New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-13
HILTON A GOLF|NG AJAX
Wins Score Medal in Testing
Round for National Title.
MANY CHAMPIONS PUT OUT
Fownes, Present Holder; Travis,
Eyers and Gardner Fall
by the Wayside.

by the Wayside.
l. the second days play of the United
States Golf Association championship
tournament at Apawamis yesterday, Har-
old H. Hamilton. the visiting British cham
pion, displayed facility at medal play which
has made him unriyalled among the am
ateurs of the world In that most famous
OF stroke competitions, the open champion
ship OF Great Britain. Supplementing his
76 OF Monday with "A fine -. he won the
trophy offered for the best score In the
thirty-siX hole qualifying round. The per
Torrance was as distinctive for reserve
force as for endeavor. There were no rech-
less dashes or sequences OF phenominally
low holes, but instead the performance
marked the command OF a past master OF
the game.
\ Is, however, was achieved during the
day, and marks the low scoring record Of
the tournament. II was made by Paul NJ
Hunter. for two years the most prominent
collegiate golfer of the West and cousin
OF Robert E. Hunter of Yale, who last
year was the Eastern intercollegiate cham
pion. This is Hunters card.
Out gu ........-....SS : : 3 g 9 3 $50
In the afternoon probably the most re-
markablc eighteen holes of match play ever
decided in view Of the notable players
eliminated. ". c. Fownes, jr., ceased to be
a vigorous defender OF his title and passed
ont before the prowess Of Frederick Her
reshoff the mighty driver Of the Long
Island links Three former champions also
were defeated7-W Walter J. Travis. E NJ
Byers and Robert A. Gardiner. T NJ. Sher-
man. who had been so prominent in the
early scoring. also lost, his conqueror being
Harry Legg, for the last three seasons the
champion OF the Trans Mississippi Golf AS
ISOLATION.
To change from regrettable chronicle or
losers 10 those who were crowned with sue
cess. the surviving victors included Harold
Hilton, Albert Seckel, the Western Golf
Association champion; 2. ". Whittemore'
OF Boston: the redoubtable Chick Evans,
Paul NJ. Hunter Oswald Kirkby and Jerome
D. Travers, the metropolitan and New
Jersey champion.
The change to sunshine and a cool wind
that began TO bring the autumnal 10 the
sumacs and the NAPLES was welcome 70
the players and 10 all interested in the out
come OF the tournament. The attendance
was much larger than on the opening day
and included, besides many prominent resi-
dents Of the Westchester cottage colonies,
many parties OF golfng enthusiasts from
Manhattan who had journeyed 10 the
course by automobile or train. The prin-
cipal matches carried such large galleries
that the committee Of the United States
Golf Association had to cease Ire official
duties at the scoreboard and walk over the
course as stewards.
Hilton for once was not the greatest
attraction. for the largest gallery walked
over Hill and dale absorbed In the duel
between Travis and Travers A delightful
view 70 a golfng follower was the home
green lined four deep on the clubhouse
side by onlookers, as Evans and Brown
came In. They were one OF the last pairs,
so that all who had followed other matches
had now gathered 70 see the young man
finish out the bye holes with his Eastern
adversary All held their breaths in ac-
cordance with golfing etiquette as the last
puts were made, and then there was a
round OF hand clapping in honor Of the
titular champion OF France.
Comedy began the serious business Of the
day It was the play of between eleven
men who were tied az 81 TO determine which
four OF the number would remain in the
game I, was a swatfest, the entire party
driving from the first tee and playing out
the hole together. Contrary 10 expecta-
tons, the question was settled on the very
first hole. where the four had fours and
the others we're higher a stroke or more.
The four 20 keep In the game were r. w.
Corkran, Baltimore; Sheriff. Sherman. OF
Utica. a younger son Of the Vice-Presi-
dent: F II. Gould. OF the New York Golf
Club. and George S. Lyon. former Canadian
and Olympic champion.
Then began the serious undertaking OF
eliminating all except thirty-two players.
The course being free and open and in ex-
cellent condition, there were no delays ex-
cept those occasioned by the intrusion Of
the jealous galleries. The first news that
came back 10 the clubhouse was that
Chick" Evans was not doing well, but his
failures were In putting. not through any
mistakes IN the long game, which effect
ually slenced the wiseacres, who were say
ing that the good score OF 70 made on his
first introduction 10 the course would never
be repeated out in 40. Evans picked up
coming home and ended In 80. only three
strokes above his first marvellous score.
Robert Gardner. the 1909 champion and
an early one 10 finish, brought in I6, which
made him 1872, the score TO win the medal
last year. when returned by Frederick
Herreshoff Shortly after Albert Seckel.
champion Of the Western Golf Association,
played mis- second shot to the home green
and every one whispered He has four
for rs" As though realizing that that
would do him no good Seckel "sank'
twelve-foot put, which made his total
70 and tied him with Gardner.
The tie seemed apt to rule supreme The
Intrusion of Paul Hunter, Of the Mid
lothian Golf Club, with 70, while the best
score Of the tournament did not upset
matters. lie was out in IS and home in 50.
As his previous round had been an 50, this
excellent showing only made Hunter 1873.
Then came the rumor from the couriers
forever crossing the links that Hilton was
going great guns"
After the fifteenth in a par T. he had only
10 finish In 49, for a 10. which allowed
him grace Of one stroke on the sixteenth,
which is a par 3. He needed four for the
sixteenth. secured his five on the seven
teenth. but surpassed all calculations by
holing the home hole in 3. giving To him a
round Of "A and the low score trophy with
80, the record winning score in the his
tory Of the American championship.
This is the winning card OF the British
champion IN fun: