Evening star., 1923-09-19

francis Oulmet, TWO SOlnlS SldHtS'
other son OF Boston-the first Am
and the man who probably did NOR
i'll this country.
OF course. there were plenty VINO
liked long hitting who went out to
watch the two sluggers, Jesse Gu.-
ford and Dexter Cummings, the inter-
collegiate champion, match tee shots'
but the Hunter-Ouimet match was
the stellar attraction.
Bob Jones, the open champion, VINO
had a tough battle yesterday cluD-
bing down Tommy Cochran of Texas,
met Max Marston. the Philadelphia
golfer. who is hitting the ball well
and may give Jones some trouble to-
day.
Jess Sweetser has no easy road TO
the heights again this year. for he
must outClub DaVey Heron today
and probably Jesse Guilford tomor-
row if he maintains his smiling way.
Jess has his hands full today in lick
ing Heron. for the Chicago entrant
has a most annoying habit of upset
ting tire royal and ancient dope anG
may overcome the sturdy New York
title holder. George Won Elm of Salt
Lake City and Jim Manion of St
Louis. two golfing wildcats, clashed
teeth and claws i'll another match
that promised fireworks in view or
Won Elm's remarkable round OF 40
yesterday in licking Capt. L. +. Carter
of Chicago by and Z.
Longest Match of Day.
The longest match Of a day full of
thrills for even the most blase came
Yesterday when Joe Wells finally
eliminated Carleton +. Wells of Ann
Arbor, bespectacled. solemn. pro-
fessor at the University of Michigan.
The two Welles were well matched.
down at lunch. He came back. with
a bang in the afternoon and finally
nosed out his fellow Wells on the
short second hole-the GSth of their
match.
Jesse Guilford, the Boston seige
gun, ran up against a tatar i'll the
person of Louis Jacoby of Dallas.
Tex, who carried him to the thirty
sixth hole before victory finally set
tied on Jesse's frowning brow. Gull
ford had TO make a most remarkable
shot on the sixteenth hole to win the
match-a high niblick shot over
tree to the green 100 yards away,
which got him a half and left him
l up. Jesse finally came to the home
hole with a four-foot putt to win
the match, which he holed.
The epic of the day-a struggle be-
tween golfing giants that will live
long in the annals of the game was
that between Chick Evans and White
l. Hunter, the 1921 British amateur
champion The magic touch in the
blade of Willie Hunters rusty putter
wore down the Chicagoan with the
precision of a finely built machine,
Evans defeat coming on the fifteenth
where he sliced his drive and topped
a brassie shot into the ditch in front
of the green. Willie broke Evans
heart with the uncanny way his put
ter raped the ball against the back
Of the tin and strange to say Hunter
consistently outdroye the Chicago
entrant and was not a bit behind him
in the accuracy of his pitches-sup-
posed TO be the stellar feature Of
Evans game.
Willie L Up at Luncheon.
one up at luncheon. Willie gave
Chick a hint of what was to come
when he raped in a 25-footer for a
birdie 4, and a half at the first
hole in the afternoon. Chick finally
got the hole back at the third where
he laid a chip shot dead, but Hunter
again became l up at the fourth.
where Evans took three puts. Willie
took many blows on the sixth and
picked up his ball, squaring the
match as it stood at the turn. The
tenth and eleventh were halved,
Chick missing a 10-foot putt to win
the tenth. and wobbling in 4-footer
for a half at the short eleventh.
Hunter sliced his tee shot to a trap
at the twelfth, and lost the hole. St
to become l down. But the Britisher
stepped up to the short thirteenth
with fire in his eye. stuck one 15 feet
from the pin and holed the putt for
a ?, while Chicks half hit putt wob-
bled away from the edge of the cup.
Willie missed his first putt of the day
at the fourteenth to give Evans a
half in at the par 4 fourteenth hole.
Here Evans showed his first sign of
cracking under the pace set by the
putter in the hands of Hunter. His
second shot was pitched clear over
the green into a trap and Willie
obliged by missing a 2foot putt to
win the hole.
Chick gave further evidence of his
state of nerves by slicing his tee shot
TO the fifteenth. The fact that the
ball struck tree and bounded out on
the fairway being the only thing that
saved him from heavy lie in the
woods. He lost the hole in attempt
ing the long carry to the green,
however, when he topped into the
ditch. This put Hunter l up and it
looked as if the match was square
again when Hunter hooked to heavy
rough at the sixteenth: Evans, the
accurate, sliced his tee shot to the
rough. however, and a half in re-
suited. neither player getting home in
= Chick made one OF the weakest
puts of the day at the sixteenth, an
eight-footer that missed the cup by
six inches.
Chick got away another sliced tee
shot to the rough at the seventeenth,
while Hunter was down the alley.
Chick played short and Swas over the
green with spoon, while Hunter was
home in and the eX-British champ
won the hole and the match, 2 and l,
with a birdie 4.
Jones Extended by Cochran.
Bob Jones ran into tough egg in
Tommy Cochran, who just refused to
quit against the open title holder
Tommy, squat and square, matched
Bobby shot for shot through the
morning round, ending the first half
/ down. He won the first two holes
in the afternoon to become / UP on
Bob, and they finished the twenty
seventh hole all square. Some going
for lad hitherto unknown against
the open champion, but Boz won the
tenth and eleventh with 4 birdie and
par, romped back in 35 and ended
The match on the seventeenth green,
: and /.
Ouimet also ran into a real shot
maker in TONY" Haines of Rockford,
ILL., who played foot ball at Yale
back in the days of 1908 and 1909.
Tony has developed himself into a
golfer of parts, and he carried the
former amateur and open champion to
the seventeenth hole before bowling
in defeat to the accuracy of the
Ouimet game. Francis had no. easy
eral times he looked worried, and
well he might, for this Haines person
carried into the fray an old foot ball
maxim: Hit 'em low and hard" And
he did to the discontinue of Francis
But class told, as II will in the long
sun, and the splendid Boston sports
h1an won well earned victory.