Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
EGAN FOREMOST
AMATEUR GOLFER
Rating of the Sixteen Best Players
Of the Past Year by Hugh L.
Fitzpatrick.
CHICAGO MAN PLACED FIRST
Egan Returns to Form Which Won
Him So Many Championships.
WALTER ]. TRAVIS IS SECOND
He Wins Metropolitan Title and Four
Open Events.
WESTERN CHAMPION IS THIRD
Charles Evans, Jr., In Regarded Rs
Greatest GOlfinE Possibility
d Has Easy Claim
20 Fourth Place.
Egan Returns to Form Which Won
Him So Many Championships.
WESTERN CHAMPION IS THIRD

NEW YORK, Jan. LII. Chandler Egan
of Chicago is the foremos amateur golf
player Of the United States for 1909. ac-
cording to the ratings now made public by
leading golf authorities in the east. A
ranking OF the sixteen best players of
1909, made by Hugh l.. Fitzpatrick. recog-
nized as the dean OF American golf re-
porters, who has prepared the ratings for
several years, was made public today. Mr..
Fitzpatricks' rating follows:
I. H; Chandler Egan. Chicago.
z. W. J. Travis, New York.
g. Charles Evans, jr., Chicago.
I. Robert Gardner, Chicago.
s. Albert Seckel, Chicago.
6. J. ID. Travers, New York.
z, Mason Phelps, Chicago.
8. w. 9. Fownes, 1r., Pittsburg.
8. Fred Herreschoff, New York.
10. II. @. LegE, Minneapolis.
II. Findlay S. Douglas, New York.
70. Thomas NJ. Sherman, Utica.
10. H. H. Wilder, Boston.
IA p. w. Whitemore, Boston.
Is. H. B. Mcfarland, Philadelphia
16, Paul Hunter, Chicago.
Analysis of Years Play.
Reviewing the work of the golfers and
the points OF their play which led him to
the determination of his ratings, Mr.. Fitz-
patrick said:
Although there were more tournaments
and matches played last season than ever
before in the United States, the action In
the amateur championship had a more
than usual significance in determining the
golfers of national position and promi-
nence. Egan was the pivot OF interest.
He revealed a return to the form that has
won for him in former national, western
and in the intercollegiate championship
and that the defeat In the southern cham
pionship of 1908 did not mean anything.
Egan stopped in turn, Macarthur, z up; War
rem Wood, 6 up; Sawyer, / up, SS holes;
Evans, 1 UP, and lost to Gardner In the
final, 8 down. While Gardner had beaten
Travis and Phelps in succession and has
since shown high class, had not Egan suf-
fered from ptomaine illness before the
final 1 think he would have won.
Evans n Conner.
LAS winner of the Metropolitan Golf as
ISOLATION championship and OF four open
tournaments, besides being seml-finalist
or finalist in others. 1 deem Travis next
to Egan aside from the British and Amer
lean championships he has won. Evans
is western champion and it's greater new
golfing possibility. Gardner has substan-
tial claims to fourth place; he has won
the Yale title since taking the National
among other honors. Selke is intercol-
legiate and Princeton champioa.
"Travers. national champion OF 1907 and
1908, has only played his best game in
flashes since returning from an unsuccess-
full venture last spring for the British
amateur title.
Mason Phelps is a former western
champion and won the Lake Geneva tour
nament this year. w. c.. Fownes, jr., is
champion of the Western Pennsylvania
Golf association. e. M. Byers has been out
of the game on account OF the death Of a
brother. Fred Herreschoff is Metropolitan
%runner4up and a tournament winner. H..
G. Legg was runner-up in the intercol-
legiate and is Minnesota and Transmissis-
sippi champion.
x S. Douglas is a tournament winner
and was national champion. T. M. Sher-
man, son of the vice president. tied with
Evans and Gardner for low score in the
national and has won many tournaments.
Wilder is the best national timber and
Whitemore the most energetic OF the
Boston golfers. II. b.. Mcfarland won the
Pennsylvania championship. Paul Hunter
won the southern California champion
ship and in the national he lowered the
record for the Chicago Golf club course to
II. There are eight western and the same
number of eastern players on the lisk
counting Pittsburg with the former"