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Show New National Golf Champ Weighs 205 Pounds - V ..:.Xx J ., I " ; ) I ' N 1 ! . f - ! I I : ' I l m : ' 'A 1 1 ' (1. trf 'i 1 lwr jy Q DAVIDSOX HEREON, the new national amateur golf champion, will be twenty-two years of age in October. Octo-ber. He has been playing golf since 1905, when he lived across the street from the Oakmont Country club, Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. Herron weighs 205 pounds, and this weight aids him to get the great distance dis-tance and in playing from the rough. Golf is his only hobby, although- he played football while he was a freshman fresh-man at Princeton. He was graduated from Princeton last year. He played for four yearn on the college col-lege golf team. In tho 1915 national amateur championship at Detroit he tied with Ned Sawyer in the preliminary prelim-inary qualifying round. Herron is' the third Pittsburg golfer to win the national amateur championship, champion-ship, the others being AV. C. PowneSj Jr., also of Oakmont, and Ehen M. Brers of Allegheny. Herron learned tlie game as a caddie for Fownes. |