The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-23
FRESHMAN AND SCOT TO
PLAY FOR GOLF HON0RS
English. with Americans, All Iclimi-
mated I'm british Amateur
Tournament.
HEZLET DEFEATS HUMPHREYS
Final Round VIII lie Played To-day,
When Henlct Meets Lnurie Jenkins,
with Scotchmnn the Fnvorite.
DY "CUICI<" EVANS.
Former American Golf Champion.

| American tsOIf Champion.
| Sandwich, England. May EFT was
another perfect golfinG day at Sand
wich. but very hot for Great Britain
! at this season of the year. The whole
, championship time has been success
sion of beautiful days, I'm which the
most upsetting things. from golfing
| point of view. have happened.
AT the present moment, there are but
two left of all tho gallant company
that started out for golf honorh. And
! OF these two, one is an Irishman and
| The other a Scotchman. This rather
hurts the feelings of the Englishmen
! for 1t has been long Sine since II
was run off without an Englishman IN
H. Nevertheless. the change Ia per-
! haps good thing for the game in the
| islands
| In the scnifinnl OF this afternoon. c.
y. iiezlet, Of Port Rush, Ireland, de-
ica'ed H. r. Humphries on the Las,
green. after a splendid struggle. AL
though the golf OF tho first nine and
part of the second was not startling
nero was an exceedingly pretty cx-
! nibition beginning with the fifteenth
ihcy were all square, and It.zlet put
beautiful long iron on II difficult
| green. and won the hole with a fine
| four. lIezlcl was only about twelve
rect beyond the pin on the sixteenth
ana tiumphrics played ono of the best
ana most timely shots ever Witnessed
lie was only four feet away when his
hail stopped. and he won the hole
| : TO 3.
The seventeenth was halved in good
ioufs' nut the eighteenth was a heart
breaker.
iiunphrics just missed fifteen
iooter. ana IIczlet holcd a twelve
iooter fer the match and the rich, "a
p,a; IN inc mai: 1t was = great
match, ana very interesting TO watch
heZlet defeated kolizar in the sixth
round on the last green, and these 1wo
victories were all the more rcmnrl,
hoi' because he had never been hcvond
mo thirteenth in any OF his previous
matches. All OF them ending either on
rr oeIorc mat green. Evidently his
lack or practice had not hurt HIM.
Laurie Jenkins. my old friend from
Iroon. is another nnalist, by virtu. of
MIS- victory over l.. Martin Smith In Nv,
scmiiinals. The match looked TO bc
very close when they were all square
anu three to 30, hut Martin Smith
took three puts on both the sixtocnih
anu seventeenth greens, and lost the
match, To /. 1t was an interesting
' match. but the actual golf played WAS
not brilliant Martin Smith was the
popular man. but Laurie Jenkins
Fought pluckily all the way, and de
served suCccss.
morning. for whom have the .-.ent
est sympathy This is Jack Graham
innnH times a scmiinalist In this event
OAK Fever u winner. His repeated fail
urcs arc attributed TO lack OF phvsic,,
| endurance. for he is always unable 10
Steep uurlnE the Tournament week, H..
WI" defeated by =. Martin Smith This
! morning, bur Il" IL generally s,ippcscn
- DC The best player IN Groat I:ritain
.'oiI''''h fhnt:''. wao man. or ny
Nov. WAS def."ir'! ~ jenkins ;h.s
morning after n gallant s,rr,.clc. INC
! 'Wo nnaiist5. Hczlct ard Jcnhins nrc
! ~! mat is left Of What WAS supposed
|" DC the most representative. field OF
Loiers ever gathered together AIR.
ao"ie' Is OF larss and portiy build,
! nnuch larger indeed than either Harry
iegg or Fred HcrreshoT. will. len.
KIM - an active. wiry littlo chap. They
VIII FORM an interesting contrast 10.
morrow, but as Jenkins has bccp
amongst the best eight time and again
ne Is the favoritc. / think he has tho
pest chhnce TO win. although Hezlet IL
p!hFihs line golf at present.
once more / call attention n ,ho
uncertainties of golf