New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-21
Vardon and Ray, MonarChs Of
the Links of Great Britain,
Go Down Before the
Newest Star.
WINS BY A WIDE MARGIN
New England Lad Returns a
Brilliant 70 and Leads His
Famous Rivals by Five
and Six Strokes
Respectively.


Iron STAFF Correspondent OF The Tribune.
Brookline. Mass. Sept. ~. - Francis
Oumet. the Woodland amateur. added
10 the discontinue Of the already sorelv
tried John Bull by defeating Harry Var
don and Edward Ray, two Of his fore
most golfers, in the play-off Of the tie for
the open championship of the United
States on the links OF the Country club
to-day. The young American did it i'm
pressively. making the round in u, five
strokes better than Vardon, who led Ray
by single stroke.
The victory of Ouimet, marking as II
did the first time that an amateur had
ever won the American open title. was
received with conflicting emotions by the
vast gallery. probably the largest ever
seen at a golf gathering in this country.
being estimated all the way from 400 20
5000 men and women. To the majority. OF
course Ouimet's success was regarded as
the greatest performance in the history OF
the game. and they were at loss for
words 10 describe their feelings.
on the other hand, the minority-the
professionals and the hero worshippers-
who for years have regarded this re-
doubtable pair of britons as only a little
lower than the angels. were stunned. Ana
little wonder. when an amateur. scarcely
more than a boy. could show the way 10
those who had made a LIES study Of the
game. and were considered wellnight in
vincible.
Its wonderful" was the comment OF
Jerome D. Travers. the national amateur
champion who had watched every stroke
OF the play-off, pulling hard for Ouimet.
Winner Never clustered.
What impressed the oldtmers more
than anything else was the remarkable
nerve displayed by the winner WIN
Vardon and Ray these championship al
fairs, all the more nerve-racking because
of the presence of the thousands Watch-
ing every move, are more or less an olo
story. Quite different with Ouimet, VINO
was competing In his first national open
championship. From the moment he
made his first drive the Massachusetts
champion did everything that brain anu
muscle could be expected TO do.
II has been said that when the masters
arc unerring from the tee and through
the green and drop their approaches deau'
the game becomes humdrum. In other
words. IL is in their lapses from deaoh-
ness and in the subsequent recovery 'ha'
Is 10 be found the fascination Of the on
locker. Such may be the case where
golfers are taking part in an eXniDllioh
for the pleasure Of few hundred ciuo-
men.
II was different to-day. The vast ma
jority wanted to see their ia'oil'e SC
the ball In the hole They were "lllhe
N dispense with seemingly Impossible re-
coveries if Ouimet would only Keep on
IN. course. So he did-this golfer whose
stvle and execution are almost oeyohu
criticism. He went sweeping along un-
tro,bled by any OF the pitfalls, for only
once on the entire round did he wanoei
from the fairway. That was at the hith
hole where ne sliced brassie shot out
Of bounds.
Consequently. so far as Ouimet was CON
csrned there wasn't much I'm the way OF
,.coverv that had to be made. what
,hs,e was In this line had 10 be brought
M bv the Britons, and sometimes they
didn't recover. Ray and his fameo
nuhlick were not on their usual frleno!y
,err,s while Vardon's so-called mechani-
90, stra,ehtness occasionally went wrong