Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-17
OU|MET ON HARRY /
VARDON'S HEELS
Young Amateur Makes Splendid
Showing at BroOkline Golf
Tournament.
TRAYERS In PLAY TODAY

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BROOKLINE, Mass, Sept. 17.-An-
other army of golf followers tramped
the Country Club course today to
watch the performances of the Sec
ond qualifying division for the Amer
lean open golf championship, real
play for which begins tomorrow. The
section today included the two Eng
| lish players, Edward Ray and Will
! fred E. Reid, companion of Harry
Vardon in the British golf invasion,
and the two American champions, Je-
rome D. Travers, of Upper Montclair,
the amateur title-holder, and John ].
McDermott, of Atlantic City, who
won the open last year at Buffalo.
| After the exploits of Vardon and
ouimet yesterday there was consid-
cradle interest today as to whether
their scores of ISL and 152, respec-
lively, for the double round, could be
approached, equalled or bettered by
any OF the second division players.
Harry Vardon, of England, five
times British champion and the hol-
der of the American title once, and
Francis Ouimet, the Massachusetts
amateur, who has not yet passed his
twenty-first birthday, engaged in a
splendid struggle for first honors in
the opening qualifying round for the
national open championship yester-
day. The veteran Englishman beat
Ouimet by a single stroke, a stroke
that was saved on the last green
when long putt from a point fully
rs feet from the cup gave him three
on a par four hole, making his total
for the day ISL strokes, while Quiz
NETS total was 1852.
Eighty-four contestants started
yesterday morning, all but scat
tered five or six being professionals.
At the end of the first round Ouimet
was ahead with a beautifully played
"a. the lowest round made during the
day, and Vardon. with 70. was sec
ond. In the afternoon Vardon. with
his great putt, made up the extra
stroke.
There were few lapses from his
usually smooth and steady form in
the play of the former British cham
pion. In the morning his approach
puts were not accurate. and on
nearly every hole left him a tanta-
liking yard or so from the cup. He
managed to get most of them down,
although a couple times he slipped
up and took three puts. His at
the fourteenth was the result of a
pulled second shot. followed by three
puts when the green was reached
In the afternoon he missed several
fairly easy puts. but he made up
for his errors by his splendid shot
on the home green.
Ouimet, who is Massachusetts, State
champion, on his forenoon round
played just as brilliantly and stead
lily as Vardon. He got both length
and direction with iron and wood,
and putted better than Vardon. There
was a burst of cheering when he
turned in "a for his first round.
In the afternoon Ouimet did even
better on the outward trip than on
the first round. He headed for homo
with a card of SO. and played smooth
ly until he reached the fourteenth
hole. when he sliced into a sand
pit. On the eighteenth also he pulled
into the rough, but splendidly ex-
ecuted mashie shot landed him on
the green more than $50 yards away.
He just missed a 20-foot putt which
would have given him a tie score with
Vardon of ISL.
In the third place was MacDonaia
Smith, younger brother Of ALEC,
and Nellie Smith. He made " on
each round for his total of 154. Alex.
Ross. of Brae Burn. was fourth, with
i76-S1-157. Just beating out by one
stroke Tom MacNamara. the Boston
home bred. whose card was 7S-S0-
1873. A two-stroke penalty imposed
for hitting the caddie standing at the
second hole in the morning kept Mac
Namara out of fourth position.
The only other foreigner VIII
played yesterday was Louis Tellie
the Frenchman. His 161 put him f
a tie for seventh place.
The names of the 80 who qualified