The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-08
TWO WORID-BEATING GOLF
 SHOTS.

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 Tn the August American Magazine Jerome D. Travers, amateur golf champion of the United States writes an extraordinarily entertaining article entitled wv Wonder Shots that Won Golf Charnp ionships." His article is full
 of tr.ie stories of amazing plays that he has seen in various championship in. Following is his account of the two butts that gave Ouimet the open cham pionshipt last year:
 When OuirIaet had finished the six teenth hole he still had a three and a. four left for a tie with two Britons. And a three on the eighteenth hole was next to Impossible except by a flGke, so he had to get Q. three on the seventeenth Now the seventeenth green at Brcokline is a most treach- ero1s affair." or was that day, with a. decided slope and as fast as streak Probably the strongest part of my game is putting, and that green had got well upon my nerves and had me guessing
 lon his second shot that day tOui- met planted his ball on the green about twenty feet from the cup and above the hole. It was almost i'm possible to get close to the cup on your second shot here, as the hole was c1ose to the bunker. So Ouarnet he'd to play above and to the right of the hole, leaving the hardest of all putting combinations, a dovvn-faflI side hill putt It was as about d dif- ffcuit putt as a man was ever called upon to make. If he missed the ct1p over the fast, tricky green he was al J and have anothers hard pIttfor four And a four would have been useless
 Ouimet knew this, and he must nave figured out just what it meant But even though I knew he had 2. wonderful temp for golf. r was surprised to note the sure easy. and confident way he went to that putt. He went for the cub as ifsbs had been trying a practice putt. Over the wet, slippery green the ball sta.rt- ed on a perfect line. curved in at ex actly the right spot and struck tI,a back of the cup with as welcome :. cluck-cluck es have ever heard. e4Es lnad wasn't all. He had got ten his three on par four hole l,,,4 there was still another hole tf, 7,Ia,y ana a hard one, calling for fine rolf 70 register the needed four O,1ir,7et mad good drive and a fine, zef.r,,,5 sno1 over road guarding the green to the edge Of the pbank. where tf, s pail struck in the rstin-soalrel5 4+,,,e In the green between his ball ana -, z cup With the hole up the slope. On this shot would have used . T,1+t... 10 follow the roll of the ground and get up fairly close. But Clni7,,ef elected to use a mashie and wheT b< p1fch he'd the ball landed six or seven E Feet shorr--not an sexceptionalIx long distance away but the most tryine distance imaginable when one ,,ee5s that putt badly. He had already vvi.r- gled out of one: close call and was I1r, taga1nst anotherone shot left to tie Br1fain,s two golfing kings and keen ms country on the go1fing map. It wasn't so much the fact thai he made the putt as it was the way he went about it. There was no sign ot any sort of nervousness. He walked up to his ball with an easy, stea1v stride, barely took a look at the hole wasted no time in getting set. ana
 with three thousand of his followers almost breaking apart under tl,e strain he putted boldly for the centeI
 with clean free tap that could have come only from muscles under her. l feet mental control
 And when that putt dropped f re. l adized that had never felt a. regula,
 thrill before-that the others were i all counterfeits's