New-York tribune., 1919-08-22

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Davidson Heron. oakmont. defeated
play. ''''" ''''' o 'p ""o 10
and the genial city of Philadelphia in
bid for his 5, but missed. 1t was his
final effort.
On the 3sth hole he hooked far into
the rough, played out at right angles
and reached the green in 3. Platt, now
master of the situation, sent one spin
ming down the middle and stuck high
mashie niblick to within eight feet of
the cup. He had shown his gameness
after one bad series of f1uttering duck
fits by playing four Of the last five
holes in par figures and by matching
the ex-amateur and ex-open champion
at spectacular recoveries at the critical
point Of q hard fought match.
so Platt moves into the semi-fnal
round to face Dave Heron. For a
young golfer to overthrow three such
entries as John G. Anderson, Paul
Tewkesbury and Francis Ouimet with
IN three days, there is due all the
CREDIT that one has to give. Against
Ouimet at his best he would. of
he made was sufficient to lift his name
up amid the elect.
Jones Has Close Call
The second feature match of the
day found Bobby Jones, of Atlanta,
and Rudy" Knepper. Of Sioux City,
involved in a water-logged and er-
tuck time of it all the way in the
,morning round. Fine golf was mixed
with a series Of blunders, ari first
one youngster would forge ahead, only
to drop behind, while the second
youngster set the pace.
Jones was playing his irons with
much better effect than Knepper, but
the Atlanta star was having a woful
time keeping his tee shots on the
course. He was hitting too soon, and
therefore hooking badly. They came
TO the last hole in the morning round
al square, when young Knepper be-
came / up by dropping full mid
iron on the last green to within six
feet Of the cup.
Starting the afternoon round, Jones
settled down and caught his man on
the second hole. He forged ahead at
the fifth. and from that point on was
never beaded. His long game from
the tee was still source of his an
noyance, but his marked superiority
With the irons gave him all the BEST
of it.
Jones' was up coming to the eighth,
bat lost these two holes to par golf
and so was forced TO get going again,
faculty he has displayed all this
week. His play has been erratic. but
himself in the nick Of time and re-
cover his lead. Jones then stalked out
and won the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth by good sound golf, and then
with q big lead tossed away the thir-
teenth and fourteenth. He finally
settled the match on the sixteenth
green by margin of 3 and 2.
Their afternoon cards:
I2nss; KnspDeI' out, outt. sG-4ss
Rnepper aGnes; 'nii.....:.. in.....::: SSss2SS
Bill Fownes and Dave Heron, the
two Pittsburgh entries, both played
sound golf in dropping their two op-
ponents, George Hoffner, Of Phila-
delphia, and viii Thompson, of Canada.
Fownes vs.. Jones To-day
Fownes was 3 down at the end Of
the first nine holes, but settled in his
accustomed style under pressure and
finished the forenoon round up In
the afternoon the two stuck to it at
about the same pace. Fownes finally
settled the match on the ooth green
and tomorrow will go out against
Bobby Jones, who IN turn has eliminated
Manion, Bob Gardner and Rudy
Knepper ,
Dave Heron played the best golf of
the day in beating Thompson, and Z.
Heron, with a fine 73 in the forenoon,
turned in round that tied Chick
Evans's best mark yesterday, 73 be-
ing the fastest pace of the tournament.
Heron had IS going out and ~
coming back, unusual golf under the
conditions.
OF the four men left only one is older
than twenty-three. This lone veteran
ia Bill Fownes, who finds himself sur
rounded by a flock Of youngsters, out
to prove that golf is far from being
a Veterans game. Fownes has been
an outstanding figure in American golf
for many years and he was playing the
game before any Of the three others
was q BILE to lift putter.
HerEon Was Princeton student only
year ago. Jones was seventeen on
March II. Platt is not over twenty-five
at the outside. The latter will have to
improve his Thursday play to stop
Heron, who Is a hard man to handle
when he has his game in hand, and at
this juncture he is playing the best
golf Of the four.
But. as we remarked before, the
heather Chinee has nothing on golf
when it comes to peculiar ways.
In closing it might be said that
Ouimet's defeat, in addition to his poor
physical shape, came from a wild spell
of hooking off the tee--the same
| trouble that broke Up his game at
RraebuvU.