Evening star., 1923-09-20

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| playing with a big wad of gum in his
mouth, the stocky Britisher. who will
| be an American citizen within few
months. finally cracked when he
| shanked short pitch at the eighth
| hole when he should have had a
shot at birdie, and lost the hole. From
then on Francis romped away from him.
| splitting the middle with his tee
| shots and rapping the ball confidently
against the back of the tin for the
holes that spelled disaster for wee
Willie.
Hunters magic putting touch was
gone in the afternoon, where he was
uncannily accurate against Evans on
Tuesday. He missed a three -footer [
the ninth for half and failed to sink
, a four-footer at the sixteenth, which
; would at least have carried the match
another hole. Ouimet made but one
mistake in the afternoon--an under
played pitch to the short seventh hole,
which just landed in the edge of the
water in front of the green. Francis
took one swipe at the buried ball and
then said, I've had more than enough,
! Willie"
The loss of this hole put Ouimet l
down, but the popular Boston star
was smiling when he came to the
| eighth. He still smiled when he
| hooked his tee shot to the rough and
smiled broader smile when his
mashie shot from the high grass
wee Willie stepped up to his ball with
all his usual nonchalance and really
missed his first shot in three days He
hit the mashie shot in the socket and
| lt went on at right angles, barely
| carrying bunker. From then on the
downfall of the ex-British title holder
was as definite as train schedule.
! He faded like a hothouse plant, while
Francis came through with the game
of champion.
Ouimet's Putting MasterfuI.
Francis putted like one inspired
: through the last round, where the
day before Hunter was the gent
whose putter blade was crammed
! with sorcery. Ouimet holed a ten
| fcoter on the third to win, and ran a
fve-footer past a partial stymie at
the fifth to win the hole and finally
square the match. Ouimet trimmed a
yard putt at the tenth, but came back
at the eleventh with a five-footer for
| q birdie to again become one up.
He holed another good one at the
| fourteenth for another birdie and
| from then on the end was forecast
Struggle as he might, Willie Hunter
| was up against a stronger game, but
| he went down fighting like the game
| battler he is, even though he took
| three puts on the sixteenth hole.
| where the match ended. Francis was
| out in SO with a on the seventh and
was two under fours for the last nine
when the match ended.
Jesse Guilford walloped his way to
another victory over that king of mid
west sluggers. Dexter Cummings of
OnWentSia. This match saw some of
| the most astounding hitting ever wit
messed, but it was not close. GuiIford
! lost the first three holes in the morn
ing, turned 2 up, and won from the
intercollegiate champion by { and 6.
Jess Sweetser, the defending cham
pion, showed Davey Heron the way
wasn't outdriven by the husky Chi
cagoan. On the other hand, more
often than not. Heron. the 1919
champion, played the odd. Jess let
out on the ball yesterday and romped
around with the match well in hand
! all the way.
Bob Gardner and w. c. Fownes, jr..
the 1910 champion, had a cat-and-dog
fight. with Gardner coping, up
and 1 to go. Big Bob now is level
Pittsburgher as often as the veteran
has beaten him. With Gardner and
FowneS it was question of relative
distance. with the verdict going to
the longer hitter.
One of the surprises of the day was
the one-sided victory of Densmore
Shute the West Virginia champion,
over Ned Allis of Milwaukee, a west
ern star and runner-up in the western
championship some years ago. Shute
is the eighteen-year-old son of the
professional at Huntington, w. Va,
and is the youngest qualifier in the
tournament He is the lad who
thought the matches were at eighteen
holes and congratulated Eddie Held
Tuesday when Held was 1 up at
luncheon, later beating the trans
mississippi champion over the thirty
six hole route. Yesterday he turned
i up on Allis and was headed for a
72 when he closed the match on the
thirtieth hole.
Joe Wells of East Liverpool. Ohio
outgolfed Harry H. K. Davis of Hol-
yoke, Mass, by 4 and 3, while Jimmy
Manion of st. Louis succumbed to the
deadly approaching of George Won
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