The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-17
HILTON IS WORLDS
CHAMP ION OF GOLF
Wins Game in Greatest Contest
Ever Played for
Title.
OPPOSED BY HEIRESS-LOVE
Game Englishman Outplays
American in Finals on
Apawamis Course.

Rye. n. Y. September ls.-Harold H.
Hilton is golf champion of the world.
The little Englishman who won the
championship OF his own nation dur
ing the summer won the champion
ship OF America ct Apawamis to-day
in the greatest game that has ever
been played for the national title.
Four down at the end of the morn
ing round and six down few min
utes after the afternoon round had
begun, Fred Herreshof, the last Amer
lean left to oppose the little English
man. rallied desperately and fought
squared the match on fourth
green. Then came two halved holes
on both of which Herreshon had q
chance TO win, but missed hard puts
by hairs breadth. and for the first
time In the seventeen years that the
national championship has been con-
tested. the fnalists ended the long
journey all even.
Out to the first hole trooped the
record breaking gallery. and the
crowd. loyal to HerreshoR though it
was. cheered Hilton to the echo, as
his ball rolled into the cup for the
last time, and won the great match
An element of luck entered into the
play of the extra hole and marred an
otherwise perfect match. for on Hill
TOMS approach the ball which was
siicsd hit one of the rocks that line
the Apawamis course. and rebounded
TO the green. instead of remaining IN
the rough, as IT ordinarily would have
done.
Deserved to Lose.
But Herreshoff really deserved to
lose. for he topped his second badly.
end was over the hole on his third
he tried hard to make the long putt
necessary for half. but 1t was short
and Hilton stepped up to his ball, and
ran 1t down for a four, the hole. and
the match.
When the two finalists drove off In
the morning the sky was overclo : led
and the ground was soggy as result of
Fridays rain. In spite of the unfa-
vorable conditions, the gallery was
large and applauded impartialIy. Hill
ton made remarkable shot at the
sixth hole, Herreshoff had laiN him a
half stymie. and he needed the putt
for a win. He hit Herershoff's ball
squarely. carrying 1t along with his
toward the hole, but Just as 1t seemed
as both balls would, go in together,
Herreshoff veered off to one side, and
Hnton's dropped to the bottom of the
cup LOT. Il win.
The lead changed at almost every
hole. 1t the ninth the medals We're:
Hilton. az Herreshoff, Al
In the next four the lead again all
ternated Herreshoff won the fifteenth
by perfect plays. and might have had
the sixteenth, too. had Hilton stymied
him. Winning the last two holes. the
seventeenth in four and the eighteenth
in splendid three, Hilton ended the
morning round with the comfortable
lead of four holes.
End of Morning Round.
The cards.
Hilton:
Out ...........43a 5-s7
In ..,..........45 3-3s-75
Herresboff:
Out .44443555 7-41
In ...44437445 4-4O-S1
BY the time the afternoon round be-
ban the SUN come out, and had brought
With 1t a crowd which broke every
record for American golf matches
Hilton began by winning two OF the
three holes. and was six up. On every
side opinions that the match was all
over were heard, and 1t did look as
though 1t would not go far beyond the
turn, Two halved holes followed,
though Herreshoff should have won the
fourth, but at the sixth the tide turned
for the American played perfectly and
ran down thirty putt for win.
They halved the seventh in perfect
tours. but on the little eighth, Hilton
showed chat something was wrong
when he missed an easy putt, and lost
the hole. Another win for Herreshofr
at the long ninth, brought Hilton down