Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16

ITTHEN Ned Sawyer defeated Robert
w Markwell, one of the yale University golf
stars on the forty-second hole in the west
ern amateur golf championship, he estab-
lshed a new mark in this country for long
distance matches, Sawyer has been the
hero eor victim of more than one extra hole
match. Way back in 1906 he won the
western title for the first time by defeating
Warren x Wood, later a national iinalist
on the thirty.seventh hole. In 1909 he in
turn was beaten in the second round Of the
national amateur after a match that went
thirty-cght holes by Chandler Egan.
Last year for the first time the national
amateur was played in Philadelphia, with
the Merton Cricket Club as the scene OF
the conflict Sawyer met John G. Ander-
son, twice a national runner-up, in the first
match and, playing the thirty-sixth hole,
the westerner was dormie one, but the hole
went to Anderson. On the thirty.seventh
Sawyer trimmed the cup for n half.
Curiously enough, it was a Philadelphian
who is on record as having been the first
man In national championship TO go extra
holes in a national championship. We are
discussing thirty-six hole MATCHES. In 1898,
when there were but two courses in the
Philadelphia district c. ID. FOwle. of the
Philadelphia Country club, defeated H. p.
Toler, tho famous Princeton football player
Of the late eighties, on the thirty-seventh
hole at the MOTIFS county 'TOll NluD. L Hel'
to show that it was no fluke, he won his
next match on the thirty-seyenth hole from
Jasper Lynch.
Wins on FOrtieth Hole
The following year Walter Fairbanks, one
Of the oldest men playing very fine golf
today and for years the best man In Col
orado set a new mark when he defeated
j. f. Curtis on the forteth hole. In the
same round c. p. Lineaweaver, Of the Phila-
delphia Country Club, won from Jasper
Lynch on the thirty-sevenlh hole. a. G,
Lockwood, one Of the best players in the
Boston district and three times the cham
piOn Of Massachusetts, equaled Fairbanks
record in 1900, when he won from j. Reid,
Jr.. on the fortieth hole at the Garden
City Golf Club. Then, to show the curious
side of golf, he in turn was beaten by
Waiter J. Travis by the very one-sided score
Of IL up and 10 TO play.
The frat time there was an extra-hole
match in the semihnals was the following
year. when Travis won from Findlay Doug
las, one of the first men to win the title, on
the thrty-eighth hole. Travis then won
the final match. In 1908 there were several
extra hole matches, and the longest match
on record in a national championship was
that between Travis and II. H. Wilder, an
other Of the Massachusetts cracks. Travis
was dormie three, but the Bay state player
| squared the match on the last green and
| the contest went to the fOrty-hrst hole be-
| fore the old man was able to win Eben
| Byers, n former national champion. won
| his match from John NJ Ward the old ball
| player on the forteth hole, and in the semi
| finals Max Behr trimmed Fred Herreshof
| on the thirty-seventh hole
Victor of Two Long Matches
w r. Tuckerman, for years the most
| prominent player in the District of Column
| bia, was the winner Of two extra hole
matches in 1910, defeating F. A. Martin and
! Harold Weber on the thirty-seventh green.
| Seven eXtra-hole matches marked the 1911
! championship. c, w Inslee began It by win
| ming a nineteen-hole match from Eben Byers,
and followed It with a thirty-seven hole
| victory over f. A Martin. Fred Herreshoff
| beat S. G. Stckney on the thirty-seventh
| green, while Chic Evans defeated Albert
Seckel, another Of the former western cham
| pions, on the thirty-eighth hole. The first
! eXtra-hole match and the only one ever
| played In the final was between Herreshoft
and Harold Hilton. 1t was an unfortunate
| extra-hole match for Hiton's ball hit rock
| in the rough and bounded on the green
| turning victory for Herreshoff into a defeat
| incidentally II was the only time that for
egner ever won the amateur championship
| OF this country
There were two extra-hole matches II
| 1912, Albert Seckel a former western
titleholder beat Inslee on the thirty-seV
enth, and Hamilton Kerr, who is now II
the army, trimmed Paul Hunter, a formel
western champion. This tournament wa
played at the Chicago Golf Club and wa,
featured by the presence of two British
cracks, Hilton and Norman Hunter. Hiltor
was beaten in the first round. Hunter, afte
defeating w, p, Smith. Of the Philadelphi;
Country Club, was forced TO default I,
Warren X. Wood because Of the intens
| heat.
In 1913 the longest match was won b,
Paul Hunter after twenty-three holes o
strenuous golf Chick Evans won a thirty
! nine hole from Byers, while Travis was tn
victor in thrty-eight-hole match agains
Fraser Hale, The following year Travi
won on the thirty-seventh from Harol
Weber while W. c. Fownes, Jr., defeate,