Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-17
By w. II. AIcC.ALLCM.

~ AKMONT COUNTRY CLUB
Pittsburgh. Pa, June H.
Hero OF one of the finest
finishes known to the world
of sport after he had trimmed
the ragged edge of defeat, Tommy
Armour, crack professional of the Con
gressio4 II Country Club. started at
o'clock this afternoon to renew his
clutch on the American open golf
championship, the biggest title of
them ALL which faded from his eager
grasp yesterday on the twelfth hole
OF this Oakmont course, a layout as
difficult as exists and that found Ar
nour not wanting in the final analysis.
Pittsburgh and the surrounding set
Elements, Of which Oakmont is one,
operate on daylight saving time, which
is an hous earlier than standard time.
80 Nashington's many thousands of
golf bugs should know by 4 O'Clock
this afternoon whether fellow Capt.
tai citizen has won national cham
pionship.
Any man who ventures to question
Tommy Armour's courage over this
final test today will find plenty of OPP
position and may meet a rugged fist
or two. for Tommy tied for the cham
p!onship yesterday. with Harry Coop.
err OF Sacramento under conditions
that would have tried the souls of the
Ialading of old. Tommy is the mod
ern calahad. rushing through to a tie
with Cooper, where Bobby Jones.
Hagen. Sarazen. Farrell. French.
ATehlhorn and the others failed, play
ing the last three holes in l under par
and holing a 12-footer ON the final
green. when only that would suffice
and revoke the ragged Z he took at
the long twelfth. He tied with Coop
er at 30i.
Armour's Sight Impaired.
They started out-botla with the
will to win-Harry Cooper to battle
for his first major championship. and
Armour to revive the fading glory of
Scotland. A home-trained American
professional against a foreign-bred
golfer. who learned the game on the
wind-swept courses OF Scotland; a
golfer with a BRILLIANT war record and
who plays under tremendous ocular
handicap, for Tommy Armour's left
eye is incapable of vision. He must
rely on his right eye for the exacting
judgment of distance which is Oak.
mont's browning glory.
They viii play IS holes this after
noon for the championship which
dropped from Bobby Jones' hands
.CStCIOdy IlOTuluS-IHlS Lao Drcu IN
the wide open spaces Of the West and
the 3l-year-old veteran from the
British Isles.
1t seems that every second year
there must be tie for the champion.
ship. There was one in 1923 when
Bob Jones won for the first time. an.
other in 1925 and here il another
with a Washington player competing
for the first time for the finest title
OF all in the greatest championship
Of ala title chase that saw the best
OF the visiting English players drop
ped far down in the ruck. and even
the great Bob Jones relegated to a tie
for eleventh place.
Just before the play-off started to-
day Jock Hutchinson approached Ar
mour with the cheering news that
somebody--an English entrant-had
called Armour a bit yellow over the
final stretch. Jock. being a Scotch
man and a countryman OF Armour,
naturally took violent exception. But
Tommy disproved any such impress
sion late yesterday afternoon, when
he sank q i2-footer for a birdie 3 on
the eighteenth hole to tie Cooper for
the title.
No matter what Tommy did pre-.
viously, how grievously he played the
ninth. tenth and twelfth. no matter
how his puts at the fifteenth and sew.
enteenth faded away from the cup,