Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-11
0uImET LONE AMERICAN IN PLAY
\ FOR BRITISH AMATEUR TITLE
+ final ROUNDS SATURDAY
Deal, England. May 10-(By A. P.)

Deal. England, May 1O-(By A. P)
tering winds, Francis Ouimet Of Bos-
ton, former American amateur and
open golf champion. today battled
his way to the round before the semi
finals in the British amateur cham
piOnship tournament.
Two of Ouimets American col
leagues were eliminated from the
contest. one in the morning and an
other this afternoon. so that tonight
Ouimet alone of the IA Americans.
who came across the ocean to enter
the championship struggle. remains
to fight. The Americans who were
put out of the running Today were DR..
.. F. Wiling of Portland. Ore;
George V. Rotan of Houston, Tex,
and John L. Neville of San Fran
. cisco
But Ouimet is not the sole repre-
sentative of American golf still sur
viving, for Douglas Grant. who won
his matches today, is citizen Of the
United States but resilient Of Eng
players still in the running, two
Americans, two Scotchmen and four
Englishmen, will play the sixth round.
and in the afternoon those who tri-
umph over the Is holes of the morn
ing will meet in the semi finals.
Grant is in the lower half of the draw
and Ouimet in the upper half, so
there is possibility. though SEEM
tnsly not very strong one, that the
Two Americans will fight it out in the
final on Saturday.
The pairinss for the sixth round
follow:
Bernard Drew against Roger
Wethered.
Francis Ouimet against Cyril Toll
ley.
Douglas Grant against r. p. Hum
phreys and w. w. Willis Mackenzie
against Robert Harris.
Ouimet had two very hard tussles
today. He had to go to the home
hole in both of them before winning
IE the forenoon Jack" Neville. the
California champion, cluns to him
like the proverbial barnacle and in
the afternoon a cool, experienced
Englishman, c. Bretherton. not only
staunchly challenged Ouimet's right
to remain in the running, but for a
time made a sound threat to put him
out. Bretherton had Ouimet three
down at the sixth hole, and the slen-
der Bostonian had to battle bravely
as we'll to overcome this lead. The
Englishman aided Ouimet's uphill
struggle by getting rather badly of
his own game on those deciding holes
between the turn and the finish.
Rotan passed out of the tourna
ment in the forenoon. beaten up ant
9 to play by W. l.. Hope of Turnbury
1t was very cold working in the both
ersome winds whipping across thu
course and Rotan. accustomed to thu
warmer temperature Of Texas. shiv
cred in his shoes as he walked to thu
first tee. The chilling blasts comins
in from the sea had something to d.
with his slump in playing form.
DIR. Willing won his morning rounc
against r. w. Crummack. but Roger
Wethered. popular hero in hi!
homeland, ousted the Oregonian den
fist before an immense gallery in thu
afternoon. Willing. who had beer
surprising everyone by the sharpness
Of his putting. would have won hat
his efforts on the green been fruitful
OF the success he experienced in thu
earlier days of the tournament. HI
got down 15-footer for a birdie
three to win the first hole from Weth
cred but after this all the good put
ting was done by Wethered who OBJ
tanned Il birdie three on the secont
with a long putt and birdie two OF
the fourth with a 80 footer.
Neville simply could not mis-
puts. On seven greens one put
sufficed for him. although he oftel
drove into the rough and was bunk
II
gave Ouimet a terrible scare from
which the Bostonian never quit
fully recovered until he had chip
ped dead to the eighteenth hole
The Ouimet- Bretherton match dur
ing the afternoon was just SAT-
distance behind the Willing-Weth
cred match, so that the two CALLER
les constantly were interminsllng
making play difficult.
Ouimet's fatigue from the morn
ing round was clearly to be seen Of
his countenance as he went fOrtl
for the afternoon round with Broth
erton. The American missed put
to win the first hole. and he wa
unable to do better than square tn
second, though he was on the greer
in two. while Bretherton took fou
to reach It. Ouimet lost the fourtl
and fifth and was two down. o.
the sixth he sliced almost to tn
edge of the English Channel AM
lost the hole when Bretherton slip
ped around half stymie whicl
Ouimet had laid him. This mad
the American three down.
Oumct won the next two but wa
two down at the turn when he hat
to take both his second and thirt
shots from the rough. The tent
and eleventh were halved. A fin
drive and good second shot CAV
Ouimet the twelfth and at the thir
tcenth the turning point in the mattel
was reached when Ouimet chippet
dead on the rim and squared things
Ouimet laid Bretherton a semi
stymie on the fourteenth. but tn
Englishman again got by and halve'
the hole. At the fifteenth Ouime