Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-17


the United States will be played
today over the Brookline Country Club
links between H. C. Towns, jr., Oak
mont Country Club, Pittsburg. and
Warren K. Wood, Homewood Golf
Club, Chicago. Both men are expe-
rienced players and have figured In
previous national championships. w.
c. F'ownes, jr.. is the more experienced,
having competed In his first national
championship In 1901, when he qualified
and lasted until the second round, when
he was beaten by Egan. In 1908 he
was beaten in the first round by H.
B. Mcfarland, the Philadelphia crack.
His best previous work was In the
national championship of 1905, when he
lasted until the semi-f1nals. Then he
was beaten up by 8. E. Sawyer, after
having beaten Walter ]. Travis in the
| third round by l up In 10 holes. He
was also a semi-1nalist in 1907, when
he was beaten by Archie Graham, after
having beaten Walter j. Travis in the
third round by up in 20 holes.
In 1908 Fownes qualified and lasted
until the third round, when he was
beaten by Jerome D. Travers, who won
the championship that year. and In 1908
he lasted until the second round, when
he was beaten by Walter ]. Travis.
Warren K. Wood qualified in the
national championship of 1906 but was
beaten In the first round of match
play by Harold Weber, Of Toledo, by
1 up in 20 holes.
| In the championship of 1907 Wood
beat p. w. Whittemore, Of the Brook
line Country Club, in the first round
| by Q up and 1 to play; Eben M. Byers,
of the Allegheny Country Club, in the
second round by up and to play.
but was beaten by / up in the third
round by Jerome D. Travers, who won
the championship that year.
Wood, in the 1909 championship, beat
George T. Brokaw, Garden City Golf
Club, In the first round, but he suf-
| fered defeat In the second round at
the hands of H. Chandler Egan, who
was the runner-up to Robert Gardner
So II will be seen by their previous
records in the national championship
| that they are both tried golfers, and
men who have met the best In the land
] even though neither has ever won a
| national championship.
| They have both won many minor
tournaments and Fownes Is at present
the champion of Pennsylvania. In fact,
both men have played most excellent
golf all through this strenuous tourna-
! ment Wood led the field of over 200
| golfers in the first eighteen holes of
the qualifying round on Monday with
the low score of rs, and his 10 on Tues
day enabled him to finish second with
154, Fred Herreshoff winning the low
score with 152. w. G. Fownes was
| close upon the heels of Wood for with
bis round Of II and rs he finished third,
with total of 155, within one stroke OF
| Wood.
In the match play Wood beat 8. D.
Bowers, Brooklawn Country Club In
the first round. by up and to play;
Percival Gilert, Brae Burn, in the
second round, by 8 up and to play;
John G. Anderson. Woodland, In the
third round. by Q up, and w. r. Tuck
erman, Stockbridge, In the semi-f1nal
by Q up while Fownes beat Ellis
Knowles, Pensacola, in the first round
by up and 1 to play; Archie M. Reid
ST. Andrews. in the second round. by
6 up and to play, III II. Wilder Yes
per Country Club. in the third round
by up and to play. and in the semi
finals beat Charles Evans, jr., Edge
water, Chicagos most famous golfer
by l up. They have met and defeated
the best men In the tournament and
their match today will be watched with
the greatest of interest. not only by
the immense galleries who follow the
competitors over the course, but by the
thousands of golfers from all parts OF
the country.