Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-15
HILTON A winner
British Champion Beats Trav-
ers and Is Nearer Title.
BIG CROWD FOLLOWS PLAY
Chick" Evans, Herreshoff and ms
lee Fight Their Way With Hill
ton to Semi Final Round.

ton to Semi Final Round.
Harold H. Hilton, amateur champion of
Great Britain: Clifton w. Inslee. F'reder-
lex Herreshoff and c. w. Chick" Evans,
'Jr-, were the survivors in the third round
of the national amateur golf champion
ship tournament on the links Of the Apa-
wants Club yesterday, and they will
meet as named in the semi-fina round
today. Getting down to districts, three
of the remaining golfers represent wide
~ different localities. There are Hilton,
who came all the way from the Royal
Liverpool Golf Club. in England. in the
hope of lifting the cup; Chick Evans
Of Chicago, recent winner of the French
title, and Herreshoff and Inslee of New
York, the first named belonging to the
Westbrook Golf Club and the other to the
Wykagyl Country Club. Winning titles
is an old story with Hilton, while HERES
hoff was Iunner-up to II. Chandler Egan
as far back as 1904 Evans also has
reached the semi-final stage of a national
tournament. besides capturing the
French title. but this is the first time
Inslee has ever come in for bronze
medal.
Upper Montclair. the metropolitan and
New Jersey champion, by , up and to
play. in a match that was not particular
ly brilliant. The gallery apparently lost
sight of that, however, in its desire to
see the American balk the efforts of the
audacious Briton. To Evans went the
credit of bringing off the spectacular. for
after ending the morning session :: down
to Albert Seckel he struck one of his ir-
resistible flashes by going out in 33, which
enabled him to win seven of the first
nine holes and ultimately the match by
up and ] to play.
Something of surprise resulted from
the meetingn of Fred Herreshoff and Os-
valid Kirkby.- the Englewood record
holder. So consistently high class had
Kirkby's golf been that close followers
Of the game expected to see him take
his rivals measure as he did in the met
ropolitan championship tournament al
Garden City in the spring. Herreshoff
however. was in happy vein yesterday
and although Kirkby played sound golf
it was of no avail "a in the morn
ing placed Herreshoff 6 up, and there
after it was no trick at all to win by
up and to play.
AS for the fourth match. 1t is no eXag-
geration to say that in defeating +. w
Whittemore of Brookline by the narrow
margin of 1 up. Inslee struck the Boston
golfers a severe blow. Possibly they
would not have minded it so much If the
victor had been better known, but most
of the Bostonians declared they had
never even heard of him before. Inslee's
greatest golf achievement in the past
were to defeat Walter Travis in a tour
nament at Ekwanok couple OF seasons
ago and to make a hole in l at Wykagyl
Aside from those two flashes his golf
has been quite human
To say that any of the golfers compel
ing yesterday played badly would be do
ing them an injustice for it was high
class golf throughout. No matter which
way one turned he was almost certain to
hear Of the exceptional. In most in
stances almost as much credit belonged
to the losers as to the victOrs.
Probably never before in the history OF
the ancient game on this side of the AT
lantic has such interest been displayed in
golf match. The fact that the great
Hilton was to lock horns with Travers,
an erstwhile American champion and
present metropolitan title holder, was
enough to attract the devotees of the
game from far and near. They We're there
from as far west as California. Chicago
golfers were seen by the dozens. and SC
were others from large centers such as
Boston. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and
Washington. AS to the number of per-
sons in the gallery that followed Hilton
and Travers on their second turn about
the course it is impossible to make a
positive statement. There might have
been fifteen hundred there might have
been four thousand. Both of these eStl-
mates were frequently made
Let it suffice to say that at times the
crowd was so big and pressed forward SO
closely that the United States Golf Asso-
citation officials and other volunteers de-
tailed to help were poWerless to give the
players the room they desired. AS Hill
ton and TraverS stood on the high third
tee in the afternoon they We're compelled
to drive down a lane banked for nearly
200 yards on either side by solid mass
of humanity. On other occasions, when
the contestants would be putting, the gal
lery would close in SO as to form a hollow
square. Although the tension was at the
swapping point on more than one occa-
sion, there was little disorder. and when
the men were in the act of putting q hush
came over the crowd. After the balls
We're down-well. that's another story
Getting down to the actual struggle be-
tween the two giants of the links, it may
be said that Hilton won because of SUI
perior direction. His shots, no matter
whether delivered with wood or iron,
were almost invariably on the line. Con-
sequently, he kept out of difficulty. except
at rare intervals, and even then showed a
master hand in his manner of recovery:
AT the end of the morning round of
thfrty-six holes Hilton stood up on
Travers. as told in last nights Star.
Hope returned with rush when "Jer-
rom won the first three holes right off
the reel starting out in the afternoon.
approach, the pitch at the third hole in
particular being beauty. the ball COM
ing to rest less than two feet from the
cup. Hilton missed his try for a there,
but laid his opponent a half stymle, so
taking no chances the Montclair golfer
was content to win the hole in 4. Three
puts cost Trayers a sixth hole. At the
seventh both went astray. TraverS hit
ting a spectator in the hand with a wild
Slice After halve in ; Travers aroused
the gallery by holding long putt for a
at the eighth and another one for a >
on the ninth green. winning both holes,
thereby placing him only | down at the
turn. Travers had gone out in 81 to 40
for the Briton, and it did not look SO bad
for the American
Four consecutive halves in tours fol-
lowed, one golfer striving to increase his
advantage and the other struggling as
desperately to cut it down, until finally
Travers weakening under the strain, fall
tered on 81 short approach to. the four
teenth green. thereby enabling Hilton to
win in > TO q.
Whatever hope TrayerS and the gal
lery might have had of pulling out the
match vanished with fIltonS second shot
To the fifteenth hole. Ii came after a
pulled drive. to the rough. Hilton had
been in the long grass only few times
during the day, but he proved equal to
the occasion by laying mashie shot
stone dead over the mounds. On the ike
Trayers reached the far edge of the
green and after an Intellectual stab
for three. picked up.
That made Hilton dormie ;. and the
end came few moments later with
halya in 4 at the sixteenth. AS the con-
testants shook hands the gallery APP