The sun., 1917-07-14
OUIMET IN FINAL;
MEETS K. EDWARDS
Eastern Golfer Scores Over
Rivals Brother in Western
Tourney, 4 and =.
ANDERSON Is ELIMINATED
In Exhibition Far Below His
bility Siwanoy Player Is
Beaten, 5 and +.
ANDERSON Is ELIMINATE

MIDLOTHIAN COUNTRY CLUB. BLUE
ISLAND. ILL.,. July 13-East and West
meeting in the semi-hnals of the West
,rn amateur championship at the Mid
lothian Country Club to-day. broke even.
the invaders winning in the upper sector
OF the draw and meeting with a heavy
reverse in the lower sector. As a result
Of to-days play Francis Ouimet OF the
woodland Club of Boston will meet
Kenneth Edwards of Midlothian In the
final match for the George b. Thorn
trophy emblematic Of the Western anna
teur championship. Ouimet eliminated
Donald Edwards OF Midlothian, 4 and 2,
and Kenneth Edwards retired John G.
Anderson of the Siwanoy Club OF New
York. and I.
In the morning at the first hole neither
Ouimet nor Edwards reached home in
two Both chlpped up within holable
distance, but after Ouimet had cupped
his putt Edwards missed for the half.
Each was a trifie short of the second
green, Clipped up perfectly and halved
in I.
On the third green Ouimet's fine
nashie shot presaged 3. but he did not
hole the putt and they nalved in 3.
They halyed the fourth hole in 5, Ed
wards having a harder struggle for his
because his approach was wide into the
rough, His chip was perfect.
Ouimet Is 2 Up at Fifth.
ouin1ct became up at the ffth with
. long drive straight down the middle,
an approach that almost hit the pin,
Stopping a yard beyond the cup and
Yielding a simple 3. A weak tee shot
g,- rdu ,,A
0uimet at the short sixth gave the I5os-
tOnian another hole and increased his
had 20 up.
oulmet's first inferior shot was from
the seventh tee, where he failed to get
low ball into the wind but he made
up for IL with a perfectly hit low flying
brassie. Both were home in 3 and down
r. 5. No opening was left for the Mid
lothian man at the eighth. where Ouimet
vas abreast of the hole on the edge of
the green in 2 and nearly holed a chip,
then putting in for 4. Edwards also was
On the edge in .. but he had a long
curving putt which he landed six feet
from the cup and then missed the putt
for haic. thereby becoming 4 down.
II r0mained so at the turn, for they
halvr Il the ninth In 4. Under the exist
'TS conditions Ouimet's IS was fine golf
Edwards found the rough at the tenth
but Ouimet with n full brassie to the
green had a putt for a 3, and missing by
three inches won as. Edwards missed
six foot putt for 2 on the eleventh
and halved In 3.
Edwards won his first hole at the
twelfth He drove out Of bounds but
Ouimets ball lodged near an electric
light post and he had to play out al
right angles even with Edwards second
0uimet was wide on his approach and
missed six foot putt. losing. 6-5
0umet took 3 puts on the next green
enabling Edwards. who had pulled L
the rough, to halve in 5.
The next two holes were halved in 4
thirty foot putt gave Ouimet the six
tenth hole. 4-5, Edwards missing from
fifteen feet. Ouimet topped his second
shot for the eighteenth hole, but jumpet
the bunker. Edwards also got a shor
second. They were short of the greer
IN ). 1t looked like a half in 8, but tn,
Boston player missed a four foot put
and was up. The cards: