The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-26
FLEMING WINS
 GOLF TOURNAMENT
KANSAS CITY GOLFER STAYS IN THE CONTEST OF THE sUR-
 WAL OF THE FITTEsT.
F. D. Wilkerson Plays a Splendid Game and Loses After a Grueling Race.
BY H. w. LANIGAN, Press Representative the Arlington opd gactYaau IIntalc

and Eastman Hotels.
 Harvey Fleming of Kansas City played phenomenal golf yesterday and was well entitled to his triumph in the annual spring tournament He turned in the very nifty cards of S4 and S3, the darb ones of the entire season, and there are few amateurs in the land who would have succeeded in taking his taw
 F D. Wilkerson that reliable golfer from Youngstown, O., also played ex- cellent golf in fact, his play was practically as good as Flemings But Fleming was the victor in the finals. hence becomes enrolled among the champions, and it is only fair to ex- tend him the lions share of the puff cry
 In the semi-fnals, staged in the morning, Fleming played w. s. Kid der of Dayton, O.. while Wilkerson's s vis-a-vis was Jack Villas, the noted Chi cago aviator and Hot Springs much liked adopted son. Kidder is some golfer himself, but he never had a chance with Fleming, who flayed him by the fairish one-sided score of i up and to play.
 Wilkerson and Villas had it out in hammer and tons fashion, with the former winning the match thanks to the eighteenth hole, when Villas could have saved himself by winning it As it was, their match ended ? up ill Wilkerson's favor.
 Fleming turned in an S4 against Kidder. Wilkerson's tally against Villas was the same. An unusually large gallery accompanied Fleming and Wilkerson around the course when they squared off in the finals. The two players were in excellent form and their combat was one of the stiff est ever fought over the Essex course.
 It was nip and tuck all the way, with Fleming eventually landing the victor by the tight tally of I up with the eighteenth hole, having to be play ed. Each player got cup, which was most proper, as it would have been a doggone shame if Wilkerson's sterl- ing golf had gone for naught. Rather, not netted him a cup to show the good people of Youngstown upon his return home.
 A. B. Thresher of Cincinnati won the championship in the second flight without much trouble. He's really first lighter and only turned in a card of 108 in the qualifying round be- cause he was unfamiliar with the course and the sand greens had him mp in the air. Yesterday Thresher played admirable golf all the way He first disposed of C. M Williams of Chicago, who is a mighty tidy golfer himself, i up and to play, and then spanked C. l.. Ricketts, also of Chi cago, who had vanquished T. J. Fly man, still another Chicagoan. Thresh- CTS victory over Ricketts was the em. phatic one of up and to play.
 In the third flight A. F. Broomhall of the fair little city of Troy, O., won the honors. likewise the cup. by win. ming from J. A. GOode of New York City in the finals, 1 up in IS holes Broomhall first triumphed over c. c. Hayner. also of Troy. by like tally while Goode laid out George k. Mix, the noted St. Louis lawyer.
 The spring tournament was a glo- rious success. Unusually handsome cups were awarded the winners and runners-up in each flight, and as they go to Kansas City, Youngstown, Gin cinnato, Chicago. Troy and New York City, they were nicely distributed and will give golf in Hot Springs the pub licity it wants and so richly deserves
 The summary:
 First flight, semi.inal round F. D. Wilkerson of Youngston, O., defeated L. A. Villas of Chicago and Hot Springs. up in IS holes; Harvey Fleming of Kansas City defeated w.
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