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Show GH1PI0I Hi FOR WESTERN TITLE Charles Evans of Edgewater and Mason E. Phelps of Midlothian Midloth-ian to Meet in Finals. MINIKAHDA CLUB, Minneapolis, Minn,. July 29. Charles Evans, Jr.. of Edgewater will defend his title as western west-ern champion against Mason E. Phelps of Midlothian ln the finals of the Western Golf association tournament at the Mlnl-lcahda Mlnl-lcahda club tomorrow. It will be a meeting meet-ing of champions, as Phelps won the western honors at the Rqck JHland tournament tour-nament m 1UU&. Evans wen his way Into the final round by defeating Robert E. Hunter of Midlothian Mid-lothian In a thlrty-nlne-hole match In the seml-llnals today, while Phelps dtl-f'iatcd dtl-f'iatcd Warren K. Wood of Homewood by a up nnd -1 to play. The western championship gave one of the most marvelous exhibitions of nerve ever seen on western courses. Hunter was dormle one. playing the eighteenth hole, ln the afternon round, but Evans made a remarkable three ln tho face of golilng difficulties that would have over-v;helmcd over-v;helmcd any one other than of championship champion-ship caliber. With the match even, they , rtf,.J ,the Hi'rty-seventh hole. Playing that iiole it appeared as if the fates hau doomed Evan6 to defeat. His drive went into the first bunker and he loBt a stroke getting out. Hard luck still followed him and he over-approached Into the sand trap on the far side of the green. Another An-other stroke was lost, there and he was on the edge of tho green ln four. He missed a long putt for a live and whh ready to fe-lve up the hole, but his friends advised him not to give up until Hunter had putted. Hunter's second was short and ho over-approached on his third. He took thrc2 pulls for a six and Evans 'o 'd out In six, and the match was still on. Hunter was hole high on the second, but on ina edge of the green. Evans's second was sixty yards short, but he laid Ills approach almost dead to the hole and It was halved ln four. Hunter wobbled badly going to the third. The third hole. 130 yards, Is located lo-cated at the top of a hill. Hunter's pitch was short and rolled back down the hill. He put his second too far over and his third too far back toward the tee. He finally laid on the green on four and missed a putt for a five. Evans had better bet-ter luck and holed for a four, giving him the hole and a victory In the hardest-fought hardest-fought match of the tourney. Evans was one down at the end of the morning round, as Hunter came in nfter holng one down at the turn. The match was evened when Evans won the first hole 5-tl On the second Evans ran down a fifteen-foot putt for a half in four. Hunter's pitch was short on the third and Evans won 3-1, making n'rn one up. Hunter went Into a bunker pn the fourth and Evans won 5-7. making mak-ing him two up. The fifth and sixth were halved In par figures. Evans rimming the cup for a three on the latter hole. Evans had bad luck on the seventh, and lost the 5-4". when he lost a stroke by unintentionally hitting his ball while addressing It. Both missed putts on the eighth and the hole was halved ln five. On the ninth. Evans put his second sec-ond on the lower sido of the embankment embank-ment to the left of tho green and Hunter won the hole, 4-5. making the match even at the turn. On the homeward Journey. Hunter's approaching was deadly In his accuracy and he was able to halve several holes on that account. The tenth and eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth fif-teenth wero halved In par figures, On the sixteenth Hunlcr put his second sec-ond within two feet of the hole and ran t down, whining the hole. 3-4. and taking tak-ing the leaU one up. Evans kept the match going by holing a ten-foot putt for a half ln three In the seventeenth, Evans had to win the eighteenth to stay in tne running. He got a beautiful drive, but It rolled under the raised sldo of a public road running through the course about forty yards from the hole. It was an almost unplayable He, but Evans showed his championship caliber when he played out and put the ball about three feet from the hole. Hunter went to the far side of the green on his approach ant1 Evans won tho hole. 3-4. The Woods-Phelps match was onesided one-sided and Wood never had a chance after the match was well under way. Phelps was three un at the end of tho morning round and ood was unable to improve nls game in the afternoon. Wood plavcd Into tho woods several times and always got a bad lie. while Pholps went In once, nit a tree and bounded out Into the course. On the second hole In the afternoon, after-noon, Wood laid himself a. half-stvmlo, but pl'ched the ball in with his niblick for n hr'i in five. Vvood held Phelps fairly even for tho first six holes of the afternoon, but Phelps won the seventh, eighth and ninth and was six up at the turn. The match ended on the fourteenth I green. |