The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-02
CHANDLER EGAN IS
BEST GOLF PLAYER
Authority Ranks Sixteen of the
1909 Leaders of the
United States.
DEFEAT IN SOUTHERN
TOURNEY MEANT NOTHING
There Are Eight Western Play
ers, and a Like Number
From East.

NEW YORK, Jan. III. Chandler
Egan Of Chicago Is the foremost amateur
golf player OF the United States for 1909
according TO the ratings now made pub
lie by leading golf authorities in the east
A rating of the sixteen best players OF
1903 made by Hugh l.. Fitzpatrick. rec
ognized as the dean or American golf re-
porters, who has prepared the ratings for
several years, was made public today.
Mr.. Fitzpatricks rating follows;
First. II. Chandler Egan, Chicago; sec
ond. W. ]. Travis, New York. third,
Charles Evans, Jr, Chicago; fourth. Rob-
ert Gardner. Chicago; nth, Albert Seckel.
Chicago; sixth. ]. d, Travers, New York,
seventh, Mason Phelps. Chicago; eighth,
W. c. Fownes. Jr.. Pittsburg; ninth,
Fred HerrcshoT. New York; tenth. F. II.
Legg, Minneapolis; eleventh. Findlay S.
Douglas. New York: twelfth. Thomas w,
Sherman, Utica. thirteenth. II. II. Wilder. =.
Boston; fourteenth, p w. Whittemore,
Boston; fifteenth. II. d. Mcfarland. Phil
adelphia: sixteenth. Paul Hunter Chi
cago.
Review Work.
Reviewing the work OF the golfers and
the principles OF their play which led
him to the determination of his ratings.
Mr. Fitzpatrick said:
+SltiouEH lDcTc were more lpbi
ments and matches played last season
than ever before in the United States. the
action In the amateur championship had
more than usual significance in deter
mining the golfers of national position
and prominence. Egan was the pivot OF
interest He revealed a return 10 form
that has won for him In national. west
ern and intercollegiate championships and
showed that his defeat in the southern
championship OF 1905 did not mean any
thing. Egan stopped in turn Macarthur.
up. Warren Wood. up, Sawyer. up.
ss holes; Evans. up: and lost to Gardner
in the final. down, While Gardner had
beaten Travis and Phelps in succession
and has since shown high class. Egan. l
illness before the final. would have won.
Aeroplane Experiments.
LAS winner OF the Metropolitan Golf
association championship and Of four
open tournaments, besides being semi
flnalist or tlnalist in others, deem Travis
American championships he has won.
Evans is western champion and Its great
er new golfing possibility Gardner
has hs y1 & Claims at to Kn HE He has
tional among other honors. Seckel is In
tercollegiate and Princeton champion.
"TraverS. national champion OF 1907 and
1908. has only played bis best game in
flashes since returning from an unsuc-
cessful venture last spring for the British
amateur title.
MHSon fHelps Is FORMER western
champion, and won the Lake Geneva
tournament this year w. c. Fownes, Jr,
is champion OF the Western Pennsylvania
Golf association.
Other Good Players.
''E N, Myers has been out OF the game
on account OF the death Of brother
Fred Herreshof Is Metropolitan runner
up and a tournament winner H G. Lcgg
was runner-up IN the intercollegiate and
Is Minnesota and transmississippi cham
pion.
'F. s. Douglass is a tournament winner
man. son of the vice president tied Evans
and Gardner for low scores in the ma
ticnal and has won many tournaments.
Wilder Is the best national timber and
Whittemore the best from the Boston
clubs.
There are eight western and the same
number OF eastern players or the list,
counting Pittsburg with the former"