The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-14
NATIONAL GOLF
 TITLE PLAY TO START SATURDAY

Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 14-After a lapse of two years the United States Golf Association will revive the Ma tional Amateur Championship tour nament at the Oakmont Country club. Alleghany county, next Satur- day. All of the leading American golfers, including the title holder, Charles Evans, Jr., of the Edgewater c. C.. Chicago. and some Cana dian players have entered for this years contest. Tn fact the field of aspirants Is so large that it has been found necessary to begin with a weeding out or preliminary round of IS holes medal play on Saturday, which will reduce the big field of entrants to GA players who will take part in the regular qualifying round of 36 holes medal play which will start at g o'clock next Monday morning. On Tuesday the 32 best scores will be paired for 36 holes match play and each succeeding day the survivors will meet at match play until Satur- day, August 23, when the pair of hnalists will fight it out for the championship title and gold medal.
 This years tournament will be the 23rd held under the jurisdiction of the United States Golf Association which became the governing body of the game in America in 1895. Dur | ing 1894 two amateur championship ! tournaments were held, one of them ! at Newport, R. l., in September and | the other at the St. Andrews Golf | club, New York, the following month | Npvtyrnr+ al +vun medal play, w. G. Lawrence of the | local club was the winner with a ! score of 1SS for 36 holes and c. B. ! Macdonald, of Chicago, finished sec l ond with 1S9. One month later in the match play tournament over the St. Andrews links L. B. Stoddart of i the home club won by 1 up c. B. Macdonald being the runner up.
 The first championship of the United States Golf Association was decided over the Newport Golf clubs course fin 1895 and won by c. B. Macdonald c. F. Sands of. St. An drews' being the other finalist Al | Shinnecock Hills. Long Island, H. J
 Whighar. a foreign bred golfer, rep
 resentinG the Onwentsia club, Chi
 cago, YVES the winner of the 1896 title and by winning again at Whea-
 ton, H., in 1897, Whigham was the first golfer to earn two successive
 championship brackets in America
 Waiter Travis, the Garden City
 veteran, won 1t three times, 1900
 1901 and 1903. 1T. Chandler Egar
 of the Exmoor Country club, Chi
 cago, was a double winner in 1904
 1905 and R. A Gardner another Chi
 cagoan and member of the Hirsdalt
 club won at Wheaton, H., in 1909 and again at Detroit in 1915.
 and Travers won his fourth cham
 pionship by defeating Anderson 5 ul and 4 in the final. The record of hay
 ing won the "nationaF' four times
 repeating twice in successive years
 made by Travers, is likely to stand a.
 a mark for other players to shoot a
 for many years to come.
 1 Jerome D. Travers, of Montclair
 N. J. has the unique record, how
 ever, of winning the national titl'
 four times. Tn 1907 at the Euc1it
 club, Cleveland. O., Travers won hi,
 first national" defeating another 1 Jerseyman, Archibald Graham, il
 the final round. Over the Garde1
 City course one year later, Traver
 successfully defended his title, tn,
 runner up being Max Behr, also O.
 New Jersey After a lapse of thre, years Travers came to the front agai1
 winning the 1912 championship a
 Wheaton, III, the other fina1ist being Chick Evans, the present cham
 pion At Garden City in 1913, Evani
 was put out in the semf-hnals b,
 John O. Anderson. then playing from Brae Burn. MasAchusettA ant