The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-12
is NEARING ITS END
EIGHT PLAYERS REMAIN IN GOLF
TOURNAMENT AT ATLANTIC
ero CITY, N. j.
ME SENSATIONAL PLAY
SOME
Walter j. Travis, of Nassau, Is
Looked on as Probable ANA
teur Champion for Sea-
son of 1901.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. u-Only
eight players now remain in the tourna-
ment in progress here to decide the anna
teur golf Championship of America. and
by tomorrow night the semi fnalists will
be the only competitors. Sixteen players
started off this morning, and although
the scores of one or two were fairly
close, the results were practically fore
gone conclusions. The links presented a
much better appearance than yesterday,
having benefited by a heavy shower
which fell during the night. The putting
greens had owing to the dry weather,
become too keen, and, although they
We're dry when the players started Off,
the progress of the ball was somewhat
checked, enabling the competitors to
judge more accurately.
Interest in the contest was centered in
two or three matches, but none attracted
the gathering that the Lockwood-HoIa-
bird contest did. Both during the morn
ing and afternoon rounds fully $50 people
watched the game, which eventually re-
suited in victory for Lockwood by four
up and three to play. At the end of the
eighteenth hole Lockwood had a gross
score of rs, against Holabird's 76. The
latter, who is but seventeen years old, is
looked upon in Chicago as the future
champion and, judging from the form he
displayed, he should have little difficulty
in carrying off the premier honors two
or three years hence. conspicuous incl
dent in the morning play was when the
pair arrived at the eighth hole Lock-
wood, by a good drive, landed dead on
the edge of the green. He approached
dead and holed out in three, but even
this was not sufficient to win the hole,
as Holabirds drive landed him but ten
feet away from the hole and one more
stroke was sufficient. On the return
~ Irk0.
both halved the 200 yards in two, a feat
which has never been performed on the
links. AT the eleventh Holabird again
made two against Lockwood's three,
which gave the Westerner three twos
out of four holes, and at the same holes
Lockwood made a two and two threes
and could only halve one Starting out
in the afternoon Holabird took a six
against his opponents four, he laying
himself stYme. The second was halved
in four, while the third went to Hola-
bird. Both. pulled their drive, Holabird
going fully twenty yards to the left. He,
however, made up for his mistake by
making a beautiful f1fteen-foet put The
fourth hole, 1S2 yards, was haIved, al
though it looked at first as though Hola-
bird would make it in one, his ball from
the drive Off from the tee going directly
over the hole and about twenty-five feet
beyond. Lockwood managed to gain the
next in six, but luck favored him in this
instance, as he missed put and laid a
styme for his opponent. The next hole
was Lockwood's in three, the seventh
was halved in five and Holabird took the
eighth and ninth in three and four re-
spectively. This left the Bostonian with
the same advantage at the turn as when
he started the afternoon rounds. On the
return journey, Lockwood increased hts
lead to five at the tenth, and then for
few minutes he appeared nervous, and
Holabird, who played a strong game,
holed out the eleventh in three and the
twelfth in four with more than average
puts. The next two holes were halved
in five, which left Lockwood three up.
Holabird therefore had his final chance
at the fifteenth, a 265-yard hole, but
Lockwood proved too strong for him, ne
gotiaung it in three. The scores of the
match follows: