Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18


ball lying inches away for a sure
birdie 3.
They halved that hole in 8, retain
ling for Tommy the 2-shot margin
|he picked up at the short sixteenth
Cooper's error, and Tom was
i'm. Nothing but an earthquake could
cost him the championship. For Tom
His Scotch and while he is not close
i'm any sense of the word, he has the
Scottish trait of holding on to some
Ehing he has won, whether it be
Strokes or honor. And yesterday he
5won both, the last a hold-over from
Ehe previous day, and the strokes the
result of hard-fought, logged cour-
bye over Oakmont's fearsome terrain.
Plain, downright logged courage
won the championship for Armour in
the face of a bewildering fire of
bars shot at him by Cooper. Any man
hot tried in the fierce fire of compe-
kition might have wilted, but not
Armour, who learned his game on
he wind-swept Braid Hills course,
hear Edinburgh, and tempered it in
he heat of struggle with the finest
/players of the world.
Cooper Fights Hard.
And that does not mean that Harry
Cooper quit in the heat of the cham
bionship blast, for this London-born
ad never gave an inch all the way
around the course, although he
tarted out with a one-stroke deficit
L the very first hole. He squared
vice before the turn, was still one
troke back playing the ninth, and at
he tenth he forged into a lead. add
of hn oil
ausing doleful heads in the gallery
b shake and strained voices to say:
I'm afraid Tom is lost
1T did look as if Cooper was the
oming champion, particularly when
z0m missed a four-footer at the four
eenth to square, and, with the green
vide open, pulled to a trap at the
fifteenth. But Tom stuck doggedly to
lis job. Holing putt that was moth
ng short of a stroke Of genius at the
fifteenth and going into a two-shot
bad at the sixteenth, which Light
horse Harry played woefully and
hereby lost the championship.
Six thousand persons banked them
eiyes around the tee and down the
Hoping first fairway as these two
british bred players started out yes
erday afternoon for the greatest
krize in the game; to watch veteran
Z the war. a man with only one eye.
md cocky lad, who developed his
anne in the sunshine of California,
attle each other through IS holes.
Both were well down the fairway
4 the first and Tom put his iron sec
Ind on the green, while Cooper's
AIDED to the left. Tom holed a six
opter for a birdie 4, while Cooper
Kissed one Of five feet for a half
hooper stuck his second shot up
Eithin six feet at the second hole,
but missed the putt, enabling Armour
halve in 4.
Squared at Third.
The Californian squared at the third
here he Clipped up dead from the
back edge, and Tommy missed a four
soter for g. Here Cooper changed
BIS putter from a steelbladed affair
b an aluminium contraption, and
pied his first putt Of the day.
Cooper sliced his tee shot to a bunk
at the 53G-yard fourth hole and
sas satisfied TO play out, while Arm
ir slashed out a 280-yard distance
alter and pulled his brassie second far
the left of the green. Cooper
layed a midiron over the mounds to
fithin 40 yards Of the green and his
hip shot ran 10 feet past the cup.
rmour played fine pitch over a
unker eight feet past. and when
ooper missed his 10-footer Armour
lso missed for a 4, Armour picking
p shot. to 6.
Tommy's only big error of the
l2tch came at the 346-yard fifth.
ere, with the pin stuck on a closely
tapped corner of the green, he played
ne of the finest shots of the day,
ping boldly for the hole and bring.
BIZ up z feet past, Cooper was on
18th the like, but 25 feet away and
atted up short. Tommy went too
rong for his 8 and missed coming
Rck, taking three puts from seven
Jet. Cooper holed for 4.
So they went to the short sixth
zen again. Here Armour played the
.st Of a brace Of great trap shots
lat We're to keep him in the chase
ntil the break on the sixteenth. He
ilied TO trap, while Cooper went
yea into a trap. The Californian
TIC ID out Is feet past the pin and
by exploded out to within 3 feet