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ALEX SMITH " Whatever he may have to say upon the game is "The new book covers the subject in a compre- certain to find readers who will benefit by his hensive manner."—Chicago Record-Herald. instructions."—N. Y. Evening Post. "The book is highly interesting and instructive." "Beginners and even experts can derive any amount of help from the book. The text is remark- —N. Y. Tribune. able for its clearness and simplicity. It is an author- " His instructions to golf players are plain and to itative and complete guide that all golfers and the point. The pictures are particularly fine ex- intending golfers will want."—N. Y. Sun. amples of half-tone printing."—Philadelphia Press. Cloth, 90 Illustrations; 48 West 27th Street postpaid, $2.00 New York City • • • . - ,#» JEROME D. TRAVERS Winner of the Eighteenth National Amateur Golf Championship GOLF WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "GOLFING," ESTABLISHED 1894 VOL. XXXI OCTOBER, 1912 No. 4 NATIONAL AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP Chicago Golf Club, Wheaton, 111., Sept. 2-7, 1912 Jerome Travers of the Upper struggle for supremacy between the Montclair Country Club of New Jer- two greatest golfers of this country. sey won the eighteenth annual ama- Probably H. Chandler Egan and one teur championship of the United or two others of Chicago, had they States by defeating the Western kept in regular practice, would have champion, Charles Evans, Jr., of the kept on even terms with Evans and Edgewater Golf club of Chicago, 7 Travers, but in this year's perform- and 6, in the 36-hole final at the ances the latter two demonstrated em- Chicago Golf Club on September 7. phatically that they are the class play- It was Travers" third victory in the ers of their respective sections. Trav- classic, his previous wins being in ers won the Metropolitan champion- 1907 and 1908. and this put him on ship in 1911 and 1912, while Evans even terms with Walter J. Travis, won the Western Amateur title at who won the title in 1900, 1901 and Denver this year, and outside of the 1903. National these are the stiffest con- No final in the history of the United tests in the country. States Golf Association aroused When the champion of the East greater interest than the meeting of and the champion of the West won Evans and Travers, not excepting the their matches in the semi-final round, memorable match between Harold there was a lot of speculation on the Hilton, then British amateur cham- 1 uitcome; and it was estimated that pion, and Fred Herreshoff, at Apawa- there was fully $25,000 wagered on mis in 1911. The first appearance of the outcome, much of this being be- Hilton, one of the greatest amateurs tween Chicago and New York brok- the world has produced, in a United ers. A gallery estimated at 3,000 States Golf Association championship, followed the play in the afternoon, naturally was of international im- and Treasurer W. Eellowes Morgan portance; but the duel between the nf the United States Golf Associa- Montclair and Edgewater stars was a tion stated that the crowd was fully Copyright, 1912, by CLIFFORD L. TURNER. .Ill rights reserved. 198 NATIONAL AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP as large as that which followed the put Travers in the lead. From the Herreshoff-Hilton final at Apawamis. fourth tee Travers made a bad hook Travers1 two previous wins, coupled and would have gone out-of-bounds with his well known righting qualities, had not his ball plunked against a made him the favorite with a num- small mound and stopped inside the ber; but others were doubtful if he fence. He made a great iron shot for could show the same form as in the the green and got a half in 4. From years of his previous successes. Evans this point on Evans did not win a hole, for three preceding years had gone making a number of poor shots, while as far as the semi-finals, and in each Travers did not make a serious mis- instance had failed to come through. take. In 1909, after a close match witli II. Holes 2, 3, and 4 undoubtedly were C. Egan, he topped his drive for the the undoing of the Western champion, home hole into a bunker and lost that and he will have to wait another year hole and the match, 1 down, and at before again getting a chance to knock Brookline in 1910 he lost to W. C. at the championship doer. Fownes, Jr., after being 2 and 3. As the Western Amateur champion- The following year at Apawamis he was 3 up in the morning on Fred Herreshoff, but lost ^ and 2, and in the British Amateur championship the same year he was 2 up at the 15th hole to Bruce Pearce. the Australian, but lost at the nineteenth hole. With all this experience behind him, his winning uphill fight against Warren Wood in the final of the West- ern Amateur championship at Denver, where he overcame a deficit of four holes and won 1 up, and the fact that he knows the Chicago course like a book, it was figured that Evans' gold- en opportunity had arrived. In the morning round against Travers he looked like a winner, as it was only by holing two long putts that Travers held him down to a lead of one hole. There were three holes early in the afternoon that turned the tide in fa- vor of Travers. After the first hole had been halved in 4, one under par, Travers had a ten-foot putt, being partly stymied. Pie just skinned by Evans' ball and made the putt, win- ning 3-4. ()n the next hole Evans CHAKI.ES EVANS, JR. missed an eighteen-inch putt, and this Runner-up NATIONAL AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP 199 • JEROME TRAVERS AND "CHICK" EVANS ON ELEVENTH GREEN ship this year goes down into history his career obtained a medalist posi- as the flood tournament, the National tion. Hunter collapsed at the end of will long be remembered as the trop- the morning play and President Silas ical. Through most of the play the II. Strawn called a doctor from contestants sweltered under a blazing Wheaton, who said it would be dan- hot sun. Beginning with August 30, gerous for Air. Hunter to attempt to when the Olympic Cup competition continue, and so he quit, much to the was held, the thermometer went as regret of his many friends. His for- high as 95, and the Sunday before feit was the first in many years. the qualifying round it registered 93. Save for a heavy storm which swept For the other six days the maximum over the course at 2 o'clock on the temperature recorded was 74, 83, afternoon of the qualifying round, 94, 94, 90 and 89. there was no rain through the week. This heat was especially trying on For thirty minutes a blinding rain- the visiting British players, Harold storm swept the course, adding Hilton, of the Royal Liverpool Golf strokes to the scores of most of the Club and Norman Hunter of Edin- players who were out, but the rest of burgh. Both of them played with the afternoon was fine. coats on, not being able to adapt them- The new policy of the United selves to shirt-sleeve golf on short States Golf Association in limiting notice. Hunter was taken ill early in the contestants to players with handi- the week, but pluckily played through caps of 6 or under, had the desired the second round. effect of reducing the size of the field, He was in no condition to play in in fact, made it a little too small.