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Show HARRY G. LEGG WIS LI GOLF Elf 'ffiS!IIP I I Clever Minneapolis Player De- f'l feats William Sheehan in B ; ' j I Finals at Denver. K ; ' By Associated Press. R. 1 H DENVER COUNTRY CLUB, Dcnvei. Hf f ! Colo., Aug. 20. In a match, decided by t H tho narrowest of margins, Harry G-. Lcgtf of the Minlkahda club, Minneapolis, won ; ! (H the trans-Mlsslsslppl golf chnmplonslp R H from William Shcchan of the Hyperion r 1 t 'H club of Dcs Moines, one up, , , A twenty-Inch putt by Sheohan, which T '. struck tho edge of tho cup on the thlr- ! f : ' ( ;H ty-slxth green, lost him tho match when . r .1 'H It scorned certain another hole would b ij 'H noccssary to decide the championship V ' 'fl While he nover led tho champion at IM H any time in the mntch. he pulled up even jH with him time after time. Both men xl H showed remarkable ability to recover (. m !H i from bad lies, but Sheehan apparently ' ' was not ablo to take advantage of on- ' 1 1 tH portunlties which would have given lifra tho lead scvornl times had he accepted ' '1 them. Legg's work with his iron clubs ' has been remarkable throughout the tour- ' i nament, and hu placed full reliance on , jH thorn this nftcrhoon, using a driving iron j ' with startling accuracy on many of his ' teo shots. ;j After Sheehan had s(unrod the match - W- - on the thirty-fifth hole, both got well . ; IH away with their drives on the home K. , hole, which was to dcclae the match. On his second Shcchan dropped Into u sand t ' bunker while Legg's' ball bounced over E and stopped off the green. Sheehan made ? 11 a beautiful recovery, but his fourth m placed him twenty Inches from the hole. im Lcgg overran the hole on his third nnd 'H missed the cup less than an Inch for a WM It seemed Sheehan was sure to halve the hole in five, but his bnll struck the iH rim of tho cup, jumped out. and Lugg ( ' iM putt won him tho hole In live and tK 11 match. "WM Auchterlonlo of Evanston. Kan?" , City, won the professional seventy-two-hole medal piny mntch with n senrv of 31.4. Willie Dow of Hutchinson was sec- H IB ond, with 317. and Walter Clark of Den- H i IM ver third, with 310. H. a. Flshor of Don- JH vor won the Consolation cup from W. J. 'H Foyc of Omaha, five up and four to play. .M |