Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18
sinking the putt for a when Cooper
missed his bid for the like

| his tee shot TO one or OakmontS fear
some traps and getting a to Cooper's
par 4. At this seventh hole. as
Cooper was surveying the line to the
pir. he suddenly reached down in the
cup and pulled out a field mouse
Thinking it good omen. he tried to
pick it up, but the mouse apparently
had a good set Of teeth, for he
dropped it quickly and went about
his business of squaring the match.
SO they went to the eighth level
again. And again Armour played a
great bunker shot, nearly holding his
shot from the same right-hand trap
into which he played in the last three
rounds of the championship. Cooper
was on the green from the tee, but
took 3 puts and Tom was again in
the lead-a lead which he dropped at
the 477yard ninth, where he pulled
his second shot into the crowd and
failed to get close enough to hole
the putt for a half with Cooper's
birdie 4.
And there they were-level az the
turn, with no advantage for eth r
over nine holes of great shot making
and grim courage. Cooper, with the
honor, pulled far to the left into the
eleventh fairway, and Tommy hooked
into deep rough. Cooper played one
Of the great shots Of the day, a
spoon shot that pushed it's way
across rough and fairway and brought
up on the edge Of the green. And
Tommy got one Of the breaks to
which he so modestly alluded today
Iron Shot Badly Pulled.
His iron shot was badly pulled,
struck the down slope of bunker
and careened quickly across the
green. headed for a jungle of weeds
and bushes. Providentially, some I'M
named spectator stopped it and Tom.
my stopped just on the green. Of
course, the spectator wouldn't have
stopped the ball had he known it
was coming his way. He just couldn't
move fast enough to get out OF the
way Of the fast-moving ball. Tommy
Clipped up 8 feet short. missed the
putt and lost a stroke to Cooper's
par 4. But he was lucky, for he
might have gone down into a wild
tangle of underbrush and taken Z.
A booming tee shot went too far
at the eleventh. finding IL ditch that
winds it's way across the course, and
Tommy dropped another shot to
par for Cooper. Here it was that
the timid chaps began tc murmur
dolefully and hope against hope for
Armour to win. And he played a
great niblick shot to halve the long
twelfth with the racing Californian
in par 5.
But at the short thirteenth g. heav-
lily bunkered 164yard affair, Cooper
got a fine break. His strongly hit
nashie shot went over the green and
he finished in the grass, instead Of
rolling down into the sand. He chip
ped too far past, and Tommy, who
had a putt for a 2. holed his and
picked up a shot. Tommy missed
great chance to square at the four
tenth, where rif1e-like tee shot
800 yards down the fair.
way, while Cooper was far to the
right in the rough and his second
shot trickled into a bunker at the
green edge.
Disconnected by Wind.
Just as Tommy was playing his
pitch shot vagrant wind rose and
Topped his straw hat, plainly discon.
certing him. He underplayed the
pitch and then took puts, giving
Cooper half in S, for again Cooper's
ball stayed up in the grass on the
side Of the bunker and again the
bronze Californian Clipped too far
past.
But the big break came at the fit.
teenth, where it looked as if Tommy
had thrown away the championship,
and fate, goddess of the game, tossed
it back in his lap. Here Tommy, as
he had done over the last nine holes,
drove far past Cooper, in a far better
spot-a spot that opened up the hole
to midiron shot. Cooper pulled to
trap, leaving the green wide open to
the Scot from Congressional.
Tommy proceeded to pull his iron
shot into the same trap, and there was
some question as to who was away.
Both got out fairly well. with Cooper
away, and there fate poured the golden
contents into Tommy's lap. He sank
/ 40-footer clear across the green for
4 four, while little Cooper, not to be
outdone, hit the cup with his bid for
| half from slightly lesser distance.
Again they were all even, little
of the Cooper debacle to
come, the break that raised Tommy
rom a contender to champion.
spoon shot to the left side of the green,
keeping far away from the yawning
rap up against the green at the right
side. His ball rolled over into the
grass, but Cooper pushed his shot into
he trap at the right, a spot feared by
Ill the tournament players, particular
y where the pin was yesterday.
Cooper Again Trapped.
Cooper was away, and he failed to
get out of the trap with his second
shot, his ball banging on the bank in
the grass. Tommy was then away
D nd hn rrIn s,lx l. H.
three feet of the cup. Cooper Clipped
up 10 feet short and missed the putt,
taking five. The big break had come
Armour knew 1t, so did Cooper, and
Tommy closed the door to any chance
by holding the putt for three. And
right there the championship was in
for the Scotsman from Congressional,
though Cooper, brave little fighting
Britisher that he is, never gave in an
inch.
Tommy's tee shot at the seventeenth
left him pitch over another awesome
trap, and it looked far worse when
Cooper played one Of the really great
shots of the day, a niblick pitch that
brought up not more than a foot past
the pin. So there was Tommy, with
a fearsome pitch, a two-shot lead that
might vanish if he quit on his shot
and the championship in his hands if
he made it right.
Did he make it? His pitch was 50
great that it looked as If it might hole,
and 1t finished inside of Cooper. The
puts for brides were little more than
a formality, and Tommy had a two
shot lead as he looked down the Asst.
yard stretch that leads to Oakmonts
green, and the thousands
around the green for the new
champion to be crowned.
Tommy crashed out 300.yard drive,
straight as an arrow down the fair
way, and Cooper. apparently pressing
Tor distance, pushed his tee sh : far 20
the right over toward the practice
ground. Cooper played a fine second
shot. but found bunker at the green