New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-14
cU|D GAVE BY HILTON
Scot So Describes Play of the
Former Champion.
FOUR PLAYERS SURVIVE
uorreshoff Puts Out Hunter
and Reaches Semi Final
Round of Tourney.
lbs Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Too rounds ut match play were run Off
- the invitation tournament over the
v,,ional Golf Links of America to-day
oh the result that Harold ii. Hilton, OF
~. poyal Liverpool Golf Club, of Eng
- will meet f.. NJ Barnes, of Engle-
- IN the semi-fnal round tomorrow.
,.ble in the other match Fred HERES
- me fer driving Garden City player,
I'M he opposed TO Robert {. Watson.
.aotber Garden City player and the sec
.a,srv OF the United states Golf Associa-
ton.
vorn,an T. Hunter, of the Honorable
Company Of Edinburgh Golfers, was
,,;roirated by HerreShoff in the second
roupd by up and to play, after the
Scot had advanced at the expense OF
,,cbie Reid. of St. Andrews, a former
hudson River champion.
hilton tirst disposed Of Charles Is. Mac
popald BY a and margin, and then
foppd his path INSTRUCTED by Philip
-,r,sr of Nassau, the interscholastic
obampion. The Nassau prodigy, how
ever. was wholly unable 10 keep pace
Win the former English and American
dtlehoder.
chief interest seemed to centre in the
Observation-Disclosures struggle. which soon
Jeroloped into runaway affair Tor the
,rsri,sn The even tempered Scot found
,he course one mass Of yawning pits, for
No Was continually in trouble, and was
onlv able 20 make the match interesting
ny 2 series Of remarkable approach shots
After winning the first hole Hunter, on
,ho Sarah. drove into the sand trap and
coded to get out. lie might have
,o1ved the hole had he been able TO hole
HE mt but he missed it by an eyelash.
ia have wagered 1909 pounds TO
hsvs4ed that could have done it first
time he remarked, as he spent five
minutes in trying it over and studying
the shot.
To the Alps Herreshoff drove his ball
into trap and slashed three times at it
70 get out finally picking up. Hunters
fine drive made II possible TO get .. AT
me short Redan Hunter was in the sand
tran again. and HerreshOf, who had
,lsyed short. won it easily in 8 10 ..
Herreshoff won the next three holes in
succession when, in each instance, Hun
Ter was trapped. After the halved eighth
Berreshoff won the ninth in . TO 6 when
Hunter missed a put and turned for home
4up.
This lead for the American vas further
increased at the long tenth. when Hun
ter failed TO negotiate the slopins green
but the foreigner took the eleventh When
Herreshoff's second shot got into a trap
short of the green. Hunter reduced the
others lead TO up at the Eden mole oNo'
part OF Bulls Head Bay, when HERE
sholf's approach was short, and 1t began
to look as if the Scot had a hghuhe
chance. but Herreshoff held his own Oh
The next three holes. settling matters dl
the punchboWl, the sixteenth, by up anu
to play
Carter held his own with Hilton COINS
out, being square at the sixth ana uo"h
al the turn. but the Rriton gradually drew
away from the youth when he settled
down and reeled off the eleventh. tWellth'
thirteenth and fourteenth holes IN par
figures. As one Scot in the gallery re-
marked: Hes playln' guild gawf nooW'
The match was settled on. the sixteenth
green
Watson eliminated Eben NJ. Byers, OF
Allegheny. a former national champion IN
a match that was carried to the nine-
tenth green, while +. VI. Barnes Oh
Englewood, advanced at the expense Oh
Clifford A. Cunning, Of Nassau.
Oswald Kirkby the New Jersey cham
pion. who landed in the third sixteen was
beaten in the first round by Mckim hol-
linz Of Westbrook 6 up and to play
Thereafter Kirkby contended himself with
following the Hunter IIerrcshoh contest
FIRST sixteen A. Dunning, Nassau, beat
lanes 4. Hyde. South Shore, up; T. ~ ~
Barnes Englcwoo1. beat i. A. Martin n
Hsnok, / Up, Philip Carter NASSAU best JON Jon
Ee.a, lr., ST. Andrews. up; Harold ~. ~.
ion ROYAL Liverpool beat Charles Il. McDon-
S'd, National, mp and > % play; Fred HERES
hoh Garden City, beat L. ID. bar, las
hampton, up and to play; Norman ~
ha rr Edinburgh beat Arcnie W. yvs,-
son. Westhrook beat A. Mcllvaine. ShiInecock,
! Up: T. ". Byers, Allegheny, beat Marsnall
"nitateh, Dyker Meadow, UP and 10 pi~H,
Second round Barnes beat Dunlins' up
And ] 70 play: Hilton beat Carter, up ano =
% play, HerreshOn beat Hunter, q up ana
10 pay; Watson beat Byers, UP 90 holesl;
fiBfIs Nrtl hlAtffn 'NlsN
Martin beat Hyde up and 20 play; Mac
Donald beat John Reid, up and TO play,
blair beat Archie Reid. up and 10 pay
Nsf'sich beat Mcllyalue. 3 W and 10 pay.
Second sixteen - ". Hoffman. Shinnecock
iiils beat A. Stllman. National, up and o
70 pay: Elmer T.. Siurges. Wykagyl, beat -
y Dixon. Siinnecock HIS. NJ and 10
gay. Joseph i. Knapp. National. beat Percy
n Pyne, %, Morris County. 4 up and 70
pay H. y. Hollns Westbrook beat i. II.
,r,honas Morris County, ] up; ". X. slmohs,
Nestbrook. beat X. H. Williams. jr., Morris
county up and . 20 play; ". Frew. Philac
eeiphia beat \. u. Cochran. Ardsley, W ~
notsl; y. Fincke. ShnnecOck, beat Harold
,appla, NestbroOk . up and ! 10 play; -.
s"e'onnOn. Chevy Chase, heat i. = Wheeler,
ApsEsmis ~ and to play.
second rouud-Sturges beat Hoffman, . Up
M xW , - MAY: Holins Neat knapp M; fTew
Uest sinons. ? mp; Finckc beat McCamnon' z
Up 80 90 NAV.
Beaten eight Second sixteen)- -stillman beat
nixon. M and 4 10 play; Thomas beat Pyne,
up' Williams won from Cochran by default
4srpln beat McCsmmon bv default.
inrd sixteen-H. J. WhighTSSn. National
"a A. H. Lockett. National 7 up and o 10
KEY. A. Norris, National. beat G. NJ. BAXTER
sahnecock Hills up. A. u. johnson, Ardsley;
sse.t =. Bowden. shinnecocS Hills, up ana
pnNsd Kirkby. Englewood. Up and 8 TO play;
. .si Moore. Morris County beat u a. Thomp
~ Garden City, by default; A. Il. Fish. Ma
prsl beet George Barnes. Apawamis j up
~,O~ard whitney. Nassau. beat 5. 9. Aanoh
aIosley up 90 holes, John 81. Ward. Gar
I e1 tiiy' beat J. A. ". Harris, Dyker MEADOW
u Second round Norris bca; Whigham. 2 up:
wpoHDs beat Johnson. up and ] 70 pay,
NdfQ beat Moore l an 10 hOleSIs Whitney