Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-16
81 GOLF STARS IN
MIGHTY STRUGGLE
ON SHORT HILLS LINKS

snort Hills, N J.. Sept. 15.-R)-
Thlrty-two golf stars grappled for the
national amateur championship TODAY
IN two heart-breaking rounds Of golf
which felled three former titieholders
and threatened to dethrone mighty
Bobby Jones.
1t was gripping struggle which
.ouno great players fighting gamely
against sweeping attack by young
challengers who had matched up on
baltusrol to displace the men who
nave held sway over the fairways for
almost a decade. But when the hail
or shots had echoed their last note of
connlct from the flanking mountain
ranges, the ranks of the favorites
showed only gaps with Jones, the de-
Tending king, Watts Gum. his Atlanta
chum, Francis Ouimet of Boston,
George Won Elm of Los Angeles and
Chick Evans of Chicago among those
to gain the round before the semi
finals.
Surviving with them the gruelling
test which marked the first attempt in
recent years of the U. S. G. A. to bring
of two rounds of match MAY in a sin
gle day, were two young aspirants from
ZIG iiluOlc WeSl, fIuQlS t1elQ OF 81.
Louis and George Dawson Of Chicago.
By their victories. Dawson and Held
qualified to meet tomorrow in the So
hole third round. While Evans will
face Bobby Jones, Vol Elm will en-
gage Gum and Ouimet will lock with
, young Frederick J. Wright, Jr, of
Boston, the Massachusetts state cham
pion.
Out OF "a nerve-wracking matches
today. two went to extra holes, nine
TO the homo stretch and six to the
18th. Bobby himself was among the
warriors who found themselves on the
verge of defeat. and only by holding
a birdie four on the 18th was he able
to beat back the determined thrust of
a Jones from the northumberland A,
Jr, of New York City.
Safely past the New York Jones at
up, the two-time champion romped
through a second round match with
William Reekie OF Montclair, n. j. to
score the only decisive triumph of the
| round at and 4. 1t marked his sec
ond successive verdict over the veteran
Jersey man, for Reekie went down
| before the 24-year-old Georgia master
| at Oakmont by a one-sided first round
| score.
| Sensational putting saved the former
! champions, Ouimet and Evans. After
| dropping two long ones to save his
| first round match against Roy NJ. Moe
! of Portland, Ore, l up, the bespec-
tacled Hub man scared to such bril-
! liant heights on the greens against
, Eustace Story of England that con-
sistently sound golf could not save the
I former British Walker cup player.
Ouimet at no point was able to relax
in his brilliant playing, however, for
storey chung to his task tenaciously
before going down. and l.
| Evans scored both his triumphs on
| the 18th green. nosing out William c.
/ Fownes of Pittsburgh in the first
round and then battling through nip
| and tuck battle with the 50-year-old
| Boston veteran. Parker w. White
| more.
| Cambridge. Mass. Sept. 15-(P)--
! Arnold Horween, Harvard S new head
coach of football wasted no time
separating the sheep from the goats
/ in the first practice session OF the
! year today. Thirtysix of the 100
men to report survived the opera
tons. They included sexen ends,
six tackles, six guards. four centers.
four quarterbacks and nine backs
who are now classed as the fast
squad. The rest of the men will
| practice in a separate enclosure I'M
| til the final cut Is made. Two daily
J prac tice sessions are in order from
| now until the opening of college.