The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-17
M,DONALD, THE 1895 CHAMPION,
OUTPLAYED BY THE YALE
GOLFER,
TWO SURPRISES IN STORE.
DOUGLASS UNABLE TO HOLD HIS
OWN IN THE SEMI
FINALS.
EAST STILL AGAINST THE WEST.
On Saturday Whigham and Belts
VIII Meet for the National
ChampiOnship-ScOr

CHICAGO, Sept. 16-The most SEN
sational event of the national golf
tournament occurred today when w.
r. Belts, of the Shinnecock Hills Golf
club, beat c. B. Macdonald, of the
Chicago Golf club. Macdonald was
the 1895 champion, being displaced by
Whigham in 1896. and was confidently
expected to reach the championship
this year. At the beginning of the
games Belts was a comparatively I'M
known man, and when it was announc-
ed that he was one of the four quail
fed for the semi-finalS he was not con-
sidered a remote possibility. In regard
to the two matches today the concern
was all about the one between Wing
ham and Douglass and every one
thought the result would be very close
with the chances all against Whigham.
The other match was reckoned merely
as a matter of few holes before Belts
prospects would be all over
Belts victory is a desirable outcome.
1t brings two young men together for
the finals, and it also definitely matches
Eastern and Western golf Belts real
ly won over Macdonald by superior
nerve. The latter is, perhaps, the bet
| ter al-round player, but the younger
man kept cool. In his match Wednes-
day Macdonald had dispute over a
technicality, and a similar question
came up today with Belts. At the
eighteenth hole Belts was one up, but
the fifth hole, and the nineteenth hole
was played, making it Belts match
| without any doubt.
Of DoI1o1acS NV
Whigham was the other surprise of the
| day Douglass has been playing bril-
liant golf all through, but he went off
very badly today. Whigham's match
with Belts on Saturday in the finals
will be very interesting, and the likeli-
hood is that he will for the second time
secure the championship medal
| Play began this morning at 1890,
with rain falling steadily. The ground
was soft and the chance for brilliant
| work poor. The disagreeable weather
| diminished the number of spectators,
! only a few enthusiasts in mackintoShes
and under dripping umbrellas Drawing
| the wet day. The interest centered in
| the play of Whigham and Douglass.
| On this depended the entire hopes of all
| the Western golfers. Douglass on the
| first nine holes played poorer golf than
| at any time before, while Whigham
made few errors Douglass had the
honors and went off with fair drive.
| On his second stroke, he got into the
| brush, taking two to get out. Wh1gham
| got on the green in three and easily
took the hole in five. Whigham start
! ed off for the second hole with a fine
| drive, followed by a beautiful approach
| laying right up on the hole in three
I Douglass got a. bad lie with his drive
and approached poorly, but made the
green in three, and eventually halved
| the hole. The next hole was Whig-
hams in four, but the next went to
Douglass by his very fine putting in
four The fifth hole was halved in five,
the sixth was Whigham's in five, and
| the seventh his in four. By beautiful
| approach he secured the eighth and
| the result began to be certain. Wing
| ham was putting up almost faultiess
game, but Douglass seemed out of form
badly, and seemed to be losing his grip.
| The ninth hole was halved, but the
tenth Whigham took in two. an unsur
passed record He drove right on the
| green, and holed his ball by an as
tonishing put This was kept up during
the match and at the thirteenth hole
Whigham being six up and five to play,
the match was his. The spectators
were jubilant over the outcome. as 1t
did not appear possible for Douglass to
be beaten M. " Belts, the Yale man,
won over C. B. Macdonald, of Chicago,
one hole up.
The opening championship tomorrow
| shows the entries to be almost entirely
professional. The contest is a thirty
hole medal play and the complete list
CT entries is as follows: Devereaux
| Emmett, r. J. Whigham, d. B. McIn-
tosh, Bernard Nicholl, Charles B. Mac
Donald, Robert McAndrew, John Dun
can, John Harrison, w. B. Smith, Ro-
bert Fouls, George Pearson, w. G.
Stewart S. D. Powers. M. r. Sweeney,
A. Ricketts,, Henry Turpie, Richard
Leslie, James Fouls, David FOULS, H.
| l. Rawlins, r. B. Wilson, w. Vincent
Hoar, John Reid Jr., Sam Tucker, Will
lam Marshall, James A. Tying, w. H.
| Whay, W. F. Davis, w. Tucker, John
Lloyd, Foxhall Keene, Willie Dunn,
| Robert White.
The longest list of names ever en-
tered in a golf competition in the
United States was posted for the Chi
cago Club handicap which began at
o'clock. One hundred and forty
I names were entered, and the greater
| proportion of these finished c. Is.
| Hudson, of the Rochester Golf club,
| made the lowest net score, his gross
score of SO being reduced to SO net by
| an allowance of Is. A H. Fem, of
| the Palmetto Golf club, won the sec
| ond prize, and a prize for the lowest
gross score, a silver jug presented by
| Joseph Letter Walter B. Smith and
| D. r. Forgan, both of the Onwantsia,
| tied for eighth at 95 gross and SO net
| Following are the scores of the first
| ten