The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-18
ENGLISH COI.LRGIANS WIN.
DEFEAT ALL-WESTERN GOLF
 TEAM IN. CHICAGO.

Win the Foursome Events Two to One
 and she foam Competition Eight to Three-Norman E. Hunter, of Oxford,
 Breaks All Records for the Most Difi-
 cult Course in America-some Ke-
 markabie Playing.
 Chicago. Aug. 17.-Captain J. [.
 Cambridge English golfers to-day won the honors in the first international
 golf contest in the west, defeating Captain L. T. Boyd's all western team
 on the links Of the Chicago Golf club in the scheduled Sour ball foursonle events. to 2. and winning the team Icompetition by the score of to 3. In the latter event National Amateur
 Champion Louis N. James, western
 amateur champion: Walter b Egan, and Veteran B. r. Cummins were the only representatives of the American golfers. who succeeded in defeating their English rivals.
 Harvard champion. H. Chandler ISdllt dllu iNOlllldll llC VA onian. Furnished the most exciting match oe the contest Five hundred enthusiasts who watched the play saw
 Hunter total Il for the most difficult golf course in America, breaking all records for competition and practice made by amateurs and professionals. Hunter won his match handily by 4 up. going out in 35. and coming home in | 36, but Egan was not disgraced for he \ totaled T6. which is one better than his former record and only one stroke worse than the record of 75 made yesterday by H. c. B. Ellis ot Oxsord and equalled learly to-day by P. w. Leathart of
 Cambridge. Not even British Champion
 Harry Vardon. who made the Chicago
 course in 74. played such remarkable
 golf as. Norman Hunter. who is a product of North Berwick, Scotland. and who was cheeTed by the largest
 group of professionals from his native land that ever watched an amateur levent Hunters feat of clipping off
 eleven strokes from the difficult bogey
 score appeared so brilliant that the
 victory of the Englishman seemed a
 secondary matter. The record break- l ing card is:
 | Norman K. Hunter. Oxford: 0ut-5 4 4 35 A 2S5.
 In a 4 3 4a54 4-36--74. l Chandler Egan lost his match against
 the most machine-l.ke golf that he lever encountered, being able to capture lonly two holes from the Oxonian Egan
 was out iii 40 and coming in he equaled Hunters score Hunter frequently Iholed butts Of l5 feet and seemed ab- I soiuteIy in control of the ball on the green He never required three puts, Etook only one putt On six greens and used 20 butts in the entire round. At l the third tee he topped his drive, but recovered so well that he took the hole, lin one under bogey from his rival Ali
 ter a mediocre drive to the twelfth hole, bogey five, Hunter played so brilliantly that he won it in three. 1 Walter E. Egan, Exmoor. and fHar- yard team mate os Chandler Egan,
 putted remarkably we'll and defeated
 H. c. B. Ellis. Oxford, up and to \ play. Egan's medal score was 7s. J.
 A. Bramsson. another axonian. and I the only one of the visitors who clings to the old gutta ball, won up from G. A. Ormiston of Pittsburg in 19 holes. lormiston was ? up on his English lrival at one time, but sure green work
 by Bramston squared the match at the .E18th hole Captain John l.. Low of l Cambridge defeated Stuart Stickney,
 who had made IS in the morning. |up ? to play. Champion Louis N. l ..,,sl NF II,,n4ar tho Gyapia n
 were all square in their matches at the end of nine hoies and played give and
 take game to the home hole where the a American won up. D. F. Ranson, lCanbridge. had tight match with E. ID. Smith of Onwentsia, but the latter suecunbed 2 down by hard luck in hav-3 ling butts jump out of the holes on two:
 greens. H. w. Beveridge, Oxford, toured the course in IS and defeated J. M. Sellers, Glen View, up, 3 to play. I P. w. Leathart. Cambridge, defeated
 w. T. c. Bristol, of the home club. 1 up. B. F. Gummins. who uses no wooden clubs won from c. H. Alison,
 Oxford, 4 up, 3 to play, and c. H. Day, I Oxford, defeated w. I. Osborne, Glen- Eview, up.
 I During the four ball foursome play in the morning the glare of the sun af- Ifected the visitors play somewhat. but they won three out of the five matches. The Hunters defeated the Egans 1 up. Bramston and Beveridge took their match from Ormiston and Stickney 1 up
 while Ellis and Leathart, principally by the latter's score of 75, defeated
 Mundy and Sellers 3 up, to play. James and Smith took Barne and Ram
 son into camp, 1 up and Cummins and losborne won by the same margin from Low and Alison The latter had diffi- Iculty in keeping on the course.
 Tomorrow the Englishmen will prac- Itice on the Glenview golf course, where "Wednesday they will meet the all-Chi- icago team.
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