The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-10
'STE|NMEHL OR WOOD
PICKED TO ACQUIRE
THE CHAMPION
V. @. PrOwell Gave Oliver
Severe Test, and 15-Year-
Old Boy Defeated w. p.
Ward-Flights Today
nv CLYDE w. ENNIS.


| The Country club golf turnament will
end this afternoon.
! 1t is expected that the handicap matches
at the Country club will draw 10 players
10 the links. The golf tournament will be
concluded with the hano,cap and the COM
nletion of the five flights begun YESTERDAY
morning.
The feature of the playing yesterday ef
the qualified participants in the five flights
was the exceedingly fine playing of Y.
@. Prowell, six-months player, who
carried George c. Oliver, veteran, 70
holes before losing. Against such play
er as Mr. Oliver it was asserted last
night by Charles w. Hall, golf instructor
for the Country club, that the exhibition
of Mr. Prowell was very fine indeed. The
playing of Rollo Stenmehl the 15-year-old
boy. against "Billie" Ward was marye-
lous performance also, according to Mr.
Hall. The youth defeated the veteran Mr.
Ward / up in %, making to his A. The
youngster and Mr.. Ward were followed
by large gallery, exhibiting unusual in
terest. The expected blow up of Rollo
failed to materialize, and he is pitted this
afternoon against II. c. Wood in the sin
gle finals, which if he wins will place him
in the finals with either Hubert Tutwiler
or ]. II. Daughty, two other veterans.
The sport yesterday, although day of
exceeding speculation as to what the
weather would do, was to the general
pleasure of the visitors. The attendance
was good and some exceedingly fine play
ing was witnessed by the galleries.
The single finals for the five flights fol-
low
First Flight
Herbert Tutwiler and j. Ii. Daughty.
Rollo Steinmehl and IL. c. Wood.
Second Flight
B. Throckmartin and +. G. Byrd.
George Adair and c. E. Faust.
Third Flight
| M. webb Offutt and w. Nash Read
r. II. Gilbert and II. G. Seibels.
Fourth Flight
r. J. Jones and II. Sanborn Smith.
A. NJ. Post and r. II. Baugh.
Fifth Flight
j. d. kirkpatrick and G. II. Davis.
Dr. Holland and w w Freeman,
The Consolation Results
| In the first flight consolation, u. L.
| Brown defeated V. q. Prowell; 7. j. Wat
son defeated f. 7. Winston; w. R. Tinch-
nor defeated l.. Arnold l up, and Frank
Hewitt won by default.
! For the second flight consolation r. II.
Thach defeated e. T.. Ellis and L. while
Temple Seibels defeated j. S. Turner
| and l: j. c. Kimball defeated w. E. Col
| lier and 3, and G. Mason defeated David
Roberts,. Jr., and A.
The third flight consolation ended as fol-
| lows: C. T. Gown defeated George
WhatIeye. up in 10 holes; Julian Bbb won
by defau-- George Watkins defeated j
| B. Cobbs, 3-2, and d. Brown won by de-
| fault.
| The fourth hight consolation: r. G..
Munger defeated c. o. Locke, 4-3 Phil
Bowers defeated William Walker 1 up.
Hewitt Smith defeated c. Watkins, while
E. NJ Kilby Won by default.
Fifth fight consolation was as follows:
| r. J. Bray. president of the Republic COM
pany. defeated billie" Nevins up E. +.
StovalI won from W. r. j. Dunn, 2-l.
Horace Stringfellow won by default, while
C. Baker won from E. w. Carey.
Young Boys Chance
| The possibility of 15-year-old boy,
| Kollo Steinmehl, winning the finals of
| the first flight at the Country club
| this afternoon will attract an unusual
crowd of golf enthusiasts to the links
| Charles W. Hail. golf instructor for
| the Country club, said last night that
| in his opinion the finals of the first
flight would be between Steinmehl and
lH c. Wood, who won the Alabama
championship cup in 1911. The four
| men for the single finals are Stein
mehl. Mr. Wood, j. ii. Daughty anu
| Hubert Tutwiler.
| The playing of the kid that is
to say. Rollo Steinmehl, yesterday when
he defeated billie Ward, causes Mr.
Han to think that Steinmehl is in a
| fine way TO win the most important
cup of the tournament.
| IF Steinmehl will only keep his
nerve" said Mr.. Hall, "and not blow
IN he will have the long end of the
| MAY Mr. Wood, we all know, is a great
player. having won the state champion
| shin. hut the youngster is showing fine
| form in this tournament Our golf
players are to come from the kids and
| 7 hone he wins this afternoon. OF
course one can never tell how the finals
| will end"