New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-09
ONLY ONE SCRATCH
MAN ON GOLF LIST
Travers Has Post Of Honor in
Ranking of Handicap
Committee.
"CHICK" EVANS RATED AT !
Names of Several Well Known
Players Absent-Number
a Trihe Less than
Last Year.


{ Jerome -. Travers. winner OF the anna p
teur golf championship titla on three diff
! ferent occasions. is the only scratch man
OF the new national handicap list COM
! piled by the executive committee OF the
| United States Golf Association. y year
ago the Upper Montciair expert shared
: the pos, of honor with Eve oihers-W2lter
/ j. Travis. Oswald NIrkby Fred Heres
hoG, h.5crt secl.cl and Charles W. Evans
jr Now Evans is placed at ]. while
/ Ilcrreshon' kir.by. Seckel. Travis. Paul
! Hunter and Warren X. Wood receive an
allowance Of two strokes
This is the first time in the history OF
handicapprug either national or sectional
/ that the former champion. Walter Travis.
has been 30 far removed from scratch
! the reason for placing Travers alone IN
his clory was stated in q few words by
Robert {. Watson. president OF the
: United states coil Association. VINO de-
Clarod that any player accomplishing
what Travers aid In the national anna
teur championship tournament at
Wheaton was clerly deserving Of the
honor
Watson also called attention to the de-
| cisive manner with which Travers dis
posed Of Evans in the final round. lie
also touched on the feat OF the Upper
Montcair player earlier in the season
when no retained his title as metropoli-
tan champion
Evans also came IN for a good deal OF
praise. II will he remembered that the
tdgeNatcr golfer won the medal in the
qualifying round Of the national touria-
rncut after q p,a, of with liarod H. I'LL
ton. Evans also won the Western Golf
Association title.
Numerically. the present list. containing
as il does ~ names is some 3S fewer
than wear ago AMI study OF the new
/ sheet reveals the fact that l29 amateurs
who were there last year are now miss
ms ON tie other hand. the list shows 81
new names. most of which get on with "A
siA-stroke allowance. sufficient. however,
10 give tho right 20 compete ~ the ucNt
amateur tournament.
The names ~ several Well known play
cls are absent from tho list this year. 4.
T.. Giles, OF Oaltmont who jumped INTO
prominence years ago by defeating W.
Chandler Egan when the latter was at
his hcst. r. H. fIovey. formerly a Con
nec'icut champion. y. " Houston. Of
Princeton. rated At last year. &. i.
Eddy. OF Rldgewood. man last sea-
son. and r 4 Fuller Of Wollaston, not
long ago recognized as one of the best
IN Mas achusetts. arc all missing.
Then there IS Percy Plat. II Tho Now
York Golf cub. Who has made many =
man hustle on tho links ana va, placed
at I last year. Who no longer 10 priv
ileged to compete for national honors.
J. - Thorpe. OF Oakley. a competitor in
national championship tournaments since
the early days OF the United states io,f
Association. is among those dropped.
Another oldtimcr left of the roster IS
Reginald Brooks who in 1879 eliminated
| Findlay :. Douglas 100 the -"mi-iinal
round OF the first metropolitan champion
ship tournament At Garden city. and al
terward fell before tho prow"ss OK Her
bert Hartman.
Among the new names That appear arc
! those OF Chisholm Beach. Of Fox Ilills,
the New York Athletic. club champion.
end John Naeth!ng. II Englcwood, former
holder ~ that title, both rated ~ . ~.
j. Whigham, ~ the National Golt Links
| of America. who won the national title
| In 1891 and Frank l.. Woodward. Of Den
yer. ono OF the United states COLI Assoc
citation officials. are newcomers ana re-
ceive an allowance OF ..
The committee follows. Robert g. Wat-
SON National Links. Milton Dargdn. At
lanta 4. A.: Frank l.. Woodward, Den
yer. John Reid jr.. St Andrews; Percy
! X. PINE. n. Garden city; Charles Ia
Allen. Chicago; Harry l.. Aver. Brae
Burn, Howard W. Perrin. Merton, and
! Knoulctou l.. Amcs. Glen View. vast
amount of correspondence has taken
place and it was necessary to 30 over the
| list no fewer than SIX times before II was
declared ready for announcement.
| The handicaps OF those VINO are at j
strokes or better follow.