The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Highest GOIfing HOnOrs Go to
an American Amateur.
Ouimet Defeats English Profess
SiOnals on BrOOkline Links.
GOLD MEDAL and CUP ARE HIS
Five Thousand Persons Follow
the Sensational Play.
His SchOOImateS Cheer the
Champion to Victory.

Brookline, Sept. 20.-Francis Ouimet,
a school boy amat teur of Brookline, won
the highest golfing honors in the coun-
try, if not in the world. by defeating
Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, the
English professionals, by five and six
strokes respectively, in the play off
for the American open championship
today. The victory of the boy carried
with it a gold medal and the custody
of the championship cup by his home
organization-the Woodlawn Golf club
of Newton.
No amateur in this country and only
one abroad has ever gained such golf
ing fame There were few of the 5000
persons following the play who felt
at the start that the youth could pos
sibly vanquish such renowned veterans
as the two former British champions.
In order to win, Ouimet was obliged to
play the best golf of the week.
When he had accomplished the first
Is holes in So strokes and made the
seventeenth in wonderful three, Var
don, his closest opponent broke under
the strain. Ouimet did not get into the
lead until the turn for home. All three
made the half way mark in even 3S.
But after that he was never headed.
Enthusiastic followers carried the vic
tor on their shoulders to the club house,
where Secretary John Reid, Jr., of the
United States Golf association, made
the presentation speech.
Vardon received $40 and Ray S100
for second and third prizes.
The final score was: Ouimet 72; Var
don Il: Ray rs.
In presenting the championship cup
to Ouimet, Secretary Reid said:
1T is customary to receive security
Co. l, +l,.z
only security which the Z. s. golf asso-
citation will demand is that the Wood
land Golf club shall see that Francis
keeps UP his game"
Young Ouimet said in response
that he was as much surprised at the
added. 1t was always my hope to
VIM / tried my best to keep the cup
from going across the water. That
was all | wanted. 1 am very glad that
was successful"
Brookline, Mass. Sept. 2O.-The golf
ing ba tile between England and Amer
lea for the nineteenth open champion
ship with Harry Vardon and Edward
Ray, two sea soned British players
playing 20 year old Francis Ouimet
of this town in an 1S-hole contest. be-
gan today in a typical Scotch mist. Yet
the sodden turf and dripping trees
failed to keep back one of the largest
galleries that ever followed golf
match in this country. One hundred
club members armed with red flags and
100 fathoms of rope were necessary to
keep the eager crowd from treading On
the heels of the three players.
Vardon and Ray were to 1 favor
ties over the Brookline boy at the drive
off at 10 o'clock, yet the army of Yam
kee enthusiasts was hopeful of victory.
almost content with Ouimet's
exploits yesterday in playing such ex-
perienced golfers as Vardon and Ray
to a standstill. Ouimet started the play
off with most thorough knowledge of |
every hole on the Country club course. |
He knows every spear of grass. every |
trap and every bunker said his cad |
die
Ouimet lives just across the street
from the sixteenth hole and has been
on the course almost since infancy. He |
began carrying clubs as caddie when |
nine years old.
It being holiday and entrance to |