Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
CHAMPION EVANS
TO DEFEND TITLE
Holder of Western Golfing Honors
Earns Right to Play in
the Finals
PHELPS WILL BE OPPONENT
Midlothian Star Defeats Warren
Wood in Semi-FinaIs at
Minikahda Club
PHELPS WILL BE OPPONENT
ASSOCIATED Press,

MINIKAHDA CLUB, Minneapolis,
Mimi, July 29,--Charles Evans, jr, OF
Edgewater will defend his title as
western champion against Mason %.
Phelps of Midlothian In the finals OF
the western Golf association tourna-
ment at the Minikahda club tomorrow.
It will be meeting of champions, as
Phelps won the western honors at the
Rock Island tournament in 1908.
Evans won his way into the final
round by defeating Robert Il. Hunter
of Midlothian in a 39-hole match in the
semi-f1nals today. while Phelps defeat-
ed Warren X. Wood of Homewood by
nm and to play. The western cham
pion gave one of the most remarkable
evidences of nerve ever seen on
western course. Hunter was dormle one
| playing the eighteenth In the after
noon round, but Evans made remark
able three in the face of golting Difficult
ties that would have overwhelmed any
one other than of champion callber.
With the match even, they started
| the thirty-seventh hole, and playing
| that hole it appeared as If the fates
had doomed Evans to defeat. His drive
went into the first bunker, and ne lost
a stroke getting 1t out. Hard luck still
| followed him, and he overapp1oacheo
into the sand trap on the far SIDE OF
| the green. Another stroke was lost
there, and he was on the edge OF tne
green in four. He missd long putt
for a fiv and was ready to give up the
hole, but his friends advised him not
to give up until, Hunter had putted'
hunters second was short and he over
| annroached on his third. He took three
niltts for a six. and Evans holed out In
six, and the match was still on.
HUNTER FALLS DOWN
uun+er was hole high onethe second,
hut on the edge of the green. Evans
second was sixty yards short, put ne
| laid his approach almost dead to the
hole and 1t was halved in four. Hunter
wobbled badly going to the third' Inc me
third hole, 130 yards, is located at the ts
top of hill. Hunters pltehi was shol
and rolled back down the hill he put
his second too far over and his third
ZOO far hack toward the tee. He finally
| laid on the green in four and missed a
| nutt for a FIVE. Evans had Detter iuch
| and holed for a four, giving MN tne
hole and a victory in the hardest lough'
! match of the tournament.
Evans was one down at the enu OF
| the morning round, as Hunter came -
| wellafter being one down at the l,,,n,lt .uih
| The match was eVeneo WHeh nFaAS
! won the first hole, 5-6.
! ON the second Evans ran down 10
! foot nutt for a half in four, Hunter
pitch was short on the third ana bV'
| ans won, ga, making hlm one up
| Hunter went into a bunker on the
fourth and Evans won, 81, making
! him two UP. The fifth and sixth were
halved in par figures, Evans rlmmlhs
| the cup for a three on the latter noIe,
Evans had bad luck on the seventh
! and lost the hole, ga, when he lost a
stroke by unintentionally hitting ms
! hal1 while addressing it. Both missed
| yutts on the eighth and the hole was
| halved in five. On the ninth Evans
| mt his second on the lower SIDE or al
| enhancement to the left of the greer
| and Hunter won the hole, 4-5, making
the match even at the turn
MANY HOLES HALvED
On the homeward journey Hunter
approaching was deadly in its accuracy
| and he was able to halve several hoieS
on that account. Tenth ana eleventh
twelfth thirteenth, fourteenth ana NJ
teenth were yhalved in par figures. VI
the sixteenth Hunter put MS secoh,
yritbin two feet of the hole and ran II
down. winning the hole, ga, and tax
inp the lead, / up. Evans kept tht
match going by holing 10-foot put
for a half in three on the seventeenth
| T1vans had to win the eighteenth u
stav in the running. He got beau
t1SI tifTl idriM, but it rolled under the
raised side of a public road runnine
through the course about forty yards
from the hole. 1t was an almost un
playable lie, but Evans playee OUT am am
mt the ball about three feet from the
hole, Hunter went to the far side o.
the green on his approach and Evans
won the hole. s-4. Their cards: =.
Fvans-Out, a, 5. 2, 6. 4. 8, 8, 4, 5-40
Hunter-Out, 4, 5, 8, 6. A, 5, 3. 5. DO
Fvans-In, a, 4, 6, s, 4, 4, 8, 8, So
iHunter-In, g. 5, 8, 5, 4, 4, 3. 8, 4-S1.
Extra holes-Evans, 6, 4, A; Hunter
6, 4, 6.
PHELPS DEFEATS WOOD
The Wood Phelps match was one
sided and Wood never had chance al
ter the match was well under way