The Washington herald., 1911-09-20
CHAMP HILTON TO
MEET CHICK EVANS
English Golfer HopestO Land
Invitation Honor.
RECEIVES INJURY DURING PLAY
Golf Ball Hits Champion on Hin,
but He Refuses to Quit Playing.
Margin - Thiny-SiX-hOIe Final
Round This Afternoon.

/ Southampton. " Y, Sept. I9-ThOugh
suffering pain every time that he stopped
| to play an approach or make a putt.
Harold II. HiltOn- golf champion of
America and England showed that he
was game to the core in a hard match
! in the semi-finaI round of the invitation
! tournament on the NatiOnAl Golf links
/ to-day.
Hilton, who was playing against W.
c. FowneS. jr.. national champion Of
! 1910. early in the match received hard
blow on the right hip from a golf ball
| played by one of the contestants in a
minor division. The ball hit him so hard
that its rebound carried it ten or twelve
| feet Hilton played on, though in Il few
minutes he had a large lump on his
| hip. His game however. was far below
its usual standard, and ne Just managed
TO nose out FOwnes on the nineteenth
hole after the matcn had ended all
square at the home green. When the
match ended he went back to the club
house. and 4 little later was ready for
his usual cup of tea, and expects that
the soreness will have disappeared by the
time he faces Chick Evans in the
thirty-s!X-hOle final tomorrow. for the
Chicago boy. who holds the French
championship. is the other inalfst. hav-
ing won his spurs by defeating Fred
HerreShOn this morning and William
watson. less renowned opponent, in
the afternoon.
The best of the morning matches was
that between HcrreShOT and Evans
They kept along on fairly even terms for
the first two holes. but Evans was
mp at the turn. Coming in. HerreshOff
lost his Dall at the eleventh. and was
then down. Though be worked hard, he
won the match on the sixteenth green
by UP and to play.
Hilton BentS Macdonald
Hilton Won an easy victory over c.
B. Macdonald by up and to play.
FOwnes put ont John Ward without much
trouble. but Max Rehr was beaten by
William Watson, a result that came as a
surprise.
The other semi-fnal was Evans all the
way through. The Young Westerner was
in good form and Watson was OutcIassed
On the long third. or Alps" hole. Evans
laid his second dead. and was in for a
three. and followed up the feat by get
ting two at the short fourth At the
turn Evans was up, and won easily by
UP and to play.
Play was begun to-day in the second
and third sixteens and in the beaten eight
Of the first sixteen. The finals in all di-
visions will be played tomorrow, the
first sixteen and beaten eight at thirty
six holes and the other two at eighteen
holes. The summaries:
First sixteen-Secund ruvrd: W. G. Fownes. jr.
OaknOnt. beat John VI. Ward. Garden City ; up
and 20 play: Il. Hilton Royal Liverpool beat
g. Il. Macdonald. National. up and to play:
Charles Evans. jr.. Elgewater. heat Fred Heres
hOf. WestbroOk. up and ? to play: w Watson
BaIturSol beat Max Behr, Morris County, up and
10 play
Semi final round: Hilton beat FOwnes up I9
holes: Evans beat Watson up and 10 play
Beaten eight Of the first sXteen-F First ruund: r.
I. ROGpTs. ShnncCuck. beat F. s Wheeler AIawmiS
M and TO play; Albert S-ckel Riverside beat
Philip Cater. Nassau. by default: w r. Simous
Garden City. heat J. +. Kapp. Garden City 4 mp
aud to play; W. Tuckerman. Chevy Chase beat
7. VI. Robertson. ShinnecOCk. ? up and to play.
Semi-fnal round SeCKel heat Rogers . up; ST.
mons beat Tuckermann. > mp and TO play