The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-20
ONLY ONE AMERICAN BEATEN
IN SECOND ROUND MATCHES
tiale Succumbs to Whitton. Australian Champion,
but Evans, Lockwood and Weber Are Victors
.Ouimet and EIerreshoff Have Day Off.
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81. Georges course to-day with all OF
the first round and part of the second
completed Ave Americans still survive TO
do battle for the title in the rounds that
are to come.
chick Evans, Arthur q. Lockwood and
Harold Weber were the three Americans
who won their matches. The first two
advanced to the third round as a result
OF their victories. and webers match was
one of the deferred contests In the first
round. Francis Ouimet and Fred Her
reshofr did not play to-day. but will have
to resume the fight for ths championship
Tomorrow
The one defeat that fell to Americas
lot was most honorable one. Fraser
Hale. the young Chicago boy. was beaten
In we'll played match By Two Wilton,
the even younger Australian. who has
been the sensation OF the golrng world
In the Antpodcs for the past two or
three years. Wilton Ia tho present open
champion OF Australia, and Is holding the
title for the second successive year He
formerly held the Australian amateur
championship. So Hale was beaten by "A
worthy foe.
While the Americans were faring so
we'll the better British players were
winning their matches also. and Britain's
strength is not diminished materially as "A
result of the days play. The champion,
Harold II. Hilton. won his match against
little known player by the comfortable
margin OF up and to play and Robert
Harris also came through successfully.
The luck OF the draw brings them to-
gether tomorrow. however. 40 either the
champion or the runnerup Of 1919 will be
In the ranks OF the defeated by to morrow
evening.
John Ban. eight times champion of
Great Britain was the one British favorite
who had to work hard for his chance to
continue In the tourney lie won his
match BY the narrow margin of a single
hole, and there was great relief In the
British camp when the last successful
putt was holed by the veteran. Interest
ing not SO much because OF its bearing
on the result OF the championship. but be-
cause OF the historic match which he
played yesterday. was the defeat OF
Charles A. Palmer, Irish open champion
and conqueror OF Jerome ID. Travers. A
cluomste. r, e. Carr. accomplished
Palmer's downfall. though It took him
nineteen holes to do IL.
Some of the furry caused by tho unex,
pected defeat OF Travers had disappeared
when play began this morning under al
most perfect weather conditions Tn.
course was dry and fast a condition
popularity supposed to be favorable to the
Americans. Whether 1t was because the
course suited Thorn or not 1t IL hard TO
say. but they all played excellent golf
tu-day-that is, the four who had matches
on their hands. In fact, the form dis
played by the Americans who played to-
day. coupled with the remembrance of the
work OF Ouimet amid Herreshoff. espe
cially the former, in the first round yes
terday. Is increasing the respect in which
they nre held. The British players fully
realize tonight that the downfall OF
Travers did not mean that the force OF
the American invasion was spent
As Harold Webers match was in the
first round. he was one of the earliest TO
start. and he began In way that I'M
pressed the few onlookers who had gath
cred about the first tee to watch the early
matches sent away Playing against J, Il.
Remer of Brkdale, Weber went out in
81. and at the turn was up Coming
In he won the tenth. but then session of
poor putting helped him To lose the next
three holes. and the match was all square.
lno american pulltu hlHlsGlI lOStlueE III
masterful fashion. and won the match on
the home green, playing the last hole in
the par 4.
Arthur Lockwood. who had drawn a
bye In the first round and go was Idle
yesterday, defeated II. Crummack to-day
by 1 up in a match that was characterized
by some brilliant golf. and Lockwood fur
nished most OF 1t. His short game was
almost uncanny at times, and getting
down long and hard puts seemed to he
but part OF the routine Of his game. CTum-
mack played splendid golf, but no player
can stand the gaff when his opponent IL
boiling out chip shots and long puts with
disheartening frequency, and the British
player was fortunate to carry the match
as far as he did on the short eighth
hole Lockwood drove into tho famous
Hades bunker. and after playing out into
| tho rough holed his chip shot for 8.
That was the kind OF golf that won for
HIM and It was most effective.
1t seemed a shame that Chick Evans
could not have borrowed some Of Lock-
woods skill on tho putting greens, for
although the Chicago golfer played brill
antly In his match against Carl Brother
/ ton OF birmingham his weakness with
1 his putter cropped mp IA little too often.
| Right at the beginning Evans showed
/ that ne was none too sure of his putting
| by doing "A little practice work on the
! first green after Brctherton had given
up the hole Even the practice did not
save him. for he missed several puts
| on the early holes. his worst work COIN
! ing on the sixth, where a little Is
| inch putt went straying past the cup,
much To the disgust OF the young Ameri-
can. At the turn Evans was up, and
! coming In his putting Improved bit
lie won by up and 10 play.
Il am playing much better now" he
| said when Il was All over. 1T felt safer
with my putting on the LAST few holes
than ! have at any time since | reached
| England" II Evans can keep this conf
| dence and usa II to supplement his brill
liant play through the green with good
putting ne will be dangerous contender
for tho title.
The match In which Fraser Hale was
! beaten ny young Wilton was a good one
Hale was driving well, but "A tendency 10
putt his iron shots, something that Just
| isn't done at Sandwich by those who wish
| to survive, cost him several holes. He won
| the hrst hole, hut by the time the turn
was reached Wilton was up. The Aus
trallnn won by up and to play. In
! speaklng Of the match afteTward. the one
thing that Hale seemed to remember best
| was the fact that he had missed two
chances To save himself by missing hard
puts II think that II could have got
the touch Of the greens ] might have gone
| much further" he said,