The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Local Man Makes Favor
able Showing Against
State Champion.
K0KOMO STAR 5 DOWN
BY DICK MILLER
Times staff Correspondent

Times staff Correspondent
HILLS COURSE, FRENCH LICK
Ind. Aug. 23.-George Lance, Terre
Haute, Indiana golf champion for
the last two years, during which
time he has found little opposition
in the state tournament, found him
self extended today by a dark
horse" DR.. E. w. Cant of Highland
Indianapolis, during the first half
of their thirty six-hole semi-f1nal
match.
The champion was forced to make
a determined uphill battle during
the last six holes Of the first eight
en- to gain a 2 up lead. Play was
resumed after lunch when the final
eighteen holes we're staged.
Mitchell Five Up
Dwight Mitchell, French Lick, 1925
champion, found his match with
Bobby Resener, ex-champion from
Kokomo, much to his liking, and
was having an easier time than the
Terre Haute player, leading 5 up
when the dinner bell sounded.
Lance went into the lead on the
second hole with birdie after he
had halved the first hole with Cant.
The match was squared on the
fourth when Cant laid Lance sty-
ME and the champion went one
over par. Lance regained one-up
lead on the seventh with a birdie
after a fine fairWay shot Both
players were wild on the eighth and
went one over par. Lance increased
his lead when Cant three-putted
the ninth green.
Cant Takes Lead
Cant won the tenth hole when he
sank a long putt for birdie. Lance
drove off the course on the eleventh
and the match was squared. Cant
went into the lead for the first
time when Lance got into trap on
the twelfth, the indianapolis doctor
making a marvellous recovery for
par after overshooting the green.
Both players were wide on the
next hole, but Lance's second shot
put him close to the pin for three.
Lance also won the fourteenth and
they halved the fifteenth. Lance
went two up when he holed an ap-
proach shot from trap, Cant miss
ing by a fraction of an inch, halving
the hole in a birdie two. Cant won
the seventeenth when Lance missed
a short putt, but the capital city
man missed a chance to square the
match on the eighteenth when his
second shot hit tree.
Cards of Lance and Cant this
morning:
Out
Lance ...... ...... 444 34S 555-S7
Cant ........... 444 343 555-37
In
Lance ..........,. ass 345 254-37-35-72
Cant ......... 344 465 S45-SS-37-75
Mitchell shot two brides on the
first nine and won another hole
with a par to lead Resener three up
at the turn. Mitchell shot even par
and lost the sixth hole when his tee
shot went into the trap. Mitchell
increased his lead on the tenth and
eleventh with one putt on each
green for two birdie IS. They halved
the next hole, Mitchell taking three
puts from fifteen feet.
Holes 1S-FOOt Putt
ReSener sent his third shot to
ten feet from the pin on the four
teenth and Mitchell conceded the
hole when he overshot the green.
Mitchell recovered from trap to
haIve the fifteenth, and Resener
made his best shot of the tourna-
ment when he holed an eighteen
foot putt on the sixteenth. Mitchell
sank a thirty-foot down-hill putt
on the seventeenth, and made it 5
up again with par on the eight
zenith.
The final tourney match, So holes,
will be played Saturday.
Resener won the state title in 1913
and 1914 and then again in 1920.
Mitchell was champion in 1925 when
the title play was held over this
same course.
At the halfway mark of the
thirty six-hole grind Thursday
noon Lance had an eight up lead
over Chick Bader Of Gary. Bader
fired some good golf the last ten
holes, but in spite of his best eff
forts found himself encountering
better stuff from Lance. The match
ended on the twenty eighth green
and 8 in Lances favor.
Talbot Surprises
The match between Mitchell and
Philip S. Talbot of Bloomington was
thriller. The slender blond youth
from the college town had the local
fans surprised as he carried their
idol to the halfway point all even.
Talbot faltered at the outset of the
second half Of the match and lost
three of the first four holes. That
gave Mitchell his usual confidence
and spelled ruin for Talbot. Mitchell
was victorious, to 4.
Fans we're agog as DR.. E. w.
Cant of Highland and Jim Steven
son of Meridian Hills battled nip
and tuck the entire thirty-six holes.
Cant lead one up at nine holes.
Cant still lead one up at the eigh-
tenth hole. They reached the TWEEN
ty-seventh hole all square and were
still all square on the thirty first
green. Stevenson led for the first
time when Cant took a 6 on the