The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-09-24

| II Will be the land o, gu: Lazy OF
| Shows against the city OF the ladies' OF
Large Feet in the final round OF the olyrn-
pic golf championship al Glen Echo links
| to-day.
George LYON. the i5-year-ol1 Canadian.
Will meet Chandler Esan- the 3eyear-o!d
| Chicagoan. They Will play thirty-six
holes The winner will be the Olympic
| golf champion II could not have turned
out better. The two best men in the tour
nament are In the finals. The four best
| men were in the senihnals.
Il IS an Enslish-boru Canadian against
an Amer.can-born Irishman- What could
be finer from an International point Of
View
Two matches. one OF them great and
one average. were played in the semi
final championship round yesterday. The
great match was between Lyon and F T..
Newton OF Seattle Lyon won. one up in
th.rry-six holes OF sternest play. during
which neither man was al any time rnore
than tvo holes ahead OK the other. Esaa
won from Nckinaie four Up and three 20
play Egan led all the way.
He was never down from FIRST TO last
ackinnie never secured a lead. Egaa WOE
by Playing the best goIs right through
lie made ssyenty-nIre 20 Mechanics
eishty-one in the first eighteen holes and
sixiy-eisht 10 his seventy for the las,
fifteen He outdrove tie ST Louis cham
pien and Eas more accurate. The match
Is fair indication Of the merits OF the
players Esan was best
HOUSING COLE MATCH.
These who followed the Lyon-Newton
match were treated to = rous.ng and ex-
citing exhibition OF excellent golf. Lyon
won on his merits He played the best
golf For thirty-one holes Newton was
quite as good; indeed, It may De a tribe
better. At the thirty-second hole the srtrl
young assayer from Seattle gave way.
His nerve. which seemed iron hitherto.
snapped. He played very poor golf there
after How he managed to carry the
match TO the home green those who saw
could not understand. Luck helped him
on the last four holes He repeatedly
missed shots. rolled into bunkers. etc
fashion.
Lyon has been playing the best golf of
yestefday Wss 5sb' I H IA n, His TgLk
six holes in ljs strokes. to the Is1 of New
ton Not at any time was he more than
one hole down. He made few mistakes
miss drive or two during the afternoon.
The best OF them do that.
II was a great match for the first thir-
way. In the morning Newton had tribe
the worst Of what Is known as the luck
OF the game According, however. 10
up at the eighteenth. Lyon cid the round
in 50 TO Newton's 81. and the odd stroke
gave TO him the odd hole. 1t was close
Carefully orthodox fashion They were
accurate IN their long game.
though a high wind was blowing.
NERvE-RACKING GOLF
In the afternoon round they got down
to business. Lyon won the first hole. Z
to 5. perfect play. Newton sliced his drive
and ran his approach over the green.
Lyon missed his drive on No. 20. and
the tVenty-arst BY brilliant negotiation
Of q deadly stynie- Lyon missed his tea
iron and was in what old Mr.: FOULS
s,llsd the s.TIenaIe yhieh Is .wf ha,
green. then laid Sewion the nasty stynie.
II seemed impossible but the Seattle man
cision for a three 1t was a great play.
Lyon won the twenty first hole hanciiy. |
second The match was now all square. |
Then Newton won the twenty-third and |
was I up. Lyon took the twenty-gOurfh |
and SQUARED II again. They halved the |
twerty-fourth. Going to the twenty-hfth |
Lyon made a wonderful drive with the \
wind The ball rolled into the driveway /
In under the green The distance OF tho |
found it hard TO play on the road and |
was short with this second. while Newton /
was over the green IN two. Good ap-
preaching enabled Lyon to win the hole /
to s. and squared the match. Newton's 4
putting hero was very poor.
WONDERFUL PUTTING.
The twenty-ssventh hole saw some won
ierful playing by both men. Their irons
pitched on the green about thirty feet from
the hole Newton holed his putt for a
TWO. To the surprise and admiration o.
he spectators Lyon duplicated the feat
and was down in two. II was tremendous
yolc. and the gallery cheered IL to the
echo. Newton was eppiauded for his
pluck putt and Lyon for his nerve in |
playing up the tremendous pace set By his
opponent
Newton won the twenty-.eventh by ex-
,eilent play Lyon outdrove him, but
brassie was picture shot A
org putt won the hole for the weSserner
They halved No. Is. both playing we'll |
Going to No. . Lyon again got in a ire
nendous drive. his ball reaching the bank |
II the creek. a full 800 yards His from |
vas within ten feet OF the flag Newton |
vas short but q long putt gave To him = |
ialf and he was still 1 I'd.
MENTIONS NERVE GIVES WAY.
Newton's iron nerve now gave way. He
lad the honor OF going to No. ; and fairly