Historical Notes - Past Champions - Championship Records

 

Government costs double in ten years

Licorice monopoly is ruled illegal

Gandhi new leader in Southern Africa

1907

Jerome D. Travers, of the Montclair (N.J.) Golf Club, was just 20 when he scored the first of his four triumphs in the Amateur at the Euclid Club, Cleveland, Ohio. Charles (Chick) Evans, Jr., of Edgewater Golf Club, Chicago, made his first appearance in the Championship.

Travis won the medal, with 146, for the fifth time. The tournament was held in July and Archibald Graham of Northern Jersey Country Club, was the losing finalist, 6 and 5.