The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-27
Crown VIII Shape Itself to a
Strange Head After TOday's
Battle
BROWN is FORMER OHIO
STATE TITLE HOLDER
Won First Recognized Champion
ship on Euclid Course in
Cleveland
BY RALPH L. YoNKER

"HE michigan duIhV0uI 6Ulh NH0lA
pionship crown will rest on 9
u brow that has never before
felt its welcome pressure tonight
Either Z. II. Brown or w. w. Car
HART will be wearing IT, depending
upon which proves himself the better
In the SO holes they are playing to
day In the finals OF the state amateur
tournament, which was started Thurs
day and will be completed this az
ternoon at the Detroit Country club
course.
Three former champions were en-,
tered in the tournament Two OIL
them got into the second round where
they met and one eliminated the other.
]. T. Wylie, OF Saginaw, first Michl-
gan champion, failed to qualify. How
ard Lee and Jimmy Standish qualified
and met In the second round, Lee
beating Standish numerically, up
and to go, yesterday.
But Lee himself met more than his
match later In w. w. Carhartt,
who for years has been trying
for the state title, only 10 fall down
somewhere close to the semi-hnals
He has kept plugging away with good
Carhartt humor until now he is the
closest he has ever been to the Gov
eted place.
II the title goes TO Mr.. Brown 1t
will be the second state champion
ship he has held, but the first IN
Michigan. He was the first recog'
nixed amateur golf champion OF Ohio.
He won that title In the hrst regu-
larly conducted tourney at the Euclid
course. He was then a member OF
the Euclid club. That was some 10
years since. He moved TO Detroit
several years ago and has been a
member OF the Detroit Country club
for some time. He has never won
any remarkable honors In Michigan
golf circles before.
Upsets have been very common
during the two days play that had
been completed this morning, so II
was rather unsafe TO venture any too
positive opinion as TO the result OF
today's match. Judging from the
play of Carhartt and Brown yester-
day, however Carhartt looks like the
winner of the title.
Brown yesterday seemed TO be
playing above his game In the early
part of his round with Bredin. He
went out in 38 while par for the nine
holes Ia 81. He was much better go
ing out than he was coming back
He had Bredin three down at the turn
but was not able to hold his own
coming In, winning when he halved
the seventeenth hole, up and one
TO go.
Carhartt, on the other hand. had
two stiff matches TO play, his one
with Lee being especially gruelling.
In the morning he was forced to go
an extra hole before he could win
from the logged Mr., Vincent, of Sag
NAV.
Lee had already disposed Of Stand
ish, one OF the best players In the
state, In the morning by the biggest
margin that was made during the
championship fight, up and 3 to go.
IL was not because Standish was on
form so much as II was that Lee was
playing superb golf that he won.
Carhartt and Lee zig-zagged through
the course, one being ahead for a
while by hole only to lose his ad-
vantage TO his opponent. On the
eighteenth they were all square and
they went an extra hole TO decide IL,
Carhartt winning from Lee then as
he had from Vincent earlier in the
day.
The tournament has brought out
some OF the best golf that has ever
been played in Detroit. Except for
yesterdays rainstorm the weather
conditions and the shape the course
was In, was fine. The number OF
golfers has broken all records.
The chief dampener OF interest has
been In the fact that the Detroit
Country club, the host OF the tour
ney, has had such a preponderance
OF the best entrants. With the elm
nation OF Grinnell OF the Kent club
at Grand Rapids, and Vincent OF the
Saginaw club, the semi-hnals were
LETT entirely to Country club mem
bers. II was known at noon yester.
day that the title would have 10 90