The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-29
AMERICANS PLANNING HOW TO
 GET TENNIS CUP BACK HERE
Comment On Various Events That Are Interesting Sporting En-
 thusiasts Just Now

Dishonest pronNpters would have been denied recognition The late boxing boom gave promoters an exceptional chance to foist ridiculous matches on the public and the real sport element e-'t that something should be done to put boxing on a clean sportsmanlike basis.
 Although there were two amateur golf championship tournaments, one at 1.ncdali play and the other at match play, held in the United States, in 1894, ! it was not until the following year that the newly organized United States Golf Association assumed control of the game in this country The first amateur championship under the Ss:ss pAces of the National Organization was decided on the course of the Newport Golf Club, Newport, R. l., in October, ] 1895 and won by Charles B. Macdonald entered from Chicago, and now a res ident of New York city. Next Mon day the twentieth anniversary of this
 event carrying with it the champion ship cup and title for which a great field of players will contend, will be- gin on the links of the Ekwanok ! County Club, Manchester, Vt, and the final round will be decided the follow ing Saturday.
 In the early days of golf in this Icountry it was only natural that those
 who had learned the game in Scotland and England esi1y led the American players, as after the victory of C.. B..
 Mcdonald in the first tournamer1+ IT h. Wingham, also Chicago entrant
 who had come from the other side of the Atlantic with his bag of clubs and a fine Knowledge of how to use them, won the title in 1895 at Shinnecock Hills, long Island, and repeated the following year at Wheaton, III. The fourth championship was decided at
 Morristown, N. J., in 1898, and won by
 Findley s. Douglas, who had come from Scotland to make America his home.
 From this stage of the game, how I ever, the American homebred golfer I became 8 factor in the championship class and H. M. Hartman, of New
 York, took the measure of Douglas in
 the final match a year 1ater the On lwentsia Clubs links, near Chicago and lWlter J. Travis, followed with the Successive victories at the Garden City and Atlantic City tournaments in i 1900 and 1901 Travis was put out by
 B. M. Byers, of Pittsburgh, in the sec
 ond match play round at GIenview. H., in 1902, when L., N James of the local club, won the title with Byers the runner up. Travis came again
 in 1903 at Glen Cove, N. r., and won the title for a. third time, Byers again being the other fna,list. H. Chandler Egan, of Chicago, next held the honor
 for two years having won 1t at Baltus- Irol, N. J., in 1904 and successfully de- Tending 1t at Wheaton H., in 1906- tE.
 M. Byers was rewarded for his persis- itent efforts in 1906 when he became
 champion after defeating the Canadian champion George S. Lyon, of Toronto.
 at Fnglewood, N. J., in 1906
 The present champion, Jerome D. iTravers, captured the title in 1907 on the links of the Euclid Club, C1eve-
 land, Ohio, when he defeated Archie Graham, the New Jersey state cham ipion, in the final round and won 1t k-- NH.
 next year at wheaton, H., R. Garden
 winner. and w. c. F'ownes, of Pitts
 at Brookline, Mass, in 1910. This
 was by far the largest number of
 starters that ever began a national tournament and under the new rule ex-
 enpting all but players with national
 rating of five strokes or better from competition, no such field can ever be
 assembled for this event again. At ApawaLnis, N. Y., in 1911, there
 were 170 starters when for the first and only time the cup and the title
 left the United Sta tes, was that year Harold H. Hilltop, England's foremost amateur golfer, was the winner, but
 not until he had been carried to an
 extra hole effort by Fred HerreshoT of Ekwanok, vt. Hilton was defeat ed in 1912 by c. G. Waldo in the first match play round at Wheaton, H.. l when J. D. Travers won for the third time and his victory at Garden City twelve months ago marked his fourth |, lwinning of the trophy. and ttitle, which