New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-31
A GOODLY ARRAY Of
AMATEUR GOLFERS
One Hundred and Forty.five to
Clash for HOnOrS on Gar.
den City Links.
TRAVERS THE FAv0RITE
Evans the Choice of Western
Men to Win the Nineteenth
Annual Championship Of
the United States.

Amateur golfers. who have attainsi
prominence on the links in various part,
Of the United States. Canada and Gres,
Britain. will tee up tomorrow mornm,
in the nineteenth tournament for the ANA
teur championship Of the United STATE.
at the Garden City Golf Club Promptly
at $50 o'clock NJ. p. Lewis. Of the Flush.
ing Country Club and A. II Smith, 0,
Huntingdon Valley, will start the field
Of li5 I'm quest of one of the highest golf
honors OH the American continent
Every five minutes. from 99O O'Clock
on. pairs will be started, the last to 20,
away being Charles n. Brown. OF s,
Andrews, former Hudson River cham.
pion TIE tournament will be run on ex.
actly as year ago at Wheaton TIE
contestants will play one round OF elgh.
teen holes tomorrow. Those having the
sixty-four lowest scores I'm that prelini.
nary round will play another eighteen
holes on Tuesday morning, and III.
thirty-two men who have the best scores
for the total Of thirty-six holes will be.
come eligible for championship match
play beginning Tuesday afternoon With
tn exception of the first round, all
matches will be at thirty-six holes
There are names to conjure with in tho
list Of those scheduled to start Perhaps
attention will centre on Jerome d. Tray-
ers. the Upper Montclair wizard, who has
thrice won the championship and Is at
nresent the title holder. There need 10
little worry that Travers will not be on
hts game His 70 at Garden City on
Thursday is fair sample OF how
he Is going Despite the presence Of
Charles Evans. jr., the runner-up last
year and one OF the most brilliant players
in America. and the possibility Of Abe
Mitchell, the famous British amateur.
being here in time for the tournament
Travers is the fayorite.
There is goodly array Of former ma.
tional champions. such as Findlay s.
Douglas. Of Nassau. the title holder as
far back as 1895 Eben NJ. Byers, OF Al.
legheny, the 1906 champion. Walter J.
Travis. Of the home club, who was Ii.
only man besides Trayers 10 be three
times the champion, Robert A. Gardner,
Of Hinsdale, who won in 1909, and W. c.
Fownes. jr., OF Oakmont. the winner in
1910. at Brookline. Some Of those who
have been runners-up are Max H. Behl
who occupied that position in Garden
City in 1908; Fred Herreshoft. Of the
home club. the runner-uD in 1905 and
again in 1911, and Evans.
Evans Is being picked by many West
ern admirers 10 win the championship
He was selected last year TO turn the
trick. but Travers stood in the way AID
defeated the Edgewater man by UP and
8 TO play in the final round. Travers,
will be recalled, was I down at the end
of the morning.
Evans. however. has already shown on
more than one occasion that he is not
to be considered lightly. Trayers has
played quite up TO his standard this year
already having won the metropolitan and
the New Jersey championships. IL no
should win his fourth national title II VII
be the first time the feat has been az
complished in America.
The competition Itself is really the tven'
tieth in the history OF the game. for
year before the organization OF the UnitH
States Golf Association twenty-eight goh'
ers paired up for match play over Inc
historic links OF the 81. Andrews COL
Club. The champion that year was L. b
Stoddart OF the home organization, WHO
defeated Charles y. Macdonald In the
decisive test by one UP. The first oficA
amateur championship OF the Cntea
States Golf Association was held the next
year nj Newport. on which occasion MAJ
donald was successful.
H. J. whigham was the champion ''r
the next two years. and It was IN l~s
Morris County. that Douglas came to ns
fore. Douglas then had 10 be con'ss
with second position tor the next W'
years, being runner-up 70 h. VI. HIATT
man in 1899. at Onwentsia, and Walter j.
Travis. at Garden City. in 1890. The his-
tory OF the championship tournament
as follows:
is94-St. Andrews Coli Club (all match FAY
L. b. Stoddart. 81. Andrews, beat Chalpe'
Macdonald Chicago, l up. previous 70
is95-Newport Golf club mo quaiity,,a,.
round)--C. d. Macdonald. Chicago. beat cna''
r. Sands. st. Andrews. II up and II 10 pay,
ls9G-Shinnecock Hills Golf Club iSuan,,s
round. medalI-H. j. Whigham. OnNensS
1893. Final-whigham beat James @. In%''
Cambridge. up and 10 play.
1897 Chicago Golf Club qualifying rouWn"J
.. y, Macdonald. Chicago. iif Fn Ina. nsls.
Whighdm. Onwentsia, beat W. X. Bets S""
necock Hills : up and 10 play ,,.,-,
is9s-Morrs County Golf club ,qualn..fs
round medaD--Joseph II. Choate, lr, hs -.
rs. Final Findlsy $. Douglas. Fairfield, ."
". T.. smith. Chicago. ) up ami 3 10 plsl
ls99-Onwentsia Golf Club lqualliyns ~
medal Charles 3. Macdonald, l6S. fln5.
NJ Hartman. Meadow Brook. beat flhdi" -
Douglas. Fairfield, up and 20 play .,,s
igOO--Garden city GAf club (qualltylns -.
mcdaO-Walter J. Travis. 1866 flnal-i
beat Findlay :. Douglas. Fairfield, Up. ,,,,,s
i?Oi-Atlantic city Country club QUAINT
round. medall--Walter J. Travis. 10 "a
Travis beat w. f. Egan, Onwontsla W
20 play. ,,rs
is?-Clen View club qualifying ros ..i
medal-Walter j. Travis. Garden Clo,
g. A. Ormiston. Highland. ~ tina.-Iss M.
James. Glen View, beat Eoen VI bye's'
gheny. up and to play. ousuhins
lsO3--Nassau Country Club mo Srr'
rotlnd) Fiual-Waltcr y Travis. Garutn 20
beat Eben NJ. Byers, Allegheny up a"'
play. ,,s.,,, rouni.
iSo4-Bsltusrol Golf Club qualifying . 'vs.
medal "a holes)-H Chandler Egan ns..bor
e,g FYnal-Egan beat Frederick he"'
Ekwanok up and 20 play. reurd
Iao5-Chicago Golf Club (Quanfylns FINAL
medaD-D p Fredericks. OF city. NIr san
II Chandler Egsn. ENmoor, beat y
yer. wheaton up and to play round
IeO6--Englewood Golf club tquaI.si "
medal)-Walter J. Travis, i52 Flh' 'Torouia
Byers. Allegheny. beat $. Lyons
Ont, up. , ,ousllyinf