The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14

Every extra hole contest is test
of endurance and tension. The
matches which ] have won when )
down and to play and the holing OF
long puts to win each, Garry ting
ling remembrance to me.
Ny thirty -nine-hole match with Bob
Hunter of Midlothian in the semi
finals Of the 1910 western was a tough
one. I was under bogey-which won
the thirty sixth from his pat 4. After
being in two hunkere going to the
seemed to go to pieces on the green,
and took three puts when within four
feet Of the hole.
Bob Gardner, former national anna"
teur champion, aud / have had tough
battles. My victory at Lake Geneva,
Wis, after being down and 10 TO
play, was exceedingly difficult. My
first match in the French amateur
championship showed IL halves before
| for halves as the holes ere dwindling
| is mighty ticklish
Each match with Paul Hunter and
| Albert Seckel, present western cham
pion, have been not ones. l have met
both several times and every game has
been fiercely played. The victory
Chandler Egan Of Exmoor, former ma
tional champion. scored over me. on the
thirty-sixth hole in the national tuor-
ney at the Chicago Golf club links in
1909 was hard dose, as was the game
/ lost in the same event to Billy
Fownes of Pittsburg back In 1910. He
later won the title,
All Hard Contests.
All of the above events are remem-
bered by me as being very hard ones
But the hardest battle In my career
was that with A. F. Hammer in the
second round Of the national tourney
this past season. In spite of his vic
tory over former Western Champion
Mason Phelps of Midlothian, in the
first round 7 held Hammer lightly.
Few had heard of him. except that they
knew'that he was reinstated amateur,
having been fpro at one time.
He had handicap of in the Metro
politan Golf association, and, as far
as 7 had heard, was not considered
within four shots of the best player
at Fox Hills, which was his club. More
over, his qualifying score in the tour
nament was not low.
It happened that I was playing up
to my game at the time, nnd as / read
his name L congratulated myself on
the drew. Bnt the minute he swung
his club as We teed off, I realized he
knew the game. Our morning round
was an eye-opener to me. Playing
very we'll l was around to "a, vet was
only 2 up. But ! consoled myself by
saying to myself / had just caught
him above his game and that the after
noon round would be easier.
l lost the first hole in the afternoon.
That was nothing, however, as [ had
frequently done that in the past. But
also dropped the second, which made
US all square. Then / began TO won.
der Hole after hole we played, and
I was merely hanging on. Ii hurt me
to think / was getting beaten so. early,
in the tournament. We turned all
SQUARE and | lost the tenth and
eleventh, halving the twelfth.
Two down and to play was some
what embarrassing. A 2 On the $50
yard hole and on the 500 yard hole
enabled me to square the match. The
fifteenth was halved and | holed a
forty foot putt for halye on the six
teenth. Things certainly looked bad
The seventeenth hole was 574 yards.
Ny second was 90 yards. further than
his. Then came most slckenlng shot,
He played full iron stroke. as hard
as he could hit it, and the ball landed
on the green only foot from the cup.
Only a golfer knows the feeling that
came over me,
Clear Off Green.
Well, / played my shot-it was
bad one--and 1 WASH t even on the