The New York herald., 1921-09-21
GREAT GOLF RALLY
STAGED BY OUIMET
Bostonian, Fighting Grimly,
Overc0mes Marston's Lead
Of Four Holes.
MATCH THRILLS GALLERY
Evans, Jones, Sweetser, Garn-
ner and British Champion
Among Winners.
by KERR N. PETRIE.

Special Despatch 10 THE NEw YoRK HrsALD
ST. LouIs. Sept 20.-Ffghting back
grirnly and resolutely contesting with
all his skill and all his sririt every inch
OF ground and every hole. Francis Out
met OF Woodland. Mass. had the salts
faction to-day on the links Of the st.
Louis Country Club Of shaking himself
free of the staggering had of four holes
piled upon his shoulders by Max r.
Marston of Merton Cricket Glib. Phila-
delphia. In nineteen holes Of play. and OF
qualifying for the second round of the
national golf championship In the re-
manning sixteen by margin OF Q up
and to play.
Ouimet probably never has been seen
In better fettle than he vas in the Sec
ond round of this hercuiean tuss'e with
the man who about two weeks ago wot,
the championship of Pennsylvania State.
Ouimet was down as result of the
first eighteen holes and when he hooked
into the trees going to the first hole OF
the afternoon round II was feared that
In the winning of the qualifying medai
the famous Bostonian had dulled the
edge of his game.
However. after that first disastrous
hole In the second round Ouimet came
suddenly back to life The reverse had
brought him to a realization OF the
seriousness Of his predica ment For
time in the morning he had been holding
the flaxen haired Pennsylvania cham
pion and then Marston. his trusty mashie
niblick flashinf with precision and
power. had forge gradually ahead until
at the end OF the round the popev.d
gallery was standing around graveiy
discussing the situation. scarcely able to
credit what It had seen.
Marston Astonishes.
Ouinet down. II was unthinkable.
Who was this Marston. anyway. tina; ne
should come on here to ST Louis and
show up the gre Ouimet in such fash
ion? IT was a wildly excited but withal
well behaved gallery that swept down
into the valley In the afternoon after
this pair who were furnishing the great
thrill In day OF &c atures. The excitement
Intensified when Ouimet sent that swirl
ing hook away into the trees, took :our
TO reach the green and lost with 6.
Marston with his second reached the
edge of the green and aitho' gh he did
have three puts he had the hole at his
mercy. Marsten 4 up.
Down between the trees and up the
further slope >of the valley the gallery
was rushing as the pair of glaaiators
aimed for the double terraced 221 yard
hole Marston was within seven feet,
hut he missed the pvtt which might have
slowed Ouinnet away effectually and the
hole was haived in 3. At the next
JSi yard hole. Marston bunkered his
tee shot. With his niblick he laid his
second dead. hut this time ouimet fore
stalled him by running down a ten foot
putt for 2. That was the start of one
Of the fine st golf ralIies ever seen and
certainly the best bit of golf ever s. read
before the delighted iaze Of St Louis
gallery.
Marston on the fourth hole made the
mistake of taking an extra putt an,
Oufnet was Into the opening like chip
munk. That left Marston with but two
of his four hole lead and he was to lose
third successive hole at the fifth.
Here Oumet bridged the 4s2 yards with
n drive and driving iron. Marston with
two hooked shots required a stroke more
TO reach the green and he was playing
two more on his first putt. He missed
and Ouimet again won easily.
Ouimet's Uphill Play.
Only one down now. Ouimet stalked
the links like a man with a purpose.
Not q soul did he see In that teening
crowd around him. His mind was on
that little white ball which he was
plotting SO slifully over the course In
fact, he was concentration personified.
On the sixth he got no better than halt
hut the 147 yard seventh he laid his
ball on the plateau ard sank an eighteen
foot for 2. squarfng the match.
And even then Marstons troubles did
not end. Driving for the dog-leg eighth
3s7 yards around woods and a wide
ditch, Ouimet keit away to the left open
,rg up the green. His second aid the
ball within eight feet of the cup. while
iarston with q heave OF his shoulder
and a smash Of his nibllck overplayed
Max took a shot at the ball away down
In the bed OF the dried up stream. but
met with no more success than to drive
the sphere Into tie muddy bank. He
picked up leaving O'imet In charge OF
the lead for the first time since the first
nine Of the morning round The way
he was playing Ouimet very likely would
have scored another birdie on the eighth
AS II was he had made the seven holes
from the second In % as against the par
OF 27.
That sort of golf was fast enough
to have won again over Vardon and
Ray. and still Ouimet was not finished,
for despite q ball out of bo, nds ut the
ninth and the consequent loss OF dis
tance he scored a and then made tn
FIRST three coming back In 4. 3. .. TIE
and the represented another addi-
tion to the Ouimet aviary. Marston
did not allow his rival to get away
with that out OF sounds. lie won a
par 4. but took three puts on the tenth
and again was one down.
The eleventh was the feature hole of
the match. Marston outdrove orimet.
The latter with his second over shot
to the green to the short rough. leaving
himself with a downhill run. IL was
the most delicate spot, for des'ite the
fact that the cup was thirty-nve feet.
the fast drying green was ready to slip
the ball along to the further side.
Critical Poins or Match.
Marston was twenty feet away study
Ing fairly fiat putt. The advantage
was all with the former Baltusrol mem
Der. but not so when Orimet had nn-
ished. With his mashie the Bostonlan
hicked that little sphere over the fringe
of rough and sent 1t trickiing down
into the cup.
While unable to suppress a mighty
shout at this achievement the gallery
was quick to see what the break meant
10 Marston. Almost as suddenly as II
had started the short was hushed but
II burst again ten-fold when Max rolled
the ball along the twenty feet OF putting
s-een and laid II where that of ou,met
had been but second before.
Marston was doing his best .nder
lie b..t O,tt 70 "A