Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-02
$50 AMATEURS TO
COMPETE TODAY IN
US, GOLF TOURNEY

Brookline, Mass, Sept. -1.-Approxi-
mately $50 golfers will tramp over the
course of The Country Club here to-
morrow in quest of the national anna
teur championship title, and for more
than half of them the end Of the long
days trudge will be the nearest they
will get to the crown this year.
Virtually all the leading anna teur de-
voices of the Scotch sport are entered
in the tournament and all are expected
to come through the first qualifying
round which only those with the best
Ga scores and ties will survive. The
first round of IS holes will be followed
by second Of IS holes Monday which
Will leave 80 golfers eligible for match
play for the title. Play will end next
Saturday.
This is the eth renewal of what be-
came a national fixture in 1895 but in
all the intervening time not such
gathering of international stars has
teed off opening day as are prepared to
start tomorrow. The entry of the
British team, which came TO Ameri "a
primarily for the Walker Cup contest.
has lent an International tinge to the
event that it has not had before.S
Like the National Open Championship
the National Amateur was established
in 1894, less than decade after golf
had attained widespread vogue in this
country, but it was not until the next
year that the United States Golf Assoc
citation took command and consequent
ly the records are dated from 1895.
The first year. prior to the organiza-
ton of the association. two champion
ship tournaments were held. the first
in September at the Newport, r. l..
Golf Club, which was won by w. G.
Lawrence. Newport, and the second in
October at st. Andrews Golf Club,
Yonkers. where l.. B. Stoddart of the
home club was victorious.
Amateurs everywhere took courage
at the result Of last years play, which
Jesse Guilford. Boston. won by defeat
ing Robert A. Gardner. seven, and six.
Guilford was a dark horse in a field
illuminated by such stars as Francis
Ouimet, Chick Evans Bobby Jones.
Willie Hunter, the then British ANA
teur Champion. and Tom Armotr, he
crack Scot.
Though the American amateur
championship has been played for %
times. every year since 1895, excluding
the war period of 1918. only 16 men
have held the title and if several of the
luminaries of the past are on their
game this year the number of individ-
ual holders may not be increased. The
dope says that several are due to,
win
Jerome Travers. New York, has ac-
complishcd the extraordinary feat of
winning the title four times. in two
pairs of successive years. 1907-0S and
l9l2-l3 and, in addition to that he was
runner up to OuiElct when the latter
VS. victorious in 1914. Walter J.
Travis. another New Yorker. comes
nearest to equalling this record, he
won in 1900, 1901 and 1908. -Four
players have won the amateur cham
pionship two times each. two of the
men sweeping the field twice in success
sion-H. J. Whigham in 1861 and
Chandler Egan in 1904-05. Robert 5.
Gardner won in 1905 but did not re-
peat Until jJlo anu NIINh ans tti
winning in 1916 waited until 1920 be-
fore again taking the cup.
Twenty different men have been
runners-up in the quarter century Of
competition but that was as far as Is
of them got, for in all except three of
the 25 years the title has been won by
men who had not experienced the thrill
A.
ed in the final round of match play.
Only two runners-up afterwards be-
came champions-E NJ. Bycrs, finaist
in 1903. winning in 1906 and Chick
Evans winning in 1916 and 1920 after
| tasting victory in 1912.
Three champions however. became
runners-up after holding the title,
| Travers being defeated in 1914 by the
| then youthful Ouimet, and Robert A.
/ Gardner, champion in 1909 and 1915.
| losing in 1916 to Evans and last year
| to Guilford. Oumet was another VIC
| tim of Evans in 1920.
Five men went to the tire Shold five
times only to be turned back-Findlay
s. Douglas in 1S99-1900; Byers in 1902
| 03; Fred Herreshoff in 1904 and 1911;
| Anderson in 1918 and 1915 and Gard
ner in 1916 and 1921. The complete
| list of those who have won and the
runners-up they defeated, since the
| championship was held under auspices
of the association, follows.
Year Champion Runner-up
| 1895, c. Il. Macdonald c. +. Sands
1896. ". J. Whigham j. G. Thorp
1897, II. ]. Whiehm W. r. Belts
1898. F'indlay :. Douglas w. b. Smith
| 1899. Herbert NJ. Hartman
900, Walter J. Travis
Walter f. Egan
/ 900. Louis y James r. NJ. Bycrs
1903 Walter ]. Travis +. NJ. Byers
Fred Herrcshoff
ao5. II. Chandler Egan y. f. SAWYER
| 1906 T., NJ Bycrs George 5. Lyon
1907, jerome y, TraNors
1905 Jerome y Travers Max II. Behr
1909 Robert A. Gardner
H. Chandler Egan
1910. William G. Fowncs. Jr.
Warren X. Wood
''' - 80 O' Fred Herreshoff
10 = '"'e charles Evans, Jr.
1913 Jerome d. Travors
1914. Francis Ouimet
Jerome d. Travcrs
1915 Robert A. Gardner
John G. Anderson
| 1916, Charles Etans. Jr.
Robert A. Gardner
1a17-1s, Not Held