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Show GARDNER AND ANDERSON IN GOLF FINALS TODAY Chicagoan and New York Stater Left to Battle1 for National Amateur Championship; Semifinals Semi-finals Are Close and Interesting. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 3. The unyielding un-yielding grit and steel heart of a great athlete today gave Robert Rob-ert A. Gardner of Chicago and Yale one of the most brilliant victories in his golf career. He defeated Max R. Marston of Springfield, N. J., 1 up in 37 holes, in one of the semi-finals for the national amateur golf, championship. cham-pionship. Toniorrow in the final match he will meet John G. Anderson, the veteran vet-eran from Mount Vernon, N. YM who eliminated Sherrill Sherman of Utica, 2 up and 1. Of the unusually large gallery which braved the blazing sun to watch the struggle, few were willing to concede Gardner a chance after 31 holes had been played. Marston, steady as a mountain, was 3 up. Gardner, though outwardly cool, had been missing his short putts. Then it all stopped. Three times Gardner shot holes in par; three times Ma-rston failed. On the thirty-sixth thirty-sixth green with his ball two feet from the cup, Marston had only to make a simple tap to win the match, and he missed. Gardner, who bad outdriven his opponent oppo-nent all day, was on the thirty-seventh green in two. Marsion required three shots, and when the westerner holed his putt for a par 4, his opponent from the east was -not able to( duplicate the feat. Not Consistent. Neither man played a consistently steady game. Marston had a score of 80 in the foreno6n and Gardnor took 81 strokes. Each completed the first eighteen holes of thoir afternoon half in 77. Gardner played twenty-four of the thirty-seven holes in par and was under par twice. Marston had seventeen par holes and five that were better. Despite the fact that they tried to play more carefully during the first part of their battle, each man experienced less trouble in the afternoon. The New Jersey youth quickly forged ahead after lunch. He took the ninth hole rl-ti. The next two were halved, but Marston captured the twenty-second 3-4. They split the twenty-third. Marston laid Gardner a stymie on the twenty-fourth, but the latter holed a jump shot. Driving across the bronk for the twenty-fifth. Gardner put too much speed in his effort and the hole, going to Marston, 3-4, made the latter 2 up. The easterner bad the same margin mar-gin on the turn as he lost the twenty-sixth, twenty-sixth, 6-5, where his ball found the rough, and won the twenty-seventh with a par, 4. In Close Race. Gardner claimed the twenty-ninth, 5-6. Marston retaliated by sinking his putt in the thirtieth cup to beat par by a stroke, and increased his lead to three holes on the thirty-first, Gardner losing the hole. 5-4. The Chicagoan then began his last ditch struggle. He got a par 3 with a good putt to win the thirty-second, and again was victorious on the thirty-third w-hen Marston was not able to sink his fourth shot. His next two holes were halved. More than 2000 spectators lined the coiti-se from the thirty-fifth green to the clubhouse, when Marston made what he hoped would be his last drive. The hole was but 185 yards distant on an elevation, and he had only to play it on even terms to be victor. His ball whizzed forward and landed short of the flag. Gardner's effort was much better. His pellet dropped near the' cup and he holed in 3. Marston 's approach ap-proach was carefully made and successfully suc-cessfully executed, but the strain told and his two-foot putt was a failure. Second in Interest. The Anderson-Sherman match was almost lost sight of, so keen was the general interest in the other duel. Sherman Sher-man fought pluckily and made Anderson Ander-son extend himself to win. The Utica man was 1 down in the forenoon as a result of losing the eighteenth hole. Possibly the intense heat fatigued him, for he was outdriven in the afternoon and his putts were often just short of the cup. He played slowly, studying every shot with deliberation, and "conserving "con-serving his strength for a final effort. Sherman 's weak putting gave Anderson Ander-son a margin of 4 up at the end of the twenty-second hole. Sherman cut the lead in half by winning par victories on the twenty-fourth and twentv-fifth greens, but played the next two poorly and was 4 down wh 'n they started on the homeward trail. . Anderson lost the twentv-eighth, but he won the twenty-ninth. They halved the thirtieth. Sherman won the thirty-first thirty-first and thirty-third holes bv plaviiig par golf. He had a chance' again to score at the thirty-fourth when Anderson Ander-son was in difficulties, but he, too, approached ap-proached poorly and they each took' a S. With a lead of 2 up, Anderson missed his putt for the thirty-fifth, but so did Sherman and the match ended. Sherman is a son of the late vice president of the United States. He and his brother, Tom, achieved the first official of-ficial victory of the present tournament tourna-ment by winning the American golfers' silver trophy for two-men teams turning in the lowest best ball score. Most of the greatest amateur golfers in America competed. Gardner and Anderson have each taken part in a previous final match for the national championship Gardner Gard-ner captured the title at Wheaton 111 in 1000. Anderson was once runner up to Jerome Travers. Today's Battle. . The crucial battle tomorrow, -which is also a test between eastern and western west-ern golf, so-called, will bring together players of far different temperaments. Experts deem Gardner the brilliant golfer, a hard fighter at all times but now and then inclined to be erratic Anderson is regarded as one of the most consistent stars in the country His games are not often extremely low-but low-but he seldom plays poorly. At match play but is regarded bv'men such as Travers and Ouimet as one of the hardest hard-est opponents in the country to defeat He cannot drive a ball as far as Gardner, Gard-ner, but is considered the latter 's equal with a midiron and usually his superior with a putter. The Detroit Country club this afternoon after-noon arranged for an exhibition match late toniorrow between Charles Evans Jr.. Jerome Travers and Francis Ouimet' They are to go eighteen holes. rnedai play for a trophy. "teuai |