Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Open Championship of United
States Kept in This Country
by Young Amateur.
VARD0N AND RAY BEATEN
IN 18-H0LE PLAY-OFF
Grand Nerve and Marvellous Golf
Mark Final Performance of
Youthful Champion.
ID RookILNE, MASS, Sept. 90

ID ROOKLINE, MASS, Sept. 90
ID An amateur golfer is open
champion of the United States
and the British invasion. which
seemed destined to score an over
whelming success, is beaten back.
Francis Ouimet. 2O-year-old
golfer. an amateur won the plav-of
Of the tie for the Nineteenth omen
Golf Championship here to-day. beat
IN Harry Nardon and Edward Ray.
Doth former British champions in a
most decisive fashion At the end Of
the lS-hole round played TO break the
tie, the score stood. Ouimet. 70
Vardon =; Ray, rs.
Big as was the margin Of the vic
tory. 1t was not gained until the round
was nearly over
Anybody's Match.
Up 10 the fifteenth hole any one OF
the three had plenty of chance to
win, for although Ouimet was ahead.
ne led Nardon by only. one stroke, and
Ray by two.
The gigantic Ray was the first o,
the Englishmen to go down and out.
accomplishing his downfall by pulling
INTO a trap beside the fifteenth and
taking six strokes for the hole
Ihat left Ouimet and Vardon 10
night 1t out, with a stroke to be gained
by Nardon If he would tie and only
three holes left in which to gain it.
Each Of the leaders got his three
on the little sixteenth, and on they
went to the seventeenth, where Out
met had saved himself the dav be-
fore by getting wonderful three.
Fatal for Vardon.
hn N ff.h
to save few yards by cutting across
the corner Of the elbow from the tee.
and the attempt caused him to lose
all chances for the title. His ball was
caught by trap and he had to play
out safely, without trying to reach
the green He took five for the hole.
and Ouimet on in two, ran down a
l2-foot putt that gave him the lead of
three clear strokes and Clinched the
championship beyond doubt.
The other two strokes came in the
home hole, when Nardon, discouraged
and detected took six for the hole.
while the Boston boy made it in four.
The play-off began shortly after 10
o'clock in a drizzling rain, a continue
ton OF the miserable weather that
had made the second day of the
championship proper one long to be
remembered
All three of the contestants made
the first hole in five. Though Ouimet
and Vardon We're close enough on
their approaches to have chances to
get down long puts, neither of them
did So
The First Break.
on the second hole. on which all
three were down in four. Ray and
Ouimet had the same kind of OPP
portunities, but missed again. The
first break came on the 435- yard
third tor-there Ray missed a short
put fot his -Four, and Ouimet and
yEardgh forged/ahead
Thfn came kanather hole on which
\eachi made five, though Ouimet was
excsedingtET1fckyA to keep on even
terms With Ghe others. His second
fencey but as Ray failed to get the
greer on bis second and Vardon took
three puts, the American lost nothing
by his mistake.
Vardon Leads.
At-tha- sixth came another shift.
VardOn pitched his approach to the
green in splendid fashion. and the ball
stopped not more than six feet from
the cup. After Ouimet had failed to
get down a long try, Vardon holed his
shot, and was a stroke ahead of Out
Ray. A good three on the short sew
enth enabled Ray to pull up on the
others, neither Of whom could do bet
ter than four. and he was trailing
FardOn on even terms with Ouimet
1t was all even again when they
holed out in the eighth, for Ouimet
laid his approach to within a foot OF
the pin. and went down in three, only
10 see Ray hole q 30-foot put for a
be content with par four. The ninth
hole is the longest on the course, and
the three made It in five apiece, Var
don having the most work to do, for
his drive was in the edge of the woods
to the left.
All Even at Turn.
That left the score at the turn Out
met 80, Vardon SO, Ray 3S. 1t was a
great struggle, and the crowd, grow
ing every minute, watched the drives
from the tenth tee breathlessly. The
three balls all reached the green, but
Ouimet's was nearest the cup. 1t
looked as If three would be made. but
bob Englishmen took three puts,
while Ouimet was taking the usual
two. and the young amateur went
ahead, and as It later proved, took a
lead that was never to be relinquish-
ed
Three fOurS on the next hole car
ried them to the twelfth, which prov
ed to be the turning point OF the
round.
Amateur Gains Another.
Ouimet was the only one TO reach
the green in two, and the Britishers
followed UP their poor seconds with
the most Indifferent sort of short ap-
proaches, with the result that neither
of them got close enough to get down
in four, which Ouimet promptly pro-
ceeded to do. and was two strokes
n he H.,