The Washington herald., 1921-09-23
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

cliffs of Dover, Willie Hunters boss
tonight MAS written this inscrip-
tion: He is one Of the lions breed.
For regardless of all national
feeling. Willie Hunter. British cham
pion. 5000 miles away from his
clerks desk and the Deal dunes
fought. today one OF the greatest
most courageous golf matches ever
played, when. he finally caught and
throttled the brilliant Bobby Jones
on the thirty-fifth green by the
margin of and /. 1t was
a victory that should establish
Hunter as one of the lion-hearted
golfers of all time. for he was fight
ing an uphill battle most of the
long route against a youngsteEwho
stands as one of the finest amateurs
the game has ever known, youpgs-
ter who combines both skill and
courage and who stood up to the
gruelling test until he was at last
beaten down by the grim deter
mination. enduring accuracy and
putting skill of an opponent who
refused to falter by an 'eyelash al
any stage of the contest, an oppo-
nent who added to his rifle line
play with wood and iron. put
ting touch that was almost beyond
belief upon greens as keen as pol
ished glass.
Hunter'. Putter Turns Tide.
In the final summing up. as the
great gallery OF over 10000 specta-
tors raced back and forth amid
midsummer heat. keyed up to tr--
mendous pitch. 1t was through his
supremacy with the putting blades
that Willie Hunter waved Bobby
Jones out of the championship list
This putting blade. backed up by
nerves of Arctic ice and a touch as
sure as death itself. found the line
from the ball to the bottom of the
cup on green after green from five
to fifteen feet away until the won
der Is that young Jones stood up so
calamity to the constant hammer
ing when he seemed to have hole
after hole securely tucked away.
only to lose or slip by with a half.
On no less than seven green's
Hunter was further from the cup
In than Jones was in 2 and on
each of these greens the British
champion got his half by a mag
niicent putt The first ominous
sign when Jones went out to
smother his man at a break-neck
clip, moving at a bewildering pace
for 10 holes where. under even
Is. he only found himself up.
Here. with Hunter hanging grimly
on, cool, unruffled and always
down the middle. IL became evi-
dent for the first time that Great
Britain had an entry worthy of
our best steel and that Hunter was
a dangerous factor to be faced.
Where Jones drove the Stars and
Stripes were planted. Where Hun
ter's tee shot rested. the Union
Jack was stuck. And after each
tee shot the uncanny way in which
the Union Jack fiuttered in the
warm breeze down the center of
the course made the gallery won-
der whether Hunter was a golfer
or a machine of tempered steel.
He was never up until he reached
the 33d green, and yet there was
not one moment in the match when
his lean features wore a discour-
aged look or his gray eyes changed
their fixed. intent look along the
line to the hole.
Evans Wins on seth.
As a result OF today's brilliant
Guilford tomorrow in the upper
while II falls to the lot of Robert
the conqueror of Bobby Jones.
Evans. after winning the first
three holes of forenoon match.
A~a Cr-o -
New York. on the seth green by
the narrow call Of one hole, Chick
holeing a 30-footer on the final
green with Sweetser only feet
from the cup. In almost the same
way Jesse Guilford finally elimi-
mated Harrison Johnston. of st.
Paul. by one hole in one of the
longest hitting. finest battles of the
week. BY this margin Massachu"
setts got back at Minnesota for
the Ouimet overthrow. AS Bob
Gardner stopped Rudy Knepper. of
Sioux City. by a 3-2 margin. there
are now left in the championship
fold two entries from Chicago, one
from Boston and one from beyond
the Intervening seas.
II was the Hunter-Jones match that
drew the gallery with long lines of
humanity banked from tee to green
as the two stepped upon the first tee.
Despite the heat Hunter still wore his
shin Alpaca coat. refusing to permit
any type Of weather to interfere with
an old tradition. At the start 1t
looked as IL Bobby was out to smother
his British rival. His long wooden
shots left the Englishman ten and
fifteen yards away while the Georgian's
short and long approaches were drop
ping within five to eight feet Of the
cup. But with numerous puts for
brides he found II impossible to steer
the mud-covered ball into the cup
while Hunters lower. running shots,
ficking the mud loose. left him a bet
ter chance to find the cup.
Jones drew first blood with a fine 3
at the second hole and another 8 at
the short seventh left him 2 UP, an
advantage he held to the turn. Jones
was out in "a where with any fortune
on his and 5-foot puts he might
have easily been 80 or 81. Hunter.
out in IS. was still hanging on, and
at the eleventh the Englishman won
his first hole by playing for the center
Of the green with Jones playing for
the pin and kicking to the left of a
guarding mound For eleven holes
Hunter had been forced to struggle to
keep in sight. He had no chance to
win a hole up to- the eleventh, but was
fighting desperately for a half on
green after green. Yet there was no
sign of any weakening morale. He
was . down going to the seventeenth
where he won his second hose, but
after LOSING the ef0hfaopfA -ha-o