Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
GOLF SHARKS LOOMING UP
Entries for National Amateur Cham
pionships Close Tomorrow.
TRAvERs PICKED TO LEAD AGAIN
Play Begins on wheaton Course Next
week and some Mighty Inter
estinR Contests Are Now
Expected.

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any who intend to enter must be registered
by that date with r. c. Watson. secretary
United states Golf association, at 81 East
Forty-fourth street. New York. The tOurn-
amsnt will he held over the Wheaton
course. near Chicago, and the elimination
round will be played on Monday, Septem-
Der 6.
A review Of the most prominent who may
be expected 10 play shows jerome Dun
stan Travers at the head Of the list. For
two years the amateur champion. TO win
again this time would give to him a record
Of three successive victories, putting him
on a par with Travis. whigham and II.
Chandler Egan have equalled his record
OF two successive wins. Since his return
from the scotch links Trsvers has not
played at tournaments. but II on his game
he II likely enough to gain the triple
event" It's better to have tried and lost
than never TO have tried at all and to have
missed the goal In the British amateur
may have had it's compensation. Travers
may have added q new shot or two to
those already in his bag, and when he
gets them to work be more dangerous than
ever as q frost to minor Eolfing aspirants.
Travers was a Metropolitan Golf associa-
ton hampton before taking national hon
OTIS anu lhlNA " wv 9hNA'
state champion. All titles slipped away
from him while at Muirfield, but Travers'
prominence illustrates the point that a local
is an excellent stepping stone to a United
states Gold association championship. on
a pinnacle by himself In the game about
New York. and never better than now
for two recent defeats In eig~hteen-hole
matches were due to the opponents playing
better than they knew how'-Walter j.
Travis will go to Chicago as titular leader
of the Metropolitan Golf association and
one OF the lavorites sto win out.
other Champions Entered.
Candidates of consequence also from the
Metropolitan Golf association may be Max
Behr, New Jersey state champion. and Il
G.. Watson, IT,, Fred Herreshoff, John M
Ward. George r. Brokaw and Archibald
Graham, each OF whom has held one or
more minor titles. There will not be as
prominent a group OF college entrants from
the district as in other years, the best IN
class being w. Fellowes Morgan, jr., while
there would be a complete dearth Of school
boy talent IL It we're not for Granville W..
White, %. OF Flushing, who displays a de-
gree OF promise.
The Connecticut champion for two years
and a very good golfer he II. Buckingham
y MeTrtmAn OF 1hlet anu u hiiiASi w
n L. jackson Of Williams. will enter, and
Karl Mosser, also of Yale. may II ne
pleases. play az Maine champion. OLD
Massachusetts has never had a champion
Rids may this time be made by the state
champion, Percival Gilbert, and the former
holders. James @. Anderson, A. G. Lock
who'd or T. II. Fuller. There are several
formidable aspirants from the ranks OF the
intercollegiate Golf association, notaSly the
champion, Il. H.. wilder, who at the last
amateur championship carried Travis TO the
forty-first hole.
w. q. Pteil. champion OF Philadelphia,
has the class to variant an entry and
former title holders who have played be-
fore in national contests are DIR. simon
Carr. H.. h. Mcfarland and II. and w. P.
Smith. r.. Odbn Horstman is eligible 10
this list as a champion Of the Middle
Atlantic league. Trending westward, In
Pittsburg is a noted trio, w. c. Fownes.
Ir., present champion of the Western
pennsyIvania association, and his predeces-
sors in the honor, f. NJ. Byers and @. A.
Ormiston.
brilliant BOY from West.
Most brilliant and consistent In form this
wear and last OF ali the players in the west
there viii be great interest i'm the perform
ance in the national Of Charles Evans, jr"
OF Edgwater. This ls-year-old boy has Just
won the Western Golf association cham
pionship and he has been western junior
Chicago and school boy champion. To gain
the national would be merely stepping up.
stairs. He has won many tournaments and
Is RolfinR az well now as II. ChgndleF
Egan, a past western as well as national
champion. The others better known of the
Chicago group who have borne greater or
less titles In different years include War
rem X. Wood, d. Il. Sawyer, Ralph Hoag-
land, Paul Hunter, Mason +. Phelps, Al
bert seckel. r. Gardner and Kenneth Ed
wards. There are others, too,
others who will be at Wheaton are
Harry Logs, Transmississlppi; Arthur
shekney, st. Louis: VIII Diddle, -four
times, Indiana; Harold Weber, the former,
and ]. X. Bole, present ohio, and J, d.
standish, jr. Michigan champion. Tht
Pacific coast, Texas and the south will
send their banner men-truly a national
host Of doughty wielders OF the goli
clubs.
The wheaton course has on two other
occasions been the scene OF the amateur
championship. II Is the property Of th'
Chicago Golf club and is at Wheaton, Ill.
eighteen miles from the city and very &C
cessible. The round Is Of 6,06S yards, pa
Is and amateur record II, by Norman
Hunter and II. Chandler Egan. The course
has been especially prepared for the con
test. for one thing the iron shot holes oveI
the ake-the ninth and tenth-nOw having
the greens so protected by hazards that
they can only be reached by playing
straight for the flag.
Conditions of the Play.
Play begins on Monday, September c
with eighteen holes OF medal play, sixty
four players TO qualify. and will continu,
through Tuesday morning. The thirty
two players having the best scores 10
thirty-six holes ON the two rounds qualify
for the championship. Match play Begin
with an eightsen-hole round on Tuesda!
afternoon. all the other matches 10 th'
final being al thirty-six holes. The win
ner Is the hampton OF the year. lie re
ceivss a gold medal and his club will hav,
the custody for a year OF the hampton
ship cup. The runner-up receives the as
sociation's silver and the semi-fnalsisu
similar bronze medals. There IL a specia
prize to the maker Of the low score in tn
medal play.
There were two amateur championship
In 1894, the bee for titles In the game Ina
is sil busting having had a lusty brit
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