The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-08
SMITH PLAYED
WONDERFUL GOLF
His Performance Was Best Ever
Witnessed on American
Links.
KEEPS UP FINE PLAY
IN HEAVY RAIN STORM
Defeated in Tournament, Ex-
Champion Anderson Later
0utpIays Winner.

BY the prominent golf experts of the
4 country IL is declared that Smiths ex-
hibiIion in the two great tournaments
which have just been concluded was the
best ever seen OH American links. 1t Is
also interesting To know that Willie
Anderson, the eX-champion, challenged
Smith for a match at the conclusion OF
the national tournament and admins
tered Il decisive defeat to the man who
had won his title,
In the following paragraph taken
from the Chicago Tribune, is found
graphic description OF Smiths great
playing in the national tournament:
mo finer golf ever has been seen
on this side of the Atlantic than that
displayed by National Open Champion
Alec Smith when he won the title last
week at the Onwentsla club with
record breaking performance OF 2so
strokes, Courses vary in length ana
condition and scores made on one can
not be compared with those made on
others except in general way, Myo-
pia, Glen View, Baltusrol, Garden City,
and Chicago are all standard courses,
but no player over has made four
rounds of any OF them In less than 3O3
strokes. This record by Anderson at
Glen View was made when weather
conditions were good. The remarkable
feature OF Smiths performance was his
lllldl UI I1lduG III n lcdNy
storm with a strong and 1ltful breeze.
An average man could not do any bet
ter IL he could throw the ball as far as
1t can be hit with a golfelub. To those
who brayed the storm and followed
the Nassau player around 1t did not
appear possible for any living player to
do better"
The following vivid account of the
/ match played by Anderson and Smith
for q side bet is found In the Chicago
Record Herald.
although he couldn't regain his ma
tional championship title. Willie Ander-
son yesterday defeated the man that
does hold the premier honors In the
golfing world. Anderson won from the
new champion, Alexander Smith, by the
decisive score of up, to play. In q
36-hole contest at Onwentsia for purse
of S100.
Anderson played as good golf as
was ever seen on the Onwentsia course.
and he exhibited form which, had he
shown IL through the championship
battle, would surely have retained the
title for him. Anderson made a 145
for the Sc holes, and in the afprnoon
he covered the course In 20, equaling
the record for the course, held jointly
by himself and Amateur Champion
Chandler Egan. But for bit Of what
the gallery called Criminal carelessness'
at the sixteenth hole, the baby An
derson would surely have added addi-
tional honors by establishing a new rec
ord for the course.
Makes Fatal Mistake,
Three times during the champion
ship Anderson made this hole in 8. Yes
terday he was on the green In i, and
III he had played 1t safe he could easily
have made 1t In 8. But he tried for
2 and the putt was too far. Then he
missed a four-foot putt and took 4
for the hole. Smith made the hole in
S, and 1t was the only hole he won dur
ing the afternoons play.
Never Had Look In.
Smith never had look-in during the
whole match, Although the wind was
brisk, Andersons drives were almost
without exception as true as die ano
he never got In a bunker or in the long
grass. SO that his second shot or ap-
proach was fooled. For the most part
alSo his work on the greens was ac-
eurate. and he holed puts of two, three
bnd four yards on several greens.
lat the end Of the morning IS holes
anderson was up. Anderson led off
n the afternoon. and he had the hon.
prs at every hole until the match was
SETTLED. He won two more holes on the
way out, and then took the three next
Btraight, which settled the match.
Smith Picks Up Ball.
Smith went up in the air at the tenth
hole by pulling his drive into the long
grass. His second went about fifteen
Eeet and when his third went into the
heavy clover Smith in disgust picked
up his ball. On the next hole the cham
bion's second was into the marsh grass,
Ind his approach was so far beyond the
green that he lost the hole.
anderson now stood dOrrnie T.
Smiths second shot for the twelfth was
liced into a bunker, and when he lost
he hole, to 5, 1t settled the match
hen and there. The medal play:
MORNING.
Anderson, out. ...5 8 4 4443 E35
smith. out........5 64444-5
anderson, in-....6 4 5 5 a 8 4 L40-75
smith, in...--..,.5 GAS 1884
AFTERNOON
anderson, out....6 8 S 4 3 34 3 4E34
|mith, out. 8 44443 4-3s
anderson. in.....54 8 44344 4 &36-70
Fmith, ln.......-'" s 544344
Anderson. up, to play.
sLost ball. ssPicked up.
Some or the prettiest playing OF the
ay was at the 'boOmerang' ei0h fb AZ,