The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-13
SHELBY STATE CHAMPION.
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ternoon but nervousness or something got hold of him and almost invariably he was able to do no better than haiVe the holes. He won two holes, lost three and halved six, so with the score or up against him in the morning the nnal was up, the play stopping at the 1lth hole. Seeley's score of 76 in the morn ing play was one better than bogey. He played steadily from the start ana won the first hole in the bogey score or 3. Cheney's mashie pitch left him an eight foot put for a three, which ne missed and Seeley won to 3 Ihe second hole was played dead against the wind. Seeley had the better drive and would have been on With the iron but pulled into long grass which en- abled Cheney, who topped his second, to make the green in three on even teams with Seeley. They halved in five. Both made the third green in three, but Seeley won to 5.
 l As the round progressed Seeley dis played an accuracy in putting utterly new in his game for, in spite of his fine long game, Seeley has generally been considered to be a Weakltng on ap- preaching and putting, but he upset all such ideas yesterday. They halVeu the fourth in six, neither getting to the green on their thirds, which was weak work Then came a half in four. The sixth hole was sensational. The dist ance is 1e0 yards.
 Seeley made the edge of the green, but Cheney topped his tee shot He made a great recovery by pitching to a foot of the hole on the approach, ana was dead for a three. It looked as though he had stolen half on Seeiey, but the latter after a careful study or the green made a fine and successful try for two, which scored, and he won in two to three Now three up, Seeley added the seventh to his credit in four to five, Cheney being short on his ap- proach. Playing with the gale back Of the ball for the 25S-yard eighth hole' Seeley drove 221 yards, nearly all carry the measurement being official, and Cheney needed three puts. Seeley also won here in four to five. With thirty two strokes for the eight holes, Seeley was five up. With the strong Wlno against the ball, Seeley got par i've on the ninth to Cheney's six, ana ne was six up at the turn in the new rec ord of 37.
 On the way home Seeley continued
 his good work, and when the morning round was finished he was seven up or
 his opponent His score for the eight
 cen holes broke the record for boge3
 for the course. The cards were as fol
 lows:
 e. H. Seeley, Wee Burn
 Ont 2 5 2 5-37 In ..5 4 45 4 4-S9--7t
 T. l.. Cheney, Orford-
 Out ......4 5 57 4 3 6-43
 Tn ......4 5 5 8 3 4-4O-S'
 Play in the afternoon began at 2:45 and touch of nervousness could be no
 ticed in the players once in while
 See1ey led off and his drive carried hin
 over the bank. He made the green II
 two and halved in four, Cheney in the
 meantime taking three to make the
 green, but a good put saved him. Int
 second hole was an suspicious one fol
 Cheney, who cleared the bunker on hi'
 first drive, while Saeley ran pluml against it. Seeley took two to clear th' bunker and made the green in four r Cheney went out in four and thereb! cut the lead to six up The third hole for 443 yards was won by Seeley five tt , six, Cheney having bad luck on th'
 third shot.
 !! The bogey was equalled by both play , CTS on the fourth hole, halving it in five } Their drives from the club house placed
 them at the foot of the big hill, whicl they cleverly jumped in two. Botl 5 made the green in three. The fifth hol saw clever put by Seeley and he wol } If in the bogey score of four, Chene. falling down on a six-foot put. I'm
 had been the strong point of the Orfor'
 player, but in the afternoon he lost hot
 on the art and several times he falle'
 to put successfully when ordnaril
 they would have been easy chances
 On the other hand, Seeley was uphold
 ing his morning record in this line 0
 game. and in almost every case Wher
 a good put was needed he was equal | | the occasion. The sixth hole IS LII
 short one of the course-160 yards-an
 if was made in two in the morning b
 Seeley. The drives from the fifth te r brought both men on the green, pu s SeaJev fell down on his put and Chene = won three to four
  r The seventh was made In five, but bot e they ought to have pocketed in foul 7. They missed the hole by few inche' n and the same thing happened at tn : eighth hole, though they made 1t o four bogey. A queer thing happene = in driving from the eighth tee Chene a dug the ground up and his ball wen e about thirty yards. seeley then too f his turn and he did exactly the sam n thing landing within few feet of Che
 nev. This hole is the 47S-yard one, an = after they got a fair start their apiiit n to nlay the long game was demonstrat t ed Their twos were beautiful stroke l. and carried them nearly to the edge c the green and they halved ln the pose g score of six. Cheney drove from tn ninth tee into the grass and hao olii l. culty in getting out. His two carrie d hin, across the green and his three ser hir, almost across in the opposite a E rection. Seeley was six inches rom u y ,o1a in three and he won, as cheney " four was slow