The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
BACHMAN CAVES IN
 IN MORNING ROUND
Giddens Also Wins In Play Off Of Medal Score
 Mix-up

LOUISVILLE, Ky. June 13.--Jack Wenzer and Nelson Giddens, members of the Colonial Country club, Memphis, Tenn, will be the finalists in the south ern amateur golf championship here. Wenzler won the right to meet Gid dens for the Dixie title by defeating Frank Dyer, Memphis Country club, in one of the hardest fought matches of the tournament. The struggle ended on the eighteenth green when Wenzler sank long putt for birdie four and the match, winning one up.
 Giddens also emerged victorious on the last green, defeating Chasteen liar ris, Memphis, by one hole. Giddens at the turn was 2 up on Chasteen Harris, while Dyer was. holding a S-hole lead over Jack Wenzler.
 The scores:
 Out ......... .524 854 544-s6 Wenzler-
 Out ......... 635 355 44-s9 Out ......... 544 S44 54S-36 Harris
 Out ........ 445 345 544-38
 Dyer began with a rush, taking the first three holes from sWenzler largely through uncanny putting. He sank an 1S-roor putt on the second green for a birdie two. Wenzler had trouble with his short game, dubSing the shot on the second, third and fifth holes. He ral- lied, however. to win the seventh and played the eighth and ninth level. The Giddens-Harris match threatened to go into extra holes, the play being ex- tremely close.
 A blazing summer sun, coupled with the fatigue of IS holes played this morn ing in the third round, slowed the semi final play to great extent, the first nine holes this afternoon requiring more than two hours and a half.
 Memphis, Tenn, golfers swept the field in the third round of the south ern amateur golf championship here to- day when Jack Wenzler, Frank Dyer, Chasteen Harris and Nelson Giddens won places in the semi-fnals. Results of the third round make it certain that the 1924 champion will be a Memphian.
 With John Bachman, 17-year-old Rome, Ga.,i sensation, who was over whelmed six up and five to play by Gid dens, out of the running, Frank Dyer entered the semi-finals the outstanding favorite to win the title.
 Dyer defeated Lee Chase, Miami, Fla, easily, the match terminating on the six teenth green, where the Memphian halved to win 3 up and to play. They turned Dyer 1 up.
 The cards follow:
 Dyer
 Out ........ 6S6 S34 534-37 In .......... 445 442 8
 Out ......... 597 544 425-S9
 In ........... .535 543 8
 Wonders superior driving enabled him to win 2 up over Louis Tachau, Louisville, hero of yesterdays 25-hole match with Charles Black, Atlanta. Tachau played Wenzler tQ standstill through the tenth and then weakened.
 The scores:
 Wenzler- ''
 Out =. 544 444 542-se
 In .... 546 5e8 444-41-ss-77 Out %. 545 AT 434-4O In ... Al GA 465-41-4O-S1
 His putting marked Harris victory over Carl Benkert,s Louisville. The l the sixteenth green, winning 8 up and to play. Benkert was formidable on the I first nine holes, playing Harris level, but he had trouble with his short game the cards
 Harris
 Out ....... 544 S45 545-Ss
 In .......... 44S 454 4 Benkert-
 Out ......... 544 344 644-Ss In ......... 544 545 4
 Bachman completely collapsed, los ing his putting touch. The Georgia lad worried too much over Giddens' game and paid too little attention to his own, natural tendency for youngsters with little experience in major tourna. ments.
 | Giddens played a. steady, cOnsisten