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Show ICHAMPION GOLFER IS : HEAVYWEIGHT YOUTI PITTSBURG, Aug. 23. S. Pavlda'r Herron, the new national amateur kc ;' champion, will be 22 years of ae October. Pie has been playini? golf sini;-.-1 1903, when he lived across the street fro.--.'; the Oakmont Country club. - Herron weighs 205 pounds, and t'n weight aids him to get the great cltstnn -: and in playing from the rouchs. Goif "J his only hobby, although he playci too-; ball while he was a freshman at Princeton. Prince-ton. He was graduated from Pr!nceti.7r. last year. -V He played for four years on the collet.;. golf team. In the 1915 national amale1 championship at Detroit he tied with Sawyer in the preliminary quaiifyn : :: round. t:l Herron is the third Pittsburg golfer :- r win the national amateur championslii -v |