The Washington herald., 1921-09-22
BY GRANrLANp RICE,

stoppeu just an inch beyond. Young
Johnston. with his feet dangling
over the precipice on more than
one occasion. had hung on with
such grim gameness that when oui-
met slipped at the finish he was
close enough to get his par and
SO move forward against Jesse
Guilford, another mighty hitting
son of New England, on THURSDAY
Just after Ouimet passed out Bob
Gardner, of Chicago. retired Tommy
Armour. the pride Of Scotland. on
the forty-third green by the mar
gin of and 3, but while Armour
faded out, Willie Hunter, British
champion, started a merry chatter
around the postoffice at Deal. Eng
land when he finally eliminated
Jimmy Manion. of st. Louis, in a
fighting finish by the count of 2
and 1.
Hunter Meets Jones.
But Willie must step out against
Bobby Jones in the third round
where he w:l be badly outdriyen
and where only magic work with
his tireless putter will give him an
outside chance to win.
From the $50 who opened fire on
Saturday, eight survivors now wait
the third round test where Guilford
meets Johnston, Evans meets
Sweetser. Gardner, Evans, Knepper.
and Jones tackles Hunter, leaving
four men from the West, two from
the East, one from the South and
one from England still holding on
with the best they have.
The gap between Sioux City and
Deal, England, something better
than 5000 miles, shows the wide
geographical stretch Of this cham
pionship as it comes into its clos
ing national and international
stage.
No finer weather could have
graced a bate when Oulmet and
Johnston started out for their long
slog over the double route. SUM-
shine, with a cool breeze. a blue
sky over a fairway that had turned
an even deeper green from a nights
hard rain, left conditions perfect.
and from the grim and determined
way in which young Johnston went
after his Eastern rival 1t was easy
enough to see that Ouimer was in
for another stormy day. Golf Is a
5o"c uCyOHu all prophecy.
Ouimet Fails In Putting.
1t was the blade that helped to
make Ouimet's fame that helped To
steer him upon the shoals and
breakers today. For years he was
regarded as the logical putting sue.
cessor to Travis and Iravers; but
just as it was the putter that start
ed him down hill against Evans a
year ago and that also stopped him
at Hoylake. so in his second round
1t was the same fickle blade that
tripped him up with yictody in sight.
When a normally fine putter takes
puts on each of the last three
greens, after brilliant play up to
the pin, one can see to what depths
he has fallen on the greens.
In the forenoon round, the sturdy
Minnesota star was 3 up on Ouimet
at the ninth hole. when the Boston,
ian turned, caught and passed his
man with a 1-hole lead at lunch.
In the afternoon. after two halved
holes, Johnston squared the match
on the third green. His play at the
a90-yard fifth hole Is history. With
a slight breeze at his back a slash
ing tee shot carried 27O yards; a
hne iron left him a 10-foot putt, and
with Ouimet on and dead. for his
four, Johnston got his eagle 3
Ouimet had beaten par, and even
this was not good enough to win.
In place, Of weakening, however,
Ouimet came back with a rush, win
ming the next three holes when John
ston took three puts on the sixth
and missed his tee shots at the
seventh and eighth. Johnston now
looked to be slipping, but the gallery
that had started to leave remained
when he won the ninth.
Nip-and-Tuck Battle. ....-
Ouimet's tee shot kicked off
into a ditch. With this start John
ston won both the tenth and eleventh.
Through excellent putting, saving the
twelfth by another stout-hearted effort
that found the bottom of the cup
from ten feet away. Ouimet again
squared the match for the third time
at the long thirteenth and with FIVE
holes left the strain was beginning to
tell on Johnston.
They were still all square coming to
the short sixteenth where Ouimet
missed the chance of his career.
Ouimets iron pitch was on the green
twenty feet away from the cup with
the ball almost a cube of mud John
ston sliced his tee shoe to the right of
the trap and then failed to make the
green on his approach, the ball stop
ping half way up the bank in heavy
grass. His third stopped four feet
away, leaving Ouimet two puts for
the hole and the lead. His approach
putt was three feet from the cup.
Johnston was down in 4 and Ouimet
missed.
Coming back to the seventeenth or
thirty-fifth hole, Ouimet soaked a long
drive straight up the course Johnston
heeled his tee shot, the ball spinning
seventy-flve yards to the left of the
fairway into group of trees, but
still fighting, he took a chance with
the wood and with sliced shot
around big maple from the rough
came within forty yards of the green.
Ouimet was on In 2. twenty feet away,
but Ouimet again took three puts
where Johnston got down in Q for his
and they were facing the hard final
hole all suqare.
Ouimet's drive was good, but
Johnston, with two lifesaving holes
behind him. hit one a mile up the
middle, and was on with a pitch.
Is feet away. Ouimet's approach
was 30 feet from the cup, and his
approach putt was feet short. as
third. Ouimet needed this 3-footer
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