Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-16
WILLIE SMITH WON
Baltimore Country Club Golf
Tournament.
ANDERSON DISAPPOINTED HOPES
Combination of Bad Luck and
Bad Form.
HE HAD NOTHING TO SAY

Golf sustained its reputation yesterday as
the most uncertain of games when Willie
Smith of the Midlothian Country Club, Chi
oago. won the championship of America.
vice Fred Herd in the open tournament at
the Baltimore Country Club.
From the first Smith was considered a
dangerous man, but Willie Anderson show
ed such clever work in the opening day. do
ing his thirty-sX holes in 1873, that the
golf-wise and the public were strongly in
clined to favor him as the final victor. The
surprise came not so much from the fact
that Smith won, but that Anderson did not
get even second. place, for four men finished
ahead of him.
The fall of the mighty one was the result
of poor putting and little hard luck His
driving was equal, If not superior, to that
of the first day, but on the greens he seem
ed unable to strike his gait, and both Of his
final rounds resulted in scores above eighty
Willie Anderson played in combination
of hard luck and bad form. Yesterday his
work was anything but startling, resulting
in So and 81
For freak playing Jack Park of the Es-
sex County Country Club, Orange N. j.,
took the palm. His first day was very un-
propitious and he hardly looked like a
man in the money when his scores were IS
and So but yesterday in the first round he
made new record for the links by doing
the 10 holes in Is. His performance
throughout this round was remarkable and
1t is doubtful whether Baltimoreans will
see such even golf again in the next ten
years
Alex. Smith of the Washington Park
Club, Chicago, was even enough, as far as
that goes, but his scores were too uniform
ly high. He ranged from 81 to 49, and set
about the pace which the prophets thought
would carry off the championship. He
wound up with a grand total of $50.
Harry Gullane landed in eighth place by
grace of hard work and persistent effort.
His playing was not conspicuous for phe-
nomenal feats of skill. but he made up for
the deficiency by faithfully plugging away
when prospects were darkest.
Herbert NJ Hartman, the amateur cham
pion, made new amateur record for the
course, getting around in 70. This was an
excellent showing for Hartman and dem
onstrated his fitness to hold the champion
ship title. The old record was ST. made by
Findlay Douglas and T. Courtney jenkins
at the spring amateur tournament of the
Baltimore Country Club.
Smiths record of 315 for q holes is said
by the professionals to be remarkably good
for such a tricky course. The golf commit
tee of the Country Club points to the score
as REPUTATION of the claim that the greens
were unnecessarily hard. The committee
inquired into the greens complaint, and
found that three-fourths Of the puts were
in the hole for ., which is the sign of a
good green.
The tie for second place will not be
played off, but the three men will divide
second, third and fourth money
Herds friends attributed his poor show
ing to the evil effects following his defeat
by Willie Dunn in their ante-tournament
match for $3.50 a side.
Willie Anderson was non-committal about
the course, only venturing the statement
that 1t was very trying.
NJ tho