Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-20

Brookline, Mass, Sept. 19-An Amer ican youth-a stripling scarcely out of his teens-carved a niche for himself in international sporting history here today when Francis Ouimet tied with England'S famous professional golfers Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, in the final round of the national open championship. AS the result of his wonderful exhibition of nerve and golfing skill he will be Americas sole representative in the 1S-ho1e, three
 ball medal play off of the tie which exists tonight between the trio, each
 of whom turned in card of BOA for 72 holes contested during the past two days.
 An international Contest. Ouimets performance today lifted the nineteenth annual open tournament
 out of the usual classification accord ed national championship and brought the contest to a standard little
 short of~-such international competi-
 tions as the Davis cup tennis matches, America's yacht races and the polo contests. Of the half dozen home bred
 and transplanted professionals not one
 could keep pace with the golfing of Ray and Vardon and all hope of re-
 taining the titular honors appeared lost until Ouimet was found making his lone stand mid rain and mud against two players old enough to be his fath CT.
 When the gallery realized that in this hOme-br amateur born and brought up on the edge of the Country Club course, rested Americas chance of winning the championship the tourna- ment ceased to be a purely golf com petition ard developed into an inter national contest between the represen-
 tatives of Uncle Sam and John Bull. The spectators lost that. placid atti- tude and whispers that ordinarily
 marks the golf gallery and footed and cheered Ouimet on in a manner that is typical at baseball and football games. The scenes that attended Ouimets march over the last four holes have never been equalled on an American or European course. En- thuSiasm ran the gamut from despair to elation, silence was followed by out bursts of cheering that could be heard from one end of the course to the oth- CT. When Ouimet's second shot from the seventeenth tee landed dead on the edge of the home green five thousand spectators maSsed themselves in a gigantic ring of breathless humanity about Ouimet and his playing partner, George Sargent.
 Sensational Finish.
 The American youth needed the 1 hole in one to win and two to tie. He
 gazed long down into the bowl where the cup lay, dried his hands and made a 35-putt that just missed the hole and rolled three feet beyond. A sigh arose from the crowd and all wass still again. Ouimet looked at that little stretch of sodden turf that lay between him and another chance for the title; gently tapped the ball and stepped back to watch it's progress. Slowly it rolled to the edge of the hole, curled around the lip for an inch
 or so and then dropped in for the four which tied him with Ray and Vardon Instantly a yell went up which must have been heard in Boston.
 The gallery swept past ropes and guards and closed in on Ouimet in sClid phalanX. He was lifted to the shoulders of the advance guard and carried toward the clubhouse surround ed by several thousand cheering, yell ing golfers who forgot their golf in the enthusiasm of being just Americans, cheering an American victory
 Ray was first to report at home with a card of 413576 Other pairs re-