The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-28
OLIVER ID PLAY SEMI-F|NAL MATCH Birmingham Man Has Chance
 fer Championship SHOULD BE IN FINALS In Minor Flights, Every Local Player Save E. L. Brown Is Better
 Detail Story of the
 Days Play
SHOULD BE IN FINALS

NAAN semi-fnals. Of the 100 or more golfers who started, only 20 are left in the five events. The field in the championship flight has been reduced to Ellis Knowles of Pensa- cola, Jack Burlington of Memphis, A. w. Gaines of Chattanooga, and G. c. Oliver of Birmingham. The hardest fought match of the stars was between Edring- ton and Lee Carroll of New Orleans. Both men played excellent golf. but after a hard and nervy battle Burlington was de- clared the winner by the close score of 1 up The two players were all even at the seventeenth hole, but miss on an easy putt by Carroll when he had a chance to halve the hole brought about his defeat
 Ellis Knowles, the eastern intercollegiate champion of 1907, had little trouble in de- featlng Lawrence Eustis of New Or leans who is one of the strongest men in the south, by the easy margin of 5 up and 4 to play. Both men played phenominal golf and Knowles work was especially creditable. He made 3. 4 and in his first three holes and piled up lead of up on Eustis. He held this advantage through nine holes He then won the eleventh, thirteenth and fourteenth holes and hslved the tenth and twelfth, giving him a up, with to go.
 Oliver In Seml-FlnaIs.
 They finished the IS holes and Knowles made a 75, the best mak that has been hung up during the tournament. Eustis had an S3.
 In the other two championship matches. Gaines defeated Byrd up and to play Q md lnfo tnA ,rd 4A play.
 The semi-fnals tomorrow will bring to- gether Knowles and Burlington in what promises to be the best played match of the tournament. Knowles is playing far better game now than he was earlier in the week and it is freely predicted that in his present form he will beat Ed rington. Oliver and Gaines will meet in the other match.
 Two rounds were played in each of the four minor flights and some hard-fought and well-played matches were the result. Following Is the results of the matches:
 Results in Minors.
 First flight, first round: W. D. Mallory of Memphis defeated s. L. Probasco of Chattanooga, up and to play.
 Percy Galbreath of Memphis defeated ". c. Bedding of Macon, up and to play.
 R. G. Morrow of Memphis defeated H. c. Wood of Birmingham up and to play.
 J. W. S. Rhea of Memphis defeated D. S. Weaver of Memphis, 1 up.
 J. H. Dougherty of Memphis defeated H. c. Adler of Chattanooga, up and to play.
 l. McD. Massey. Jr of Memphis de- feated H. H. Lurton, Jr., of Nashville, up.
 Bryan Heard of Houston defeated J. B. Bush of New Orleans, ? up.
 R. W Williamson of Little Rock de- feated F. R. S. Potts of Houston, 1 up In 19 holes.
 Second round:
 Morrow defeated Rhea. up and to play.
 Heard defeated Massey up and 3 to play.
 Dougherty defeated Williamson up and to play.
 Galbreath defeated Mallory. up.
 Second flight, first round:
 H. H. Johnson of Memphis defeated F. R. Christian of Little Rock by default R. ". Baleh of Little Rock defeated Clarence Knowles of Atlanta, 1 up.
 J. Selden of Macon defeated w. c. Johnson of Memphis, up and 4 to play
 E. F. Mayberry of Atlanta defeated D.. M. Goodwin of Louisville, up and 3 to play
 1OOuiO6 11lHuScy Ol NASHVILLE uNlSdtcfl F. s. Stockdell of New Orleans, up and 1 to play. W. P Maury of Memphis defeated J. T. Watson of Birmingham, ? up and 1 to play.
 E. L. Brown of Birmingham defeated R. F. Tate of Memphis, 4 up and 3 to play.
 A. Stewart of New Orleans defeated Maxwell Stevenson of Nashville, 1 up in 19 holes
 Second round:
 Mayberry defeated Balch, up and 2 Brown defeated Johnson up and 2 to play
 Stewart defeated Lindsley, l up
 Selden defeated Maury, up and 5 to play.
 The Third Flight.
 Third flight, first round
 P. P. Williams of Memphis defeated F. c. Jones of Memphis, up and 3 to play.
 Fulton Colville of Atlanta defeated w. B. Miller of Little fock, up and 3 to play.
 R. S. Bryan of Memphis defeated L. K. Thompson of Memphis, by default
 John B. Knox of Anniston defeated R. E. Richards of Atlanta up and 6 to play
 T. B. Croggins of Nashville defeated T. c. French of Memphis, up and 2 to play.
 Il. C. Newlands of Louisville defeated L. T. Smith of Anniston, 1 up.
 W. R. Martin of Fort Smith defeated w. P. Halliday, up and to play. H. F. Smith of Nashville defeated w.. Nixon of Augusta, 8 up and to play. Second round
 Colville defeated Knox, up and 8 to play.
 Smith defeated Newland, 5 up and 3 to play.
 Scoggins defeated Martin, ? up and 1 to play.
 Bryan defeated Williams, l up.
 Fourth flight, first round:
 E. H. MoCulloch of Fort Smith de- feated R. w. Polk of Little Rock 1 up.
 l.. l.. Heiskell of Memphis defeatedR. w.. Coons of Louisville, ? up and l to play. F. W. Riley of Pensacola defeated J. E. Maury of Memphis l up.
 J. E. Reynolds of Fort Smith defeated G. B. Williams of Memphis, 4 up and ? to play.
 S. Jackson of New Orleans defeated w. A. Blount of Pensacola, ? up and 1 to play.
 C. w. Butler of Memphis defeated s. T Carnes of Memphis, 2 up and 1 to play. P P. Van Vleet of Memphis defeated Charles McCreery of Birmingham. up and ? to play.
 E. B. Thomson of Chattanooga defeat