Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-17
Hill TON DEFEATS HEIRESS-LOVE
FOR AMATEUR GOLF TITLE
Victory Achieved Only After One Of the
Greatest Golfing Battles Ever Seen
in This Country.

RYE, n Y, September 16.-The Ameri-
can golf championship passed into foreign
hands today on the thrtyeseventh green
at Apawamis. but only after Harold ii.
Hilton of England and Frederick Here
shoff of New York had waged one of the
greatest solting battles ever seen in this
country.
Herreshoff. although defeated, achieved
a feat that by general consent places him
in the foremost ranks of American golf
ers and entities him TO special niche
in the hall of golfing fame.
With 1000 spectators turning away dis
heartened, Herreshoff galvanized them
into enthusiastic supporters by working
up from down and Il to go, to even
terms with the British champion on the
thrty-fourth green. He did even more,
for he compelled Hilton to play an extra
hole final championship match for the
first time in the history of the United
States Golf Association.
Few of the ardent devotees of the game
who tramped untiringly over the course
thought Herreshoff had the strokes OF
the fighting ability even to hold Hilton
But when he began to outplay the Eng
lishman and picked up hole after hole
the crowd was swept off its feet by his
masterful work and driven to applaud
ing and shouting at every American
stroke
Had little fiat stone on which Hill
tons badly sliced second shot for the
thirty hole kicked the bali int
the rough instead of onto the green the
Havemeyer cup might still have remained
on this side of the Atlantic. Herreshof
was going like a race horse when tn,
players started on the extra hole. Afte
squaring the contest on the thirty fourth
green he just failed to win on the thirty
sixth when his ball missed the cup by al
inch. AS on many other occasions. Her
reshoff drove the longer ball and Hilton
! playing the like. pitched for the shelf-liks
green that is hemmed in by crags or
both sides. The ball headed for the
powders on the right and for a second
or two English golflng supremacy in this
country seemed to be disappearing. But
the little fiat stone was there to receive
the ball and 1t bounded off onto the
green. Herreschof was short and over
ran his approach putt. while Hilton miss
ed the cup on the third by two feet. Her.
reshoH made gallant effort for a hall
and failed and then Hilton ran down his
putt and found the American champion
ship waiting in the cup.
The strain of the weeks matches ant
the heat Handicapped Hilton more thar
Herreshoff today. The Englishman
played the morning round confidently an6
with his customary precision. and wher
| he ended 1t with four holes to the goo6
the final round in the afternoon looked
| like childs play. But the sun came out
strong and this told heavily on the
Briton. After getting a lead of six holes
on Herreshof. his play seemed to lose
| its snappiness. A twenty-foot putt by
Iierreshoff at the twentyfourth hole die
not help Hilton's golden mentality as
shown when he missed an eighteen-incl
putt on the twenty sixth green
The players rounded the turn with
Hilton still 3 up and to go. Hilton 5
errors then became more and more glar-
| ing, especially on the twenty-ninth hole,
when he drove out of bounds, and on
the thirtieth, when he was short in his
drive while Herreshoff played in excel
lent form.
The American had fine chance to