The New York herald., 1921-09-22
BY KERR N. PETRIE.


Special Despatch to THE New YoRK HERALp
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21.-That natural pro-
cess OF attrition which carried the Ma
,tional amateur golf championship down
through the second round OF match play
at the st. Louis Country Club to-day
ground into the debris heap two very
prominent golfers. Beyond that it may
be said that results worked out accord
ing to form. But when it Is necessary
to count couple out of 1t such as Tom
Armour of Scotland and Francis Ouimot
of Boston. especially Ouimet, it is enough
misfortune to i .ount in any one day
of golf tournament.
II. Chandler Egan, sitting among the
newspapermen in the press tent, grinding
out for a Portland daily the story of
the Pacific Northwest contingent, finds
an entirely different and pe-eona ruCle
on which to hang his story II le inal
analysis of the days happenings 1t is
found that the attack staged by these
men from the far flung outposts Of Amer
lean golf have been foundering hope
lessly at the same time that Ouimet was
receiving his quietus. However the west
can go home counting its laurels. They
are sufficient unto the day and should
be satisfying to those who have been
following the progress of the champion
ship through the columns of the Pacific
Northwest newspapers
But for the effete East the big par
of to-day's story of this second round
Ouimet--Ouimet the lion hearted, Ou!met
the pride of Boston, the national hero
who in 1913 gave golf it's greatest boost
OF all when he mere unknown amateur,
came out OF the mists of obscurity at the
challenge thrown out by those great Brit
ish professional linksmen, Harry Vardon
and Ted Ray, to win the national open
championship and to prevent the crown
from teing carried away across the seas
And while bestowing praise upon the
conquered, let no one overlook the man
who turned the feat which often has
baffled greater genius and experience
The chap who finds his name emblazoned
Of this great game, one Of the potential
champions Of TIE middle West. Is Har-
rison r. Johnston of st. Paul.
Last Hole Victory.
It was a last hole, last putt victory
over stern thirty-six hole struggle. but
both for Johnston and for Ouimet 1t was
all sufficient. Ouimet, who had come
from behind exactly as in his match
against Max Marston the day before,
only that this time the rally was staged
in the forenoon. was guilty of something
that seldom can be charged against him.
lie faltered as he neared the take, fall
tered, stumbled and fell.
All square with one hole left 70 play.
Francis tripped over q putt OF less
than four feet. and es iIts hall stopped
on the tip OF the hole on that thirty
sixth green. down came the colors that
have fluttered 20 bravely on many n
hard fought field and out upon the
breeze cracked the pennaut OF this
newcomer OF tho West.
But II is not for the missing OF that
last four foot putt that Ouimet must
condemn himself. AS a matter OF actual
fact he failed the same way on each
of the last three holes. And. to proceed
with the indictment, the Woodlander
had two more of these on the tenth
and eleventh. 1t may be inferred from
this that Ouimet was inviting trouble.
He was. Also he got 1t. Johnston is
no sort of a man to be trifled with.
With less experience than Ouimet he
was evidently having his troubles con-
uuering his own state of mind toward
the end of this grueling match. but
when the snap chance came at the
last hole he rose to the occasion mag
nificently, drove grand shot right
down the middle of the fairway, laid
his second up finely, put his third on
the lip OF the hole and left Ouimet to
putt himself out of the tournament.
Has Ouimet on Run EARLY.
To summarize the Johnston Ouimet
match, the st. Paul man had his dis
tinguished opponent on the run early.
He had him down at the ninth, with
card OF 81. but he did not keep him
there by any means. Coming back In
that first round, Johnston started hook
ing his tee shots. some OF them rather
wildly. and. like the experienced cam
paigner that he Is. Ouimet took matters
calmly and picked UP the holes as they
were offered to hiru.
Ouimet got the tenth and twelfth In
this manner. and he squared the match
when Johnston. on the fourteenth.
missed a two foot putt. At the fifteenth
Johnston was guilty OF another wild
hook from the tee and with this Ouimet
helped himself to the lead.
The match was squared again at the
seventeenth when Johnston found the
easier way out Of mass OF trouble,
but on the eighteenth the St Paul man
trapped his second and Ouimet went to
luncheon with lead OF up.
After that tussle II was thought that
cuimet easily would hold Johnston in
the afternoon. Instead Johnston started
out TO make II as hot as possible for his
celebrated opponent, squaring at the
third and taking the lead at the fifth
with an eagle against birdie 4. The
sixth. seventh and eighth went to Oui-
met in good golf, but Johnston took the
ninth to stand as he had stood at the
end of the first eighteen holes, namely
] down. Both were out In 81.
Then the pair turned into that last
nine holes, the memory Of which alwaye