Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-09-25
NEVER A SIMILAR CLIMAX
Comes at 18th Hole after a
Week of Thrills and Sen
satiOnS on BrOOkline
Links.
WON ny 4. =. FROM ENGLAND
IN 1913.
Polo Championship.
Davis cup in Lawn Tennis
open Golf Championship.

/ open Golf Championship.
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hro"NHi'' MISS sept -l'-f ratclS
| nj. ~, -,
ing off the tie betwocn himself Harry
Vnrdon and Edward Rav Ouimet,s sooro
was ~ Vardon's - and RAYS -S
sunerIatives fail In face 10 tbc fro
mondous fact Never in tho histor.. ~
golf the world around has thare hoon
ANYTHING to annroach the romarka bio eIo-
ments thar made IN tho dramatic eo,erg
climax that come ~ tho 7-tb bole aftor
! q uook crowded with tbr,l1e and sorso-
tinns
! rruc ttorold II HILTON, won tb, pri,-
! ish oman twice and 1obn Ran onco Rut If
was in the dave whom Hilton Pail t-red
TAFT and nossibIv ono mr. two o,hors u,oro
known ta he cood orourb with f.ir ,olf.
/ inc rnrt,rc +, match ,ry nc tho natd
nlavors II vac oxnoctod and II, ,ir,o :,
came
In ,bis co,n,r,. ,ou, bolio,.ad ,,,,r ,,o.i,.o
oolf had d.v.1onod ans. o,,, oo,,.i ,,,,,,,-
ming an omen. not even when Charles
! Evans. Jr won the western omen three
wears ago That was at match nlav NOT
so severe = test a. tho strol<e COUNTS over
- holes. Again the field was mediocre,
'h"'eu' compared win inc one 'u'met
"'' III
WHAT LAD HAD TO 10.
Again, it's one thing to beat the next
best man. that man being somewhere on
the course. It's quite another to go out
as Ouimet did yesterday, to so stride for
stride stroke for stroke over the links
with thousands looking on in the very
presence of a man known the world over
as the finest golfer i'm the history of the
game, such ~ Harry Nardon. and tell
yourself You must beat him.
! But still further was the fact that even
/ II YOU managed to beat MIN. then to help
! MIN was another mighty golfer terrific
player man VINO IN ram WIND under
presSur" had done the same cours" In
marvellous ~ two DAYS before You must
20 out with two such giants ana beat
| th'm poth' peat wv" as me 3olIcrs as
| Great h1talh could produce.
| inns was tho stupenhous task set Tor
N-Near-oid Francis oumot Yesterday
/ modest lad who mad never appeared I'm
great national event before but once. that
! at Garden city, and had there been de-
feated.
DIN TIL. SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE
re "'' """' ''e 9eeN''"s'y ''i'posSi''o
., IT,. e w..
| of the strain OF that victory Would il
| shake his nervco
Assn matter Of fact those intimate with
vonnr ou,,nat cay h.. erart VOL and f,c.1
,ha .,s,, ,.i,bo,, , ,rar,or 81 tb;r,, yor-
do, t. ,h.. o,,, r,,... GA, IN hon, - no .old
E.,,
49,, r,.,.
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''''' "'''' 'i''"' "'.' ~ NV '"'N
oi'"N'"s Pave SCI ny '"e A'I'Il'ah H'u'n'
a'uo" IoS' one n'"'e NOE linen OH
tle Lam ne 100 broke uo"h utterly
losing two strokes there ana making
general nash OF the last.
Early as was the hour for PLAY al
course accessible only after a mile and
half bus ride. atrociouslY uncomfortable
as was the weather, dreary drizze such
as had kept coming in from the ocean fot
three days. making mud and puddles and
every putting green Ike sponge. VT
fully two Thousand persons set out after
this history making trio. j. j. McDer-
mott, who, having lost the title himself.
had every reason in the world to want Il
kept this side of the ocean had a session
of advice with Oumet before the start