South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-22
EIGHT LEFT IN
FIELD FOR CRACK
At Golf HONORS
Good Games and Exciting Fin
iSheS Mark Third Day
of Western Cham
pionShip.
BY Jack Neville.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. July 22.-The
western amateur golf championship
/ has narrowed down to eight survivors.
In the order Of the draw these play
ers are ,. +. Sawyer. Jack Neville
Chick Evans. q. A. Miller, II. T. Bing-
ham. Dewitt Balch. James Standish'
ir and f. n. Bankard.
Good golf was the order of Wednes-
dav and mixed with il were a lew eA-
citing finishes and one big surprise.
The latter came in the form OF the ue-
feat of W. G. Fownes. jr., former ma
Itional champion, at the hands of II. T..
Bingham. local player. by a score
Of and .. Fownes was two down at
the noon interval but II was the oplh-
! ion of nearly all his followers that ne
would overcome his opponents leau
and win out
/ Fownes' game was ragged through
out the day. while That or Bingham
was not brilliant nut STEADY.
sawyer Downs Hunter.
The match that drew the largest
gallery was that between Sawyer and
/ paul Hunter. the medalist. Hunter
was conceded an equal chance with
7 the former western champion, but
was unable to cope with par golt.
! Sawyer had a "A in the morning, with
| all puts holed. In the second round
| his card showed even fours to where
1.-THE mat h closed. which was at the
! thirteenth green with the result read
/ ing and in favor of Sawyer. only
! one symie figured in the match and
/ that came toward the end Hunter
was bunkered OFF the twelfth and
PLAYED a beautiful shot to within six
/ feet of the cup. This laid Sawyer
dead stymie and prevented a posi-
| BILE two.
Chick Evans disposed of Kenneth
/ Edwards in easy fashion by a score
Of and s. The match was inter
esting for the first Is holes and the
pair started the second half with Ev-
ans but two up. Chick had great
advantage in driving, his ball travel
/ ing forty yards further than EDWARDS
on nearly every hole.
Expect Standish i'm Finals.
James Standish, jr.. of Detroit, run
ner up last year in this tournament
| went his way To the last eight. by de-
/ feating W. II. Gardner Of Buffalo 10y
/ down on the SO holes. The match
was always in doubt. They were even
and four 10 go in the morning and
| Standish. playing one under par. fin
ished the first half four TO the good
Then Gardner turned the tables and
/ overlook his opponent Going to the
/ 18th hole, Gardner was up and then
again the Detroit man dNercame mis-
disadvantage ahd finally won the last
hole. 1t looks very probable that
Standish will be a finalist again this
year. He is in much the easier half
Of the draw. now that FOwnes is out,
and his hardest man seems to be
/ Bankard.
Bankard won his match on the 37th
hole from Howard Lee Of Detroit
twice winner of the Michigan state
| championship. Both played inferior
/ golf through the first 81 holes of the
match. Bankard was 1 up at the 18th
but at the 34th he was down and
to play Lee was nicely on the short
thirty-fifth with his iron and at this
point il looked like the match was
| over. Bankard came through with a
beautiful iron that stopped five feet
from the pin and gave him a four
He followed this up by getting birdie
( four on the 435-yard last hole and
squared the contest ON the deciding
hole. Bankard again showed to adj
vantage by holing out a 15-foot putt
for the win.
Diddcl Pushes Neville.
! Dewitt BIlch won his match from
J. X BOle by the close margin of one
hole on the So Bole is a local man
who holds the amateur record of the
course at Il c. a. Miller disposed
Of Addison Stillwell of Chicago, A and
10.
l had a fairly close call with vii
liam Diddel Of indianapolis. but man
aged TO come through the day with
win of 3 and ,. At the fifteenth
hole in the morning round l was
up and had been playing strong.
had left "A four. three. four for n,
course record, which would he 20, GU
got into all kinds of trouble on th'
remaining holes and shot a :. 4 anC
for a 80. / was only up and u
play at the 18th in the Afternoon
but a half on that hole and a win OF
the 10th settled the affair.
Diddel recently won the champion
ship of the Central Golf association
which comprises Michigan, lllionis
excluding Chicago. Indiana, Ohio anC
Kentucky