The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-22
Amateur Champion
Hilton is in Form
To Defend Title

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forty eight hours from the time OF his
arrival from abroad on the steamer
Royal George, the national golf cham
pion. Harold Fl. Hilton, played an ap-
proximate 10 on the links OF the Royal
Montreal club. He and Norman Hun
ter defeated Charles and Albert Muir
ray, Canadian professionals, by one up.
in a best-bali match OF Is holes. Mr..
Hunters Approximate score vas -,
while the professionals had 70 and "a,
respectively.
That the two distinguished British
golfers should accomplish such re-
suits directly after an ocean voyage
speaks well for their present form, and
indicates that, Ia spite OF all the pre-
dictions 10 the effect that IL will be
impossible for Mr.. Hilton to 10 res
, tain the title al the Chicago Golf club.
IL will take something more than mere
predictions to head him of.
Judging from the report In the Mon
treal newspapers concerning Mr.. Hill
tons play against the professionals.
his game has the same characteristfcs
as during his visit last year. He was
outdriven by the others. yet went along
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hind on the tee shots, but a little near
er the hole on the approaches The
gallery marvelled at his accuracy, and
applauded heartily his recoyeries when,
on a few occasions, he played from
difficult lies
Even though Mr.. Hilton's score was
an approximate 20. several OF his long
puts failed to go down by the narrow
est OF margins. He was out in 81 and
home In 80, part OF vne course oeNg
/ 70. Coming home he had three sx and
all the others As.
Only The brilliant performance OF Mr..
Hilton prevented the play of his part
ner, Mr.. Hunter, from showing 10 bet
ter advantage He turned in a card
OF - Mr. Hunter. who is remembered
as the longest driver OF the Oxford
Cambridge society on the occasion OF
its visit in 1908. was particularly coed
! tee shots
Lamentations in the Metropolitan
district concerning the probable inabiI-
| ty Of Eastern golfers to cope with
British invaders at the coming nation
al championship at Chicago, seem to
have been bit premature. The cry
was that Jerome ID. Traverx had
dropped completely out of sight; that
Oswald kirkby is in poor form: that
Walter ]. Travis could not be depend
ed upon. having suffered the ignominy
OF a defeat at the hands of a Boston
golfer and that Frederack HerreshofY
was having poor year. STARTING with
his disastrous showing in the British
amateur. One writer could See only
one golfer capable OF heading of the
British cracks. that one being Charles
Z. Evans. Jr. selected for the Job of
recapturing the title because OF his
victory in the Western amateur cham
pion.
No sooner is Mr.. Travers charged
with being in retirement. out OF the
running and all that sort " thing, when
he hobs up serenely with a record
performance on the links at Lake Ma
hopac. y. y. going around in 10. and
reducing by three strokes the former
record made year ago by Marshall
whitlatch of Dyker Meadow.
Mr.. Whitlatch Was OF the party that
saw the record lowered. in fact he got
a - himself. and the two defeated Os-
valid kirkby and Secretary r. c. Wat
son OF the L. =. G. A. In a best ball
match. The remarkable feature Of
Travers play came III the afternoon
when he holed mashey shot at the
ssth hole Of the match. though the first
hole OF the nine-hole course
Reports from Lake Mahopac say that
to play in the national championship.
which is something of a surprise. IL
true.
Referring again to the doleful story
of the local writer. it might be called
to his attention that at the Ekwanok
Country club, recently. Frederick Her
reshon played one Of the most brilliant
rounds of golf seen this year.
As to the reference 20 the defeat OF
w J. Travis by 4 Boston golfer. the
writer seems to have overlooked two
thngs-one was the fine quality OF golf
put up by II. w. Stucklen. the win
per. and the other was the splendid
recovery showed by Mr.. Travis In the
second round, after being down in
the morning. Tho interesting thing
about that was that Mr. Travis played
such srand golf in the second half o!
a 36-hole match. when the general be-
lief was that he was getting to the
point where he weakened toward the
end OF an alFday matcn
"Ar" Lawrence Out Again,
Az Lawr~nce. one of the proprie-
tors OF the Lawrence hotel. who had
been operated upWI IT the Memorial
horpital. and who was in serious con-
dition for some tins. has improved suf-
nci.nsly AZ M Apls4sa as-sst@na .io biz