New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-04
MACDONALD is CHAMPION.
THE CHICAGO MAN TAKES THE HAVE
MEYER GOLF CUP.
HE LED SANDS. THE NEW YORKER. STEADILY
IN THE FINAL. MATCH THE SCORE OF WHICH
WAS IL Up. II TO PLAY. WITH A TOTAL
OF Ior STROKES FOR MACDONALD
TO 100 FOR SANDS.

OF l0i STROKES FOR MACDONALD
TO 100 FOR SANDS
Newport Oct 3-Charles b Macdonald. OF Chi
cago is the first National champion golfer OF Amer
lea to-day's play having decided the question Thus
the Chicago Club becomes custodian for year
Of the one-thousand-doar cup given by President
Theodore A. Havemeyer as a perpetual prize 20 the
National Golf Association. Mr. Macdonald also re-
ceiyes an elegant gold medal Charles f. Sands, OF
the St. Andrews Club who met with a defeat to-
day. will get second prize. which IL a silver medal
DR. c. Claxton OF Philadelphia. and 7. j Amory
Of Boston will receive respectively third and fourth
prizes which are bronze medals OF The same modsl
as the first two.
The final match for the amateur championship
began under a hot sun this morning. There was a
large attendance when play was started at 1910
Fowles the Chicago professional, acted as caddy
and coach for Macdonald. while l.. b. Stoddart did
similar duty for his feow-clubman. Sands Inc
play fast and good. MacDonalds greater skill
and experience counted H at times nervous
but Sands's inexperience more than offset this.
Often he secured a favorable position. from when
he should have won severa! holes, but failed to play
a winning stroke.
Sands led Off and on the second stroke he drove
into the bunker Macdonald won. strokes 10
Z The second hole. by almost similar play went
TO Macdonald to S. In the third Macdonald landed
in the ditch and Sands, playing carefully won' 10.
He also took the next two, the being 4-o ana
80 The seventh saw Macdonald in another ditch'
and Sands won. Sc. The Chicago man took the
eighth score &c. and the ST. Andrews representa-
tive the NINTH - This closed the first round Mac
Donald leading up and scoring IS strokes TO % by
Sands.
The second round gave Macdonald further lead,
and like the first. marked by clever play oahus
doing some excellent work and seeming to improve
The tenth hole went to Chicago. -. on a PREV,
put. The eleventh was halved in fve me ms ma
OF the match The twelfth went 10 Mhcpoi.a, !,
3i, after the best play OF the day Inc th.esi
halved in four, after another pretty exhlpisio,,
Macdonald driving from the tee 10 me elee -,
tho green. 1870 yards. and Sands placing MS own WI
ball within SIX feet of him MacDonaiH TOOK tnt ns
next, - having luck in getting OUT o! uotA q,
Sands foggled the drive. ana then gOl cauEi's ~.
the orchard The fifteenth was nave" N N end the
even play. Sands took the sixteenth. p" anu ehe
seventeenth 80 while Macdonald TOOK me els ~ ~
ieenth +-6. giving him lead OF up al the eli" %
odays weather was great improyesm zen over over
the two previous days, and the heat OF Inr ,sr
noon gave way in the afternoon 20 7dSh.S ~
temperature. with a slight breeze Pay IN uie
match between Macdonald and SANDS also ch@1sr ~
In the forenoon SANDS had heIi down me M. !, =
plon Wonderiuly well and he improved as ne pay
see him pull out the match. MacDonald MAJ snow I.
signs Of nervousness ana continued lmproneiihe ~
served sor Macdonald. These expert cad1les 10
coach the contestants caused much discussion Oy
MacDonad took the first hole Of the afternoon
or the nineteenth IT the match, rliohrs ~ w.
He also took the next six In succession ana the
game won. but the play kept on and ne twenty
sixth hole was halved while Macdonald took the
twenty-seventh. the last played Macdonald hai
not come up In brilliant form but Sands had fallen
on Even when his opponent drove into quarry
ard went down two strokes Sands could nOt max
good his advantage. When play ceased the scor-
stood Y VI. II 10 play. with total OF lOl strokes
for Mac Donald and l22 for Sands
The professionals practised during Inc Jay, dhi
Young made nine holes In ~ strokes. The record
o. the links Is Professional ". X Davis, 81,
amateur Rutherford. IL.
Tomorrow is expected TO develop expert payln
since IL Will bring open tournament, IN whicf
professionals Will appear. Dunn. Campbell anu
Davis looked upon the most likely 70 take the
head Of the list