The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-15
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

~ FRANCIS Oulmet played the first
nine holes against the distinguished
George Voigt in thirty strokes. This
was in the first round Of match
play in the national amateur golf
Championship here Wednesday at
what is known as the Five Farms
course. 1t was an eighteen-hole
test, played in the forenoon.
In the afternoon Ouimet, once the
open champion and twice the anna
teur champion Of America, tumbled
to the fairways with an unshaven
youngster from Yale, Sydney Noyes,
and while he won it took him eight
more strokes and five more holes
TO write the victory into the official
records.
Voigt was one Of the favorites to go
10 the finals. Ouimet crushed him under
an avalanche Of par shatterng golf. going
out in figures never before achieved by
tournament competitor over this course
a course noted more for It's pictorial beau
~ / am told. than Its ezscting golf
demands.
doesn't shoot that kind Of golf. More
Sverl very few people make q habit OF
ouimet margin. It was literally silh S'S walk Ike
oyer. rXSoigt. was out in "a, one under
cen batters in nine innings and yet find
3ng yourself four runs to the bad.
besides o1imet was stesming Thsst th hg
ior the hrst nine-an all-time record for
doa ssS ft22s at Fthe OF b 5os
wonder Of 1913 had recaptured his old
legerdemain.
MERE was pause for luncheon.
IL Voigt and Ouimet ate together.
They did all right by the typicaIly
native victuals. Some one asked
Voigt if he intended to follow Oui-
met in the afternoon.
Il don't see why 1 shouldn't" he
answered. Il followed him all
morning Voigt was only one of
thousands who followed the old
champion, a comeback champion,
too, after seventeen years.
Moves, stern faced, solemn looking
ySo 'i, . won the first hole, laying
in one Of his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. literary
eHGSions wrote that a stymie was 1.-The
foTe tbs r IfW S5o OF poor putt Be
stined to lose two hoes by stymies.
over the first nine, four holes went to
a decision, Noyes winning two. The two
holes Onimet won came to him on the
green's. He dropped twelve footer for
q birdie. three at the third and an eight
footer for another birdie three at the
NTH. A great putter years ago the Bos-
faced blade
All square at the turn, ouimet still
did not look any too good over the same
stretch of ground he had dropped eight
1Iuli strokes to his forenoon game 1t
looked as II some insidious compromising
influence had set in an unholy alliance
between the golfng gods OF good and evil
Al thls luncture not many people thought
ne would pull through.
TNHE Ouimet gallery found Moth
Il ing encouraging in the start
of the second nine. Noyes (they
were beginning to call him the Big
Noyes by now) dropped an eight
footer for a birdie three and a win
at the tenth to become one up.
Ouimet got himself a birdie three
at the eleventh to level the match.
But Noyes came back with another
birdie at the twelfth, sticking a
beautiful iron second to within
eighteen inches of the pin.
Here we're three straight holes
won on three straight brides
Par simply didn't count any more
You had to be one better or you were
out Of luck. It was like sitting in at
a draw poker game where you needed aces
or better to open. Nor did the orgy of
brides end with, the twelfth hole.
Ouimet bagged a birdie deuce at the
141 yard thirteenth to even the match
again, sinking a twelve-footer that was
more than normally difficult because the
ball had come to rest in an egg-shaped
hole on the green and the business of
getting 1t out and keeping it on a straight
line to the hole required considerable
finesse.
Things went along much like this until
the two players-the frosty haired veteran
and the collegiate STRIPPING came to the
eighteenth tee, and then the pressure eX-
acted its crushing toll. Noyes tee shot
fell into the rough behind a row Of apple
trees and he had to play a safety shot on
to the fairwsy. Meanwhile. Oumet was
on in two and dropped a twenty hve-footer
for a birdie 3 to win, a putt that hung
teasinRly on the rim and then dropped.
Il owe my fruits of victory to those
apple trees" said Ouimet to Moves back
in the dressing room. providing not only
the pun but the conhrmatory chuckle.