The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-25
PLAYERS and Referees All
bu, Trampled Down by
Immense Throng
GUILFORD AT HIS BEST
In Unbeatable Form, Eastern
or Takes Long Early Lead
Over Former Champ


CT LOUIS. Sept 24.---Jesse Gull
,ord the Boston siege gum won
IN, national amateur golf champion
sbip defeating Robert Gardner,
chicago to IS, In the d6-hole final
st the st. LopiS Country club.
"Cuiif1rd after obtaining a gem
.,ous lead Of up In the morning
Ts,SPgrd hy shooting 73, while Gard
" c~ failed with his puttcr, was held
N n,sn during the first five holes Of,
he afternoon round. but by scoring
nrpg OF unbeatable brides on
IA Inc yeN four holes he became dor
rne after hllving the 29th.
such an enormous gallery, esti-
mated at upwards of 1000 persons
followed the match this afternoon,
that the players and referees were
all but trampled under foot and the
gallery swarncd onto the 29th green
before Gulfurd could get a chance
10 hole his easy putt for an easy
victory up ald 6, and they halyed
II IL In l. making IL Z up and l6.
Gnrincr Not at His Best.
H Gardner who won the title In
1903 and 1915 and was ruuner-up TO
II chick Evans I'm 1916. was not play
n ing his best game part OF tho way
and he was ragged on the green's
most Of the time. missing upwards
II of a dozen holcable puts. while
H Guford. who neVtr before got fur
thor than the semi-finais at which
point ne was defeated by GdrdL 81
In 1916. played an unbeatable game
on the greens ana made few errors
Fl elsewhere,
n Gardner outdrove the Boston
siege gum on nine holes while
Fl GuVsrd exceeded hts opponent from
"a theJee to nine holes. The Chi
CaAans drives totaled $500, in
4 cludlng a topped shot at the nth
hole that ncttcd only $50 yards,
n while GuilfOrd tee shots on all the
u wooden drive holes CARRIED him just
the same distance. Expunging the
ri llth, Gardncrs total was 5,2lO TO
E,NGuilfOrd's 5,lOO. The Boston player
NJ scored the longest drive OF the da,',
n getting 320 yards on the 18th hole,
= where Gardner was 20 yards behind
n him 'Gardner had three drives of
III 500 yards or more. while Guilford
had two.
II The driving however. had little
10 DO with the result although
b Gardner lost the 1lth, the 24th, and
y the 2bth through errors from the
"A tee.
II Neither did the irons bear much
on The outcome, for Gardner was as
good az GuiltOrd on the average, IL
not better. Putting had most to
40 WITH the outcome, as the Chicago
4 an Initiated Chick Evans game OF
u Yesterday by missing short ones with
frequency and holing long ones
q never, while Guilford missed few
long ones and almost never any short
ones.
A Good-Natured Crowd.
III IhuS up 20 the putting green's It
was a battle royal, the crowd gasp
FL ing IN awe as one tremendous drive
| after another cracked from the tees
and rushed forward TO set where the
81 iore caddics planted a white flag
RI ior Gardner's ball and red- one
III Ior Guilford's. Then when one
M payer would iron TO tho green.
NJ Cos TO the flag, only to have the
E1,ter frequently drop his ball closer
skyshl the multitude, like a herd OF
efnampeded steers, would fairly run
& ior vantage point around the So
IA 1901 square, only to see Gardner
N aborlously take two or three puts
H while Guilford ont infrcquently got
III gown In one IL close and in two If
Derey one or even just off the
k Nm the throng. who opanly IA
M 'ofed Gardner, groaned and dashed
m 70 lhe next fairway to see the siege
4 sgh OF Boston and the big Bertha
II W Chlcago' whale out two more
n u'Nes IL was a good -natured mob,
~ y uhruly 40 times, and Coatles= men,
4 saly 'clad women and barefoot boys
III hurried and scuIried from hole to
~ Aole' never LOSING interest in the
Il e9Se. long game despite the one
sued contest on the greens.
~ Inc contest started evenly enough
CrNu pair OF par fours and with
ustuner winning the second hole
III WIN a perfect three and Guilford
.le lhlrd IN the same manner. Then
"ty halved two and again each won
"oe' But after having the eighth
par Gardner made the first,
TLen' dowR topping his brassie to
"e creek Then he lost two in a
~ the eleventh because of woods
ana water and he was never threat
gS hrealter, He dropped the
suHenth by missing n short mutt
49, 'he next two in the same man
VA HS''er winning the short sixteenth
r sa ha!vlng the seventeenth, the
M sishscr champion had to yield the
Il ,san'eehth to a birdie three, Gull
II SINKING one Of his long puts
SSuu quitting for lunch six up. Gull
,J,a ,h,l had scored 36-37-73, remark
aOE low score at the end OF such
4 Sol, lH,uelilnB tournament played in
neat and rain.
Gardner Picks Up.
m IN the afternoon Gardner showed
i5ss,,.nentary signs OF recovering his
n win ey taking the nineteenth hole
fs., par four, the short twenty
twas ts WIN perfect three and the
sreenny-seoond with a four after
Esnp,Plng the short twentieth. He
by bps nus opponents lead to four up
g nalving the long twenty-third but
ro, ,0M OF -FOUR brides while Gardner
down nny two pars, made him eight
nine az the turn IN to the final
bSsaer cut this to seven down
a pet,s. ,he wizardry OF Guilfords
,bs ,b'Sr or deserted him momcntarily on
dorrnto.'h hole but Guilford became
In na e seven by halving the 29th
H GssS1n ana grasped Ghe crown which
the Ser shr had worn twice by halving
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