Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
FOWNES DEFEATS
WOOD FOR TITLE
Close Match in Finals of National
Amateur Golf Champion
ship of LongWood

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C. Fownes, jr., of the Oakipont club
Pittsburg, won the national amateur
golf championship at The Country CLUB
today by defeating Warren *. Wood
of the Homewood cluy, Chicago, in
the finals of the annual tournament,
up and to play.
Both men were more or less erratic
in their driving during the morning
round, a stiff nortnea8ter conrribut-
ing to the difficulty of keeping ON the
course After halving the first two
holes Fownes lost the third by the
| short approach and was one down. lie
won back on the next hole, however,
despite a pulled drive, is Wood over
approached on the 3reol. Wood sliced
two drives out of bounds at the tittn
tee and trapped his third, then gave up
the hole. Fownes up.
The sixth and seventh holes were
| halved, but on the ei ghth Wood sliced
his drive and sent his second into the
| woods, FoWnes winning ana being 2
up. Woods drives, and brassia shots
on the next hole were poor and Fownes
won and had a lead of three at the
| turn. Card:
| Fownes-Out, 40.
Woods-Out, As.
In the short tenth hole Wood was
trapped and Fownes won another hole.
| The PittSburg man got INTO the trap
! from his drive into the sand pit on bis
next shot at the eleventh hole and
Wood won. Wood pu-ted his second
shot on the next hole and although he
laid FOwnes a stymle nthe green the
latter cleverly negotiated it and was
up. Wood used his clubs badly again
on the fourteenth mole and was
down. Wood sliced his next drive and
made a poor second and FoWnes was
8 up when they reach ed the sixteenth
tee. They halved this hole.
Fownes lost the seventeenth on ac-
count of slicing and also the eight
eenth in which both made poor second
shots, but Wood ran down a 15-foot
putt and was down at the end Of
the morning play.
The cards for the secodd nine holes
follow:
Fownes-In, 3S-78.
Wood-In, 37-S5.
Nineteenth hole (42O yards) starting
off the afternoon round, Fownes sliced
his drive while Wood drove strdigh.
and far. Both reached the green on
the second, but Wood overran his putt
and lost the hole. Fownes up.
Twentieth hole (425 yards Wood was
trapped on his drive, but made beau
tiful recovery laying his second within
twenty feet of the green, and as
Fownes took three puts Wood cap
tured the hole. Fownes up.
Twenty-first hole (4O4 yards) both
followed good drives by slicing to the
left and getting out on the third. The
hole was halved. Fownes 4 up.
Twenty second hole (300 yards).
Fownes played remarkable golf on the
twentysecond hole; he pulled his ldive.
Wood was still there in the second,
laid his third twenty beyond the hole
and rolled it in on the fourth. Wood
took three puts on the green and lost
| the hole. Fownes 5 up.
Twenty-third hole (415 yards) both
drove equally far Wood laid a 100
yard approach within three feet of
| the hole and won out Fownes 4 up.
| Twenty-fourth hole (260 yards) Wood
| topped his drive and was in a deep
trap in front of the geen on his second
A minute later Fownes, trying to pitch
for the green, also rolled into the trap.
Both gathered all their strength and
whaled their balls on the green and in
a cloud of sand. Fownes failed to run
down six-foot putt, while Wood holed
out and reduced his opponents lead to
34p.
W. C. Fownes, jr, the new national
amateur golf champion, is secretary of
the Midland Steel company of Pitts
burg and has been playing golf about
ten years. He is a governor of the
Oakmont Country club and a holder
of several sectional championships.
Fownes won the Western Pennsyl-
vania championship in 1909 and re-
tanned b his success this ear.
On two occasions he has reached the
semi-finals of the national champion
ship by putting Walter ]. Travis out
in 1905 and 1907, when Travis was at
the zenith of the game.
The cards of the match follow:
Fownes, morning:
Out ........5 SO
In ........2 4 "a 5-3S
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