Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
OU|MET DEFEATS
WESTLAND, 6AND )
Bostonian Wins First ANA.
teur Golf Title After
Lapse of'17 Years.
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and had not been long out Of the
caddy ranks. The following year he
won the amateur championship at
Ekwanok, beating Jerry Travers, then
defending champion, in the final round
His victory today came IT years to the
day from his initial amateur title VIC
tory, for 1t vas September S, 1914,
that he won his initial amateur.
Then followed heartbreaking years
Of disappointment. Always a popular
figure in American golf, second only
to Bobby Jones in the heart of golf
galleries and one of the most popular
Americans ever to play in Britain,
Francis has been en- all the American
Walker Cup teams that have battled
the British for the International Golf
Trophy. In these matches he has been
uniformly successful, and he went to the
semi-flnal in the British amateur cham
pionship in 1925. Ouimet has five times
before reached the semi-final in this
championship, and in 1920 he was
runner-up to Chick Evans for the title
at the Engineers Club, near New York,
where Evans put on an inspired putting
streak TO beat him. He was a semi
flnalist in 1928, 1924, 1926 and 1929.
Next to Jones he has demonstrated
himself to be the most consistent golfer
in the amateur ranks which Jones de-
serted last Fall.
FuIfilIS Predictions.
For many years the Boston bows
have been going to the championship
with tales OF the great golf Ouimet has
been playing and predicting a title for
him. This year their yarns came true
He came to Chicago 20 pounds heavier
than he ever has been, tipping the
scales at about ITS. and he told me to-
day he has not lest pound during
this championship, even in that tough
match with Billy Howell yesterday.
He successfully dcwned John Shields,
John Connolly, Paul Jackson, Billy
Howell and Jack Westland to win the
title His only hard match was that
against Howell. If that one could have
been put on today, the small gallery
that saw Ouimet beat Westland would
have gotten a real kick out Of the
struggle, for Westland never looked
like a winner.
Francis early gave an indication OF
the putting that was to carry him to
victory. Starting in gale OF wind
that blew tee shots all over the course
the old master laid his second shot
feet from the hole to win the opening
hole, and then canned a 40-footer to
win the second Out in &c. he turned
up on Westland, who three putted
three green's in row to lose two OF
them and give Ouimet a half on the
other. Francis missed his only short
putt of the day at the short twelfth
of the morning round, where 2-footer
for a half popped out of the cup. He
lost the next hole with a hooked iron
shot, but to show that his nerves were
all right, he popped in a 25-footer for
birdie 3 to win the fourteenth.
Gets Gift on Fifteenth.
Westland made him gift of the If
tenth by three-putting and :hen
Francis played as weird hole at the
sixteenth as he ever has put on. His
tee shot was carried far into the rough
by the wind He knocked his second
shot out into the fairway, put his third
shot 35 feet from the pin and then ran
down the putt for half in par 4. That
hole really showed WeStland where the
winner was. For after three-putting
the green before he had to hole A
footer for a half on hole he should
have won but for Ouimets lengthy
putt And Ouimet after overplaying
the green at the short seventeenth,
holed a downhill 7-footer to win with
3. They halved the eighteenth in IS
and Ouimet went to lunch up.
After that it was only gallop for
the cagy Boston veteran. Westland
managed to win the first hole in the
afternoon when Ouimet overplayed the
green, but then Westland dropped two
holes in a row to par golf and was
down. Westland looked good at the
fifth, the twenty fourth of the match,
but again Francis barred the door by
holing a downhill 20-footer for par
and Westland lost the hole to go Z
down. Westland won the short sixth
and the eighth, when Francis was
trapped on both holes. and they halved
to go.
Ouimet quickly won the tenth. or
twenty-eighth of the match, with
par when Westland overplayed the
green at this 175yard hole. They
halved the long eleventh and the short
twelfth, and the Boston star was dor
ME g. Both put their second shots
on the green at the thirty-first hole,
and Francis putted down to within a
foot of the hole. half stymieing West
land. The Chicagoan made a gallant
effort to hole the putt. but it curled
away at the end, and he stepped over
and congratulated Ouimet. the man
who came back after II lean years.
When Herbert Ramsay. president of
the United States Golf Association.
presented him with the gold Havemeyer
Trophy, Francis made a neat little
speech. thanking the club and the Off
Gals for their courtesy and graciously
according to his late opponent word
of congratulation. "Westland Is a
great golfer" Francis said, land had
all the breaks"