The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-13
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Chicago. July 15.-Donald Ed
wards, medalist, will play Francis
Ouimet, former national champion,
and Kenneth Edwards will play John
G. Anderson Of New York in the &C.
hole semi finals of the Western anna
teur golf championship today as the
result of yesterdays matches at the
Midlothian Country club, the home
of the Edwards brothers.
Ouimet yesterday had a runaway
match with Peter Barnett, youth
full Chtcagoan, winning II up and Is
to play. one of the easiest matches
on record. Donald Edwards elimlnat-
ed Jack May, Argentina champion,
and 2. Kenneth Edwards ousted
Jesse Guilford, Massachusetts, cham
pion, l up after a gruelling contest
in which Guilford set a course of II
in the forenoon and gained lead of
4 holes. Anderson. coming from be-
hind when Ned Sawyer fell off on
the nine, probably as q result of his
42-hole match on Wednesday, defeat
ed the former Western champion,
1 up.
Most Of the large gallery followed
the Sawyer and Anderson match and
saw good golf. Both men started
poorly, but sent thrill through the
crowd with a pair Of rs on the 1922
yard third hole. Sawyer lost the
fourth but squared it on the fifth. He
was one up with a birdie 4 on the
490-yard seventh and two up on the
tenth. The next four holes were halv-
ed in par, but Sawyer lost the if
teenth by putting his approach in a
trap. He gained his 2-hole lead on
the seventeenth, where Anderson
found trouble and the eighteenth was
halved.
Sawyer, having made the first
round in IS to Anderson's n, halved
the nineteenth when Anderson miss
ed a short putt, but won the TWEEN
tieth with thrilling hillock putt of
fifteen feet for birdie 3 and was 3
up. For the rest of the third nine,
Sawyer shot an even par, but lost the
twenty-third and twenty-fourth holes
when Anderson sank long downhill
puts for a and a 2, each under
par. Anderson lost the twenty-sixth
with one over par and turned the
third quarter post down, both scor-
ing par SO for the third quarter.
From this point, Sawyer was off
his gait, coming home with AZ to
Anderson's 81. Sawyer topped the
second on the twenty-sixth hole from
the rough to the creek and lost the
hole. He halved the next two in par,
but found rough and traps on the
thirty-first and the match was
square. He stayed square on the next
hole by a nervy 30-foot sloping putt.
after putting his second in a pit. An
derson was trapped at the next green
and made his opponent one up again,
only to square the struggle on the
thirty-fourth, where Sawyer again
went wild. The fastener took the
lead for the first time after the first
hole, by pitching a 140-yard mashie
eight inches from the seventeenth
cup for birdie 3 and won the bat
tie by halving the thirty-sixth hole in
par 4. His total was 73 for this round
against Sawyer's 7S.
Driving Guilford and Kenneth Ed
wards drew a large gallery also. Both
played excellent golf, Guilford scor-,
ing 71-79-150, while Edwards made
75-73-148, two better than Donald Ed
wards medal score in the qualifying
rounds. Guilford did not outdrive
Edwards much Of the way, but his
approaches were of the Chick Evans
type and his puts sought the hole
like steel seeks a magnet. But his 36
out with brides made him only 1
up as Edwards had 81 with par on
every hole but one.
Guilford was one stroke better on
his second nine with rs, one under
par with a birdie on the 59-yard
twelfth, and gained three more holes
despite Edwards SO, having a lead OF
4 up at luncheon.
The Massachusetts, champion drop
ped a hole at the twenty first green,
another at the twenty-fourth and two
more on the twenty-sixth and TWEEN
ty-seventh, Edwards score duplicat-
ing par on every hole of this nine to
turn the third quarter all square.
GuiIford won the twenty-eighth. but
lost the twenty-ninth and thirty
third, and was one down and three to
play The last three holes'were halved
and the New Highlander was elimin-
ated.