The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-08


Standard, but Admirers Confident
He Can Do Better-Travls Played
a Brilliant Game, but Luck Was
Against Him-DescrIptiOn of Play
in Semi-FtnaIs.
ONWENTSIA GOLF CLUB COURSE,
Chicago, ILL.,, July THE golf cham
pionship for 1899 will be won by an East
ern man. H. M. Hartman, the Meadow
brooke club man. of Hampstead, L. l.,
and the present champion Findlay S.
Douglas, won the semi-finals in the am
ateur golf tournament at Onwent-
STA today and tomorrow will meet
in the deciding struggle for the
| championship. 1t will be a Scotch
golfer against a native American. Har-
riman, who formerly played football
and base ball at Princeton, won so i'm
pressively today from his opponent,
Charles B. Macdonald, and displayed such
good form in every phase of the game,
that tonight many golfers who have fol-
lowed the play of the two men throughout
the week are of the opinion that Doug
las will be pressed harder in tomorrow $
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present week, and will have TO be at his
best to retain the championship. The gen
eral belief is that the game will not be
Won by more than two or three holes by
either man.
| Macdonald's defeat by Hartman re-
moved the last Westerner from the list
of contestants. This game, because on
! it depended whether or not a WeSterner
would contest in the finals, proved lode
y1ofNo To
view the final struggle, and an unusually
| large gallery closely followed the play,
| both during the morning and afternoon.
| Macdonald's work was a decided disap-
| pointment to his friends. He did well
| during the first nine holes in the morn
| ing, but coming in he fell down badly on
his iron work, losing several holes by
poor putting that he should have won, or
at least halved. Hartman played consist
| ent golf throughout. His drives all day
| were longer than Macdonald S, though
perhaps not enough so to materially affect
| the result. 1t was on his putting and
| short iron work that he eXcelied, and this
| finally won the game.
Champion Douglas had an unexpected
| ly hard struggle to win from c. P Travis.
! These two met last year in the semi
| finals, Douglas securing a decisive vic
| tory. Today, however, although Douglas
| finished the first eighteen holes four up,
| the game was not decided until the thir
| ty-fifth hole had been negotiated. Travis
played beautiful game against the heavy
| odds, and although the champion was
| dormie five at the thirty second tee, Tray
! is by some Of the prettieSt approach
shots and puts seen during the tourna-
ment, won the next three holes. Douglas
| halved the thirty-ffth, however, and the
| match was over. Douglas, apparently
| confident in his ability to win out, played
| carelessly coming in, and to this fact was
| partly due the closeness of the score
Findlay S. Douglas. D. r. Forgan and
! w. J. Travis, who tied at 173 for the
| bronze medal in the qualifying round
| Monday, will play eff their tie tomorrow
| afternoon after the championship game is
| over. Nine holes will be played, the low
est medal score winning.
| MORNING PLAY
Play for the first eighteen holes COM
| menced at 1920 this morning, Douglas
and Travis starting out first They were
| followed a few moments later by Mac
| donald and Hartman.
In the semi-final match between Cham
| pion Findlay S. Douglas and Travis. at
| the end Of the ninth hole Douglas was 2
UP Travis.
At the end of the first nine holes be-
| tween Macdonald and Hartman, the
score was all square. Both did splendid
| work in driving and putting.
A strong north wind was blowing when
play commenced, and long drives were
| difficult. Macdonald's ball went out of
| bounds on his approach to the first, and
| his third was topped He overputted on
| his fifth and Hartman holed it in five
| on an eight-foot put.
| Hartman drove in the trees for the
| second, and Macdonald, by beautiful
| approach for a ffteen-foot put, holed it
in three. All square.
Harriman's sliced approach to the third
was lost in the long grass, and the hole
| went to Macdonald. Macdonald l up.
Macdonald's mashie shot on his ap-
proach to the fourth landed him dead on
| the green. Harriman'S approach pitch
put him within two yards of the hole.
! Then Macdonald holed in four on a ten
| foot gut.
The seventh was won by Hartman in
four, Macdonald missing easy put Of
about a yard. The eight was halved in
| four.
Hartman took the ninth in four, Mac
donald missing his opportunity to halve
by missing a short put.
Harriman's put from the edge of the
green on the tenth landed him on the
| edge of the hole Macdonald overputted
and Hartman holed it in five.
The eleventh was halved in five.
The twelfth the long westward ho,
went to Hartman in six. His fourth
| landed him dead on the green. Mac
| donald should have halved, but again
missed an easy put.
| The thirteenth was halved in five Mac
| donald fell down on a short put, but
| stymied Harriman's ball, and the latter
| failed to pitch it over.
J Two magnificent holed puts marked the
fourteenth, both making 1t in four.
! Both approached poorly for the fif-
teenth, but getting on the green in three
| the hole was halved in five.
Using their mashies on their drives for
dead on the green, and the hole was
! haIved in three.
The seventeenth was halved, Hartman
missing a chance to win by putting poor
! ly when within yard Of the hole.
The eighteenth was also halved.
AFTERNOON PLAY.
| Macdonald sliced badly on his opening
drive, and playing two failed to get on
| the green. Hartman made a fine ap-
| proach pitch, and placing the like holed
| in four long put.
| Hartman three up.
| Hartman drove into the trees for the
| twentieth, but Macdonald, on a long
/ putted and the hole was Macdonald's in
| four.
nty-first-Macdonald' drive was
| pulled, and he landed in the long grass.
| Two brassy approach shots failed to
| clear the bunker. Harriman's third
! landed him on the green. Macdonald
made a pretty put from the edge of the
green, and Hartman playing the like
| holed 1t in five