The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21

the third round of match play began
at the Oakmont Country club.
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia lead
with two survivors each, Boston has
one and there is also one southerner
and a Canadian remaining New York
made the poorest showing this year.
its last candidate being eliminated in
the second round. Chicago did not do
much better for it's last two men were
also put out at the same stage.
All four of today's contests looked
about equally attractive, so the gallery
broke itself up and switched from
match to match.
Bobby Jones. of Atlanta, was
matched with Rudolph Knepper, of
Sioux City. w. c. Fownes, jr., of
pittsburgh, and George w. Hoffner. of
Philadelphia, district champion, were
paired. In the lower half it is w. ].
Thompson, Canada, VS.. Davidson Her
ron. of Pittsburgh, and Francis Out
met, of Boston, VS.. j. Wood Plat,
Philadelphia.
day that he is one of the greatest
golfers ever developed in this country
by defeating Charles Evans, l up,
on the home hole of the Oakmont
Country club, in the second round of
the annual amateur championship
tournament. Playing the game with
the same stroke and nerve that gave
him international fame in 1913, when
he won the open from Ray and Var
don, England's most famous profess
SIGNALS. the Woodland club representa-
tive, playing from Auburndale, Mass,
fought turnout the entire day against
the skill and stamina of the Edgewater
club star of Chicago and eventually
achieved victory with a marvellous
pitch from pit to home green and a
four foot putt which required perfect
nerve control in the crucial moment of
the entire thirty-six holes of play
His defeat of the holdover amateur
and open champion of 1916, came only
after hours of golfing competition,
which was the closest and most brill
liant ever witnessed in similar titular
tournament. All even at the end of
the forenoon eighteen holes. the east
ern and western rivals renewed their
golfing duel in the afternoon and for
a short period it appeared as tho
Ouimet was to quickly clinch the con-
test. but he weakened at the end of
the third nine holes and Evans was
quick to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity and, after being three down at
one time, succeeded in squaring the
match at the thirty-fourth green. The
next was halved in threes.
The gallery, one of the largest that
ever witnessed a mid-weed tournament
match in this country, was absolutely
silent Notwithstanding the intense
strain of the contest as the pair teed
up AOr the nome mole play. Evans
drove first and Ouimet followed, both
reaching far down the fairway with
long shots. Ouimets second landed in
deep pit to the right of the green,
while Evans was just on the edge of
the rough some forty feet from the
pin. When Ouimet stepped down into
the pit he was out of sight of a large
part of the spectators and a great
shout of applause involuntarily sprang
from the gallery when he pitched the
ball from a cloud of sand to within
four feet of the flag. EYanss mashie
shot was trifle strong and the ball
rolled fully twelve feet past the cup.
The double title holder sighted the
lay of the green for almost a minute
before he putted, but the strain was
too great for him to do himself full
justice and he fell short of the hole by
three feet. Ouimet followed with a
gentle touch of his ball, which rolled
leisurely to the lip of the cup, paused
for a fraction of second and then
dropped out of sight, thus terminal
ing one of the most remarkable
matches in the history of American
golf
The comeback of the woodland ex-
pert was the more impressive from the
perfect physical condition. Still suf-
fering from the effects of tonsilitis
and unable to take heavy nourish-
ment he played the entire thirty-six
holes with but an occasional sip of
orange juice and the effects of the
strain and heat began to show on the
final nine holes.
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