Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15
GOLF PLAY At DES MONIES
Abbott and Kinsley Will Play in
Second Round Today.
ANNUAL MEETING THIS EVENING

AAeh SHuy VIII NENnAuAF Nv AANNNNu
President and Next Tournament
t. slated for Denver
Country club.
DIES MONIES, Ia, July Al. II. Saw
yer OF the Evanston club OF Kansas City
was the hero Of the first round of match
play in the ninth annual championship
tournament Of the Trsnsmississippi Golf
association at the Des Moines Golf and
Country club today. The Kansas City
player defeated +. L. Woodward Of the
Denver Country club by 1 up after the
hardest kind Of golf. with only a few ex-
ceptlons the matches in the first round
were one-sided. one of the easiest victories
Of the day was registered by Harry G
Legs Of the Minnekahda club Of Mime
apolis, who won the medal for low qualify
ing score yesterday. Legs defeated Jack
Cady OF Rock Island, president OF the
T"rsnsmissippi Golf association, by 9 up and
s to play. Cady is suffering from a sore
hand and has not been able to play up
to his usual game during this tournament
First Round Match Play.
Following are the scores during the first
round of match play in the championship
flight:
l. II sawyer Evanston club, Ksnsas
Country club, up In 81 holes.
Paul Hyde, Wichita Country club, de-
feated Dwight Baker, Ottumwa Country
club, up and I to play:
Des Molnes, defeated Warren Dickinson,
Hyperion club, Des Moines, 8 up and 2 to
play.
feated Ralph Ryder, Waveland club, Des
Moines, 3 up and 2 to play.
apolis, defeated Jack Cady, Arsenal club,
Rock Island, 8 up and s to play.
G, r, Jones, Evanston club, Kansas city,
defeated W. J. Foye, Omaha Country club,
T, 3, Griffith, Wichita Country club, de-
p. r. Talbot, Hutchinson Country club,
defeated Frank Hale, Hyperion club, Des
MRiness' 70 up and 9 to play; o,,,, mas
Moines, defeated W. II. Ammons, Hyperion
club, Des Moines, by default. Guinand led
Fred p. Carr, Hyperion club, Des Moines,
defeated Jerome Magee, Omaha Country
club s up and 4 to play.
feated J. b. Rahm, Omaha Country club,
Z up and 8 to play.
apolis, defeated w. D.. Middleton, Arsenal
olT WiIuI RTGk f Esls : 4 " HRyS Snd : to oI play 10.
Country club, 8 up and 5 to play.
Walter Fairbanks. Denver Country club,
club Des Moines, 3 up and : to a"q play SoO"'
Donald McClain, Hyperion club, Des
Molnes. defeated L. e, Ellis, Hyperion
sprague Abbott, Omaha Country club, de-
feated Harlow Hurley, Topeka Country
club, s up and Z to play.
sawyer-WOOdward Match.
The Sawyer woodward match was one
of the hardest ever played in a Trans
the first round Sawyer led by / up, bu
at the end of twenty-seven holes Wood,
ward was in the lead by the came margin
Sawyer was l up again at the end Of the
~thirty-fourth hole and the thirty-fifth was
halved In four. Woodward snatched
almost certain victory from Sawyer on the
thlrty-sixth green by holding a fifteen-foot
putt for a four, winning the hole.
Sawyer's drive for the thirty-seventh
was the better and he lay over the hole
about twenty feet. Woodward went int
the ditch on his second, but got out ontl
the green. Sawyer promptly holed hi.
twenty-foot putt for a three, winning thu
hole and the best match of the day.
Finish in Qualifying Round.
The S6-hole qualifying round was finished
In a driving rain today. Three Of the late
finishers turned In cards which al
tered the makeup Of the championship
flight. F. p. Thurston of the Minnekahda
club, Minneapolis, had the best card, 17S
in the late squad. william Chambers anC
]. B. Lindsay, both the Omaha Field club
turned in 1856 and went into a tie at tn,
end of the list.
Five Of those tied at 1S5 were successful
in landing In the championship flight. Tn,
fortunate ones were:
Donald McClain, Hyperion, Des Molnes.
a. A. Mcclure, Omaha Country.
Jack Cady, Arsenal, Rock Island.
+, l.. Woodward, Denver Country,
William Middleton, Arsenal, Rock Island
The p~airings for the second round to
morrow morning follows:
r. H. Fihkbine against L. II. Sawyer.
Paul Hyde against p II, Talbot.
A. ". Kinsler against Harry Legg.
G. r. Jones against T. b. Griffith.
b. G, GuinRnd against Fred p. Carr.
H. A. Fisher against T. p. Thurston.
William Sheehan against Walter Fair
bands.
Donald McClain against sprague Abbott
The matches which promise to attrac
the most attention are those betwee
Walter Fairbanks and William Sheeha
and Paul Hyde and p. r. Talbot. Sheeha
is the champion Of the city Of Des Moine
and is IS years old, while Fairbanks 1
one Of the veteran golfers of the wes
anu the STAT VI the DcHNeT country cru
team, which won the Tom Morris troph
in the recent competition. 1t is general
admitted that Sheehan is a better media
q player than Fairbanks, but the vetera
0 is a more experienced an
q match player.
0 Paul Talbot is the famous golflng min
9 lister Of the Hutchinson, Kan, Countr
Q club and one of the best players west G
. the Mississippi. Paul Hyde is a youngste
' from Wichita, but one OF the sensation
of the tournament.
/ Annual Meeting To-day.
) The annual meeting Of the Transmissis
sippi association will be held following
, banquet tomorrow night, 1t is expecte
that Jack Cady will be reelected pres
dent and that the Denver Country clu
will be awarded the next tournament.
The second and third rounds OF III
championship fight will be played tomoI
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