This Day in Golf--Sept. 21

Several years of golf tournaments have been canceled due to World Wars I and II, but on this date in 1901, a golf championship was finished after a week's delay due to a death. U.S. president William McKinley was assassinated on Sept. 14 in Buffalo, N.Y., and the funeral service was held on September 19 in Ohio. The U.S. Amateur, being played at the Country Club of Atlantic City, was supposed to conclude on the 14th but was delayed until the 21st in honor of McKinley. Defending champion Walter Travis, who had been medalist, successfully won, 5 and 4, over Walter Egan.