Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05
BRILLIANT FUTURE
SEEN FOR DIXIE LAD
Ouimet's Short Game Beats
Billy in Great Battle.
Mccarthy Cracks.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

| "~ANAA OAAASCboO oA1N 1OO0OO1l
enjoyed the great rivalry
between Francis Ouimet and
Chick Evans for national golf su-
premacy came flooding back in
the city by Lake Michigan today
as Ouimet, still the old master OF
the chip and putt, matched shots
for the national amateur goli
championship with another Chi
cago product. Chick Evans, his
old-time rival of so many hard
fought golf tournaments, is out
a victim Of the encroaching years.
In his place against the Boston
veteran today is young Jack West
land, 27-year-old star of the Sun
set Ridge Club of Winnetka, ILL.,,
which lies a few miles north of
Chicago's Loop district.
Westland is the Chicago district golf
champion and tough egg to beat on
any mans golf course Francis Ouimet
C1Lc 90 year -UlO beJGTdn Oh UldI1y a
gallant links joust, the last of the old
guard and one Of the great sportsmen
of the world.
You can lay your money on the line
and take your choice on this final. It
may go either way. Chicago strings
along with Westland and the East will
move along with Ouimet. It might go
either way and no honor lost, but Oui-
met carries the heavy money because
OF his 10 years of big-time tournament
experience and his unchallenged mas
terry OF the chip and putt.
nUIMET is in the final round today
" for the first time since 1920 only
because he put on one Of the finest
exhibitions OF putting over the last five
holes seen in many years of champion
ship competition. He finally nosed out
Billy Howell, the amazing kid from Rich
mond, by holing a 20-foot putt on the
thirty-ffth green to close one of the
finest and one of the queerest golf
matches we have ever seen-a match
where only Ouimet's long years of ex-
perience kept him in the battle at all,
let him down at two stages of the game
and finally brought him through to tine
wire-a winner by a nose.
Westland Is in the final because he
was able to keep his game going when
Maurice j. Mccarthy faltered and skid
ded all over the bunker-bordered fair
ways of the Beverly Country Club, came
within three holes of catching West
land after being dormie down and
thereby set himself new reputation as
a great flnisher. Ouinet is well known
all over the golfng world. Winner of
the national open championship at the
age Of 20 in 1913, winner Of the ANA
f0I1 6vcf Nf Ii u el1v. - -
is the man who really put golf on the
front page-the first man to whip the
famous British professionals at their
own game. And ID years after his 1913
stunt. when he beat Vardon and Ray
in the play-off for the national open,
he is out there today battling for the
amateur championship at the age Of SO.
nUTTE lad, this Ouimet, with his
~ casual air, his friendliness and his
engaging smile. But not all the
golf world knows that Francis has put
on 20 pounds of weight this year, is
knocking the ball farther than ever
and IS putting in inspired fashion. He
has had no fewer than 10 rounds under
70 around Boston this Summer, and
only 10 days ago shot 70 and a SO
against Burke and Won Elm to beat the
latter by and 4 over a tough golf
course.
Westland is rough, tough, little
fellow who came to Chicago from
Seattle some seven years ago, after
getting himself quite a golf reputation
in the Pacific Northwest.
He Is q years old, weighs about 40
pounds and was divorced from his wife
only last Monday. He looks much like
George Voigt and like him is a tough
nut to crack. Given only an outside
chance to go anywhere in this cham
pionship, he has moved along in front
Of the procession at a fast pace and
some Of the wise boys figure him as the
winner In view of the hard match Oui-
met had yesterday.
DILL HOWELL, far from being
- awed by Ouimet's reputation,
showed the big boy from Boston
the real stuff all through the day, and
but for the inspired putting streak
Francis put on in the closing stages
Of the match the Richmond youngster
might be in the final today in his first
championship. Billy had great chance
and no fooling, for Francis was badly
off his game in the morning and was
only l down to the 19-year-old Rich
mond kid. But in the afternoon Ffan-
els put on a great rally to win four OF
the first six holes and go 2 up. Then
he did the most amazing thing we ever
have seen him do in Is years of watch
ing him play. He stymied himself at
the seventh and lost a hole he had al
most won.
Instead of losing the hole, Billy won
1t, and the effect on the Richmond
youth was magnetic. He perked up
like a thoroughbred. Birdied the
oipI1fh In1a RI
ninth by missing a 6-foot putt He
came right back to win the tenth with
a 4-footer and they squared away for
the last eight holes all even. Francis
played a great iron shot to get half
at the long eleventh and Bill went into
the lead again at the short twelfth,
where he holed birdie 2. Then
Ouimet started the putting streak that
got him home a winner. He holed
a 25-footer at the thirteenth for a
birdie, nearly holed q birdie at the
fourteenth and halved and then holed
a twisting 8-footer to win the fifteenth
when Howell sliced his brassie second.
That left the Boston veteran one up
with three to go, and his approach putt
at the sixteenth left him q half Stymie
to negotiate. Down it went for the
half and he was one up with two to go.
Francis put his ball on the green at
the 200-yard seventeenth and Bill
pushed his iron to the bunker Bills
last shot in his first championship was
one Of the greatest I ever have seen.
From the sand he played an explosion
snot to hole Is yards away that hit
the cup and nearly holed out, lying
only 2 feet away.
Then Francis nonchalantly stepped
up and holed his 20-footer for a deuce
to win the match, 2 and /.
UNDOUBTEDLY that match will go
~ down in history as one of the
great golf matches Of all time, and
Howell has established himself as a
ranking star. Bob Jones pre-