The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
HERON TAKES
GOLF TITLE BY
BEATING JONES
Oakmont Player Wins Ma
tional Amateur Final
by 5 and 4.
1000 FOLLOW MATCH
Experts, Neophytes and Iron
Workers Mingle in Record
Gallery at Pittsburg.
1000 FOLLOW MATCH
By INNS BROWN.

P1rrsBURa, Aug 23.-While 1000 en-
thusiasts looked on excitedly 8. David
son Heron. robust native son.
trampled over the agile form OF Robert
r. Jones, Jr.. of Atlanta for the anna
tour golf championship OF the United
states to-day at the Oakmont Country
Club. When the two finished holing
out par is on the fifteenth green in
the afternoon. thereby halving the hole.
Heron became the winner by up and
4 to play on the thirty-six holes final.
II was Pittsburg's first big national
amateur golf championship and the fact
was apparent to even a casual observer.
The real golf enthusiasts. both star and
dub alike, in a decided minority mingled
with the neophyte and the merely curl
Gus but feverish laity. 1t wac one Of
the warmest and most exciting chases
recorded since the days when the Greeks
pushed the wooden horse upon the shore
of ancient Troy and the startled
popuace awoke to the fact that a
legion Of rampant warriors was crowd
ing forward.
Staid business and professional men,
corpuent, lean and compromises between
the two. clad in palm beaches, mohairs
and cool clothes. pulled, dragged. hauled
and coaxed their helpmates from hill
to dale and back again. Small boys,
gay youngsters and giddy misses
scuttled heller SHELTER in wild
confusion. Plain. ordinary John Does
and Richard Does sailed back and
forth from mound to fiat in the big
scramble to watch the excitement
Another Great Curiosity.
Nor was there condition or caste
Gentry who exuded prominence and
affluence mingled with the boys who
looked on and stared in amazement as
though they were taking a first slant at
Niagara Falls, the Leaning Tower of
Pisa, or some other world wonder the
while their hands betokened the early
closing of the steel mills and iron foun-
dries on Saturday afternoons.
They were all there. Possibly three
fourths of them were looking on their
first golf match. Doubtless there wero
many who were not certain whether a
niblick was an instrument of play or
just merely a condition that player en-
countered In the jolly pursuit of the
pesky little white ball. But 1t was a
championship battle and a native son
was engaged in the issue
Then there were the flag men. Yes, a
legion of them. Rather foolishly the
committee in charge OF the contest tried
TO handle this wild rabble without ropes
TO restrain them. Instead what looked
like about go per cent. of the club
strength augmented by few score
ringers were armed with dainty little
yellow flags and set to the job of holding
that mob in check.
Had it but been a stationary PROPOSE
ton with the mob confined in one per-
mol cob
succeeded. But with the scene of play
ever shifting. and the course doubling
back here and there. the Job was hope
less Those who attempted to keep
right along behind the action were
crowded and herded about like a bunch
OF cattle. while those who sought a place
Of eminence to await the coming of the
match were driven from their perches
and crowded into the jostling pack.