The Washington herald., 1910-09-18

Boston, Mass, Sept. n.-wflliam clark
Fownes' jr., Of the Oakmont Country
Club Pittsburg, beat Warren Kenneth
Wood of the Home Wood Country Club
Chicago in the final Of the national golf
championship by up and to plav At
the Country Club OF Brookline.
TO reach the hnaI Fownes qualified with
r. Is 055l. and Wood with g. 70 $50. At
match play Fownes put out in turn Ellis
Knowles. Of Florida. and l: Archie REID.
New York. ; and 1; II. r. Wilder. Lowell.
and 3; Charles Evans. jr., Chicago II
and 10 Wood steps TO the silver medsl.
thereby defeating IN turn S. .. BOW
Bridgeport. 5 and T. PerclvaI Gilbert.
Boston. 8 and 2; J. c. Anderson. Boston.
? up, and ". r. Tuckerman. stockhridge.
by ] up In 81 holes
Both are fine exDonents Of amateur
golf and all its best tenets. Fownes is a
student and a theorist Of the game. as
well as a player, and possesses an extern
sive library Of books on golf. Every
work ever written about IT," quotes
friend
On the fourth green in the morning. in
taking the line on ten-foot putt FoWnes
bent on one knee and laid his club across
the ball so that. by calculating the points
Of the long triangle between the ends
OF the club and the cup, he might esu-
mate without pacing of the distance
just how far IL was
That's one Of them" remarked the
same friend. bill Fownes knows a
hundred novel tricks of that sort THAI
other golfers have not heard about"
Pennsylvania touches the Atlantic
remarked the new champion, after re-
ceiving his gold medal, "and is East
enough. I am a director Of the Western
Golf Association, but my club belongs
10 It only 10 let our members play at the
tournaments about Chicago. and our
real allegiance is to the United States
Golf Association"
Both played in knickerboczers, but
Fownes early discarded his coat He
used a gooseneck putter mostly to-day.
Wood used the same clubs he did on
Friday, and got off very long balls from
the fiat-headed driver after he had
turned up his coat cuffs. and struck the
BAN just right
Barring out the iron shot holes. for
/ instance, on the tee shots, Wood this
morning played the odd eight and Fowues
/ five times. The percentage OF luck was
! against the Chicagoan on this round. be-
/ sides the handicap Of being erratic His
/ putting was not normal but part Of the
faults in this department were due 70
stimies left him by Fownes on the first,
| seventh, twelfth. and thirteenth greens
Wood is the most satisfying of the pair
to watch. He does not dwell on his shots,
and takes his stand quickly
There was more wind than during any
match since the start, and then it was
a factor 10 be reckoned with. They were
/ about on even terms IN the ability 20
1 allow for the wind and also IN the play
/ ing Of the iron shots. Fownes early
lead was due chiefly TO his better driv-
/ ing and greater successes. whether by
| skill or luck, on the putting greens. Six
down with to play. the morning threat
/ ened 10 be a landslide against Wood but
! he maintained his cheerfulness and quit
| only down. This was how Wood stood
/ on Friday in his match with Tuckerman
and his friends did not fail TO recall the
/ fact. The recollection cheered them and
Wood, while Fownes and OrmisJon, as
/ they also had this in mind. We're not SO
! confident then as they might otherwise
/ have been.
/ The tournament is pronounced the most
successful, although the most unwieldly
| TO handle from the entry Of 2lS ever had
/ by the United States Golf Association
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