Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-15
Defeats K. p. Edwards in
Western Tourney by Mar
gin of ] Up.
VICTORY OF BOSTON MAN
POPULAR WITH GALLERY
Failure to Sink Easy Puts Costs
Chicago Player Opportunity
to Take Match.


CLUB, BLUE ISLAND, ILL.,, July
14-Francis Ouimet of Boston,
former national amateur and
open golf champion, today won
the western amateur champion
ship by defeating Kenneth P.
Edwards of Chicago, l up in
thirty-six holes, at Midlothian
after two rather poor rounds, in
which erratic golf was inter-
spersed with brilliant plays and
thrilling approaches alternated
with miserable puts. Both play
! ers shared in the changeable
golf and their medal scores were:
Ouimet ....37A1-3o-44O-157
Edwards ...4l-38-3o-3o-l57
The victory was popular with the
large gallery. ouimet's appearance a.
an amateur in the only national anna
vitation of the Western Golf Associa-
ton. has met with approval among
western followers OF the game. With
John G. Anderson of New York, Jesse
Guilford. Massachusetts champion:
Jack May. Argentina champion, and
four former western champions enter
ed, the field was all but equal to most
| of the past national amateur tourna-
| ments. In the championship matches
all the play has been close to par 72
shot better golf during tho week than
Ouimet, but today he appeared to be
overgo1fed. and could not sink fairly
simple puts. Ouimet was wild with
his w0odan c1r1ha milling fhA rough
frequently. Once the Bostonfan went
into a creek in trying to hook around
a clunp of trees from a hooked drive.
He halved that hole. however. as Ed
wards refused to take 1t, preferring
! three puts. This inclination to q null
tiplicity of puts caused Edwards to
| take % on the first nine holes. al
though his long game called for not
more than Is.
Edwards Fails at Putting.
With proper putting the Chicagoan
could have served a "a and been or
3 up instead of down, at the end
Of the first quarter.
Ouimet had more distance than the
| runner-up, but his wildness caused him
to be on the defensive at many holes.
, Edwards was straight down tho
course nearly all the time, but he fall
| tered fatally once. hooking his ap-
proach so close to a hedge on the
l AAeN
! back toward the gallery to get out.
losing that hole Go. after Ouimet had
tasted the rough himself.
Ouimet was over par on ten holes,
| and had only one birdie, while Edwards
was over par on twelve holes. with
three brides.
Driving off at 10 o'clock, outmet went
straight for $50 yards on the 437-yard
wards hit to the far side Of tho green and
took three puts. losing to 4.
the rough. His second shot went to tho
bottom Of the terraced green. He took
three puts and lost another hole. But
on the 122-yard third Edwards drove to
| within a foot Of the cup for q and
was only one down. Outdriving Edwards,
the former champion hooked to deep pit
on the 520-yard fourth and took three
puts for 6. but Edwards could not
make it square, missing a five-foot putt
Edwards went four down at the 400
yard seventh hole. On the 4o0-yard eighth
Ouin1et hooked to the. rough and sliced
his iron to the creek. but his fourth was
dead for half in 5. They turned with
Ouimet up. after halving the ninth in
par T. Ouinlet had 81 out and Ed
wards. Al.
Both Players Hook.
Both hooked on the 4os-yard tenth. Oui-
met finding a pit short of the creek and
playing out short Of the water. He push
ed his third to green trap. but was dead :.
on his chip for a 5. halving the hole.
Both pulled their midiron tee shots down
the sloping green Of the 196-yard eleventh
and poor chip shots gave each 4.
Oumet sliced to within a foot of
pit on the 359-yard twelfth and hooked
his second across the green. but Ed
wards refused to take advantage, over
approaching. but won the hole. to 5.
and was three down.
Edwards had the better drive on the
S3S-yard thirteenth, but nipped his ap-
proach a foot too short to clear an EN-.
bankment. But Ouimet's approach was
mediocre and they halved In 4.
The 390yard fourteenth was ha1ved in
par 4, and the 4G2-yard fifteenth the
same after Ouimet made a splendid re-
covery from a sliced drive and holed
10-foot putt
Ouimet outdrove and embarrassed his
opponent on the 55S-yard sixteenth.
but his 20-yard approach was pulled
while Edwards. with a 10-foot putt,
won, As, and was down.
Edwards became down on the 346.
yard seventeenth by pulling his APP
proach to a trap and taking two puts
for s. Regaining the honor for the
first time in five holes Ouimet pulled
his drive into deep pit on the 42S-
yard eighteenth and was barely out on
q Edwards was on in two and won,
AS, stopping for luncheon two down.
The cards for the championship
rounds: