Show LIST I ITO TO 18 PLAYERS I I Couch Stages Upset By Trouncing Former Irish Golf Champs MAY IA Y FIELD COUNTRY TRY CLUB Cle 0 O lul Jul Juli IP 26 26 T A OP 0 fast IS holo rounds of match play I Wednesday re reduced the tb contestants for the western estern amateur golf golt I chain cham to I J 8 1111 ers Including Including Chick ChIck Evans thans ans of oC Chicago defending champion who ho will wIli meet lamprecht of or Cleveland In the third lound 1 and Jess Sweetser ot of ew York national cham chain champIOn champion I pion plon who will ill cross decks with Ith Dexter Cummings Cumming of Chicago Three extra hole matches marked the pla pia Cummings winning InnIng a 20 hole 20 hole contest In the forenoon from Harold eber ber of Toledo while In Inthe inthe Inthe the afternoon Clarence Wolf olt re- re reQuired re 20 holp holes to do down n John G GAnderson GAnderson GAnderson Anderson of ot New lew York and Joe JoW ells elis of or East Ia t Lh Liverpool 0 O took 19 1 holes to eliminate Eddie Held of oC St Louis tl Mississippi ana cham chain champion pion and did so the then only by hold hold- holdIng holding holding ing a foot 45 putt for tor a bIrdie three W Wolf olt oIl and Yells Wells will also measure mashies I The other third round match was as bet between een Ira Couch of ot Chicago who ho provided the greatest upset of the day b bv trouncing Captain E F Carter of ot Chicago formerly Irish champion and a favorite of ot the fin fin- finals fin finals als ala 2 and 1 and W II H Gardner Gardier of Buffalo who ho rather unexpected unexpected- unexpectedly ly ousted James Manlon Manion of St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis 2 and 1 I IEvans Evans had the easiest time tim of all the th players because he be pl e ed edthe 1 I the best golf of the 32 22 men who ho ed He breezed out In 34 t two 0 under par In the first round tI anti and I was as one on under perfect figures In Inthe inthe Inthe the remaining fl fie Iv e holes hoes he ho needed I Ito Ito to defeat James Ward ard ard of or Kansas City f 6 and 4 In the afternoon i 1 Chick took 36 35 to go out and was wa waon as J one on under par for the remaining four holes he used to down n I Ens-I Ells Ells- Ellsworth worth Ells I worth Augustus the phenomenal driver of Cleveland G 6 and 5 6 Sweetser was not so good as dur dur- durIng dur- dur during ing tag the th Qua l Ing rounds when hen he hel I won on the gold old medal with 75 68 and set act a n course cours record 76 68 |