The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-15
Only Two Men Now Stand Between
6rltlsher and the Amateur Golf
Championship OF
America.
MAY MEET CHICK EVANS
Chicago Boy, the Only westerner LET.
In the Tourney, VIII Play
Fred Herreshoff
Today.

RYE. N. Y, Sept. 15.-Harold H.
Hilton. the British amateur golf
champion, again won his match In the
American amateur championship tour
nament at the Apawamis Club here
yesterday and now has but two men
between him and the American tro-
ply. Hilton yesterday defeated Jerome
Travers. the young New Jersey play
er, twice American champion, on the
thirty-fourth green, up and 2 to
play.
Travers was thought by many ex-
perts to be the greatest obstacle Hill
ton would encounter in his onward
course. The British champion has now
to meet Charles w. Inslee of the wy.
kagyl Club of New Rochelle, N. Y.
and the winner of the match to.
day between Charles (Chick) Evans,
Jr., of the Edegwater Club, Chicago.
and Fred Herreshoff of the Ekwanck
Club of Manchester, Vermont Evans
Is the favorite in this match and un-
less Hilton loses to Inslee today,
which is unlikely. 1t is likely to de-
yolve on the Chicago boy to make the
last stand to keep the championship
in America.
Evans is champion of France, which
title he won at the last tournament in
that country, and If he and Hilton
meet in the finals it will be battle Of
the giants. In the British champion
ship which Hilton won this season,
however, Evans also played, but did
not get within striking distance Of
| the winner.
| More than three thousand golf en-
thusiasts tramped the 5000 yards Of
the Apawamis course twice to see
the match between Hilton and Trav-
ers.
In the three other matches in the
third round Inslee had to play So
holes to defeat P. W. Whittemore of
the Country Club of Brookline, Mass.
up, while Herreshoff was carried to
the 32nd green by Oswald Kirkby of
Englewood. Chick" Evans, after be-
! ing down at the end of the morning
round, played record breaking golf in
the afternoon and disposed of Albert
Sackel of Riverside, Chicago, by up
and 1 to play. Evans kept on the 18th
hole in his afternoon match, where he
established a new record for the
course of an even 20.
/ Except for the first hole In the
morning and slight slump during
the first three holes in the afternoon
Hilton was always master of the sit
uation, and it was only by the mos,
brilliant golft that Travers held him
as we'll as he did. When they ended
their morning play Travers walked of
the 18th green with the remark: He's
much too fast for me" Yet Travers
went out in the afternoon and won
three holes in succession and pulled
Hilton's lead down from four to one
Then the American player topped his
drive for the fourth hole and Hilton
held him firmly to the end.
The crowd that marched behind and
hung breathless on every stroke was
intensely patriotic, but hardly gener
Gus in it's applause. When Travers
reached the short first-green and the
ball began to trickle away from the
hole, thousand threats shouted
Whoa" Groans followed every putt
that Travers missed and few were
heard when Hilton ran down some
long ones, while the applause for any
fine display of sterling British goli
was pitiably weak.
The best of feeling prevailed be
tween the rivals, even when Hilton
who has been down but once il
some so holes, took the honor" a
the tenth tee, which rightfully belong
ed to Travers. Some said it was force
of habit, while others claim Traver'
relinquished 1t to get drink