyrocketed
his score with an awful ten on the
sixth hole, the only double figures of
the first days play. Charles B. Mac
Donald. of Garden City, who won the
championship hen golf was young in
this country, also had difficulties, and
disgustedly turned in a card of 96.
Corridor Copeland, of Skokit, who
spoiled former National Champion
Eben M. Byers's chances for the West
ern championship, took so. F. Odin
Horstman. of Chevy Chase, got into the
"bumblepuppy" class so deeply that hi
withdrew.
The sixty-four players who finished
yesterday in so or better will conclude
the qualifying play today with another
eighteen holes. T~hirty-two of these will
qualify for the match play which will
decide the championship. The first
round of match play, which will be at
eighteen holes, will be played this aft
ernoon. After that the play will be for
thirty-six holes.
Evans's card for the eighteen holes
was as follows:
Out....... S 4446 4 40
n........ 8 434-4
T. NJ. Sherman, of Utica, N. Y, son of
the vice-president, had the best card Of
the early contestants, having registered
10. He went out in 81 and came home
in rs. The score is within four strokes
of the course record. set In 1900 by
Norman Hunter, the British golfer.
who made a II. One hundred yards
have been added to the course since
that time. TIL playing, distance is 6, 200
| yards, with par at "a. Sherman's card
follows:
Out ......5 A 4-37
In .......3 s 5 s 4 a 4 4-3S-75
]. f. Stanley, jr., of the Deal Golf
and Country Club, had a total of 70.
He wen out in Al and registered 3S for
the in route. His card follows:
Out ......5 5 5 6 s 5 4 2 al
In .......4 5 8 A $3.50
Jerome d. Travers, of the Montclair
en- ID Country Club. did not arrive
here yesterday to defend his title in the
national amateur golf championship,
the contest for which was inaugurated
with the first eighteen holes of the
36-hole qualifying round, with 10S start
ers. Travers, it Is understood, started
from New York last Tuesday, but was