Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-27
GOLF TOURNEY IS EXCITING
Three DGS Moines Players in Semi Finals of
Amateur Championship.
DENVER MUST TAKE THE WOMENs MATCH
Fridays Play for WOmnn's Champion.
ship Brings Glorious Defeat to
Omaha GOIfers-CIub Com
petition Comes Today.

More sensational golf than that at the
Country club during the third days play
OF the Transmississippi association yester-
day could not be found in any such event.
With five Of the days matches necessitating
more than the regular eighteen holes, and
with three more Of them being won by only
one up, IL may truthfully be said that a
more hair-raising days golf could not have
been planned.
Summarized, the days work resulted In
the bringing of the women's championship
match down to the final round, the playing
Of the amateur championship down to the
semi-fnals and the carrying OF the conso-
lation event down TO the semi-finals also.
Thus the entire program is up to date, and
this leaves two semi-hnals and three final
rounds for today, in addition to the club
team competition.
Easily the most remarkable golf Of the
day developed in the semi-hnal round Of
the women's championship, which was be-
gun at 10 o'clock in the morning. This was
distinctly a struggle between Omaha and
Denver women. there being two from each
city, and the fact that both Omahans were
defeated was very nearly compensated for
by the grand fights they made.
The skilled and experienced Mrs. Roope
was Mrs. Guiou's opponent. while Miss
Dewey was pitted against Mrs. Ellis,
scarcely less formidable than her playing
mate from the Colorado metropolis. Both
matches required more than the eighteen
prescribed holes in order to arrive at a
decision, and for the two Gate City women
TO carry the contests to such a strenuous
end was a glory little expected by them.
Large Gallery Follows Play.
Mra Rnpna k,Ir. a.
woman star Of the tournament, her match
with Mrs. Guiou was the big event. A large
gallery followed the plays and marvelled
at the way in which Mrs. Guiou chung 10
the heels Of her opponent. Playing an up
hill game from the start, Mrs. Guiou would
nevertheless have won the match but for
the most persistent i'll luck that followed
her. Three times was she stymied. o.
one such occasion she passed Mrs. Ropes
ball by a phenomenal stroke, missing 1t a
hairs breadth, and holed out a victory.
The other two were OF less fortunate out
come. In one she drove her antagonists
ball into the hole when attempting to pass
II. The other time she lost under peculiarly
distressing circumstances. 1t was at the
sixteenth hole, and Mrs. Guiou lay absolutely
dead to the hole in three strokes. being
but a foot from II. II seemed a sure vic
tory, but from a point twenty yards away
Mrs. Roope rolled In between and stymied
Mrs. Guiou dead. That hole won would
have meant the match for Mrs. Guiou, but
as IL was the two finished the eighteenth
hole all even. The nineteenth proved Mrs.
Guiou's Waterloo, as she lost it by a medal
score OF seven to six, pulling her brassie
shot.
Much the same is the story OF the Dewey
Ellis match. They played evenly all the
way and finished the course all even. They
then halved the nineteenth hole. and were
compelled to play a twentieth. This was
hole No. 2. and here Miss Dewey lost on
her third stroke. She was between the two
bunkers, and decided 70 play safe. APP