Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-17
GOLFER 0U|MET HAS
HAD METEOR|C RISE
Western Amateur Champion
Makes Great Record in
Four Years.

Francis Ouimet the Boston boy who
won the western amateur championship
at the Midlothian Club of Chicago last
Saturday. is probably the most-talked- OF
man in the world of golf today. Oui-
met first came into the broad glare OF
publicity when in the play-off of the
memorable tie in the open champion
ship of 1913 at the Erookline Country
Club the Boston boy defeated Eng
lands professional leaders. Harry Var
don and Edward Ray, the latter being
at that time in possession OF the British
open crown.
Previous to his victory in the open.
Ouime. had been fairly we'll known In
and about the Boston district by virtue
of his very sound game, having won
the Massachusetts championship on two
previous occasions and the Boston in
ter-scholastic title twice. In the his
tory-makfng open Of 1913. Ouimet'
playing behind the great Englishmen
came to the eighteenth hole at Brook
line with a and a pair of As to tie for
the title The sixteenth. short hole
was played in regulation figures. as
was the seventeenth. although the Bos-
ton boy had to lay good chip shot
dead to get down in on the seven
teenth. At the eighteenth. with to
tie for the championship. Ouimet left
himself with an eight-foot putt on
This he made and his name was FASH ID
across the ocean as the unknown boy
who had dared to challenge the su-
premacy of the two greatest profess
sional golfers in the world.
Defeats England's Best.
Even though he had tied for the title.
rest on very fragile base. as no one
doubted for an instant that either OF
the Englishmen would play record
breaking game on the play on the next
day and leave the American boy far be
hind. But the opposite happened. Not
only did Ouimet defeat England's best.
but he did it in such manner as to
leave noA doubt as to the better man.
shooting la score of ~, against Var
don's II and Rays IS.
The next year, in contradiction of the
theory advanced by self-appointed
critics that Ouimet had won a fukc
victory over the Britishers. the boy from
Boston went up in the hills Of Vermont
to the beautiful course of the Ekwanok
Club and there captured the amateur
championship, defeating the redoubtable
Jerry Travers by and in the final.
The same year in the open champion
course. the one on which he yesterday
won the western event, Ouimet finished
sixth, Walter Hagen, an American-born
pro, winning the championship. In
OuimetS last national amateur start at
the Detroit Country Club in August
1916, he was dropped out in the second
round by that sturdy golfer from De-
troit, Jimmie Standish. At the annual
meeting of the United States Golf Asso-
citation in the early part of 1916 Ouimet
John H. Sullivan, jr.. Paul Tewksbury
and Arthur Lockwood. all of Boston
were declared professionals because OF
their connections with various pursuits
relative to the game of golf which
,crt,t in ucid In hi
Ouimet and Sullivan had shortly before
opened sporting goods store in Boston
in which golf goods were the principal
articles for sale, and this involved him
in the argument over the question of
his amateurism which threatened for a
time to disrupt the United States Golf
Association. His home club, Woodland
made a determined bid to have him re-