Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-29
HUNTERS SCORE IS
TOURNEY FEATURE
Midlothian Player Lowers Record
for Minikahda Club Links in
Western Championships
SEMI-FINALS SLATED TODAY
Four Crack Golfers Left to Fight
1t 0ut-Wood to Meet
Phelps
(Associated Press)

MINNEAPC LIS, July 28.-Four Chi
cagoans remain In the running fog the
western golf championship as the re-
suit OF the third round over the Mini
kahda club links today. In the semi
finals tomorrow Charles Evans, jr., of
Edgewater will play Robert e. Hunter
of Midlothian and Warren X, Wood of
Homewood will meet Mason e. Phelps
of Midlothian.
Hunter was the sensation of the day
when he defeated Albert Seckel of
Hnsdale, the eastern intercollegiate
champion, by 6 up and play, nego-
tiating the eighteen holes in sixty
eight, two strokes better than 1t ever
had been done before. His sixty-eight
will not stand as course record, as 1t
was made In match play.
Although Seckel was beaten with
four holes left to play, both men con-
tinued the eighteen holes in order that
Hunter might complete his medal
score. Hunters card for the record
breaking round follows:
Out 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5-34.
In-3, 4, A, s, 8, 4, A, 8, 4-S4-6S.
The hardest fought match of the day
was finished when Warren X. Wood
of Homewood defeated Harry G.. Legg
of Minikahda by two up and one to
play. Charles Evans, jr., the present
champion, remained in the battle by
virtue of the decisive defeat he ad-
ministered to w. e. Glow, jr., of On
wentsia by nine up and eight to play,
Mason r. Phelps of Midlothian west
ern champion in 1908, defeated C. T
Jaffray, the veteran of the Minikahda
club, by four up and three to play
The Wood-Legg match brought out
a sharply contested match after the
first nine holes. Wood got a flying
start on his opponent and was two UP
at the end of the morning play
.Legg started with rush in the af-
ternoon and won the first, AS, but the
second was halved in four, Legg rim
ming the cup for a three from the edge
of the green. Legg evened the match
by holing long putt on the third and
winning, 2-3. The fourth was halved
in five but Legg was up for the first
time in the match when Wood missed
a three foot putt and Legg won the
fifth, ga.
The sixth and seventh were halved
in par fours. Legg got into trouble
playing the eighth and Wood evened
the match by winning, to 5. Wooo
took the lead again by winning the
ninth, 5-6 after hooking his second
into the woods. Legg missed three
and a half foot putt on the tenth anc
Wood won,- ga, making him two up
Legg won the twelfth, 40. The
thirteenth and fourteenth were halved
but Wood made it two UP again by
winning the fifteenth, As, Legg miss
ing an easy putt. The sixteenth ant
seventeenth were halved in par fig
ures and Wood won the match, two III
and one to play. Their Afternoon
cards:
Wood, out, 3S; Legg. out, 81; Wood
in, 3, 4. 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, .; Legg, in, 4
4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, g.,
Hunter had little trouble in dispos'
ing of Seckel by six UP and four tt
play. He was four up at the end OF
the first eighteen holes. Hunter was
forced to play his sensational sixty
eight in the afternoon, as Seckel per-
formed brilliantly, making a seventy
one for the last eighteen holes. Theil
afternoon cards: Hunter, out, "a
Seckel, out. 35. Hunter, in, S4-6S
Seckel, in, 36-71.
The Evans-Clow match was run
away and the Onwentsia man never
had chance to win. Evans was five
up at the end of the first eighteer
holes. The afternoon cards:
Evans, out, 3S; Glow, out, AZ.
Mason Phelps was four up at the
first of the morning round Of Jaffray
Their afternoon cards:
Phelps, out 81; Jaffray, out, SO
Phelps, in, 3, s, 8, 6, 4, 4, .; Jaffray
in, 2, 4. 5, 8, A, 5,