The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-02

CHICAGO GO1IF CLUB. WHEATON,
ILL.,, Sept. 2.-Champion Harold H. Hill
ton OF the Royal Liverpool Golf Club
and Charles Evans jr. OF the Edgewater
Golf Club. Chicago. holder of the West
ern amateur title. divided honors In the
Is holes of the 36-hole qualifying round
In the national amateur championship.
which opened here to-day. Both the
English star and the leader OF West
crn golfers completed the round With
total OF ~
Hilton started out we'll. notching
1 on the first hole and on the
next, followed with 4. 5. 4. on the
mex, four holes He finished the round
OUT with a %. Coming home. he started
with a 4. but on the tenth missed two
easy puts and took 6. He finished the
home route in IS.
Hilton's card.
In .,,,,.......a 6a5 AZ +-3s-It
Evans went well. going out until
the sixth hole, when no was on the
green In three and was forced to take
three TO hole out He completed this
round In 81. Coming home his putting
failed TO improve and It was due to his
iron work that ne was able to turn in
a 81. On the eleventh and seventeenth
holes the Western champion took three
puts for fives.
Evans card:
| Out ..,.,..........43 1884 o 4 3-37
] In ,............. +5A 1 3 4-ST-Ii
Warren X Wood OF Homewood failed
to play up to his usual mark. The best
| that the runner-up in the Western
championship could do was notch an 10
Wood captured a 10. going out. after
running into bunkers on the first. sixth
and ninth. Coming home Wood played
better golf. improving the out round
mark by four strokes.
METROPOLITAN STARS SHOW
POOR FORM.
The failure of the strong Metropolitan
aggregation to show championship form
| was the disappointment OF the day
Jerome Travers was the only man OF
the Eastern stars from the metropolitan
district to play to form. Travers. who
halls from the Upper Montclair Coll
Club, brought In a 70. Hts out round
| was not above par, as he made forty
but on the last nine steady, consistent
golf gave him a 81 for good total. The
veteran Travis and Frederick HERES
hofr played far below form. Herreshor
finished with an SO. while Travis totailet
~. Travis was exceedingly wild or TN
tee and Herreshoff was bad on thu
greens.
Travis card:
out ,.......... "a 3 5 Go
In ,.,.......... i66 a. 4 Et0-s
Up to noon Travers was low card a
"a by one stroke, His start was poo
with a q. and he had four IS to tn,
turn, where he was 40 Coming hom'
he was In form with IS. Walter Travis
"dlshed' mis- chances by taking ~
which included four 6s. On the sew
enth he was with three puts, afte
topping, and on the ninth ne got int
the water hazard. He then took IS OF
the eleventh nd twelfth. having 4 putt
on the latter. All his other holes home
ward were -.
: c. W. Inslee, late OF Wykagyl Club
, New York, VINO was semi finals
. last year. gave everybody Jolt b,
cauall!ng Traver's score OF rs. He go
\ in the teath hole, 2fi yards, driv
ing four feet from the pin. To offse
it he took SIS ON two iron club hoiei
where he should have had SIS.
U Edw. Wild Crawford, Traviss partner
= mad three SIS going out but came HON
three STROKES better than his first mint
having ora . to offset two 6's.
!. Frank Eyer Montclair's Kid soifei
l one OF the few OF the young er
entered, was steady with ~ and =
4 making him ~,
: HILTON TOOK NO CHANCES AM
= MADE NO M,sTAkEe.
Harold Hilton got n, low card at
o | o. clock. lie made only two real NIT
IS takes. going out OF bounds once. an
4 Slipping mp on a short putt an N
lffth He played more like n machif