French Amateur Championship 1904-1908

[saab1949]

Hello everybody

I’m looking for the resultsof the French Amateur Championship from 1904 (the first one) to 1908. I havefind nothing in France about theseevents ??

I already know the winnersand the runner up, but I don’t know player’s name for the first, second andthird rounds.
I think that the number ofplayers was very low, particularly in 1904.

If you don’t know theanswers, may be you know somebody who knows partially or completely theanswers, please give me his email.

Information to help you

1 approximate dates
1904 : ?
1905 : 10 14june
1906 : 13 15june
1907 : 14 16june
1908 : 11 13june

2 possible newspapers
Western Times
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser
Dundee Courier
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
Aberdeen Journal
Gloucester Citizen
Western Daily Press
Nottingham Evening Post
Edinburgh Evening News
Hull Daily Mail
Dundee Evening Telegraph

3 Other tracks
Golfer magazines

Many thanks per advance

A poor French golfer asking help to “the country ofgolf”

 

[Foxholer]

Why not write/email to the French Golf Federation.

 

[saab1949]

I did that fisrt, but they have nothing at all.
The first information about these events came from "french historian of golf".
It is the reasonwhile I need your help. The answers are in old british newspapers or magzines.

Thanks a lot

 

[saab1949]

I got already the winners and the runner up, see below :

1904​	La Boulie	H-G Beeche	9 et 7​	J. Owerbury
1905​	La Boulie	A. H Grosfield	7 et 5​	Sir Edgar Vinvent
1906​	La Boulie	R.G Graham	11 et 10​	C. H Gray
1907​	La Boulie	S. J Chesterton	9 et 7​	R. G Graham
1908​	La Boulie	W. G Pringle	3 et 1​	G. Allis

Regards

 

[Captainron]

Old man Graham gave young Charlie Gray a right tonking behind the outhouses!