Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28
ONAHANS VICTORS OF WEEK
oounty Club aslfsrs Distsuo. Competitors
in TranImimisEippi Tourney,
WIN FOUR OF THE FIVE FIRST HosoRs
Only one championship the
bocel Players and that, the wom-
ems Contest, Goes 60 Mrs.
HoOpe OF Denver.

With four OF. the five first honors in the
second annual tournament in the Trans
Mlsslsslppi Golf association to their credit
omaha Country club golfers may well feel
proud OF their accomplishments on the
INKS during the past week. When the
last score card Of the tourney had been
turned In Saturday evening. 1t was found
that only the woman's championship had
been captured by an outsider. Mrs. Roope
OF Denver. Meanwhile r. r. Kimball won
the amateur championship, J. b. Rahm the
consolation event. the Omaha Country club
team took the club competition. and Fred
Bartsch, the professional Of the Country
club, completed the trophy shower by
bringing in first money in the match be-
tween the four professionals.
With that as its denouement the biggest
golf tournament ever held in the Trans
mississippi territory is now brought to a
close. and after a final elaborate dinner
and dance at the club last night, the vari-
Gus visiting competitors from five states
and a dozen cities have separated and
thinned out one by one, till only the old
regular Omahans and the familiar golf
course itself are left. Even the corner OF
the hall at the club which was yesterday
a glittering mass of silver trophies is now
looted Of it's treasures, but be it said with
all honor to the local guilty chasers. only
three Of the eight prizes left the city, and
Mrs. Roope took all OF them.
Event a VeritabIe Pageant.
The last day OF the great golf event was
a veritable pageant. A rainstorm on Fri
day night had left the course In perfect
condition and when the sun came out
bright and strong for the days play an
ideal situation for championship matches
was rounded out to the last particular.
The. beautiful weather, added to the in
terest naturally attached to the finishing
Of the tourney, proved a magnet par eN-
cellence. Every previous day had seen a
host OF men and women at the club. but
Saturday their name was legion. And the
galleries we're not only large, but brilliant,
for the women we're not afraid to wear
their most dazzling hats and gowns in the
face Of such an Incompatible day.
The final struggles for the amateur cham
pionship OF course eclipsed other contests
OF the day, and when at s o'clock r. X.
Klmball won from his opponent, Warren
Dickinson OF Des Moines, in the twentieth
hole of the final round, the enthusiasm
OF the great crowd that had followed the
play in breathless silence for hours burst
loose at last. Two holes past the regular
eighteen had these two men been COM
PEELED to &c before the omahan finally
won. and from the start of the deciding
match till the end the strain had been
constant. Both were so evenly matched in
all departments Of the game that the vic
tory was at all times a tossup, even
though Kimball led his opponent much of
the way. Taking the match as a whole,
neither could be said to excel in driving,
approaching or putting, and yet 1t was a
poor drive of Dicklnson's at the seven
teenth hole that lost him a chance to win
the contest right there, while 1t was weak
putting on his part at the twentieth that
let Kimball win.
Close and Cautious Contest.
Though the medal scores were not re-
markedly low, both men being much over
DOGGY, yet the golf was of the closest pos
sible nature, and the very fact that each
man played always so safe and carefully
was responsible for the actual number of
strokes running up into fairly high figures.
Neither took any long chances at any shot
whatever. and meanwhile both were on
such a tension that they missed some very
easy ones.
Dickinson won highest plaudits from
the gallery by the remarkable nerve he
displayed all through. He was simply in
domitable. From start to finish 1t was an
uphill game for him, as he was never up
but one hole and was twice down three
holes. Yet his courage never failed a min
ute, and on both occasions when the score
was SO threatening he pulled out by mar
velously steady work in the face OF the
big odds. Particularly at the thirteenth
hole and thereafter did this characteristic
OF the man show itself. With only six
holes to play, he was three down, a terrific
lead to overcome. Right there he buckled
down, took the thirteenth hole and then
the, fourteenth, both in most remarkable
playing. Kimball played DOGGY for each
hole. Ave strokes apiece. Nothing daunted,
Dickinson played one less than DOGGY for
each. so he was then but one down. The
fifteenth hole he halved at six strokes, and
the sixteenth he won by playing It in
DOGGY, four strokes.
Tension Draws Tighter.
So there they were all even. and the
terrific gait Dickinson had struck seemed
to point to his victory. But when he
drove for the seventeenth hole he went
into the hrst bunker, and that spoiled him
for the hole. although he came out in one
stroke aud holed in elk. There was Kim
balls chance TO win. he being one up at
tao eighteenth. but again Dickinson's in
trepidIty asserted itself. Kimbsll knew
he wanted that hole badly and played for
Il hard, making II in DOGGY four. Diekln-
son paid no more attention than II Kimball
had taken twelve strokes. but simply scored
a twelve-foot putt for three strokes to the
hole. one below DOGGY,
Thus they we're again all even, and 1t
meant extra holes. They started on around
the course again. and the gallery was
massed clear across the course behind them.
Both playing ~faultless golf. they halved
the nineteenth hole, and went on to the
twentieth. Dickinson had the best drive
by twenty yards. but Kimball was we'll
With him on second shot. and both came on
the green at a stand-o1 In three. Dickin-
san missed an easy putt for the NTH stroke
and then Kimball won by boiling out safely
In hve. The score by holes;
Dickinson ..,...,....-...5 467764535
3A46463 8 6-S1
klnoah .....,......,..... 9445bb56A
42556b545S 9l
Record OF the winner.
The winner OF the championship has been
playing golf for three years at the Country
club. His opponent Mas a worthy Que. as
dickinson was runner up in the same event
last year. when the first tourney OF the