New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-22
aChick" Evans and Weber
20 the Way of Travers
and Ouimet Abroad.
HI TON ALSO PUT OUT
ON SANDWICH LINKS
,,..oonuv Short Game of MacFar-
,.re with Record Going Out Too
Mich for Chicago Player.
BY HAROLD H. Hutton.
Golf Champion OF Great Britain

coI, Champion Of Great Britain.
A"''' rlev Caple 90 The Tribune.l
..s,ich. England. May 2l-Your
80 last hopes disappeared from the
wv .,r golf championship tourna-
a. here to-day. Weber was not in
anne form which carried him
, w. yesterday, and fell a some
hat easy prey TO Cecil Hutchinson
oChick" Evans fairly ran up
inst il when playing c. II. Mac
r.rlape. as the latter was quite IN
amy when near the hole.
,.,,sontallv I also came 10y the cud-
md fell victim to Edward Black
Iii who played sound golf and won
;, M and ! 10 play. So, YOU sec,
M longer amateur golf champion
-,crsat britain. or rather. will not be
oher saturday. as by that time some
o,ber PLAYER viii wear the crown.
.Cbick" had the heels Of MacFarlane
s-or, the tee. as I suggested yesterday,
~, with the ground as hard and bare
= is At present length is not OF
-, account in the first nine noles mt
sandwich. which are short and are
more Of ties Of putting and ap-
proaching than anything else.
7, is in the short game that Mac
Fs-lane excels. and he used it TO fun
,ccorrt against Chick" as on four
creoDs ON the way out he had only one
pptt and al one hole there was Iol
necessity TO take his putter in his
hands. as he holed out with an iron
from seventy or eighty yards away.
AT the long seventh hole, the only
long hole on the outward journey,
Chick" was beautifully on the green
with a drive and an iron shot, IN fact,
within five yards Of the cup, but ne
actually lost that hole as he had also
lost the previous one, Notwithstanding
that he had played his tee shot within
FIVE feet Of the cup MacFarlane holed
from fifteen feet away and Chick
missed the short one.
MacFarlane accomplished these nine
holes in 81 strokes. new record for
he outward journey, and Chick" was
FIVE down. as most other golfers would
have been G-ainst MacFarlane's SIM
ply paralyzing short game.
But Chick" made fight of it at the
finish, as when he came to the long
holes his superior long game told its
inevitable tale and he won three holes
in succession. The revival, however,
came too late.
MacFarlane went out in the next
round as the conquerors Of Travers
and Ouimet had also gone out at The
next time of asking.
Before the tournament began there
was a fear on this side that our men
would feel their responsibility to
much when opposed to the American
candidates. as was undoubtedly the
case in 1904 when Walter j. Travis
won. but. on the other hand they have
produced Of their best just when IL
was most needed against the invaders.
Many American golfers can have little
conception Of the difficulty Of wadins
through the eight heats necessary in our
championship. on this side the eigh-
tcen-hole matches are nerve-rackiag
tests. and one Of your famous players
has been SO much impressed with the
. 90 tfvgayfaftafxr nd 81, h.,
he remarked: If an angel from Heaven
came down TO play in the tournament
me- would lay. odds against his chance
of winning"
OF course. il must be disappointing TO
sportsmen in the States 10 realize that
not one American golfer survived the
fourth round. but it may be some con-
ISOLATION to them TO know that not one
Of the favorites has survived although
Graham came into favor after his won
derfW form in the ST. Georges Vase
still he would not have
been included in list Of six men who
were considered.
Even he would have been out of the
running to-day except for a lucky
chance at the sixteenth hole, as he vas
two down with three to play and ap-
peared more than likely to lose that
hole as Ellis had placed his second
shot within three feet Of the hole.
Graham had to play the like from d
trap. and played it too firmly, but the
bali struck the flag stick hard and
stopped within seven feet Of the hole.