Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-15
AERO MEET UP IN AIR GOES ALL TO PIECES
Washington Business Men Herreshoff Fails to Keep Up
Postpone Consideration His Brilliant Work.
WAIT ON BALTIMORE PLAN Sd ROUND AT BR00KLl line
Several Propositions Laid Metropolitan and
Chamber Of Commerce. Western Leaders.
AMATEURS MEAN TO 60 AHEAD EVANS UP ON 18TH HOLE
scientific
Give Exhibition at College Up Wilder Up
Park In October Ander
Herreshoff Fails to Keep Up
His Brilliant Work.
Sd ROUND AT BR00KLlNE
Match Between Metropolitan and
Western Leaders.
EVANS 6 UP ON 18TH HOLE
Tuckerman l Up on Weber; Fownes
Up on Wilder; Wood Up on
Anderson-Conditi Ideal.

BROOKLINE, Mass. September 15-
After three days Of brilliant playing,
| Frederick Herreshoff of the Ekwanok
Golf Club and New York, went to pieces
today in the first eighteen holes of the
third round Of match play in the national
amateur golf championship tournament
| at the Country Club. He was up on
| Charles Evans, jr., of the Edgewater
Club. Chicago. at the third hole, but
| after that his game dropped steadily. He
i topped his drives, missed his second shots
and slipped UP on several shot puts. At
the end Of the forenoon round Evan was
6 up.
". c. Fownes of the Oakmont Club,
Pittsburg, finished the first 1S holes up
on II. II. Wilder of the Vesper Club,
wood Club, Chicago, . up on J. G. Ander-
son OF the Woodland Club, Newton, and
w. II. Tuckerman of Stockbridge and
Washington, 1 up on H. Weber Of the
| Inverness Club, Toledo.
Eight Experts Engaged.
1t was an unusually high-class field
that started today on a double journey
| over the hills and dales of the Country
NiuO SO0ISS III llc THRU TOunQ OIL the
| national amateur golf championship.
Nearly all of the eight players had local,
state or district championships tucked
avail in thei- golf bags. but none had ever
gathered in a national competition.
H. H. Wilder of the vesper Country
Club Of Lowell is a former intercollegiate
champion. w. c. Fownes, Oakmont Coun-
try Club, Pittsburg, has won the west the
western PENNSYLVANIA championship
Frederick Herreshoff, Ekwanok Golf
Club. Manchester, VT, but who halls from
New York, is the present metropolitan
champion, while Charles Evans, jr., of the
Edgewater Golf Club of Chicago. is the
present western open champion and has
won both the junior and western anna
teur championships.
In the lower half Of the draw was War
rem K. Wood of the Homewood Club OF
Chicago, who has several times been
runner-up in the western events; J. G.
Anderson of the Woodland Golf Club Of
Newton. a former Massachusetts, cham
pion; H. Weber of the Inverness Golf
Club Of Toledo, a former Ohio champion,
and w. R. Tuckerman, who plays from
the Stockbridge, Mass, Golf Club, but
who is a resident of Washington. won
the mtd-Atlantic states championship in
1905
The conditions Of weather and turf
could not be better. There was crisp
ness in the atmosphere which was pleas
ant for the players and the gallery alike.
Herreshof-Evan Match.
Following are the details Of the HERE
shof-Eyans match:
Hole l, 40 yards-Herreshoff had the
honor. HerreshoR outdrove Evans. by
40 yards against q cross round. For his
second Herreshoff used a mid iron, Evans
brassie to reach the green.
Evans was 20 yards short the green in
and HerreshOR in 2 was in the bunker
the pin, playing out. Evans missed q %
inch putt for half and lost the hole,
Herreshoff, s; Evans. 8.
Evans was peeved at his failure to get
the putt and kicked the ball away.
| Hole 2, 290 yards.-HerreshOff got an
other phenomenally long drive with only
a short pitch to the green. He fubbed
his second, falling to get. Evans, tut-
driven, was not quite up to the PIN on
his second. Herreshoff had six-foot
Hole halved and he got 1t down. Hole
halved in tours.
Hole 3, 40J yards-Two long drives right
for the line. Evans away. Evans topped
his second for the loss Of q lot of dis
.ance. Herreshoff, from a hanging lie,
was on the green In 2, Evans In B.
Herreshof lay his third dead curling
putt. The undulauon Of the green was
finely considered. Herreshon won the
hole in 4 to 5 and was up.
HerreshofR's Lapse.
Hole 4, 900 yards-Herreshoffs first
serious lapse from sound, steady, spec
tacular play came on his drive which was
topped. He hooked his second away
of the line and Evans, who was hole
high in 2, won the hole. Herreshon
picking up his ball
Hole 5, 415 yards-Again Herreshofr 8
tee shot was not brought of with his
usual skill. He sliced into the. rough
under the trees. Evans got a very long
fan from the tee. HerreshoH was Obliged
to play his second to the left off the line
of play, to avoid the trees, but played
his third finely out of the long grass.
Evans was within thirty feet Of the cup
nearer the hole in than Herreshoff
was in 3. Herreshon put down a putt of
| 20 feet from 4, halving the hole when
| 1t appeared lost to him.
driving Evans having much the better
OF the tee shots for distance. Herreshoff
| was over the green in 2, and Evans. APP
preaching beautifully, was within six feet
| far down the embarked green. so that
Evans, having had for a win of it. got a
perfectly played 3. the westerner squar-
| ing the match.
Hole T. 165 yards-On an iron Evans
was on the edge Of the green. Herreshoff
over and below the elevated green. Evans
missed the putt of ten feet. but halved
the hole, having dead stymied Herreshoff.
Evans Takes the Lead.
Hole S. $50 yards-Herreshoff was
twenty yards ahead of Evans on the
drives, both over 25O yards from the tee.
Evans put his second perfectly on hole
high, while Herreshoff was past the pin
in .. Evans had thirty-foot put. to win
the hole. He got it and went into the
lead for the first time.
Evans superior approaches were ap-
parent. = He was getting that famous
back-spin of his to these shots.
| Hole .. 500 yards-Evans got away to