BRITISH GOLF VICTORY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1279, 7 November 1911, Page 2

BRITISH GOLF VICTORY.

8 MR. HILTON'S SUCCESS, AMATEUR CHAMPION .OF AMERICA. Mr. H. 11. Hilton, the British amateur golf champion, won the American amateur championship on Saturday, September IG, on* tho Apawanii Cluti's cours;, near New york, after a struggle which will live long in the memory o£ tho four thousand spectators who watchcd it. It was the biggest "gallery" ever assembled on an American course. Governors of States, politicians, clergymen, business men, .and ladies scampered after tho balls in wild stop-thief ciiates. The "gallery" was not finite as well versed in the etiquette of golf ns might have'oefn desired, and Mr. Hilton, while appreciating tho spectators' enthusiasm and thanking them for their fair-mindedness, found their loud comments rather a strain on his nerves. The match, which until the afternoon seemed a foregone conclusion in Mr. Hilton's /aTOtir, developed to a thrilling climax. Mr. Frederick Herreshoff, the runner-up, a pant New Yorker, of unrivalled skill in driving, work<d up from 6 down and 13 to go to even terms on the thirty-fourth green. Tho thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth holes were halved, and then, amid almost unendurable suspense, the players came to -the extra hole. The American drove a long bill straight down the cours?, and several yards in advance of the Englishman's. Mr. Hilton sliccd a jigger shot badly, but tho ball, instead of going,, hopelessly,, among the rocks, hit a - boaMfr aatK&lSnced thence to the green. Unnerved by his opponent's luck, Mr. Herreshoff topped his second, which was raventv yards short of the pin. Playing (lie odd ho overran the hole by eighteen feet, while Mr. Hilton laid his ball dead. If was now "do or die" for Mr. Hcrcshoff. He made a good effort for tlio long putt, but misjudged tho effect of an nil-, duration in the green. Amid of disappointment from tho "gallery" ■ the ball stopped two foet short of the bole. The Englishman holed out and was acclaimed as. "chamnion of two continent?." Immediately after winning the championship Mr." Hilton went over to tho National course at Chinnccock, Long Island, to compete in an important invitation amateur tournament. In the first round of the niatch-plav stages of this event, the American and British champion was drawn against Mr. Albert Seckol, of Apaw&mis. Mr. Seckel is cue pi th? most prominent golfers in the district. _ In the qualifving round of the championship he tied with Mr. Robert Gardner for second place to Mr. Hilton. In the match at Chinnecock, however, the American was no match for the Englishman, wlio led the creator part of the journey,,and ultimaHv won easily by G and 5. Mr. a<riin triumphed on the Notional Golf Links at L"fn» Island, in the final ronnd of the invitation tourna,rrnt, when he defeated Mr. Charles Evans. iun.,,of Chicago, bv 3 up to 2 to p'n. v ' . . . . ~ He nualified for the final by beating Mr. IV. C. Fownes, inn., of Oakmont, ifter a desperately closes match. Mr. Fownes was a.mac>ur champion of America last vear. Mr. Hilton was 1 down Willi

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