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Show SOLF IS PLAYED il T1MB8 Six Hundred Thousand People Are Now Engaged in Rich Man's Game. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YOltK, Nov. G. Now that the local golfing season of tournaments nnd national and sectional championships is practically over, it may be interesting to brieflv review the events of tho season. sea-son. Jt" has been a year of surmises in American golf, and aside from the return of Waltor .7. Travis to tho Metropolitan Met-ropolitan title new holders havo been secured for all other titles. At the opening of tho season of IOu.0 it was conservatively estimated that the American golfing army had reached the -100,000 mark. Thanks to tho iucreascd popularity of the game, with President William li. Taft as an enthusiastic advocate, ad-vocate, it is now figured that thoro aro at least, from 550,000 to COO.000 players in the country. . Tho victory of Robert A. tiardncr ovi-r Walter j. Travis and JJ. Chandler Kgan in tho amateur championship at Whoa ton in September, sufficient in itself it-self to demonstrnto that tho title wasj won bv absolute merit brings a new name into the long lists of holders ot that coveted title. The visit of Miss Dorothy Campbell, tho British women's amateur champion, who :it Morion boat I he cream of our American women players for tho chain-uiouship chain-uiouship title, while unsatisfactory from the standpoint of having tho title- loavo fhe country, was reassuring in respect to tho fact that it showed that our women are fast approaching the highest .standards .stand-ards abroad. Now Playora Appoai The victory of George Sargent of the otk'U championship at Hnglewoodr with Tom McNamara trom Boston, a homo-bred, homo-bred, second, and Aloe Smith third, was decidedly popular in bringing new men into tho'limeliglit of fame. Sargent has not, been so successful in his subsequent Mictigcinoiits as either Alec. Smith or Willie Anderson, but 'well deserved his laurels by his grand golf at Englowood. On tho other side of I ho pond J. H. Taylor won his fourth op" championship champion-ship at Deal, closely followed by James lira id. also a fcuirtinie winner, and Tom Ball, tied for second place. Ball subsequently sub-sequently in tho News of the World professional tournament won first honors, hon-ors, owing lo tho defeats of other famous fa-mous English st.ars such as JJrnid, Tay-lor. Tay-lor. Vardmi and Herd. The British amateur championship, won bv Robert Mnxwcll at Muirl'ield by 1 up in the final round at thirty-sis holes over Captain Hutchinson, was principal- ! lv notable from the American standpoint, stand-point, through the defeat of Jerome D. (Travers, our then American champion, i in (ho very first round. Was Playing Good. ' Walter J, Travis, during the early 1 part of the season, was playing better golf than at anv time iu his career, as war. ihown in hi record scorcb in the Metropolitan championship in the final round against Hcrrcskoff, when ho mado a. 71 at Apawamis. At Wheaton, in tho championship, Mr. Travis was novor at homo on tho rough green, whero thoso accustomed to. tho conditions used mid-irons instead of putters. Joromo D. Travers. amateur champion for J007 and J90S, did not participate in any of tho early seasou events before be-fore starting in quest of the British title, iu which ho was put out in the. first round. On his return ho played thirty-six holes in tho open chnmpiou-ship chnmpiou-ship at Englcwood, and his only other uppenranco was in tho invitation tournament; tour-nament; at Montclair. whore ho lost to John Mi. Ward in the final round on tho nineteenth green. The year 1000 has demonstrated tho truth of the assertion of thoso who a few years ago said that beforo long American golf will soon approach tho uncertaintv of results for years prevalent prev-alent abroad. Wo arc rapidly developing de-veloping a class of young nlayors of high class so ovenlv matched that tho swav of men liko Travis and Douglas, who" for years had things pretty much at their mercy, will be. an impossibility. Season's Summary. Tho following is a brief summary of the season's play at homo and abroad: Ih's, National amateur, at Wheaton, September 0-11 C. Evans. Jr., T. M. Sherman, ami 11. A. Gardner lied for modal at liil. C. L'vans won play-off. Winn I round II. A. Gardner bun t U. C. Egan I and U (thirty-six holes). Women's National amateur at Merlon, October -l-'J Mrs. C. F. Fox, Miss Margaret Mar-garet Curtlsi nnd Miss Anita 13. Phlpps lli'd for modal at Sfi. Miss Curtis won plav-orr. Final round Miss Dorothy Cauipbnll. England, beat Mrs. P.. A. Uar-low, Uar-low, ami ' VrofoKHloiifil Opon championship at Englewood, Juno -1 aml ii - George Sargent To 1- 7 71 J90 Tom McNauuu-.i 7.'! fiO 7o 77 "i'M A"tt Smith 70 73 7-1 72 234 Great liJrltalu inn lour champion Robert Maxwell Women's champion .. Dorothy Cuinplmll Op u iluimpiou J. Ji. Tuylor |