Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-04
Sensational Recovery.

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Sensational Recovery.
At the short tenth Ouimet made
sensational recovery to get half in
threes. After pushing his drive back of
trap he pitched to the side of the
green, then holed out from IS feet.
Howell was on, 10 feet from the cup,
but missed birdie by 10 inches
Ouimet, IN the rough of the tee,
needed four shots to reach the 500
yard eleventh. the tournaments Water
loo hole" Howell played it perfectly all
the way and won with his par to go
one up again.
Both pitched over the water into the
same trap, fronting the ll0-yard
twelfth. Billy took two blows to get
out, two puts and lost the hole to
Ouimet's 4. All even.
Howell out-drove Ouimet again on
the 39O-yard thirteenth, but both
pitched on nicely to the tightly trapped
green and halved it in As.
Billy was the steadier shot maker on
the fourteenth pitching on beautifully
and being conceded the hole after Oui-
met hit his second into trap, his third
25 feet beyond the pin, and missed the
Putt. Howell ! up.
Both failed to get home with wood
seconds on the 44S-yard fifteenth. Fran
Is feet short. After exploding short,
Ouimet trimmed the cup from 80 feet.
Billy dropped one from 18 feet for his
and went up.
Bostonian Is Stymied.
Billy walloped a beauty to the 200
yard seventeenth green. 80 feet short
of the pin. Francis, in a trap to the
right, came out to feet of the cup,
but was stynied. He failed to make it
with his niblick and was again down.
Ouimet reached the difficult home
hole with three fine shots, then stymied
Howell, who had missed the green with
his third ana Clipped 10 feet beyond
the cup with his fourth. Billys ball
hit Ouimet's. and the youth conceded.
Howell was ! up.
Morning cards:
Ouimet, in. 3 4 4 S "A 5-4o-so
Howell, in 3 S 444 S 3 6-39-79
Billy's iron hooked into trap on Ala
past the cup but just missed the putt
and Cdimet got back a hole with a
regulation four.
Bread Deadlock on Third.
Westland pushed his second to a trap
out 5 feet from the pin and halved in
par four.
Mccarthy was IS yards ahead of
Westland ell the way down the second
lairway, but beth scored easy par fives
to remain square. Both missed l3-fcot
puts for brides by foot.
W2stland broke the deadlock on the
jinX tfir5. Mccarthy was 10 feet short of
tie green with his tee SCOT, while Jacks
rolled Is feet past the pin. tMaurice's
run-up WIS feet short and he missed
the putt and lest the hole to go down
as Westland took two safe puts tor his
par 3.
Mccarthy again outdrove his smaller
rival by 10 yards on the 365-yard
fourth. He whacked his second 10 feet,
hole high, as Westlands stopped on. bu:
40 fest to the right. Westland was short
with his putt, but Maurice holed his
1or plrdle 8, squaring the match.
Westland Gags Birdie.
West'and's putter got hot on the Ala
yard nth, canning ofie from l6 feet
Tor birdie 8. McCarthy's 15-footer to
match it rolled one foot over. Westland
was l uD egain and one shot under
Par for the stretch.
Westland was 10 feet short of the
CARPET on the l87-yard sixth. while
Mccarthy arched his on IL feet, role
high. Jacks second was SCI en- feet too
La F1'uIl-cS I'VE IeCC over. jacks
third rested on the lip CT the cup. lsy-
ing Mccarthy a dead stymie to get a
half in fcurs. Mccarthy did not even
try to make it, as it was too dam
gerous.
Maurice evened the match on the
long seventh by LAYING his third shot
an inch from the hole for a birdie i
The bail lcoSea like it was going in
but stopped short. Westlsnd was on
20 fee: away liz 3, but could not match
thu birdie.
jock was foot short of the green
on the .375-yard eighth, and Maurice
was trapped with his second. JACK
rolled his third 3 feet from the pin. but
missed it to gel half in SIS. Matrices
out was 8 feet short and his putt a
foot wide
They halved the A29-yard ninth in
Is to keep even at the turn.
Morning card:
Westani--Cut. 4 "a 345 4-37
McCarthY-Cut. 4 S 444 4-37
Half Tenth in Fours.
Mccarthy pushed his tee si1ot to
trap and W15tland pulled his 10 tile
trees on TIE short tenth J,ck's second,
ard open SHOT. rolled IL fist past home,
but Maurice exp oded beautifully five
feet away only to miss his putt. and
hall the hole in four to keep even.
Even the terrible eleventh." $50
yards, failed to break the impasse.