Evening star., 1920-09-10

Evans has been hard pressed to gain
ms present position in the tourna-
lhent. but his excellent golf yester-
day finally eliminated former cham
plon W c. Fownes, jr.
esterday Ouimet pat out Armour.
. ana = Evans defeated Fownes, Z
anu o, Allls won over !. Wood Platt,
M " no tne day previous had eliminated
IIhampion Dave Heron, > and /. and
Jones peat +. j. Wright, jr and 4.
ouinet Gets Flying start.
ouimet started off in the smornins
with a string Of six fours before en-
counterlng trouble and by the sixth
hole had piled UP a lead of four holes
on Armour. The latter's approaching
was sensational. He had to recover.
lot ne was almost constantly in trou-
BILE.
Both found trouble coming in, Oui-
met being trapped on the short tenth
IN ditch on the fifteenth. where he
iost stroke by penalty. and hooking
his second to behind trees on the six
teenth. But at that Ouimet won this
sixteenth when Armour took three
puts and halved the fifteenth. At the
END OF the morning Ouimet was ) up.
Ihe woodland star played brilliant
golf in the afternoon. He won the
thlrd when Armour lost distance to
the green by silver drive, lost the
next when he missed a putt after be-
advantage of Armour's errins ways
on the seventh for the half. Ar
mours second shot lay four feet from
the cup, yet he needed two puts.
Armours best played hole of the day
and possibly of the tournament was
the ninth in the afternoon. He chose
to use an iron for his second shot.
Most players are satisfied to get with
IN seventy-flve yards of the green
win a second played with a brassie,
but Armour's iron landed him a scant
ten yards short. He Clipped on to
left Ouimet 3 up at the turn for home.
and by losing the tenth when his
stralght tee shot took p mean kick
into a trap he was only up They
haived the next. but Ouimet hastened
to end his work. The way he won the
twelfth satisfied the gallery as no
other demonstration could.
Armour outdrove him by twenty
yards here. In fact. the Scottie drove
altogether too far. for his ball ran
INTO rough behind clump of trees.
Armours second was a masterful
shot 1t was rolled out instead of be-
ing an attempt to get through the
trees, which might have been disas-
trous and it didn't stop rolling until
IL mad reached the green. Ouimet was
on with an orthodox pitch and then
foled a 25-footer to win. They
halved the thirteenth. but the match
ehGed When Armour dubbed and fiub-
pea all over the battling fourteenth
1or three shots and then gave up.
Jones Too Much for Wright.
When Bobby Jonas can make ~ on
Engineers it is time for his opposition
to acknowledge defeat Wright didn't
do this. for he kept in the running
as long as possible. but a blind man
could have read the handwriting on
the wall before the first half of the
morning round. Wright got a false
impression of his chances by winning
the first and fourth holes to Jones
victory on the second. But the ter
r1ble Atlanta youth squared the
match again on the fifth and then
won three in a row with hhrees. los
ing the ninth, but turning up. His
birdie on the sixth came as the result
Of a fifteen-foot putt. and on the next
with a twenty-footer. At the turn he
had made 35, one under par, even with
on the ninth hole Bobby lost the
tenth by driving out of bounds, but
won the eleventh, thirteenth. four
teenth. fifteenth and sixteenth. and
then lost the home hole after over
running the pin. leaving him 5 up.
Jones won on the short fourteenth hole
in the second round. Wright had
cut Robby's lead to four at the turn,
but then had hard luck on a long
drive, which almost equaled Ouimet's
sensational crash on the twelfth. The
ball, however, popped into the rough.
resulting in Wright taking six for
a par four hole.
Evans in Fine Form.
The excellent golf of Evans evoked
comment no less favora BILE than that
aroused by the playing of Jones.
After the morning round Evans led
Fownes 6 up, largely as a result of
breezing home in 35, one over par. In
the afternoon he went out in S5, one
under par, and then he played par
golf for three holes to win the match.
Prior to Jones ~ Evans had been the
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