Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-20

show us well, it appears. He has
been training hard during the week
and is said to be fit, although he is
complaining of feeling laggy, a condi-
| ton brought about, no doubt, by the
change in climatic conditions. How
ever, Bailey seems to have great
speed, and Harry Kaiser, his oppo-
nent, has never shown sufficient speed
to give him a look-in for victory.
Yet stranger things have happened
the case of young Ouimet, the golfer,
for instance.
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| Donald McDougall, we are told, has
been coaching Kaiser, in the hope that
| Donald Will find out just how good
Mr.. Bailey is. MoDougall has been
sprinting and doing other stunts with
Kaiser, which shows that Donald at
least Isn't going to give up the ship
until he is beaten.
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A bit of news that is sure to inter-
est the fans is the fact that some of
the boys who were sure that Bailey
would race McDougalls head off"
are now not sanguine about 1t. Be-
fore Bailey arrived he was looked
upon as a sort of in-a-class- him
self amateur. Since his arrival, the
McDougall supporters seem to have
gained courage. 1t is true that so
much praise of Bailey was pounded
into the fans ears that they rather
figured the race all over now. for no
good reason, though. Donald is be-
lieved to have a man s-size chance.
To back this up we quote Harold
Dibbler, an authority, in our humble
opinion, about as good as we know of.
"McDougall will beat Bailey" DID,
bier said last night. Donald will do
the last eighth of a mile in 70 seconds
and Bailey can't beat that. Yes"
said Harold, in his most serious vein,
Bailey is as good as they said he
was, but McDougall is a little bet
ter
This is given to the fans, so that
they will not become entirely dis
couraged and think that all is lost;
but, as view the situation, Bailey is
wonderful amateur, and he is too
much of a settled man for Donald.
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The golfing world is all agog. The
wonderful play of Francis Ouimet, the
Boston youth, in the national open
| tourney at Brookline yesterday, has
attracted worldwide attention to the
youngster. In tieing Harry Vardon
and Edward Ray, the great English
golfers, Ouimet has fairly startled
everybody. His masterful perform
ance In accounting for card Of 304
| for seventy-holes, exactly the same
card turned in by Vardon and Ray,
will go down in the history of the old
| Scotch game as a sure-enough mira
Gle. AS result of his clever work,
| Ouimet, along with Vardon and Ray,
will indulge in a three-ball 1S-hole
medal play round today. Pitted as he
will be against two such famous
knights of the links, 1t will be indeed
interesting to watch for returns of the
match Surely, no one can hope for
victory for the Boston youth over
those two tried and expert golfmeni
An amateur of only twenty-five years,
it would seem that the American had
accomplished wonders already, and
would not be equal to the occasion,
yet it is said that Ouimet displayed
great gameness on the last round and
holed a seven-foot putt for the tieing
score.
Cheers greeted the boy when he had
finished his stroke on the final green,
and 1t was known that he had
equalled the cards of Vardon and Ray.
Not only cheers were in evidence, but
shouts of delight arose from the null
titude of Americans, who were proud
of the young mans efforts. Some of
the more timorous and the more en-
thusiastic surrounded the youth and
| fairly threw him on their backs and
marched off with him-the king--to
the clubhouse. The boy was aghast
with joy-fright, as he hung on for
dear life. 1t was an unusual occasion
on a golf links, where f1nger-tip ap-
plause is the true and genuine APP
plause. For Ouimet, though, the
bounds of everything We're over
| stepped. 1t was so, we take it, be-
cause the performance was so unusual
so wonderful. Here was boy play
| ing golf with the same rare skill of
two of the greatest opponents of the
game in the world. The demonstra-
ton, the honor, he was entitled to ALL
He saved the u. s. A. from most
ignominious defeat. He jumped into
a breach and filled up gap left open
by our best professional men. And a
vice. thin, but not bad-looklng simon
pure-novice, tyro, anything you will
came through at the crucial time.
The praises we might have heaped on
Jack McDermott, the famous home
u bred golfer, If he had won the cham
pionship, now go out double to
Ouimet.
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The tourney. on the whole, attracted
unusual attention and the play was
about the best ever seen in this
country. Our boys didn't do so well,
and outside of the marvellous Ouimet
we have little to crow about. Nc
, Dermott didn't do so badly, and he
might have done better If he had moi
foolishly insulted the English visitors