Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-27
0U|MET Wins AGAIN
Y0unqster Outnerves Travers,
as He Did the Britons.
GALLERY SHOWS FEELING
Open Titleholder Starts Poorly, But
Braces Up After Talk With
His Mother.

BROOKLINE, Mass, September 81
Champion smet champion yesterday, and
Francis Ouimet. Americas national open
golf titleholder, added to his recent lau-
rels by vanquishing Jerome D. Travers
the national amateur champion. The
match. went 20 holes before the youth
prevailed.
Ouimet's victory marked a clean sweep
for the players of the Boston district
against those of New York in the singles
division of the preliminary tie for the
Lesley cup. New York won three out Of
five foursomes matches, but the intercity
score for the day was: Boston, IL; New
York, 3.
The local team will meet Philadelphia
the present holder of the Lesley cup. in
the final today.
A gallery Of 1000 persons which fol-
lowed the Ouimet-Travers match became
SO overweight at the twentieth hole as
to commit what President B. c. Watson
of the United States Golf Association de-
clared to be the worst exhibition of
partisan feeling In American golfing his
tory and a disgrace to the spo: t.
The outbreak followed Travers' i'll for
tune In driving into a trap beyond the
twentieth hole on his approach. Travers
mtshap was appreciated to be the decid-
ing break, and small portion of the gal
lery gave vent to it's feelings by clapping
hands.
When Travers came on the green he
looked the crowd in the face for mo-
ment and then turned to the business of
extricatfng his ball. He almost trapped
himself again. then falling on a twelve
loot putt, and saw the match go. to
putt. after failing to run down one of
eight feet for a three.
Ouimet outnerved Travers, as he did
the British professionals, Vardon and
Ray. In the memorable national open
championship play-off on the same
course last Saturday. Starting poorly.
he was outdriven and Outputted by
Travers In the early holes.
Otimet Faces Disaster.
Three down at the turn, Ouimet set
out on stern chase. He halved the
tenth and then won the eleventh,
twelfth and thirteenth, making the
match even
The fourteenth was a disastrous hole
for Ouimet. After slicing his drive
branches before he got out and took
an eight for the hole. while Travers
took four. He was also forced to con-
cede the fifteenth after missing
seven-foot putt. making him down.
Ouimet's mother greeted him in the
sixteenth green. which hole he halved
for three Then the boy. after ap-
parently assuring his parent that he
had not lost his spirit. played the sew
enteenth for a four. Travers approx
mated six.
For the home hole Ouiment outdrove
his older opponent and lofted to the green
in two. Travers' ball on the second shot
fell in front of a bunker and on the third
shot overran the green into the crowd 1t
was Ouimets hole, and the match was
tied. Both players required five on the
nineteenth. but victory came to Ouimet
on the twentieth.
None of the other singles matches was
productive of features.
Regarding the incident at the twentieth
hole of the Ouimet-Travers match, c.
Herbert Windler chairman of the golf
committee of the Country Club. ISSUED
statement last night rendering an apo.ogy
to Travers for the disgraceful and un-
sportsmanlike behavior of the crowd.
The action of the crowd or that part
of II which applauded the stroke that put
Mr. TraverS into bunker, detracted
greatly from the merit of the victory for
Mr.. Ouimet. and may even have been the
means of terminating the match at that
point" said the chairman.
The cards of the Ouimet-Travers match
were: